Smyrna times., 1907-02-27
EVELYN WEEPS ON
WITNESS STAND
Many Incidents of Her Life Exposed
by Jerome's Attack.
ENDURED TERRIBLE ORDEAL

SbICSS VI d III WulCu
District Attorney Jerome gave no
quarter. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
broke down upon the witness stand.
With binding tears burning their way
down cheeks, which from ashen white
had flushed to crimson, she admitted
that after her first experience with
Stanford White her relations with the
architect had continued for several
months. But this was not all. There
were other confessions, which, while
damaging to her own character, ac-
centuated all the more the terrible
personal sacrifice she is making in the
effort to save her husband from death
in the electric chair. The case has
progressed to the point where the de-
fendant has been all but lost sight
of. His girl-like wife is the figure
about whom the storm lashes its fury.
She it is whose life is being searched
out, and who is being held up to
scorn by the prosecuting officer.
Thaw, his face buried in his hands,
might easily have been out of the
courtroom picture and none would
have missed him. All eyes were upon
the witness chair and the slight fig
ure in blue which occupied 1t.
There was no subject affecting the
witness of so intimate a nature that
the district attorney hesitated to haul
1t from its hiding place and hold it
before the gaze of the world, all the
while requiring that she should recog-
nize and own the fault in her Cwn
words.
Newspaper Women Left Room.
When Mr.. Jerome was flaying the
witness with questions as to her re-
1ations with White, carrying her from
place to place and demanding to know
every detail, and while bitter tears
yelling to her eyess, two newspaper
women accustomed to harsher scenes
of life left their places in the court
room and made hasty retreat out of
the big portals. At last the prosecutor
himself relented somewhat and sug-
gested that the proceedings suspend.
Mr.. Delmas thought he detected an
unfavorable slant to this and protested
that the witness would be able to pro-
ceed. Mrs Thaw wiped her eyes, stiff
fened up bit and nodded to Mr..
Jerome to proceed.
After bringing out that her rela-
tions with White continued for some
time, Mr.. Jerome went deeper Mrs.
Thaw admitted that in 1903. after the
return from Europe, she spent the
night at Thaw's apartments in New
York, and that for three weeks he
and she occupied connecting apart
ments at the Grand Hotel in this city
Mrs. Thaw admitted freely and with
frankness that the champagne which
she had declared had tasted bitter the
night she lost consciousness in the
mirrored bedroom was no more bit
ter than any other champagne she had
drunk. In fact, she declared that it
tasted like all the rest. She denied
that she had intended for the Jury to
assume otherwise.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consid-
cred perhaps her most damaging state
ment to the defendant when she said
he had showed her copies of cable
grams that were being sent to Stan
ford White from Europe asking him to
use his influence with a certain man
in London to prevent Mrs. Nesbit
from raising fuss" and interfering
with Evelyn continuing in the com
pany of Thaw.
Drawing Money From White.
Mrs. Thaw was forced to admit that
when she and her mother went abroad
with Thaw in 1903 they were still
drawing upon the bounty of Stanford
White. Evelyn declared that she had
letter of credit for $400 or $500
which was given to her by White
and which the latter turned over tc
Thaw. There was still balance in
the Mercantile Trust company to hel
order ALSO
''But mamma got all of that" sait
the witness.
Mr.. Jerome dwelt for a long while
upon the subject of the cablegram.
which Thaw is said to have sent Il
White. He brought out that the cable
grams were sent after Thaw knew O
the relations which had existed be
tween Miss Nesbit and the architect
Mrs. Thaw would not admit that sh,
knew positively who sent the cable
grams or whether her name was sign
ed to them.
Surely" remarked Mr.. Jerome
'you don't mean to say that he sign
ed his own name?"
mo-" she replied, 81 don't meal
that at ALL"
A letter written by Mrs. Thaw Il
1904 and telling of her gay life 4
Paris with Harry Thaw and a "bunc
from the tenderloin" was read to tn
jury by Mr.. Jerome. This brought ou
more testimony as to the Dead Rat.
Partisan cafe. There seemed to b
nothing in the witnesses past lif
about which the prosecutor was nc
informed. He seemed to have bee
able to trace her every step, largel
due, doubtless, to the typewritte
statement of her mother which M
Jerome nearly always holds in h
hand while hurting questions at tn