The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-02-07
stanford White Got Her Drunk in
Studio and Stripped Her
Clothing.
SHE TOLD HARRY ALL.
Then He Touched the Hem of Her
Garment, Forgaye and
LBy Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, Feb. THE an
nouncement that either the mother
or wife of Harry X. Thaw would be
the principal witness this morning
brought out an unusually large
crowd at the court room. The cor
ridors we're filed with scores of peo-
pie. Many of them were women in
the throng but only about half q
score OF women managed TO secure
an entrance to the court room.
Wife on the Stand.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was the first
witness called by Delmas. Mrs.
Thaw was dressed in blue and took
the witness chair calmly. She look
ed at Delmas and gave answers to
his first questions in a soft clear and
firm voice.
Harry Thaw smiled at his wife
as she walked to the witness stand,
and she smiled family in return. Her
beauty was generally commented on.
Tells Her Life Story.
Mrs. Thaw told the story of her
relations with White. The story
was simply told and in its midst the
young woman broke down and cried.
The husband sat brave faced for
while, then burst into tears, and
buried his face in his handkerchief.
1T was in September, 1901" said
Mrs. Thaw, when White invited me
to another of his parties which /
had attended with him. was left
in his care by my mother, who sent
me from Plttsburgs l was just past
16 years old.
White Got Her Drunk.
This night when l got to Whites
studio in Twenty-fourth street, there
was not anybody there. White
said: Well. they seem to have turn
ed us down He said. never mind,
we win eat alone Later said I
must go home. He said he wanted
to show me another part OF the house
and we went into a bedroom with
mirrors all around. He gave me
champagne. Then everything be-
come whirly and black. When l
came to. my clothes we're all off.
Il screamed and screamed, but he
kept telling me to stop. saying It's
over, it's all right
Told Harry in Paris.
The girls story, she declared, was
just as she related the incident to
Harry Thaw one night in Paris late
in 1908, when he asked her to be-
come his wife and she told him she
could not. He pressed for reason
and then she told him all. When
she concluded she said he knelt be-
side her, picked up the hem of her
skirt and kissed 1t.
Submitted to Operation.
She was sent to school in New Jer-
sey in 1902 by Stanford White, but
became Ill there, and had to submit
to an operation. the nature Of which
the doctors did not tell her. Thaw
came to see her at the hospital and
said she should be taken abroad to
recuperate. She went to Paris with
her mother and Thaw. and 1t was
in Paris Thaw made his first pro-
posal Of marriage.
The prisoners wife told the entire
story of her life. and how she was
brought TO New York by her mother
and posed for famous artists to earn
money for the family support. She
also took place in a chorus musical
show and 1t was while she was there
she met White.
Mrs. Thaw was on the stand two
hours and the direct examination
was concluded, when luncheon ad-
journment was taken.
The court room was crowded to its
utmost capacity when the afternoon
session opened.
Evelyn Thaw resumed the stand.
Delmas Immediately renewed his ar
gument for the production OF a let
ter Of Harry Thaw to an attorney
named Longfellow Just after the
Paris incident, when Jerome said he
would withdraw the objection made.
earlier. The letter was FIRST offered
at the end OF the morning session.
The letter supported the testimony
OF Mrs. Thaw concerning her rela-
tions with White. Delmas endeavor-
ed to have several other letters writ
ten by Thaw admitted as evidence,
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