Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-26
WITNESS HOLDS HER
OWN With PROSECUTOR
jerome, Although Reading
From Notes Furnished By
Mother, Unable to Trap
Evelyn

New York, Feb. 25.-Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw resumed the stand in the Thaw
case this morning.
Mrs. Thaw looked refreshed after
her three days respite and answered
the first question put to her confident
ly. Jerome as on the previous days
in his cross examination, continued to
jump about from point to point in the
witness story.
Mothers Affidavit Menace.
Mrs. Thaw denied that she had run
away from her home with another
girl before going to Philadelphia She
Y said lit was perhaps a month after
the dfugging IN the oath street house
that an account was opened for her in
the Amsterdam bank by White.
Jerome continued to hold a menace
of. documentary evidence, before the
witness before answering his ques-
tons, formed on an affidavit from her
mother.
Weekly Check From White.
shown Mrs Thaw, who identified the
writing as that Of White. The enve-
lope was postmarked Boston, Jan. 20
1902 1t was addressed to Charles
Harlnett, Whites private secretary,
requesting him to notify the Mercan-
tile Trust company that when Evelyn
was ready to start on her vacation,
the company avs to send her weekly
checks for S25 and an additional check
for 5000.
Mother Also Receives Money.
The Introduction of this letter and
several checks signed by Evelyn and
her mother refreshed Mrs Thaws
memory to the extent that she said
she had lived at the Audubon apart
nlents from Feb. 10 to April 1, 1902.
Between April 1 and April II Mrs.
Thaw and her mother went to live at
the Wellington. Jerome spent some
time in developing this point and ap-
parently attaches much Importance to
it.
The checks were in payment Of
hotel bills and were drawn against the
deposit made in the New Amsterdam
bank by White to the joint credit of
Mrs. Nesbit and her daughter.
Tells Of Meeting Thaw.
The witness testified that she first
met Thaw either in December 1901
or January 1902 at dinner at Rec
tors given by Thaw This dinner was
I after a matinee that lasted perhaps
an hour. She was taken to dinner by
another girl. Tie date of the next
meeting with Thaw she could not re.
call.
sAt this dinner asked Jerome,
was Thaw perfectly rationale"
Why, yes replied the witness.
Mrs. Thaw said soon after her ac-
quaintance with law he sent her
$50 with some flowers, but she return
ed the money to Thaw The next time
she saw Thaw she requested him not
| to do such a thing again He apologiz.
ed. She denied her mother made her
return the money
Barrymore Brought Into Case,
1 The witness SAID s.le had often been
to dinner with George w. Lederer and
Jack Barrymore. Mrs. Thaw was then
confronted by Dr. Carlton Flint. She
denied positively she had ever seen
) him before or that she lad gone 10
him with Barrymore Justice Fitz.
gerald ruled out the question when
Jerome asked the witness if White
had not urged her to have Barrymore
arrested on the charge Of seduction.
In telling of her trip to Europe Mrs.
Thaw said she used only some cf
Whites letters of credit and it was for
her mother She got all Of it, the wit
ness asserted. as Thaw had said the
money was Poison
had not observed anything lrroajonal
Up to February 10, 1902, the witness
about Thaw. He had not proposed
marriage to her and his attentions
were not more marked than those of
other men.
Took Money From Thaw.
After the recess Mrs. Thaw said
when she laft Paris in 1903 she had
about thousand dollars wnich Tbaw
had given her. She stayel at the sa-
voys and Navarro hotels IN New YORK
for several weeks. While at the Sa-