Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-02-28
DARK DETAILS IN THE LIFE OF
EVELYN NEsslT THAw LAID
BARE BY PROSECUTOR.
With Tears Streaming Down Her
Cheeks the Witness Is Forced to
Admit That She Continued Illicit
Relations With Stanford White
Claimed to Have Been Dragged.

New York, Feb. 21.-The climax oil
sensationalism seemed to have been
reached in the Thaw trial when Dis
trict Attorney Jerome continued to
lash Evelyn rSesbit Thaw under a pitt.
f8es cross-examination. No secret OF
The woman's past was too intimate for
The district attorney to make her lay
It bare. He made her admit, with
tears streaming down her cheeks, that
her relations With White continued
for several months after the first
event. when she claimed to have been
Obliged. Mrs. Thaw declared that in
svery instance she had been piled with
Wine.
AS the district attorney barred her
relations with White Mrs. Thaw wept
biteefly, fhaw sat with his face bur
sed In his hands. Two newspaper wo.
Wen. used to the varying scenes Of
LIE. left the courtroom. Jerome want
81, every detail. Mrs. Thaw tearfully
t&ld all. She said she had informed
;XRkW 81. these experiences with Stan
spfa. White, but had forgotten to relate
thSh during her direct examination.
Whom Mrs. Thaw left the court
repm at the noon recess she collapsed
g9l1pletsly. She was placed on a
4RaI6h II the witness room by her
eMsfd, May Mackenzie, who revived
her BY the Use Of smelling salts.
After bringing out that her relations
Wlth White continued for some time,
vi; ker9me went deeper. Mrs. Thaw
adfaftted that in 1903, after the re-
ellih from Europe. she spent the night
at Thaw's apartments In New York
and that for three weeks he and she
3ccupied connecting apartments at the
Grand hotel in this city.
Made a Damaging Statement.
Mrs. Tlaw made what was consid-
cred perhaps her most damaging
statement to the defendant when she
said he had showed her copies of ca
Diagrams that We're being sent to
Stanford White from Europe asking
him to use his influence with a certain
man In London to prevent Mrs. Mes
bit from raising q FUSS" and inter
fering with Evelyn continuing in the
company of Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to ad-
nit that when she and her mother
went abroad with Thaw in 1903 they
were still drawing upon the bounty of
Stanford White. Evelyn declared that
she had a letter Of credit for $500 or
$500 which was given to her by White
apd which she later turned over to
Thaw. There was still a balance in
The Mercantile Trust company also to
her order.
Mrs. Thaw 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 bite,
than n other champagne she had
drunk. In fact, she declared it tasted
like all the rest. She denied that she
had intended for the jury to assume
otherwise.
The springing of sensations did not
all rest with the district attorney. Mr.
Delmas sent a genuine thrill through
the courtroom by declaring that he
had been informed it was the purpose
Of the district attorney to indict Mrs
Thaw. Mr.. Jerome denied that any
such statements had been made. He
did not deny the purpose.
During the afternoon Mr.. Hart
ridge, of counsel for Thaw, was served
with a subpoena requiring the produc
lion of Stanford Whites letters.