The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-26
Denies Signing Hunne's AR- daVit Asto Husbands CrueI-
 ties to Her in Europe
WHITES MONEY POISONOUS"
 THAW SAID, MAMA USED |I'
Secretary American Embassy In Lon don Offered Insults-ThaW Looked for Him-Jerome About Through
 With Her-HummeI Today.

New York, February 25.-Except for one brief moment Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had a decidedly easy day of il today during the continuation of her cross-examination by District Attorney Jerome When adjournment was taken the prosecutor announced that he had practically concluded with the witness.
 Mrs. Thaw will be temporarily excused tomorrow morning to enable MT. Jerome to introduce Abraham Hummel to iden- tify a photographic copy of the affidavit Evelyn Nesbit is alleged to have signed and which charges Thaw with many cruelties during their 1903 trip to Europe The district attorney got the contents of the affidavit before the jury this after noon by reading certain of its state ments in the form of questions and ask ing Mrs. Thaw if she told such things to Hummel. In each instance she declared she had not
 She also denied ever having signed such an affidavit admitting that she had, how ever, signed some papers for White In the Madison square tower, of whose ma ture she was not aware. It was during the morning session that MT. Jerome played his strongest card of the day Mrs. Thaw had denied most positively that she had ever been to see a Dr. Carlton Flint with Jack Barrymore.
 Introduces Flint.
 "Can Dr. Flint" commanded Mr. Jerome,
 The doctor entered from the witness room, and was escorted to- within few feet of the witness chair.
 Did you ever see that man before ?'' MT. Jerome asked Mrs. Thaw.
 The witness seemed just bit startled, looked quickly and inte 1tly at the phy- sici;,n, thei1 ,u1nei " Ar, Jerome and shook her head
 Never" she declared.
 Thaw was intensely interested in this incident, and when it was over he turned to the newspaper men slttlnS nearest him and whispered:
 .'That man made a mistake an com- ing here He stood there a liar. DO you ca ca the point-a liar"
 Yrs. | naw was in much better spirits today and looked decidedly better phy- sically than she did last week. She seemed thoroughly at home in the wit ness chair and had all her wits about her and did not fare at all badly at the hands of the district attorney, who was more gentle in handling the wit ness.
 Poisonous Money. Y, Instead of further hurting the cause Of her husband, Mrs. Thaw managed to make two decided gains. When court ad- 1ourned last Thursday it appeared rom her own statements that she had received . letter of credit from Stanford White while touring in Europe and had turned inc letter over to Thaw. Today she eX- nlained that Thaw took the letter or .redit from her, saying the money was -.nofsonous," and neither she nor her iother should touch 1t. and that he would provide them with fuhds. What nat eyer had been spent of the money, she 9clared. was for her mother.
 The second point Mrs. Thaw made was |, ncerning the cablegrams which IhaW ss said to have sent to Stanford Nnlle from London. It appeared phursday una these cablegrams were requests or Wnite to use his influence in keeping Mrs. Nes- bit from raising row. and lnteffer- in with Evelyn continuing In company with Thaw MT. Jerome took mp the subject agaln today. but his questions elicited the lh- formation that the letters did not con- cern Mrs. Thaw at all, but related to al mana secretary of the American ein- bassy-in London, whom Mrs. Thaw sald had 'sneaked up to mama Dealoolii anu 1nsulted her"
 She said the man had also insulted her and that Thaw had gone in search ot him. but failed to find him.
 Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to the stand today just as soon as the judge had taken his place on the bench, ane without any preliminary statement, Dis trict Attorney Jerome plunged into the cross-examination. Mrs. Thaw looked re- freshed after her three days respite and answered the first questions put to her confidently. Thaw brought with him from the Tombs several packages of letters anc papers fhis cross-examination, continued to jump about from point to point in the witness story He first asked her if she mad not had trouble with her mother in Allegheny, Pa before going to Philadelphia to live; If she had not run away with a girl.
 Mrs. Thaw replied in the negative.
 MT. Jerome's next question was:
 ..IIow long after the drugging in the rventv-fourth street house was it that the account was opened for you 1n the Amsterdam bank by Stanford Whlte
 q can't tell how long; it might nave been a month";
 s'When did you first meet Frances Bel mont?''
 ..When was in Floradora."
 NTr Jerome continued to hold the men ace of documents before the witness be- fore answering his questions, formed on affidavits from her mother.
 - .'sIiad you gone to supper with frances Belmont before you met White? ne asked.
 White Was at Supper.
 Again the reply was in the negative. The witness said she had gone to several summers afterwards, but White was pres .ut at all of them except one. MT. Jerome asked the witness if she hd not often gone to suppers with two lan whose names he whispered to her. - never went with them, but they were
 lsent.''
 One took me home once and the other
 lee. but there was always another girl
 Ah me-"
 7 These suppers were after the theatre?" "Yes."
 Do you know Angelina Vincent" asked the district attorney.
 "Yes."
 A letter and envelope were shown Mrs.
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