Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-27

statement In the presence of Miss
Nesbit.
ION the next day." asked Mr.. Je.
rome, did Jacobson OF Snydecker
give you a pnper?"
yes"
A document was shown the witness
and he was asked If it was not
carbon copy of the paper referred to.
Delmas Blocks Jerome.
Mr.. Delmas at once objected aud
was sustained by the court. 1t being
held that the question was an at
tempt to controvert collateral facts
brought out on cross-examination.
Mr.. Jerome asked Hummel several
other questions, whether he gave the
paper to Evelyn Nesbit, what became
of it and when she next went to his
office, but objections to all of them
were sustained
Mr.. Hummcl was thcreupon excus.
ed.
Abraham Snydeckcr. who was
clerk i'll Hummel's office. next was
called. He said he knew Evelyn Mes
bit.
Did YOU on October %, 1903, see
her sign papers" asked Mr.. Je-
rome.
Mr.. Delmas objected to the ques.
tton the court ruled with him and
Mr.. Snydecker was excused.
Mr.. Delmas having successfully
blocked for the time being all testi.
rony regarding the alleged affidavit.
Mr.. Jerome asked that Mrs. Evelyn
Thaw Ike recalled. When she had
taken the stand, Mr.. Jerome handed
her paper and asked If from first
to last It was in her handwriting.
Mrs. Thaw's Youthful Reflections.
Mrs. ihaw spent some time IN an
examination OF the paper, smiling ~.
casionally as she read. 1t soon dc.
veloped that the paper was diary.
Mrs. Thaw said the paper she had ex.
amined was all in her handwriting
"ls 1t not diary which you kept
in 1902"
Mrs. Thaw said she kept the liary
while at school at Pompton, y. j.. in
1902.
Mr. Jerome then read few .x
tracts from the diary.
One was as follows: "Mrs. Dc.
millee said to come right In, anG
jumped with agility of soubrettc and
began to get spry."
Then Mr.. Jerome introduced this.
MY room is neither large nor small.
There Is a white virtuous he'd.
took nap and the last thing re
member I wondered how far I I'm
from Rector's. Rector's is really not
q proper place for AN innocent Young
person. but ! always had weakness
for It,"
re The district attorney turned to an
other page and read: 81 swear never
to read another. But the one nice
thing about Janice Meredith is that
she is not really an angel-one Of
those persons too good for this
world"
when one comes to think 1t over
T. is good to have lived. A girl who
has always been good and never had
any scandal about her is fortunate In
more ways than one. On the other
hand not one of them will ever he
anything. BY anything. mean Just
that. They will perhaps be good
wives and mothers. but whether Ii
is ambition or foolshness want to
Ike good actress first"
Good Witness For Husband.
This ended the diary reading and
Mr. Jerome turned to the witness:
From the time you first became
acquainted with Thaw in 1903, until
the shooting of Stanford White. June
25, 1906. did YOU ever sec anything
in his conduct that was irrationalu"
asked MIR. Jerome.
Eyes"
Mrs. Thaw then detailed several
instances She said that one night
that while on Broadway in SAB
they saw White Thaw became SO
excited. ~ don't know what yon
would call it," she said. "but wnnld
call it fit. He cried and sobbed
and bit his nails and talked rapidly"
Prompted by Mr.. Jerome, she said
his body trcmbled: he clasped AMI
unclaspcd his hands and his eyes
rolled
The next time they saw White was
when he entered IN an opposita box
in theatre. At this time 'l'haw
again became excited. his eyes rolled
and he stared Whenever they saw
White, Thaw's conduct was the ,amc.
Thaw. the witness said. complained
that White kept him from being elect.
ed to some club, and she did rot re.
member which.
Mr.. Jerome's next question prov ID
to be the last of his cross.exam;na.
ton. II was: did Thaw re"ollnc..
having seen White after these put.
bursts?"
Yes
THAT is all except may n, some
future time ask the witness to ok.
plain phrases in Thaw's letter which
we have just received"
After recess Mrs. Thaw was again
called to the stand by Mr.. Dclmas
for redirect examination. Mr.. Del.
mas showed Mrs. ThaW number OF