Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-22
Mrs, Evelyn Thaw Breaks
Down in Witness Chair Under
Searching Questions of Re-
IentIeSS Prosecution,
FRAIL GIRL FORCED TO
REVEAL SHAMEFUL PAST
Newspaper Women, Hardened
to Scenes of Anguish, Flee
From Court Room Unable to
Listen to Pathetic Recital.

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire.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 today upon the witness
stand. With binding tears burning
their way down cheeks which, from
ashen white had flushed to crimson,
she admitted that after her first ex-
perieuee with Stanford White her re-
lations with the architect continued
several months.
There We're other confessions also.
which. while damaging to her own
character. accentuated all the more
the terrible personal sacrifice she is
making in the effort to save her hus-
band from the electric chair The
case has progressed TO the point
where the defendant has been all but
lost sight of. His girl-like wife is the
figure about whom the storm lashes.
She it $ whose life is being searched
out and who is being held up to
scorn by the prosecuting officer
Thaw, his face buried in his hands,
might easily have been out of the
court picture today. and none would
have missed him. All eyes were on
the witness chair and the slight fig
ure in blue which occupied it, Dur
in the day and AT all times hereto
fore Mrs. Thaw has had to sit on the
edge OF the chair in order that her
fee, might reach the floor Tc make
her more comfortable for the long
ordeal, footstQol and back cushion
were provided during the afternoon.
Al the close of the most eVentful
day Mr.. Jerome announced that prob
ably he would keep Mrs. ThaW under
fire for two more days. Adjournment
was taken until Monday morning, all
though at one time Justice Fitzger-
aid said that to accommodate Out-of-
town Witnesses he would hold court
tomorrow and Saturday. There was
no subject affecting the witness of so
intimate a nature that the district at
torney hesitated to haul it from its
hiding place and hold it before the
gaze of the world, all the while re-
quirino that she should recognize and
own the fault i'm her own words.
When Mr.. chrome was flaying Mrs.
ThaW with questions as TO her rela-
tions with White, demanding to know
every detail. and while bitter tears
were yelling to her eyes, two news
paper women, accustomed to harsher
scenes of life hastily left the court
room and made a hastv retreat out of
the big portals At last the prose-
cutor himself relented somewhat and
suggested that the proceedings sus-
pend Mr.. Delmas thought he de-
tected an unfavorable slant to this.
and protested that the witness would
be able to proceed. Mrs. Thaw wiped
her eyes, stiffened up a bit and nod
de dto Mr.. Jerome to proceed
After bringing out that her rela-
tions with White continued for some
time. Mr.. jerome went deeper. Mrs.
ThaW admitted that in 1903 after the
return from Europe, she spent the
night at Thaw's apartments i'm New
York, and that for three weeks he and
she occupied connecting apartments
at the Grand hotel here
Mrs. Thaw admitted freely that the
champagne which she had declared
had tasted bitter the night she lost
consciousness in the mirrored bed
room was no more bitter than any
other champagne she had drunk In
fact she declared, II tasted like all
the rest and denied that she had in
t""ded for the jury to assume other
wise.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consid-
cred her most damaging statement tC
the defendant when she said he had
showed her copies of cablegrams sent
To stanford White from Europe, ask
ing him to use his influence with a
cretan man I'm London to prevent
Mrs. Nesbt from interfering with
Evelyn continuing in Thaw's com
pany.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to ad.
nit that when she and her mother
~
were still drawing upon the bounty o1
White Evelyn declared that she had
a letter of credit for $400 or S50C
which was given to her by White. ant
which she later turned over to Thaw
There was still a balance in the Mer'
camille Trust company to her order
also.
"But mamma got all of that" sale
the witness.
Mr.. Jerome dwelt for a long while
unon fhe cablegram which Thaw Il
said to have sent White. He brough
ont that the cabegrams were sen
after Thaw knew of the relations
which had existed between Miss Mes
bit and the architect Mrs. Thav
would not admit that she knew posi-
lively who sent the cablegrams o.
whether her name was signed I,
them
surely" remarked Mr.. Jerome
"you don't mean TO say that he sighet
his own name?"
mo" she replied 81 don't meai
that At all"
letter written by Mrs. Thaw IL
1904 and telling of her gay life II
Paris with Harry Thaw and 'huncl
from the tenderloin," was read TO tn
Jury BY MIR. jerome. This brongh
out more testimony as to the "Dea'
Rat" Partisan cafe, There seeme
4 10 he nothin- in the witness llf
about which the prosecutor was no
informed He seemed to have bee
able to trace her every step, largel