Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-07
TOLD INTERESTING STORY.
ro,s it dainty, Giving Her An
y, svers 70 Questions in a Clear
And Firm Voice.
n JUNE. 1908, rHAw PROPOSED.
,,,,,. witness Was on stand ana
~ ,.,sa ralc of Her Life From Child
hood up to womanhood'

~. vork Feb. Evelyn Nesn.l
,,. "Se wife Of the man charged WIN
~, nan r,,tser of Stanford White. took inc
Y, r stand today in defence OF her
S S, and told the story of her re-
St,ons with the famous architect VINO
,,as killed by Thaw
I :, VAS a simple narrative, told IN u
,,,sh ,gav IN its midst the young
, s broke down and cried and eou'a
only proceed with dir1culty.
W." u.r husband sat brave-faced for
,.hi,e. hen he, TOO, burst into tears
~. a,'i h,,yira his face for some time IN
handkerchief ,,s o,a,
were red from weeping.
TOLD HER STORY
The girl told the story TO the L men
:, tho Jury box, she declared, just as
she had related the incident to Harry
Thaw one night in Paris late in 1905
when he had asked her 70 become ms
wife and she had told him she could
not When he pressed her for rea-
.on cha told him all. When she had
aorcIuded she said he l5nelt BESIDE her,
sSai,aS IN the hem of her skirt ana
h' ~ bea been sent to school in New
1erss,. In 1902. by White and became
m there. Thaw came to see her at the
bosrltal and said she should be taken
abroad 10 recuperate. .
The prisoners wife told the entire
story OF her life, how she was nrousht
IN New York by her mother and posed
for artists 10 earn money for the fam
iN support. She also took a place In
he chorus Of musical show and II was
while there she met White.
Mrs Thaw was on the stand two
hours. AS she walked from the witness
chair along the passage way back OF
the Jury box she felt along the wall
wit the finger tips OF her left hand AS
II about to faint
From scarlet her face had paled 10
the wilderness Of sheet. Except when
she broke down when going into the
details Of her experience with STAN
lord White, the girl spoke in clear,
soft voice, on the witness stand she
appeared for the first time In court UNI
Yelled and her girlish beauty was re-
marked on all sides. mass of black
hair framing face Of daintily moulded
features.
The announcement that either the
mother or wife of Harry *.
Thaw would be the principal Wit
ness at today's proceedings brought
cut an unusually large crowd at the
criminal court building. The corridors
were filled and scores OF persons, many
" them women, tried every possible
way 10 force themselves by the Off
GERS at the courtroom doors, but after
ytstefday's laXity the bars were put up
again aud very few were allowed to
Iass. However half a score of women
managed TO succeed
Justice Fitzgerald had Just taken his
'tat upon the bench when Mr.. Delmas
Y ihaws counsel requested the clerk
% eau Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
ihe familiar figure IN blue, now fos
ING hrst time without her veil, ap:.
yared from the judges chambers. ShS
sI0oe near the jury box as Clerk Penny
administered the oath.
7 SWEAR" REPEATED MRS.
THAW.
swear, repeated Mrs. Tbaw in an
saainle voice AZ the end of the formal
MIS-. Thaw took her place in the Wit
\, w chair calmly, She looked steadily
y nj Delmas and gave her answers TO
" nfsl Questions IN clear and flrm
'I g Which was soft in quality.
INT marry Ihaw smiled Of his wife as she
'snea 70 the witness stand. hui she
,,ppalently did not see him nj The
MynieaL After she was seated how
''yl, she smiled family nj the missioner
@iG Thaw's beauty seemed hejgi,,'
m ~ ue simplicity OF her dress.
ralsness &c SsS.Nltement of tes.ifying her
Iore VI me past two weeks fled be-
thesks rum of crimson tlnts in her
AT CAFE MARTIN.
NJ ~ M snsNer 10 Mr.. Delma's frs, ouss
Ky ,t HtS Ihaw said she was bo,p f,ec
r,tt \, she told OF the going Ia thc
lses saaliin 20 dinner tho ovenine ~
MO-, WIN her husband and Tho,rss
avytfSp ana Truxton Beale
IN va sou were At the Cafe Martin
w see Stanford Whlte?i va
4. lama @nai time did YOU SEQ him 20
We srriyao5h diiVW' II was some time after
Ato nsle old YOU first sec him 30
nance IN at the Flfth Avenue en-.
'fIn,p
i TVg ll?ng did you see him?o
Nj NV wv Know, He pnssad t.,.,,
fbid ,,l onto the balcony"
Yes S3Ou see him leave the balcony?p
.,,' ALLIED FOR A PENCIL.
y w san you were in the caro ,,,.,,.,
YES eau for a pencil?" ''''Vn
! ft KEN whom"
y Eavo | oa alr; Aocaleb. lie said he did
i M you write d noteg''
W whatse
tsnp ol paper'
Il pl9 you do with it7r
'Wbs, u 10 Mr.. Thaw"
ri aid Mr. Tha,v doen
sid VS. 70 mo arc you all rlghtY
Areetedg-
' n ssl s pnnsS objection to the ques.
'onr mansera anything unusnnl -,
4asrsi' mat was visible 10
After tb,l 'leclion WAS sustained
1.lnlg now long did You "a.
'~' . short ume.p