The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-03-16
AFFAtE HELY4SSIURY
jerome Bitterly Denouhees Harry
Thaw and Wife.
HuMmEL TELLS OF AFFIDAVIT
District Attorney Declares Thaw
Stripped Evelyn and Lashed Her
Because She Refused to Falsely Ac'
cuse White of Betrayinu Her.

Because She Refused to Falsely Ac'
euse White Of 6etraylng Her.
New York, March l4.-After a short
gession. occupied almost entirely by
District Attorney Jerome in a bitter
ienunciation of the defendant and his
rife. the trial OF Hairy X. Thaw for
The murder of Stanford White was al
lourned. The prosecuting attorney
found his opportunity to attack Thaw
and Evelyn Nesbit In arguing on the
question OF the admissibility OF the tes-
timony which Abraham Hummel, the
lawyer who is under indictment for
subornatlon OF perjury in the Dodge
Morse divorce case has TO offer 1t
was TO enable Dolphin NJ. Delmas, lead
ing counsel for the defense, to consult
authorities and frame a reply to Mr.
Jerome and also 10 allow the latter an
opportunity OF completing the hypo-
thetical question which he is to put to
his experts that the early adjournment
was ordered.
During his argument the district at
torney took on for the first time since
the case began 4 sustained oratorical
tone. He asserted that Hummel would
swear Evelyn Nesbit told him three
days after her return from Europe In
| 1903 that Thaw had beaten her cruelty
because she would not sign papers he
had prepared. falsely accusing Stan
ford White OF having drugged and be-
trayed her Mr.. Jerome cOntended
that she had told much more, that
Thaw seemed bent upon putting Stan
ford White in the penltentiary, that
the statement that White had betrayed
her was not true. that Stanford White
had never harmed her. and that Thaw
was consumed with rage when she re-
fused to sign and swear TO the papers
containing Lies against White"
These things were put in the form
OF an affidavit" declared Mr.. Jerome.
and that afiidavit was subscribed TO
by Evelyn Nesblt when she knew what
she was doing and what the paper CON
tanned
I'VE want to show that the girl who
told this remarkable story here on the
witness stand swore at another time
under the solemnity of an oath, that
naked stripped abs 0lutely naked-she
had endured the lash 'ngs and beatings
Of this defendant rather than swear
to his false statements that Stanford
White had drugged and ruined her"
Mr.. Jerome argued that the material
point of the case is whether OF not
Evelyn Nesbit told Thaw the story OF
her alleged ruin by Sanford White
without. that story in evidence he de-
clared the reason for the defendants
alleged insanity disappears. The prose
cutor plainly admitted the importance
OF young Mrs. Thaw's testimony. and
he said he wished by Hummeis testl-
mony to show her own reputation OF
the charges which on the witness stand
she renewed against White
Thus" he concluded, the jury may
infer from her own statements after
her return from Europe in 1903 wheth-
or or not she had within two months
OF that time told this defendant the
things she said she did"
Mr.. pelmas objected 10 Hummel as
witness on the ground that his testi-
mony had to do with the truth OF fall
sity OF Mrs. Thaw's narration and was
not permissible under the rules Of evil
dence. Mr.. Jerome's contention is that
while he may not attack the truth or
falsity of MS. Thaw's statement that
she was betrayed by Stanford White.
he can attack the truth OF her asser-
tion that she told the story To Thaw at
the time she says she did.
Mr.. Delmas first sought TO interrupt
Hummel's testimony by showing that
he was acting as Evelyn Nesbits legal
adviser and counsel when she made
certain statements 10 him. Hummel
evaded this. however. by saying he
was acting solely as Whites counsel
and no legal action had been contem-
plated in behalf OF Miss Nesbit. He
said he was paid yearly retainer by
Stanford White, and could not say ex-
actly what he charged the architect
for drawing up the affidavit. Asked II
it was $1,000. he burst into laughter
end said absolutely it was not. He
finally placed the charge at "one hun
bred dollars-abOut
When Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was on
the witness stand she said Stanford
White came TO see her one evening in
1903 and asked her what she had told
Hummel about him. adding that abe
Hummel has just squeezed $1,000 out
of me. and the Lord only knows how
soon he will squeeze another
Young Mrs. Thaw's testimony re-
garding the affidavit was to the effect
that Stanford White had taken her to
tunnels Office after telling her lots
of horrible things about Harry and
that she had told Hummel about her
trip through Europe with Thaw. She
said
"Mr Hummel then dictated a-lot of
things to a man and put in lots about
Harry Thaw which wasn't true at all.
She denied signing any paper in Hum
mels office. but admitted having sign
ed some papers later in Whites studio.
She claimed she did not know what
the papers were Some time afterwards
she says she demanded that White
show her the papers. She was taken to
Hummel's office, and there a paper
bearing her signature was shown her
and burned. She was not allowed TO
see 1t. she declared. Almost since the
beginning of the trial District After
ney Jerome has been trying to put in
evidence a Photographic copy OF the
affidavit. 1t developed that the copy
was made by the same photographer
who had been employed by Stanford
White to make THE tired butterfly"
and other pictures of the Nesbit gil.
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