Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-26

NEW YORK. Feb. 2G.-- Mrs Hurry
Thaw spent five hours and half on
the witness stand under a persistent
cross fire from District Attorney Je-
rome, but when the adjournment was
announced 1t was the opinion Of the
observers IN the court that the little
woman had cleverly foiled every at
tempt to befog her.
When adjournment was taken the
prosecutor announced that ne had
practically concluded with the wit
ness.
The cross examination was abruptly
interrupted during the session that
District Attorney Jerome might have
opportunity to place Abraham Hum
mel upon the stand in an effort to
prove that the wife of Stanford
Whites slayer had committed perjury.
At the close of the fourth day of one
OF the most bitter cross examinations
to which woman witness has ever
been subjected, and which has been
combatted with undaunted spirit and
great success by the frail little wo-
man, the district attorney announced
that If the court would grant him an
adjournment he would put upon the
stand Lawyer Abe Hutnmel, the lat
ter's stenographer and the notary who
had acknowledged the complaint Eve
lyn Nesbit signed, stating that Thaw
had lashed her in the schloss in the
Austrian Tyrol.
Jerome held this affidavit for the
final card of his cross examination.
1t charged that Thaw beat her with a
rawhide, that he subjected her to many
indignities and sought to force her to
partake with him of drugs. All these
the girl wife denied with vehement
negatives.
At the end Jerome confronted her
with an alleged photograph of the afii-
davlt. 1t was the point to which he
had been working through the cross
examination. Delmas instantly seized
the exhibit and pointed out the flaw.
mo ones signature is herer' he cried
triumphantly. This is only a photo
graph. You must either produce the
original or account for it In the proper
legal way
Then Mr.. Jerome said he would put
Abe Hummel and notary Oh the
stand to prove that the affidavit had
been sworn to by Mrs. Thaw.
This Is what threatens the defense
now If the facts in the purported aiii-
davit as 1t will be presented by tile
prosecution are false and Evelyn Mes
bit knowingly swore to them she Is
deliberate perjurer.
1t was after almost two years of
bard work that Jerome succeeded in
convicting Abe Hummel of having
caused Charles 7. Dodge to sign the
affidavit that brought about the many
marital entanglements of Charles w.
Morse, who had married Dodges for
mer wife. Hummel was sentenced to
prison for a year, but has not served
his sentence. The Dodge Morse case
also caused him to be disbarred from
further practice as a lawyer by the
appellate division of the supreme court.
1t was the second sensational Incl
dent of the day. 1t was almost as
dramatic as when he confronted the
girl with DR.. Carlton Flint and de-
manded whether she had not gone
with Jack Barrymore to consult the
physician. This Mrs. Thaw denied,
saying she had never seen the man
before.
1t was early in the session when Mr..
Jerome played his strongest card. Mrs.
Thaw had denied most positively that
she had ever been to see DR.. Carlton
Flint with Jack Barrymore.
Call Dr. Flint commanded Mr.. Je-
rome to a court attendant.
The doctor entered from the witness
room and was escorted to within few
feet of the witness chair.
did you ever see that man before?"
Mr.. Jerome asked.
The witness seemed just bit star
tied, looking quickly and intently at
the physician; then turned to Mr.. Je-
rome and shook her head.
Never she declared.
Thaw was intensely interested in this
incident, and when 1t was over he
turned TO the newspaper men sitting
and whispered:
THAT man made mistake in COM
ing here. He stood there liar. Do
you catch the poInta liar?'
Mr.. Jerome next asked the witness II
she had understood Thaw was paying
honorable court to her.
The discussion between the witness