The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-22
GIRL WEE BREAKS DOWN Weakens UnderJero Terrible Onslaught. WAS UNABLE TO PROCEED District Attorney Mereiless in Re-
 calling Past Life. sobs on Witness stand, While Husband Hides Head I'm Hands--Even the Determined Prosecutor Finally
 Relents.

New York, Feb. 21-Under the stress of q cross examination in which Dis trlct Attorney Jerome gave no quarter, Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw broke down today upon the witness stand, With blinding tears burning their way down | her checks, which from ashen white had flushed to crimson, she admitted that after her first experience with | White, her relations with the architect continued for several months.
 | But this was not all. There were other confessions, which while damag- ing her character, acentuated all the more the terrible sacrifice she Is mak- ing in the effort to save her husband from death in the. electric chair. The case has progressed to the point where the defendant has been all but lost sight of. His little wife is the figure about whom the storm lashes its fury. She it Is whose life is being searched out, 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 room picture today, and none would have missed him. All eyes were upon the witness chair and the slight figure in blue who occupied It. MT. Jerome announced that he probably would keep Mrs. Thaw under fire for two more days.
 Adjournment was taken until Mon- day, although at one time Justice Fitz- gerald said to accommodate out-of- town witnesses. he would hold court both tomorrow and Saturday
 There was no subject affecting the witness of so intimate a nature that the District Attorney hesita ted to haul rom It's hiding place and hold it be- for the gave of the world, all the while requiring that she should recog- nize and own the fault in her own words. =
 Reporters Couldn't stand It. | When MT. Jerome was fiayifsr the witness with questions as to her re- l iations with White, carrying her from | place to place, and demanding that she 1 teil now every detail, and while bit- ter tears were swelling to her eyes two newspaper women accustomed to narsh scenes of life, left their places in the court and made a nasty retreat out of the court.
 At last the prosecutor himself TO- tented somewhat and suggested that the proceedings suspend.
 MT Delmas. who apparently thought ne detected an unfavorable slant to thinss' and protested that the witness 'ft O'S et'iN tO iOCeGu. MrS. ThAW wiped her eyes. stiffened up a bit and nodded to Mir. Jerome to proceed
 Alter bringing out that her relations with White continued for some time MT. Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw admitted that In 1903 after the return from Europe she spent the night at Thaw's apartments in New York and that or three weeks he and she occu- pied connecting apartments at the Grand Hotel.
 Mrs. Thaw admitted that the cham. pagne which she had declared had tasted bitter the night she lost con sciousness in the mirrored bedroom was no more bitter than any other cham pagne she had drank Tn fact she de- clared 1t tasted like all the rest She denied that she had intended for the jury to assume otherwise.
 Mrs. Thaw made what was consid- cred perhaps her most damaging state ment to the defendant when she said he had showed her copies of cablegrams that were being sent to Stanford Wtite from Europe asking him to use his in- fiuence with a certain man In Londo to prevent Mrs. Nesbit from raising