The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-14
DENOUNCES
 FLAWS WIFE MT. Jerome Is at Last 0ratorical. PROSECUTOR ON AGGRESSIVE
 ---~-e----- Declares Evelyn Never Told De- fendant the Story.
 -s- offers to Prove by Abe Hummei She Made Affidavit That Pittsbnrger Beat Her During European
 Trip.
PROSECUTOR ON AGGRESSIVE

New York, March 1s--After fore noon session occupied almost entirely by district attorney Jerome m 2 oi..er denunciation of the defendant and nis wife. the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White was ad- iourned shortly after l2 o'clock today until tomorrow morning.
 The prosecuting attorney found his opportunity to attack Thaw and Eve lyn Nesbit in arguing on the question of admissibility of the testimony which Abraham Hummel, the lawyer who Is under indictment for subordination of perjury in the Dodge Morse divorce case, has to offer. It was to enable Dolphin M. Delmas, leading counsel for the defense, to consult authorities and frame reply to Mir. Jerome and also to allow the latter an opportunity of completing the hypothetical question which he is to put to his experts that the early adjournment was ordered. Mir Jerome said he hoped to close the rebuttai for the people tomorrow morn- ing.
 During his argument today the dis trict attorney took on for the first time since the case began, a sustain cd oratoriacl tone. He asserted that Hummel would swear Evelyn Nesbit told him three days after her return from Europe In 1903 that Thaw had beaten her cruelty because she would not sign papers he had prepared falsely accusing Stanford White of having drugged and betrayed her.
 Mir. Jerome contended that she had told much more. that Thaw seemed bent on putting Stanford White in the pen- itentiary; that the statement that stan ford White had never harmed her and that Thaw was consumed with rage when she refused to sign and swear to the papers containing Ties" against Stanford White.
 These things were put in the form of an affidavit" declared Mir. Jerome, land that affidavit was subscribed to she was doing and what rhe paper contained.
 we want to show that the girl who told this remarkable story here on the witness stand swore at another time under the solemnlty of an oath that naked --stripped, absolutely naked --she had endured the iashings and swear to his false statements that Stanford White had drugged and ruin ed her"
 Did She Tell stOryP
 Mir. Jerome argued that the material point of the case is whether or not Evelyn Nesbit told Thaw the story of her alleged ruin by Stanford White. Without that story In evidence, he de- clared, the reason for the defendants alleged insanity disappears. The pros ecutor plainly admitted the importance of young Mrs. Thaw's testimony and he said he wished by Hummels testi- mony to show her own repudiation of the charges which on the witness stand she renewed against White.
 serrsr.. .l.. .l-I a.ans.r infer from her own statements after return from Europe in 1903 whether or not she had within two months of that time told this defendant the things she said she did"
 Mir. Delmas obpected to Hummel as a witness on the ground that his tes- timony had to do with the truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's narration and was not permissible under the rules of evidence. He will proceed with his argument tomorrow. Mir. Jerome's contention is that while he may not attack the truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's statement that she was be- trayed by White he can attack the truth of her assertion that she told the story to Thaw at the time she says
 MT. DeImas first sought today to interrupt Hummers testimony by showing that he was acting as Eve lyn Nesbit's legal advisor and counsel when she made certain statements to him. Hummel eVaded this, however, by saying he was acting solely as White counsel and no legal action had been contemplated in behalf of Miss Nesbit He said he was paid a yearly retainer by Stanford White and could not say exactly what he charged the architect for drawing up the af- fidayit Asked if 1t was $1,000 he burst into laughter and said 1t was absolutely not. He finally placed the charge at s100-about.
 When Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was on the witness stand she said Stanford White came to see her one evening fin 1908 and asked her what she had told HummeI about him, adding that Abe Hummel has just squeezed $l,00O out of me, and the Lord only knows how soon he will squeeze another"
 Young Mrs. Thaws testimony re- Karding the affidavit was to the effect that Stanford White had taken her to Hummers office after telling her Tots of horrid things about Harry" and that she had told Hummel about her trip through Europe with rhaw. She said MT Mummel then dictated a lot of things to a man and put in lots about Harry K. Thaw which wasn't true at all"
 She denied signing any paper in Hummel's office, but admitted having signed some papers later In Whites studio She claimed she did not know what the papers were. Sometime after ward she says she demanSed Saat White show her the papers. She was taken to Hummers office and there A paper bearing her signature was shown her and burned. She was not allowed to see 1t. she declared Almost since the beginning of the trial Dis trict Attorney Jerome has been trying to put fin evidence a photographic copy of the affidavit
 MT. Jerome continued quite opttmis- tic about bringing the taking of testi- mony to a close this week but others who have followed the trial believe that the end is still ten days or two weeks off