The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-08
EVELYN NESBIT THAW
 TELLS HER SAD STORY
(Continued from First Pagel


 of mature years and harsher experi- ences than hers. Into the narrative she injected many little touches of a young girls hopes and disappoint- ments. Of her early life she related how her mother had gone from Pitts burg to Philadelphia to secure assist ance, and how she and her brother Howard the brother who has been in court many days, but not once had gone near his sister-were placed on ,a train by friends and sent on to their mother. She recalled that the two lit- tie travelrs had trouble with the con- ductor, who wanted to put their cat out of the car. But, she naively added, they held fast possession of it. just the same.
 Then came their advent in New York, of her life here, and eventually the ac- ceptance by her mother of the thrice- refused invitation of a girl of the the- ater to meet some of her friends at luncheon. The girls mother told Eve lyns mother they were people. in New York society and perfectly proper, else she would not let her girl go with them.
 When she came for me in the ham | som,' said the witness, T remember hoping we were going to the Waldorf, | had heard so much about 1t and wanted so to go there But the han som stopped in front of dingy-look- | ing building in West Twenty-fourth et T foI fp tcrnt n11w Mother had dressed me. My skirts were just to my shoetops then"
 This was in August, 1901,
 He was big, and fat and ugly--I re- member him meeting us at the head of three flights of. stairs" she con- tinued "He gave me presents and my mother let me go to other parties Then he said my mother should visit some friends in Pittsburg. She said she could not leave me, He said il would be all right; that he would look after me. Finally she went, Then one else was there-just two. They all seem to have turned us down. he said Then when we had dined and l wanted to go Nome he said had not seen al of the apartments and we went to the bed room with the mirrors all over the walls"
 Thus the story ran, with just here and there an interruption by Mir Del mas to advise the girl to fix the dates of the various happenings, and always to tell just what she had told Harry Thaw when he asked her to become hi: wife. It was through the fact that sht had told everything to Harry" that sht was permitted under the rules of law to give her story to the jury.
 Thaw sat pale, but brave-faced beside his counsel when his wife took thv stand. The two exchanged glances an( the faintest of smiles played about tn, firmly set lips of the girl, She wore tn, same blue, long-coated dress she hat on each day of the trial. About he neck was lat-turndown collar sucl as little boys wear, caught together b. a little black tie in front Her haiI braided and looped well down on be meek, was caught with big black rib bon bow the ends of which peeped ou in the dark relief from behind tn cheeks that were pale at first, bu mounted crimson when she was told t give all the details of her experenc
 with the man who fell victim to he husbands pistol Mrs, Thaw wore tn
 flat, black-velvet hat, trimmed onl
 with one little bunch of violets whic
 had become familiar as a part of he
 costume. She was unveiled, however
 for the first time and her youth an
 beauty were remarked by every ont
 Masses of black hair waved beneat the velvet brim of her hat and helpe
 form the frame for the girlish face ( almost perfectly moulded features. Th brown eyes looked through the lon
 black lashes; the brows were symmet rically arched. Tn the sympathy impelling story (
 the girl the girlish fascination of
 voice of softest quality, yet ringin clear in enunciation the court rool lost view of the prisoner. But whe there came a halt in the girls figf against the tears the people who ha gazed increasingly at her, lowered the eyes as if the relief from their star might bring her the composure sh finally won. Then they saw Harr
 Thaw again.
 His whole frame shaking, he sat wit his head buried in his hands, a hand