Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-22
EVELYN THAW BREAKS
down UNDER STRAIN
Relentless Probing |nte Her Past
Life by Jerome Tells
Upon the Witness.
COLLAPSED At CLOSE OF HARD DAY
District Attorney Brings Out Fact
That Girl and Her Mother Received
Money From Stanford White After
Going to Paris With Thaw-Layins
Bare Every Secret.
(Ry Associated Prcss.l

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Under the
stress OF cross examination in which
District Attorney Jerome gave no
quarter. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
broke down upon the witness stand.
with binding tears burning their way
down checks. which from ashen white
mad flushed to crimson, she admitted
that after her first experience with
Stanford White, her relations with the
architect continued for several months.
But this was not all. There were 9TH
or confessions. which, while damaging
TO her own character, accumulated
all the more the terrible personal sa
crlfice she is making in the effort to
save her husband from death in the
electric chair.
Defendant Lost Sight of.
The case has progressed to the point
where the defendant has been all hut
lost sight of. His girl.Iike wife is the
figure about whom Tho storm lashes
Its fury. She is whose life is being
searched out and who is being held up
TO scrutiny. Thaw, HE face buried in
MS hands might easily have been ont
OF the court room picture today and
none would have missed him.
All eyes were upon the witness
chair and the Slight figure in blue
which occupied 1t.
Small Comforts for Witness.
During the morning and at nil
times heretofore Mrs. Thaw has had
10 SIT on the edge of the chair in or.
der that her feet might reach the
iioor TO make her more comforta-
Die for the long ordeal still ahead of
her, foot stool and lack cushion
were provided during the afternoon.
At the close of the most eventfnl
day of the trial Mr.. Jerome announc
Gd that' he would probably keen Mrs.
lhaw under fire for two more DAYS.
Adjourned Until Monday.
Adjournment was taken until Mon
Gay morning, although at one time
Justice Fitzgerald said that TO ac.
commodato out of town witnesses he
would hold court both tomorrow a
holiday, and Saturday.
ihere was no subject affecting the
witness OF so intimate a nature that
District Attorney Jerome hestatcd to
maui 1t from its hiding place and hold
~ before the girl. requiring tina. she
would recognize and own the fault in
her own words.
newspaper Women Leave Court
when Jerome was plying tho wit.
ness Win questions as to her relations
Win White. carrying her from placc
10 niace and demanding to know every
detall and while bitter tears were
"eiiinG to her eyes, two newspaper
women, accustomed TO the harsher
scenes OF life, left their places in the
court room and made hasty retreat
out OF the big portals.
Prosecutor Himself ReIents.
~ last the prosecutor himself re-.
ohted somewhat aud suggested that
the proceedings suspend MIR. Delmas
taonght nc detected an unfavorable
slant TO this idea and protested the
Witness would he able to proceed
MIS-. i'haw wiped her ewes stiffened
up DIT and nodded to Mr.. Jerome to
proceed
After bringing out that her relations
WIN White continued for some time.
MI Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Tlaw
anmltted that in 1909, after the return
from europe. she sDcnt the night at
IhaWs apartments in New York and
that Tor three weeks he and she oc-
cupied connecting apartments at the
Grand Hotel in this city.
Tasted Like Other Chanpnone
franktulness that the ciiampagnc
which she had declared had tasted hit
ter the night she lost consciousness
III the mirrored bedroom was no more
bitter than any other champagne she
mad drunk. In fact. she declared It
facts she declared IT tasted like all the
rest, She denied that she had intend
cd Tor the jury to assume otherwise.
Damaging Admissions.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consjd.
cred perhaps the most damaging
statement to the defendants case
when sho said she had showed Thaw
her copies of cableprams that were
h"ing sent to Stanford White from
Europe asking him to use his influ.
encc with certain man in London
TO prevent Mrs. Ncsbit from "rais.
Ing fuss, and interfering with Eve
lvn continuing in the company of
Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced TO adj.
nut that when she and her mother
went abroad with Tluw in 1908, thcy