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DEVOTION OF THAW
SHOWN IN Letters
COMMUNICATIONS WITH EVELYN
NESBIT ARE READ IN
COURT.
WHITES EFFORTS TO
RENEW FRIENDSHIP
Young Wife Resumes Witness Stand
In Famous Case and Continues
Story-Tells of Proposal of Mar.
riage from "Jack" Barrymore.

New York, Feb. 9.-Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, wife of Harry Kendall Thaw,
charged with the murder of Stanford
White, the architect, on the Madison
Square roof garden in the evening of
June rs, 1906, resumed the stand in
Justice Fitzgerald's court Friday
morning She did not, however, tes-
tify at the outset, as Attorney Dolphin
M. Delmas had not completed the
reading of Harry Thaw's letters to At.
torney Frederick w. Longfellow when
court adjourned Thursday. This he
continued Friday morning.
Letters of Thaw Read.
Later some of Thaw's letters to
Miss Nesbit were read. In one of
these he said:
Il have never hurt you. BY the
hope there is a heaven above your
pure soul shall go there. / give you
my sacred word not to hurt you"
Thaw also wrote Evelyn: "You
could have owned Pittsburg-not in
money, but politically"
Mrs. Thaw testified that Stanford
White made several attempts to re-
new friendship with her after her mar
rage to Thaw. She told her husband
and he was very angry.
The story Friday began with the
period Immediately following her re-
turn from Europe in October, 1903,
and was brought down to the return
of the girl and her husband to New
York after their honeymoon trip in
1905, when she said Stanford White
had called to her on the street and
attempted to speak to her.
Mrs. Thaw added interest to her
vital story. She declared Harry Thaw
had accused her once of having had
improper relations with Stanford
White after her return to the United
States, but she had told him ut is a
lie. have not"
White Wanted to See Her Alone.
She said Stanford White had tried
to kiss her and had begged her to
come and see him alone, but she
would not. He cried and said she
was not human being, but she told
him she didn't wish to have anything
more to do with him. He had visit.
ed her after her return from Europe on
the pretext that it was matter of
life and death, and had to do with her
family. He told her "the dreadful
stories about Harry and that to pro-
tect myself we must get him out of
New York. He then took me to
Abraham Hummel and they dictated
lot of things to stenographer
about Harry Thaw that were not true,
and when / started to interrupt they
would not let me, and said must help
get Thaw out of New York and keep
him out"
Admits Signing Paper.
Mrs. Thaw said she signed nothing
at the time, but did sign paper she
knew nothing about at Mr.. Whites
Office in response to his repeated de-
mands. She later asked for this pa
per, was taken to Hummels Office
where they showed her a paper with
her name to it and agreed to burn
It up.
Mr.. Delmas tried to question her
about some events in her life which
finally induced her to accept Thaw
and about visit she received from
Mrs. William Thaw, but under objec-
tions by Mr.. Jerome the answers
were not allowed.
"Mr. Thaw told me-" she said, that
his family would welcome me-"
Mr.. Jerome also kept out an an
swsr to question as to whether after
the return from the wedding trip the
Thaws lived in house of their own
or at the home of the elder Mrs. Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw was about to tell what
she knew of Jack Barrymore, whom
she met at a dinner given by Stanford
White, when the luncheon recess was
ordered
Tells of Being Sent to School.
Mrs. Thaw resumed the stand at the
beginning of the afternoon session and
said that when she told Stanford
White of Jack Barrymore having in
vited her to party he became very
angry and said he would send her
away to school to New Jersey. She
continued to detail at some length as
to her relations with Barrymore, and
her being sent to school.
ut all came about through a quar-
rel between Mr.. White, my mother and
myself over Mr.. Barrymore.
"One afternoon on Madison Square
garden Mr.. Barrymore said to me,
Evelyn, will you marry me?'"
Mrs Thaw pronounced her name
with long e"
II answered him, and said, I don't
know
white asked me if l would marry
Barrymore and said, If kids like you
get married, what would you have to
live on?
Every day after that when l would
meet my mother she would ask me if
intended to marry that little pup
Barrymore saying Mr.. White was
afraid would.
Mr.. White then came to see me
and said l would be very foolish to
marry Mr. Barrymore; we would have
nothing to live on, would probably
quarrel and get a divorce. He also
said Mr.. Barrymore was a little bit
crazy, that his father was in an ASYLUM
and he thought the whole family was
touched. He was certain Mr.. Barry.
more would be crazy in few years
and for that reason said ought not
70 marry him.
Mr.. Barrymore asked mo second