Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-27
HAMPTON, PHOEBUS AND OLD POINT-Continue
JEROME COULDN'T GET
BEST EVIDENCE IN
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1 NSohtihuSu llOlll IQSeJ.
Ign of her pictures. The defendant
| was much Interested in this. He call
cd for 1t, and placing 1t on the table
In front of him. poured over its
pages.
Mr.. Delmas showed Mrs. Thaw n
letter and asked II n name In 1t was
not that of n very prominent New
York society woman. Mr.. Jerome OBJ
1ected to this question, but after a
short argument, Mr.. jerome said:
we are prepared to admit that she Is
prominent woman"
"One of the most prominentI" ask.
ed Mr.. Delmas.
Decidedly. yes"
and she holds position in the
best society in New York;"
WELL" said Mr.. Jerome, dryly.
she's in the 400"
You said your brother Howard
went to school In 1902. Who arranged
for that"
Mamma ana Stanford White"
WHO paid for the schooling?"
stanford White"
Did you draw any money for your.
self out of the letter of credit which
White gave you when you went to
Europe in 1902"
81 did not"
did you draw any for your moth.
err"
"Yes-ln Boulogne, mamma saw
something In shop window. She
bnew had this money and let her
have what she wanted"
Thaw Raised Fuse.
when Thaw heard of this 'he
raised fuss and said should not
have spent the letter of credit
money"
He took the letter Of credit from
the witness SO that her mother could
not spend any more. "She got
the rest of it, however, after return
ing to New York." added Mrs. Thaw.
There was nothing spent from this
money by the wife of the defendant.
At the request of Mr.. Delmas, Mrs.
Thaw related the so called York Ho.
tel incident. She had heard that
'Fhaw was paying attentions to an
other girl and thereupon took her
maid and left the Grand Hotel, where
she had been stopping, drove to the
York Hotel, took dinner at restaur.
ant and spent the evening at the
tire with young man of her nc.
quaintance.
This young man procured room
for her without registering and she
spent the night there clone. The next
day Maize Toilette advised her not
to believe what she had been told
about Thaw and she returned to the
Grand Hotel.
Mrs. Thaw said that Mr.. Garland
told her mother that If they had any
thing to do with White, he would
have nothing to do with them. She
said that her friendship with MIR.
Garland ceased when she met Stan.
ford White.
She said that she consulted the
stage manager as to whether she
ought to return $50 which Thaw sent
her and bunch of flowers and that
ne told her TO send 1t back
Her Friends Were All Honorable.
The conduct of George Lederer to.
ward her, she said, was always that
of respect and honor. There was
nothing improper In the attentions of
several young men whose names she
had mentioned as paying her atten-
ton. Mr.. Jerome objected to a ques.
ton about the second operation per-
formed on Mrs. Thaw and said Meth
er of the operations were of a Grim
inal character This objection was
sustained and ended the redirect ex-
animation. On cross.examination by
Mr.. Jerome, Mrs. Thaw said she did
not know whether Stanford white
continued to pay for Howard Nesbit's
schooling UP to the time of his death.
She said Stanford Whites letter Of
credit was returned to him and that
he gave it to Mrs. Nesbit
1t was 4:40 p. m. when the de-
PENDANTS wife was excused. DR.. Brit
tain D. Evans was recalled by Mr.
Delmas and formally turned over to
Mr.. Jerome for cross-examination.
Mr.. Jerome then asked that he be
allowed to wait until tomorrow morn
Ing before he began his cross exami
nation. This was agreed to.
Mr.. Holman's Statement.
P1TTSBURG, PA, Feb. 26.-Charles
]. Holman issued statement today
IN behalf OF his wife. mother of Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, concerning
Young Mrs. Thaw's early training.
Holman denies that his wife gave
District Attorney Jerome a statement
that Mr. Tar1p,n ,,col .,