Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-09
ON THE STAND ALL DAY FRIDAY,
Attorney Jerome Causes Breeze
of Excitement by Objection to
Reclamation of the Dead"

| Harry Thaw because of the dread Of
| dreadful things Mr.. White and his
friends told me about him. she deciar-
ed Thaiw accused her of improrer rnla-
tons with the architect. II told him il
WIS lie and that had not" she testi-
fed. with an emphatic show of feeliner
| The defence haG Mrs. Tllaw tell q
another incident which has been cito7
| in her life-hcr acquaintance WIFI
| Jack barrymore, the actor.
! After leading the witness to ten. in
| chronological order. of the incidents Of
| her wedding with Thaw in Pittsbur~,
Mr.. Delmas asked her if she had son
Stanford White after her return to nov
York from the honeymoon trip. II
! passed Stanford White one day on FIT,
avenue / was in a cab and he saw me
and I heard him say Evelyn just li',N
! that" and Mrs. Thaw raised her voic"
as if to call some one.
There was another great crowd in
the court room today. every available
bit IF srace being occupied by persons
sitting in the regular court benches and
| others who We're fortunate enough to
| have chairs fetched for their use. The
dramatic thrills of the day before were
not there. however and the crowd did
not seem 10th to leave when adjourn
ment was taken more than an hour
| earlier than usuaA
The day began with continuance
| &C the reading Of the letters from
Harry Thaw to Mr.. Longfellow. writ
ten after EVELYN Neshit's revelations to
her. sutton in Paris There were others.
too. which Thaw had sent the attorney
to deliver to Miss Nesbt. who at the
tir,e would not see him. Mrs. Thaw fol-
lowed these With a relation of her ex-
pcricnces with Stanford White apd
Abraham Hummel. concerning the al
| legged af,davits which she made charg-
| ING Harry Thaw with having taken her
| from her mother against her wish ana
with gross cruelty. Mrs. Thaw told how
She had been induced to answer some
questions about herself and Mr.. Thaw
at the time and had been told the
| stories about his "cruelties to girls
Stanford White had told her. she de-
F., c!ared. that it was necessary to take
drastic measures TO protect her from
! such Il person and that Harry Thaw
must be kept out Of New York. She de-
MED that she had ever signed any pa
rcrs for Mr.. White in Hummers Office,
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| When she got frightened about the pa
Ter signed in Whites apartments ana
demanded 10 sec them, she said Mr..
! White took her to Hummel's Office ana
| there they burned a paper which mad
| l!"r name 1T the bottom of it. She was
nat allowed to see what the paper con-
| tanned before il was destroyed.
The feature cf Mrs. Thaw's story
WAS made amusing at that time by her
| Intersections OF III" names which Har-
~ Thaw had applied to the lawyer
a-d Mir Whites agitated questioning
AZ u what she had told Hummel about
BIN. s.h" declared she had told the
/ law yer nothing.
The defence endcavored to get into
tcy violence today the wills of Harry Thaw
ana Evelyn Nesbit ''haw executed the
night Of their wedding in Pittsburg.
There were SO many interlineatlons,
additions and errasures that Justice
FITZGERALD held the documents were
not admissible until the changes were
proved. Mr. Delmas said he would lat
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