Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-21
THE THAW TRIAL.
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objected and insisted on having definite
answers, though Mrs. Thaw usually
said she couldn't exactly remember.
Didn't you take a photograph of
yourself to the Broadway Magazine for
publication" Yes"
And it was published under the
name of Evelyn Florence?"
Mr.. Demas objected, but Justice
Fitzgerald directed the witness to an
swer. Yes"
This was before you went on the
stage?" Yes
And then the reporters came to your
house for more pictures?' Yes
And your mother gave them pictures
which subsequently were published?
Yes
Did YOU become acquainted with Ted
Marks" yes"
And received letters from him."
Yes"
Were those letters among the pack
ages of letters you burned after taking
them from a storage warehouse in this
city?''
Mr.. Delmas objected to this amazing
question" and Justice Fitzgerald sustain
ed the objection.
Didn't YOU visit a warehouse in this
city with a lawyer Yes"
What was his name?' Mr.. Hart
ridge"
Did you take some letters out of the
warehouse" No"
Examine any while there?" NO
"pidn't YOU visit the warehouse with
another lawyer before you went with Mr..
IJur.ridpc'' CT think so"
what was the lawyers name?' War
DO you know a lawyer named Pendie-
tpn?" No"
Have YOU any letters from stan
ford White?" Il did have"
1t developed that the AZ letters in
troduced yesterday and identified by
Mrs. Thaw were written by White to
another girl
Where are Stanford Whites let
ters Mr.. Hartridge has some OF
them
Mr.. Jerome demanded the produc-
ton of the letters. Thaw's counsel
made no response. Mr.. Jerome pro-
ceeded.
She testified that she gave II let
tiers to Thaw in Paris III 1903. After
wards she received them from Thaw's
valet and gave them to ThaW again,
presumably after he had shot White.
All of these letters she said We're re-
ceived from White while she was
abroad in 1903. She also gave some
letters. She couldn't remember how
many which had been received before
that time Witness last saw the let
~, Do 81 in, ha
know where they We're now and re-
membered their contents only in a
general way.
Mr. Jerome questioned the witness
regarding letters which were placed
in a warehouse before she went to
Europe and taken out after her return.
She said she gave the letters to Mr..
Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw fenced with Mr.. Jerome
quite skilfully at times. keeping her
wits about her Mr.. jerome spent an
hour or more on Stanford Whites let
tiers. Mrs. Thaw declaring that the IA
which Thaw turned over to Mr.. Hart
ridge We're the only cnes she positive
ly knew were in existence.
When Mr.. Jerome would ask a very
pointed question, evidently for the
purpose of tripping her up. Mrs. Thaw
would reply with an emphatic nod OF
her head:
Il didn't say that"
MIR. Jerome then turned to Mrs.
Thaw's story to her husband He in
dictated that he would take every adj
vantage of the courts ruling yeste lay
when Mrs. Thaw was compelled to an
swer as to whether or not her story
was true. She said it was true This
gives the district attorney the oppor-
tunity to question the truth of her
story by introducing testimony.
How long were you unconscious in
that oath street house at the time OF
your experience with Stanford White?"
4 don't remember"
Mr.. DelmaS protested that an uncon-
scious person could hardly be expected
to answer such a question.
WAS it after midnight that you be-
came unconscious? Yes, I think it
was
Was it before daylight" Mrs
Thaw finally replied: "Yes-bofo-e day
light"
''Thaw was pressing you all the time
to give him all the details of this af-