Evening journal., 1907-02-22

NEW YORK. Feb. 22-Unrelent'ng in
Its terrible directness, unsparing in the I
cruel revelations Il developed, the cross +
examination Of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw by |
District Attorney Jerome was carried |
70 a climax yesterday. He barred the
soul OF the witness. and in dong 50
brought strongly into the light the
the sacrifices the wife OF Harry X.
Tha wis making to save her husband
from the consequences of his killing
OF Stanford White.
Without a tremor in her voice, with
out a rlifhe on her placid face. she
told how she had lived with Thaw
before her marriage, how she had dis
appointed the guests at a birthday
party that Stanford White had given
for her in order that she might go to
a restaurant with Thaw and afterward
spend the night in his apartments I'm
this city. She revealed how, three
days later. she and Thaw engaged con-
meeting rooms in a hotel.
No sob escaped her lips as she told
how she ana Thsw had left Mrs. Nes-
bit, her mother, in a hotel in London,
while they went off on a tour of the
Continent.
When Evelyn Nesbit and Harry K.
Thaw occupied a castle on the Rhine
10 rthree weeks Mrs. Nesbit was work.
in gas a chambermaid in a London
hotel Finally. Stanford White was
appetled to by a member Of the Ameri-
can Embassy in London 10 separate the
girl from Thaw and bring her mother
home.
Weeping, Tells Of Shame.
Only once did AIRS. Thaw break down
IN her cross-examination. and that was
when she told Of her relations with
Stanford White after he had ercom-
passed her ruin. Tears streamed down
her face and her voice broke as she
told how, for two months after her
downfall. she maintained illicit rela-
tons with the architect. After that,
she asserted. although she lived for
almost a year on the bounty of White
and went almost every night 10 gay
parties with him. at which he begged
and pleaded with her to do what he
asked, she maintained a wall between
them. With Thaw, however, she lived
willingly.
One question of the District Attorney
indicated that even when she was liv-
ing with Thaw she remained away
from him one night and slept in the
Hotel She said her maid had taken
he rto the hotel. When asked who had
registered or whether a man who had
accompanied her to the hotel had gone
up the elevator with her. she fell back
on her usual answer Il don't remem-
ber."
OF far-reaching import was the story
Mrs. Thaw told. The full measure Of
its meaning probably was not apparent
to her Deity Jerome had made her
tell Of the awakening Of her soul'
after Thaw had proposed marriage to
her In Paris in 1903. and how the awful
b eignihcance Of what White had done
became apparent to her Thaw, she
said, had denounced White. had told
her that he ought to be in the peni-
tentiary, and had told her that she had
been wronged. and therefore he did not
regard her as having committed a sin.
Less than a half hour afterward the
witness told how, IN less than a month
after she made the revelation Of her
downfall to Tnaw. she and the Pitts
burger had Travelled together had de-
serted Mrs Nesbit i'm London and had
gone on a trip through Europe.
She had gone with Thaw because She
wanted TO, and even her mother could
not stop her. Open as were her rela-
tions with Thaw. cruel as had been her
desertion Of her parent in London, tho
witness maintained she never had told
her mother what White had done to
her, and said said that she felt she
rather would die than tell her parent
Of her disgrace.
Child and Woman Mingled.
Filled with incogruites was the story
that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told, but the
peculiar mingling OF the ingenuousness
of thee HID and superficial wisdom OF
the woman Of the world heightened the
effect of her words.
The prisoner, as he heard his wifi,
tell of her shame, wept hysterically
He covered his face with his handker-
chief and his frame shook with sobs
Several times he put his fingers in his
ears in order not to hear the revela
tions she was making. but he could net
shut out the sound of her voice. Wher
she told of the number Of times she
rad been intimate with White the form
o. the prisoner shuddered, and it look
ed for several moments as if he would
break down.
When Evelyn Nesbit riaw told what
she had done in the first three months
Of her acquaintance with the architect
even the Jurors averted their faces
Story Of the White Lights.
] twas a s1ory Of the Tenderloin OF
this city and the gayest sections oi
Paris that was told yesterday by Mrs
rhaw. Throughout the narrative ther.
was the glitter and sparkle Of The
s-hite lights. but most Of the time The
witness moved through her story like
fairyland. For stretches at time Il
peemed 10 rhe onlooxers as II the wit