The Washington herald., 1907-02-20

between counsel in any manner salts
factory ito him for that pOstponement.
l understand that the learned district at
torney makes the proposition that he
will honestly believe that Jhis defendant.
on the 18th Of June last. was of unsound
mind. he win abandon this prosecution.
Is that the proposition?"
81 make no proposition 10 counsel, re-
torted the district attorney, because ]
especially warned counsel that / should
have no dealings with him in future ex-
| cept in open court. I had addressed my
self wholly to the court"
concentration Begun.
Jerome said shortly that he would agree
| TO begin the cross-examination OF Mrs.
Thaw on Thursday morning. That helped
nothing. because it appeared that. in the
absence OF any further agreement be-
tween counsel the defense would have
to put on its other witnesses. This was
/ just what Jerome had been contending
for and just what Delmas had been de-
clinng 10 do. The court declining to IN
terfere, jerome could only as for an
| adjournment, waive cross-examination
entirely. or start the cFoss-examination.
With manifest reluctance he chose the
| last procedure.
He first showed Evelyn Thaw several
| papers. They looked like checks He
asked her If they bore her signature and
she said she thought they did, Jerome
asked II she received 81 a week during
the year 1902. when she was not playing.
She said she did Jerome showed her
another document but Dclmas objected
20 the contents and all Jerome could get
on the record was the fact that the wit
ness wrote a letter to the Mercantile
Trust Company. The district attorney
got the witness to identify other papers
as receipts for money.
Says She Loved Tbaw.
Jerome asked her If she had loved Thaw
when she had refused him IN Paris. she
said that she did, and that her acquaint-
ance with White was her only reason for
refusing TO marry him.
You loved him 20 much that you went
and told him that you could not be his
wife, because others would teer at him
because Of what had happened to your"
inquired Jerome. Mrs. Thaw said that
| that was correct.
You didn't reject him because you
were thinking Of marrying somebody else,
or because ne didn't have money enough,
or anything of that kind?'
mo. sir"
Your early life in Pennsylvania was
humble and often poverty-stricken through
your fathers misfortune
Yes
Yet your life was pure and you had
good influence in your home surround
ings?r
Yes"
so you grew between fifteen and six
teen so simple In your life and surround
ings that after all these terrible events
you have mentioned the memory Of your
first poignant sorrow about the conductor
putting the cat out Of the train still lin
gers In your memory
Yes, sir.
Your mother until you came to New
York. had been the breadWlnner OF the
family?'
Excepting for my posing in Phladel-
phis."
And she was very careful Of you in
Philadelphia, was she not7"
Yes"
jerome Asks About Poses
Jerome showed the witness the register
Of the Hotel Savoy for October "a. 1903
and got the witness to identify her sigma
ture. He then read from the record Of Mrs.
Evelyn Thaw's testimony her story Of pos
Ing for White and a photographer at a
studio on East Twenty-second street.
And the events that led I'd TO il are
indelibly engraven upon your mlnd?"
Yes said the witness firmly. Mr..
Delmas objected. and Mr.. jerome turned
on him with the angry remark
Now. may | not be at this critical mo-
ment uninterrupted with this Witness It
/ Is absolutely a critical moment"
But Delmas went on 10 address the
court and got himself overruled-
Jerome wanted 10 know about Mrs
Thaw's posing for the photographer in a
kimono, with her chin upon polar
bears mead. She said she had so posed
and that all those poses were perfectly
proper and modest
Then Jerome asked her when she first
| learned she had been named In the Led
ereT divorce case, referring TO George ".
Lederer, formerly manager of the Casino
Theater
She said It was when she read of il in
the newspapers-in 1894. She admitted
writing one or two letters TO Stanford
White from Europe in 1903, after Thaw
had proposed TO marry her She did not
remember cabling 20 him.
This brought the proceedings up to the
hour of adjournment
Morning Session.
Mr.. DeImas began his examination.
You have already testified. Mrs. Thaw.
that you are familiar with the handwrit-
ing Of Stanford White. said the attorney.
Il now hand YOU a paper and ask if
from beginning TO end it is in the hand
writing Of Mr. Winter"
Mrs. Thaw gazed at the paper evident
~ "A letter, and said: 1T Is his hand
writing"
Mr.. Delmss handed the witness six
other letters. and they also were identi-
fed as having come from Stanford White
The letters were marked as defendants
exhibits. Q. r. s, T. L. V, and ".
After a moments delay still other let
tiers were identified.
In all Mrs Thaw identified forty-two
letters and was nearly half an hour at
the task
As the examination Of the letters was
concluded Mr.. Defines turned to the wit
ness.
Enter May Mckenzie.
How long have YOU known May Mac
kenzie?"
Since 1901"
How long has Mr. Thaw known hero
since 1904
ibid you in May. 1906. relate 20 Dir.
Thdw a conversation you had with May
Mackenzie. especially with reference to
what she said to you regarding Stanford