Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-23
SEEM DEVOTED TO EACH OTHER.
Mrs. Thaw Says She Is Again
Ready For the MerCiless Cross
Examination by Mr.. Jerome.

Attorney jerome. The IhaW t1lal Was
adjourned last night until Monday morn
ing. after little Mrs. Thaw had spent the
entire day on the stand under search
ing, flaying cross-eXamination at the
hands of the district attorney.
On Monday morning she will again take
the stand and will be forced to so into
the details of her eventful young life. All
day long she is expected to be On the
stand and there is considerable question
whether even then the district attorney
will be through with her.
Her associations with both White and
Thaw after her return from Europe in
1868, the interviews with Abe Hummel
when she was drawn into the famous at
fidavit which she has denied she had any
part in framing; the European trip of
1861; the incident Of the Cumberland no.
tel and other incidents with Thaw, fol-
lowing her return; her marriage and the
subsequent evepts-up to the fatal night
on the Madison Square garden-none of
these have been inquired into on cross
examination. 1t would seem that the eli
max of sensationalism had been reached
yesterday, but it is said the district at
torney expects to bring out on Monday
incidents of at least as sensational char
acter as those of yesterday.
No woman ever before faced a more
terrible ordeal on the witness stand than
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw-an ordeal that is
not yet half over.
Although it was very evident that the
slender. frail. childish wife of Harry X
Thaw was under great strain yesterday,
only once did she give way to tears. That
was when. after fencing with the district
attorney for an hour. she was finally
driven into a corner by his almost brutal
questioning and took refuge in tears. But
even then the tears did not seem to be
caused so much by the details she was
obliged to tell as the fact that with all
her fencing she had not been able to keep
to herself the secrets which she knew
must injure her husbands chances.
Throughout the day Harry Thaw sat in
his accustomed place at the end of the
table, flanked on both sides by his lagw-
yers. When his wife wept, he buried his
face in his hands for a moment, but dur
ing most of the day he made notes on a
pad of paper or conversed excitedly in
whispers with these of his counsel who
sat nearest him. When court adjourned
he hurried back to the Tombs with a
smile on his face
The details Of the European trip of 1904
are still no be gone into. The return To
America and the false announcement of
Thaw's marriage to Evelyn Nesbit when
the first scandal arose. Is still to be told
of. The facts of the pursuit of the young
woman by Stanford White after her mar
rage. which the defence told of in the
opening address, must be brought out.
The relations of the two before the mar
riaGe must be described in detail. Eve
Ign Nesbit Thaw's ordeal is by no means
over.
OF course. the actual truth of the story
which Mrs. Thaw told her husband and
which is said to have unbalanced his
mind cannot be questioned. If she told
him the story and as a result his mind
became deranged, the truth or the story
Is in:material. All that the cross-exami-
nation can develop is a doubt as to the
veracity of the witness, doubt as to
whether she really did tell him or not
Ihat is all the cross-examinatior can
SNOWFALL but one thing. 1t is for the
jury to decide whether constant broodng
on the story which Evelyn Nesbit told
Harry Thaw about her treatment at the
hands of Stanford White actually caused
arrangement of his mind sufficient to
make him incapable of knowing he was
doing wrong when he killed White. Did
Thaw's actions after he heard the story.
did his relations with Evelyn Nesbit COW
ering period of two years after this rev.
elation, did his treatment of her and of
White. and thousand other things, in
dicate that he was brooding over the sto-
ry or that he was taking advantage Of
it? This is for the jury to decide and this
Is the doubt that District Attorney Jer-
ONE is attempting to instilI in the minds
of the jurors.
Whatever the result may be, this is GER
tain-Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's ordeal is not
nearly over