The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-26


| Thaw in Paris that there was no truth
| in her statement about Stanford
White, that would be a material fact,
and 1 should be allowed to put it in. .
Contents of the Afidavit.
The affidavit contains the allegation
that Thaw whipped Miss Nesbit when
she told him there was no truth in the
statement about White and refused to
sign papers making the definite charge
against the architect.
II am not endeavoring to impeach
the Witness protested Jerome. but I
want TO prove the existence of an or
iginal affidavit in order to introduce
the copy and intelligently continue my
Justice Fitzgerald overruled the OBJ
lection and Mr.. Hummel said he did
dictate a statement in the presence of
Miss Nesbit.
ONE, did Abraham Snydrecker give
you a paer?"
Yes"
A document was shown the witness
and he was asked if it was not a car
bon copy of the paper referred to. Mr..
Delmas at once objected and was sus-
tanned by the court, it being held that
the question was an attempt to con-
vert collateral facts brought out on
cross-examination.
Mr.. Jerome asked Hummel several
other questions, where he gave the
paper to Miss Nesbit what became of
fee, but objections to all of them
We're sustained.
Mr.. Hummel was thereupon excused
temporarily.
Abraham Snydrecker, who was
clerk in HummeTs office. next was
called. He said he knew Evelyn Mes
Did you on October 2S, 1903. see her
sign a paper?" asked Jerome.
Delmas objected to the question. the
court ruled with him and Mr.. Sny-
drecker was excused.
Delmas having successfully blocked
for the time being all testimony re-
garding the alleged affidavit, Mr.. Jer-
ONE asked that Mrs. Evelyn Thaw be
recalled.
When she had taken the stand Mr.:
Jerome handed her paper and asked
if from first to last it was in her hand
writing. Mrs. Thaw spent some time
in an examination of the paper smii- |
ing occasionally as she read.
Mrs. Thaw's Diary.
1t soon developed the paper was a |
diary.
Mrs. Thaw said the paper she had
examined was all in her handwriting. |
Nearly forty minutes was here occu- |
pied by Mr.. Delmas in reading the
paper. He offered no objection and
Mrs. Thaw said she kept the diary
while at school in Pompton. n. j., in
1902. Mr.. jerome then read few
extracts from the diary.
One was as follows:
Mr.. DeMille said to come right in.
and 1 jumped with the agility of a
and began to get busy"
Another read:
she has a son but must say he is
l pie face mutt.
Then Mr.. Jerome read this:
My room here is neither large nor
mall There is a white virtuous bed.
took a nap and the last thing 1 re-
nembered was 1 wondered how far 1
m from Rectors. Rectors is really
lot a proper place for an innocent
oung person. but l always had a
' VeakneSS for il.
The district attorney turned to an
ther page and read;
Il hereby swear never to read an
ther But the one nice thing about
anice Meredith is that she is not real
= an angel-one of those persons too
.ood for this world.
when one comes to think it over IT
5 good to have lived. girl who has
lways been good and never had any
candal about her is fortunate in more
rays than one. On the other hand not
ne of them will ever be anything. By
nything L mean just that. They will
be good wives and mothers,
ut whether it is ambition or foolish
want to be good actress first.
''Of course 1 can't live here all the
ime. And 1 can't forget all the old
eople. They do not know what they
|
D get away and see what they would
O. If I stay here long I'll get just
Ike the rest. am very susceptible and
II soon be a -
Mr.. Jerome said here appeared three
and A pen sketch of a
un. This ended the diary reading
nd Mr.. Jerome turned to the witness.
Questioning Resumed.
From the time you first became In
mate with Thaw until the shooting
f Stanford White, did you ever see ,,
nything in his condition that was Ir-
ational - asked Jerome.
Yes"
Mrs. Thaw then detailed several in : :
-ances. She said that one night while :
n Broadway in cab they saw White :
haw became excited. He cried and :
,bbed and bit his nails and talked :
lpidly.''
Did you ever see a man in an epf- ,
ptic fit?" asked Mr.. Jerome.
I've seen cats"
There was considerable laughter.
We'll, did Thaw act like that?"
Prompted by Mr.. Jerome she said y
is body trembled, he clasped and un-
asped his hands and his eyes rolled.
The next time they saw White was
hen he entered a box opposite them
a theater. At this time Thaw again Q
ecame excited, his eyes rolled and he l
ared. II
Whenever they saw White, Thaw's
'nduct was the same.
AT this time did he carry a pistol?"
'ked the district attorney. Q
Yes, he always carried one after Il
hristmas. 1903"
''Why?'' v
HE told me that the Monk-East- L
an gang was following him.
DO you know whom he employed
protect him."
No
Did he tell YOU who had set the
ing after him?" I
stanford White"