The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-26
Euelyn Nesbit 7haw Holds Her Oun
 Under Cross Fire of the Prosecutor.

New York, Feb. 25.-Mrs. EVeiyn Nesbit Thaw was called to the stand today as soon as the judge had taken his place on the bench. and. without any preliminary statement, District Attorney Jerome plunged into the cross- examination. Mrs. Thaw looked refreshed after her three days respite and answered the first questions put 70 her confidently. Thaw brought with him from the Tombs several packages of letters and papers
 -@. Jerome, as on the previous days of his cross examination. continued to jump about from point to point in the witness's story. He first asked her If she had not had trouble with her moth erin Allegheny. Pa.. before going to Philadelphia to live--if she had not run away with a girl
 Mrs. Thaw replied in the negative. Mir. Jerome's next question was: How long after the drugging in the Twenty-fourth Street house was 1t that the account was opened for you In the Amsterdam Bank by Stanford white?'
 T can't tell how long-it might have been a month";"
 When did you first meet Frances Belmont?
 When was in 'Florodora'."
 Mir. Jerome continued to hold the menace of documentary evidence before the witness before answering, formed . on affidavits from her mother.
 Had you gone to supper with Fran ces Belmont before you met White?" he asked.
 Again the reply was in the negative The witness said she had gone to sew eral suppers afterwards, but White was present at all of them except one. MT. Jerome asked the witness if she had not often gone to suppers with two men whose names he whispered to her. T never went with them, but they were present."
 Did they not, on occasions, take you homer?
 One took me home once and the oth CT twice, but there was always another girl with me-
 These suppers were after the thea. tre?"
 Yes"
 DO you know Angela vincent7" asked the District Attorney.
 No"
 Letter to Whites Secretary.
 A letter and envelope were shown Mrs. Thaw, who identified the writing as that of Stanford White. The en- velope was post-marked Boston. Janu- ary 20, 1902, and was addressed to Charles Hartnett, Whites private sec- retary.
 Dear Hartnett:-Please telephone Mrs. Nesbit to let you know whenever HliSS E1NelyH ueClQeS tO go on ner va cation. Then send this note to the Mercantile Trust Company: Please Notify Miss Nesbit that on receiving word she is about to start on her va cation you will send her the weekly checks for $25 and an additional check for s2o0. Yours truly,
 Stanford White" The introduction of this letter and several checks signed by Evelyn Nesbit and her mother refreshed Mrs. Thaw's memory to the extent that she said she lived at the Audubon apartments from February 10 to April l. 1902. Be- tween April 1 and April r, 1902, Mrs. the Hotel Wellington. The District Attorney spent some time in develop ing this point and apparently attached much importance to it.
 The checks were in payment of hotel bills and were drawn against a de- posit in the New Amsterdam Bank by White to the joint credit of Mrs. Nesbit and her daughter.
 All of the checks drawn against this account were signed by both Evelyn and her mother.
 The witness testified that she first met Thaw either in December. 1901. or January, 1902. at dinner at Rec tors given by Thaw.
 This dinner was at a matinee and lasted perhaps an hour She was taken to the dinner by another girl. The date of the next meeting with Thaw she could not recall.
 At this dinner" asked MT. Jerome, was MT Thaw rational?"
 "Why. yes."
 "When he came to pay the check. he did not require any help in making the change, didn't require any one to tell him the denomination of his bills?' No. sir"
 
 "Yes."
 Had Thaw during these first few weeks of your acquaintance given you ''No. other than some violets."
 Thaw Sent Her Money.
 Did he ever send you any money with fowers?'
 "Yes-once--at' the theatre"
 "Was this before or after he had called on you?'
 q can't remember. .. Did it make no impression on your mnd?"
 +Yes it did. That is why remember You were not in the habit of re- cciving money from mon, were your No" indignantly. How much was it?"
 Fifty dollars"
 When she next saw Thaw she asked
 
 he apologized. He was self possessed at that time.
 Mrs. Thaw was next questioned re- Eardng a costume supper at the Hoff- man House in 1902 which she and Thaw attended.
 She had no photographs of the cos- tune Cit was a borrowed one) she wore on that occasion. The supper broke up about 2 or 2:30 a. m. After that the witness did not see Thaw for long time; he went abroad, she said
 "You were shown a paper in Abe uummel's office?