The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-21

New York, Feb. 20-EveIyn Nesbit ThaW
spent the entire day under the FIRE Of the
district attorneys cross-examination to-
day in the Thaw murder trial.
Jerome's questions, while searching and
varied. did not appear to bring out any
admissions that at present seem damag-
ing to-the defendants case.
It was established by the cross-examina-
tiOn. however, that during a great part OF
the year 1902 Evelyn Nesbit was receiving
SIS week from Stanford White. and the
district attorney tried repeatedly, though
vainly, TO get the young witness TO admit
that there was an agreement that she
was TO receive that sum every week of tn,
year when she was not employed on the
st~ge-
She insisted that she did not know of
any such definite agreement She was
told that sum of money had been de-
posted in "A bank for her by Stanford
White. and she could not remember who
told her or much about the details.
To prove that Stanford White had paid
Miss Nesbit money all through the year
1902, the district attorney offered in evil
dence numerous checks drawn upon the
Mercantile Trust Company in favor oi
Evelyn Florence .Nesbit, and got the wit
ness to identify the Endorsements on
them, as having been made by her Most
of them were for SIS each, some for $50
and one or two for $50
Asks About Magazine Editor.
The district attorney wanted to know
many things about the former male ac-
quaintances Of Mrs. Thaw. He got her to
say that she and her mother had gone on
yachting trip with the late James \
Garland. formerly editor Of the New Eng
land Magazine and he then asked her
what she knew about being named in the
Garland divorce suit
This lire of inquiry was not allowed TO
proceed further, the court sustaining Del
mas objection. It appeared from the tes-
timony that the witness knew Garland be-
fore she met White
The witness was asked many questions
about how she came 10 know Ted Marks,
the vaudeville agent, and George ". Le-
derer, and she answered with freedom and
apparent fTankHess.
Nothing in the testimony Illuminated
the object with which these questions
duced several photographs of the witness
In costume, and got her 10 identify them.
Several of them were taken. she said
when Stanford White was present The
apparent object Of showing these photo
graphs to the jury was to let them see
that there was a time when she did not
wear the childish garb in which she had
appeared at the trial
Mr.. Jerome asked her about the COS
tunes in which she had posed for various
artists She told him that she had some
times worn draperies and low cut gowns
but had never posed in immodestly scanty
attire.
Moment of Tensity.
There was a moment of tensity when
the district attorney betrayed. apparently
by accident. that some Of the questions
he was asking Mrs. Thaw were based
upon information received from her moth
CT. Mrs. Holman
'Is it not true" said Jerome, consulting
a paper he held in his hand that there
was a man in New York applying for a
divorce, James a. Garland, and I was
constantly quarTeling with my daugh-
ter"
But Delmas was up like a flash to head
off this statement Of the mother of the
witness. He insisted that il was i'm
proper 10 inform the jury that Mrs Hol-
man was making this statement when the
fact was not in evidence The district
attorney ended the incident by stating
that it was an inadvertence on his part.
All the same nobody thereafter had
any doubt that Mrs. Holman had done
everything she could to upset the case of
her son-in-law, short of actually appear
ing in court.
Some light on the feeling between Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw and her mother was
shown when Jerome asked the witness
If she had not been unTuly in the spring
OF 1901, just after she had come to New.
York, and if her mother had not stuck to
her In spite of everything
No, indeed declared the witness with
the first intimation of temper tnat she
displayed since she first appeared as a
witness.
What Thaw thinks OF Mrs. Holman has
been sufficiently indicated by certain
parts Of letters Of his that have already
been placed in evidence
Jerome Seldom RuhIed.
The district attorney seldom showed
any approach TO harshness in his han
ding of Mrs Thaw His questions were
nearly all addressed with an impersonaI
air and in such manner as might be
employed by some learned savant who
was endeaNoring to ascertain what re-
searches had been made by feIIow-ex-
piorer IN some abstruse field of scientific
research. There were a few occasions
when the replies Of the witness exas-
perated him into raising his voice. but
they were few. and he at once resumed
his well-balanced methods.
AIRS. Thaw. on her part indicated pretty
thoroughly the possession of forgetftI-
ness on most points not covered bv her
on direct examination.
She probably said II don't remember
more than a hundred times I'm the course
OF the day. Even when Jerome endeav-
ored by the process OF elimination 20 get
her down somewhere near exact dates or
time periods he met with slight success
This was particularly true OF the night
involved in the most critical part Of the
terrible tale she told the jury the first
day sine took the stand
ON the statements she made in her di
rect examination, however. the witness
memory could not have been better Sev-
eral times she corrected rome i'm his
statement of things sae d said in that
story
The defense made practically no effort
10 prevent the admission of the testi-
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