Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-08

E QUESTIONING A WITNESS.
they wanted to cause trouble must have
signed something. I said I had signed
absolutely nothing in Mr. Hummers office
Mr. Thaw was very much agitated. He
said Hummel was blackmailer and he
said, think. that there was something bad
in the air and he impressed me that he
was going to see Mr.. Longfellow, his law
yer"
Her Lawyer Incensed.
Mrs. Thaw testified to going to her own
lawyer and relating her experiences with
Hummel. Her lawyer, she said, was greatly
incensed at what she told him Of her ex-
perience in Hummel's office. Mrs. Thaw
said: -
my lawyer, too, told me that Hummel
was shyster." A laugh went around the
room. Mrs. Thaw continued:
Mr.. Thaw told me that had no business
to speak again with Stanford White. He
accused me Of having improper relations
with Mr.. White since I came back from
Europe and said that it was a lie. He
said it would look to people as If l was a
oiackmailer by going to Hummers Office"
$1,000 to Hummel.
did you tell Of another incident?"
Eyes, told him Of one day when White
came to the Hotel Navarro and he was
terribly mad and walked up and down the
room with camp chair in his hand My
child he said, what did you tell Mr.. Hum
mel about me?' I said had not said any
thing, and then Mr.. White said 1 must
have told Hummel, because Hummel had
Just squeezed $1,000 out Of him and he
wasn't going to send another thousand"
Tho rxfpn
not know what she had signed when she
signed the paper at the request Of Mr.
White in his Office in Madison square,
Il called Mr.. White up on the telephone
after had talked to Mr.. Thaw, and I de-
manded of Mr.. White that he put the paper
In the fire. He said he didn't have 1t, but
that 1T was in Mr. Hummers office. I said:
Very we'll and told him that was going
down to Mr.. HummeTs Office Immediately.
He told me not TO talk about the matter
over the telephone and I said 1 did not care
who heard me. Then White said he would
meet me on the corner and 1 met him.
Showed the Paper.
when 1 met him we went down to Mr..
Hummels office. He showed me the paper
and showed me my signature and asked If
1t was mine, and said it was Then they
put the paper in big jardiniere and burn
ed it. Afterward 1 told Mr. Thaw all about
1t and also saw Mr.. Longfellow and told
him.
How did Mr.. Thaw treat you from that
time until he proposed marrage?'
He treated me very nicely; carried me
up and downstairs when / was sick and
brought me flowers and took me carriage
riding
After her marriage with Mr. Thaw. the
witness said they took q trip through the
west. While in Pittsburg, she said, she
had lived at the home of her husband 8
mother. She related how she had persis-
tently refused to marry Thaw before she
finally did SO.
: What reason did you give him for not
marrying him?'
Her Love for Thaw.
ut was because Of my reputation. I did
not want to separate him from his family.
I knew 1t would be good thing for me to
marry him, but 1t would not be for him.
1t was because I loved him that I would
not marry. If 1 didn't love him 30 much
I might have been anxious to marry him."
Mr.. Delmas got the witness to relate how
she met some of the Thaw family in Eu-
rope.
There was something happened which
led you to change your mind in regard to
marrying Thaw?" asked Mr.. Delmas.
YES" answered the young wife.
You were given to believe that his fam
lily would receive you as his wife?'
Yes
Did you meet Mrs. Thaw, his mother, in
New York;
Il did,
after your marriage did you visit New
York from Pittsburgh
I'VE did"
did you tell your husband of the efforts
OF Stanford White to renew your friend
ship"
II did,"
Told Thaw About White.
What was the first occurrence you told
your husband about"
"Once when was driving on 9th avenue,
when passed Mr.. White and he called out
to me. Evelyn"
did you tell your husband"
IT did. and he said It was not right for
me to see him. and he made me promise
that If ever met Stanford White again I
would tell him about It."
did you tell him?'
II did,"
when did you see Mr.. White again?'
1T was on 9TH avenue one day when I
was riding to DR.. Deiavan's to have my
throat treated. was In a hanson, and Mr..
White was also riding in hanson. too.
Tried to Avoid White.
when got home told Mr.. Thaw that
at about Saith street I had passed Mr..
White, both Of US in hansoms. He did not
attempt to speak to me, but stared hard at
me. I looked away. When I got down to
the Doctors Office found Stanford White
In his hanson coming there. / ran up the
steps. but was excited and nervous. and I
told the door porter that would come some
other time, SO ran back down the. stairs.
Jumped into my hanson, looked neither to
the right nor to the left. and told the driver
to 60 back to the Lorraine as quickly as
ever he could. -
How did Mr.. Thaw, act when you told
him Of this?"
.oh. he was always very excited when
ever told him OF my meetinR6 With NJ.