The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-09
EVELYN NESBITT TBAW CONTINUES TESTIMONY;
 SHOWS WHITES EFFORTS TO DRAG HER TO CUTTER

Hummel said. So I made the letters up in q bundle and took them town to Mir. Hummefs office. He asked ne If they were love letters. and said l Yes
 l I.Hs said he just wanted to hold them over Harry K. Thaw's head. Then he asked me why l did not sue Harry Thaw for breach of prom ise said that that was absurd. for | if there had been any breach of prom ise 1t was on my part
 Would Be Fine Advertisement. "He said that did not matter. Mir. | Hummcl said breacn of promise suit would be a fine advertisement for me. 1 told him did not care for that kind l of advertising. He declared he cou'd easily win suit for me. I said did | not want to sue anypody. This made Mir. Hummel very mad and angry and 1 he toid his was foolish What did you tell MT. Thawr sug- | witness a breathing spell. l '.Mr. Thaw asked me If I had signed anything in MT. Humnel's office and l said had not. He said that was fun | ny, for if they wanted to cause trou- ble. I must have sighed something. MT. Thaw said Hummel was a blackmaier ana nc Sdius ! thlnk, tndt lneTe was | something bad in the air" 1 Mrs. Thaw testified to going to her i own lawyer, and relating her experi- | ences with Hummel. Her lawyers, she said. was greatly incensed at what she told him of her experience In Hum mers office. Mrs. Thaw said: My law ger. too, told me that Hum- mel was a shyster." laugh went around the room. Mrs. Thaw con- tinued:
 1 MT. Thaw told me that had no business to speak again with Stanford 1 White. He accused me of having inn proper relations with MT. White since came back from Europe and l said | 1t was a lie. He said 1t would look to people as if I was biackmailer by | going to HummePs office." Did you tell of another incidentr' l Hummel Got S1,o00. | "Yes, told him If one day when 1 White came to the Hotel Navarro and he was terribly mad and walked up and down the room with a camp chair l in his hand. My child he said, what did you tell MT. Hummel about meY said had not said anything and then | MT. White said I must have told Hum l mel, because Hummel had just squeezed | one thousand dollars out of him and he was not going to send another l thousand"
 | l did not know what she had signed | when she signed the paper at the re- quest of Mir. Waite in his office in Mad ison Square Garden.
 T called Mir. White on the telephone after l had talked to Mir. Thaw and I demanded of MT. White that he put the paper In the fire. He said he did not have 1t, but thAt it was in Mir. Hummers office. Then White said ha l would meet me on the corner.
 When l met him we went down to
 MT. Hummefs othce. lie showed me
 the paper and showed me my sigma
 ture and asked If it was mine and l said 1t was. Then he put the paper in
 big jardenier and burned It, After
 wards l tod Mr. 1naw all about it and also Mr Lon Sfeliow."
 How dId Mr. Thaw treat you from
 that time until he proposed marriage?'
 He treated me very nicely. carried
 me up and, down stairs when 1 was
 sick and brought me flowers and took
 me carriage itding"
 Alter her marriage with Mir. Thaw
 the witness said tney took a trip through the West. While In Pitls- burg, she said. she had lived at the
 home of her husbands mother. She related how she had consistently re-
 fused to marry Thaw.
 What reason did you give him for |
 Because of Her Reputation.
 Tt was because or my reputation, l did not want to separate him from his Family. It was because l loved him that l would not marrL If did not love him so much l might have been anxious to marry him.
 Alter your marriage did you visit New York from PitLsDurg?' asked Mir. Delmas,
 l We did"
 "Did you tell your husband of the efforts of Stanford White to renew your frIendship"
 T did,
 What was the first occurrence you told your husband about?" Once when I was driving on Fifth Avenue when passed Mr. White and nc called out to me. Evelyn"
 Did you tell your husband?"
 did. and he said it was not right Tor me to see him and made me prom ise that if I ever met White again I would tell him about it."
 Did lou tell him?"
 T dld."
 When did you see MT. White agilin7"
 Tt was. on Fifth Avenue one day when I was riding to pr. DeLaven to have my throat treated. was in a hanson and Mir. White was also rld- l AAS hh d H9Hcum l When I got home I told MT. Thaw | that at about 34th Street I had passed Mir. White, both of us in hansoms. He did not attempt to speak to me put stared hard at me. looked away. White Followed HeP. When I got down to the doctors office l found Stanford White In his hanson coming there. I ran up the ! steps but was excited and nervous | and l told the door porter that I would come some other time. So l ran back flown the stairs. jumped into my han som, looked neither to the right nor the lrft and told the driver to go back to the Lorrain as quickly as ever he could"
 How did MT. Thaw act when you told him of this?'
 'oh, he was always very excited whenever I told him Of my meetings with White. He bit his nails and looked excited"
 Did you ever tell MT. Thaw how you came to be sent to school at rompton. N J., And If SO relate 1t to the JIrv and also wherein the name of Jack Barrymore entered into the dis to 4arryn ore were" T met Mr. Barrymore when I was with the Wild Rose company at the KnIckerhocker Theatre. Mir. White gave a dinner to whole lot Of friends. was asked to attend and l went there and met his friends at the party MT. Barrymore was there" Mrs. Thaw privately mentioned the