Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-03-01
JEROME is MERCILESS
DARK DETAILS IN THE LIFE OF
EVELYN NESBlT ThAw LAID
BARE BY PROSECUTOR.

Cheeks the Witness Is Forced to
Admit That She Continued Illicit
Relations With Stanford White
After the First Event, When She
Claimed to Have Been Dragged.
New York, Feb. 21.-The climax of
sensationalism seemed to have been
reached Ia the Thaw trial when Dis
tr1ct Attorney Jerome continued to
lash Evelyn Nesbit Thaw under a pitt
less cross-examination. No secret Of
the woman's past was too intimate for
the district attorney to make her lay
It bare. He made her admit, with
tears streaming down her cheeks, that
her relations with White continued
for several months after the first
event, when she claimed to have been
drugged. Mrs. Thaw declared that in
every instance she had been piled with
wine.
As the district attorney barred her
relations with White Mrs. Thaw wept
bitterly. Thaw sat with his face bur-
led in bis hands. Two newspaper wo-
men, used to the varying scenes Of
lite, left the courtroom. Jerome want
ed every detail. Mrs. Thaw tearfully
told all, She said she had informed
ThaW Of these experiences with Stan
ford White, but had forgotten to relate
them during her direct examination.
When Mrs. Thaw left the court
room at the noon recess she collapsed
completely. She was placed on a
couch In the witness room by her
friend, May Mackenzie, who revived
her by the use Of smelling salts.
After bringing out that her relations
with White continued for some time,
Mr.. Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw
admitted that in 1903, after the re-
turn from Europe, she spent the night
at Thaw's apartments in New York
and that for three weeks he and she
occupied connecting apartments, at the
Grand hotel in this city.
Made a Damaging Statement.
Mrs. Taaw made what was consid-
| cred perhaps her most damaging
statement to the defendant when she
said he had showed her copies of ca
Diagrams that were being sent to
Stanford White from Europe asking
him to use his influence with a certain
man In London to prevent Mrs. Mes
bit from raising FUSS" and inter-
fering with Evelyn continuing in the
company of Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to ad-
| nit 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 she later turned over to
Thaw. There was still balance in
the Mercantile Trust company also to
her order.
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 bitter
than any other champagne she had
drunk. In fact, she declared it tasted
like all the rest. She denied that she
had intended for the jury to assume
otherwise.
The springing of sensations did not
al rest with the district attorney Mr.
Delmas sent a genuine thrill through
the courtroom by declaring that he
had been informed it was the purpose
Of the district attorney to indict Mrs.
Thaw. Mr.. Jerome denied that any
such statements had been made. He
did not deny the purpose.
During the afternoon Mr.. Hart.
ridge, Of counsel for Thaw, was served
with q subpoena requiring the produc.