The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-22
MERC|LESsCROsS-
F|R:|E OF JEROME
Discloses Every Secret
Of Evelyn Nesbit's
Past Life.
.EIARTRIDGE WON'T
4 GIVE UP LETTERS
Delnas Springs Sensation BY
Announcing That DistrictAt n
torney Means to Arrest
the Prisoners Wife.
Adjourns Until
Monday.

NEW YORK, February 21.-Undcr th0a
stress Of q cross examination, In which
District Attorney Jerome gave no duara4
ter, Mrs. Evelyn Ncsbit Thnw broke
down to-day upon the witness stnnd.
With binding tears burning their way
way down cheeks which from ashenT
white, had flushed to crimson. she sd-
mltted that after her first experience with
Stanford White her relations with tha
architect continued for several n,onthS.5
But this was not all There were other
confessions, which,, while damaging to-
her own character, accumulated all tho
more the terrible personal sacrifice slias
Is making In the effort to save her flua.S
band from death in tho electric chair
The case has progressed to the point
where the defendant has been all BUT
lost sight Of His girl-like wife is tl.es
figure about whom the storm lashes IT'S
fury. She 1t is whose life Is being
searched out. and who Is being held up
to scorn by the prosecuting officer $ sf Y
IiiaW, his face buried III, his hallds,s
might easily have heen out of the court
room picture to-day, and mono would
have missed him. ALL eyes were upon tlles35
witness chair and tho slight figure M
blue which occupied it. M
# Two Days More of Agony. II
During the morning and at all times
heretofore, Mrs. Thaw has had to sit on
the edge Of the chair In order that her
rect might reach the floor. To make her
more comfortable for the long ordeal stiIls9
ahead OF her. foot stool ana bac,rss
cushion weee provided during the q fter-ss
noon At the close Of the most eyentfi,l,
Gay OF the trial Mr.. Jerome announcedS Il
that he would probably, keep Mrs. Thaw
under tire for two more days, Ad jour,.s.h h
trnent tl was taken until Monday morning III
although at one time Justice Fitzrernlds
sald 81! - that to accommodate out-of-towl1s
Witnesses he would hold court both is Il
morrow, holiday, and Saturday. II ssSss
9t Ihere was no subject affecting l1ass5
witness OF SO intimate a. nature Il hntss
the district attorney hesitated to hauIA
~ from is hidtng-place ana hold ttN
before the gaze OF the world All III hnSs
while requiring that she should recos -y
words. .l5 I'55 : Al 49, tAg
When Mr.. Jerome was plying tl,a
witness with questions as to he,. "a IL 81
tions with White, carrying her from
place to place and demanding to Know
every detail, and while bitter tears
were yelling to her eyes, two news-
paper women, accustomed to the harsh -s
er5 scenes OF life. left their places inM,
sttS. SNaANiOoiii <iuu llllue Nasty
treat out of the big portals. AT last
the prosecutor himself relented SO nle sc
what and suggested that the proceeds.
1ngs suspend. Mr. Delmas thought {ha #
detected an unfavorable slant to this.
and protested that the witness would
be able to proceed. Mrs. Thaw wiped
her eyes, stlffened UP a bit, and nodded 4;
to MI. Jerome to proceed.
Jerome Is Relentless.
After bringing out that her relations n
with White continued for some timc.a
Mr. Jerome went deeper Mrs. Thaws
admitted that In 1908, after the return
from Europe. She spent the night at#
Thaw's apartments in New York and W.
that for three weeks he and she occu-s III
pied connecting apartments ut the "
Grand Hotel in this city. Mrs. Thaw n
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 Inss
fact. she declared 1t tasted like all the II
rest. She denied that sho had IN III
tended for tho jury to assume Others
wise. s v.
Mrs. rhaw made what was considered
perhaps the most damaging statementSto5s o5s
the defendant when she said he had
showed her copies of cablegrams that
Were being sent to Stanford White florl8
Europe asking him to use his nhuenca
with a. certain man in LONDON to pres
vent Mrs. Nesbt from "raisins fuss.
and interfering with Evelyn continuing "a
In the company of Thaw. sIt SSg
Lived on White Bounty, AT
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to admit thai
when she and her mother went abroad
with Thaw in 1903 they welv still draw
ing upon the bounty OF Stanford White #
Evelyn declared that she had II letter Il
of credit for Si0O or $500, which was gs
given to her by White. and which siis, n
later turned over to Thaw. There was NJ
still balance in the Mercantile Trust
Company to her order. sSI Y
But mamma got all of that" said the 8
witness, sg}&
Mr. Jerome dwelt fora long while upon ~
he subject OF the cablegrims which ThaW$
is said to have sent to White. He
brought out that the cablcgrams were t
sent after Thaw knew Of the relations w
and the architect. Mrs. Thnw would not q
admit that she know positively who sent
the cabegraIns or whether her name was is
signed to them.
surely" remarked Mr. Jerome, you j.
lon't mean togsay that he signed his own
name?" N
NO" she replied, 4 don't mean that
1T all" b,
Bunch From the Tenderloin,
A letter written BY Mrs. Thaw In no. I'll
and telling Other gay HE IA Paris with sa
Harry Thaw and u bunch nom the Ten-ss !.
dcrloin," was read 70 the Jury by MR. gs
Jerome, This brought out mora testi-
nony as TO the '.Dead RAT, I'arisianHss
cafe. There seemed to he nothing In the "a
witnesses past life about which the prose-
cution was not informed, q
He seemed 10 huyN been able 70 ttiSa Ys5|
ler every step, largely due, aoubtless, a a ssss
The typewrltten statement Of tho I,othefs
which Mr.. Jerome nearly always holds 8sS
IN Ills hand while hurlna questions M