The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-22

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New York, Feb. 22.-Several impor-
tant bits Of testimony were gathered
in the course OF Jeromes examination
Of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Thaw, among other things, ad-
mitted that she spent the night OF
Christmas eve, 1908, in Harry Thaw's
! apartments. This was before their
marriage. She also admitted living
three weeks with Thaw in an old
castle in France while on their Euro
pean trip, and while Evelyn's mother
was in London.
Previously when Jerome was f1ay-
ing the witness with questions as to
her relations with White, carrying her
from place to place, and demanding
to know every detail, and while bitter
tears were welling to her eyes, two
newspaper women, accustomed to the
harsher scenes Of life, left their places
sin the court room and made a hasty
retreat out of the big portals. At last
the prosecutor himself relented some
what and suggested that the proceed
ings suspend. Delmas thought he
detected an unfavorable slant to this
and protested that the witness would
be able to proceed. Mrs. Thaw wiped
her eyes, stiffened up bit and nodded
to jerome to proceed.
After bringing out that her rela-
tons with White continued for some
time, Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw
admitted that in 1903, after her re-
turn from Europe, she spent night
at Thaw's apartments in New York
and that for three weeks he and she
occupied connecting apartments at
the Grand hotel in this city. Mrs.
Thaw admitted freely and with frank
ness that the champagne which she
declared had tasted bitter the night
she lost consciousness in the mirror
bedroom, was no more bitter than
any other champagne she had drunk.
In fact, she declared, it tasted like
all the rest. She denied that she had
intended for the jury to assume other
wise.
Damaging Testimony.
Mrs. Thaw made what was consid-
cred perhaps her most damaging
statement to the defendant, when she
said he had showed her copies OF
cablegrams that were being sent to
White from Europe asking him to use
his influence with certain man in
London I'd prevent Mrs. Nesbit from
raising fuss" and interfering with
Evelyn continuing in the company of
Thaw.
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to ad-
NIT that when she and her mother
went abroad with Thaw in 1903 they
were still drawing upon the bounty OF
Stanford White. Evelyn declared that
she had a letter of credit for $400 or
$500 which was given to her by White
and which she later turned over to
Thaw. There was still balance In
the Mercantile Trust company also to
her order. "But Mamma got all of
that" said the witness.
Mr.. Jerome dwelt for long while
upon the subject of cablegrams whicn
Thaw Is said to have sent to White.
He brought out that the cablegrams
were sent after Thaw knew of the re-
lations which had existed between
Miss Nesbit and the architect. Mrs.
Thaw would not admit that she knew
positively who sent the cab1egrams, or
whether her name was signed to them
Surely" remarked Jerome, you
don't mean to say that he signed his
own name?"
NO." she replied, II don't mean that
at ell"
In Paris With Bunch.
A letter written by Mrs. Thaw in
1904, and telling Of her gay life In
Paris with Harry Thaw and "bunch
from the Tenderloin," was read to the
jury by Jerome. This brought out
more testimony as to "the dead rat"
Partisan Cafe.
There seemed to be nothing in the
witness past life about which the
prosecutor was not informed. He
seemed to have been able to trace her
every step, largely due, doubtless, to a
typewriter statement of the mother,
which Jerome nearly always holds In
his hand while hurling questions at
the daughter. In single space, the
typewriter statement seems to cover