The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-08
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Miss Pierce was asked to identify her
signature as witness to Harry Thaws
will which was executed the day of his
| wedding April 4. 1905.
Justice Fitzgerald ruled the will out
of the evidence at this time on account
of all the handwriting and interlinea-
lions not having BEEN proved.
Mrs. Thaw on resnming the stand
this afternoon said that when she toId
Stanford White of 'tJack' Barrym ore
having invited her to a party he be-
came very Angry and said he would
send her away to school in New Jer-
sey.
Mrs, Thaw detailed her relations
VIII wi, Rsarrymore'aInd heSf being sent 70
st. all came about through a. quar-
rel between Mr.. White. my mother
and myself over Mr.. Barrymore. One
afternoon on Madison Square garden.
Mr.. Barrymore said to me Evelyn,
will you marry me?' I answered him
and said I don't know
white asked me If I would marry
Barrymore and said: IF kids like you
get married, what would you have to
live on?'
Every day after that when I would
meet my mother she would ask me If
intended to marry that little pup
Barrymore saying Mr.. White was
afraid I would.
Mr.. White then came to see me and
said | would be very foolish to marry
Mr.. Barrymore; we would have nothing
to live on. would probably quarrel and
get a divorce. He also said Mr.. Barry
more was a little bit crazy, that his
father was in an asylum and he thought
the whole family was touched. He was
certain Mr.. Barrymore would be crazy
in q few years and for that reason said
1 ought not to marry him.
Mr.. Barrymore asked me second
time If 1 would marry him and again 1
said I don't know and he laughed.
Told of Other Girls.
Mrs. Thaw testified that she told
Harry X. Thaw that other girls met a
fate similar to hers through Stanford
White.
The trial adjourned until Monday.
Public Interest Grows.
New Y FORK, Feb. S.-Pu bile interest in
the Thaw trial grows with it's progress.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's ordeal has only
begun. Although she was on the wit
ness stand practically all of yester-
days session, she had only brought
her narrative down to the time when
after repeatedly refusing to marry
Thaw, she had returned to the stage.
This was in 1903.
That Attorney Delmas of San Fran
cisco, who is so skillfully conducting
the defense. will attempt to take up
the entire day with her direct ex-
animation, was the general opinion in
the court room when adjournment was
taken yesterday. If he can do this,
the jury will be left for their two holi-
days with the story of the young wife,
their minds, and Mrs. Thaw will have
two days to rest before the prosecu-
ton seeks to break down the favor
able testimony developed by the de-
tense. 1t will also give District Attor-
ney Jerome a chance to look up a
number of witnesses, whose names
Mrs. Thaw whispered to him in telling
her story yesterday. By the consent
of both these names will not be spoken
aloud in court.
Although the story Mrs. Thaw told
was simply the story as she told it to
Thaw, and which is supposed to have
unhinged his mind, Attorney Delmas
announced that the defense would not
take advantage of the law which
would make it impossible for the dis
trfct attorney to attack the truth of
any statement in it, and would give
the prosecution every opportunity to
refute it. 1t is doubtful il any woman
ever underwent a more terrible ordeal
than did Evelyn Nesbit Thaw yester-
day. This delicate. frail little woman.
with the childlike face, she is only
few weeks over %, began yesterday
with perhaps the most revolving story
ever told in a court room. Today she
Will continue it, and then will come
the worst ordeal of ALL the cross ex-
animation at the hands of District At
torney Jerome, than whom few men
rank higher in this branch of trial
work.
In an effort to offset the effect of
the testimony given by Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw yesterday by attacks on her
credibility, since he will have no op-
portunity of more direct refutation.
the district attorney searched the city
last night for those chorus girls whose
names he has long had as being able,