Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-03-01
Examination
OF MRS. THAV ends
JEROME WINDS UP BY ASKING
THAW'S MANNER ON SEE
ING WHITE.
WITNESS REPLIES HE
ACTED AS If IN FIT
Sensational Diary of Young Wife,
Kept While at School, introduced
and Extracts Read-Lawyer Hum
mel on Stand.

New York, Feb. 27.-District Attor-
ney Jerome Tuesday finished his long
cross-examination of Mrs. Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw at the trial of her husband
on the charge of having murdered
Stanford White. Mrs. Thaw had been
under the district attorneys fire for
nearly five court days. His conclud-
ing questions had to do with what the
witness observed as to Thaw's manner
when he would chance to meet White.
She said he acted as person in fit.
Mrs. Thaw said her husband would
remember the meetings and talk of
shot White he believed the architect
had set the Monk Eastman gang upon
him. He constantly feared White and
said he was being prosecuted by him.
Hummel on Stand.
Mr.. Jerome called Abraham H. Hum.
mel to the stand to question him re-
garding the affidavit Evelyn Nesbit Is
his Office. Beyond the fact that the
girl went to the lawyers Office and
that he dictated to stenographer
while she was there the district attor.
ney was powerless to bring out any.
thing more because of the continued
objection of Mr.. Delmas.
Justice Fitzgerald upheld the objec.
lions on the ground that collateral tes-
timony cannot be taken to discredit
the witness
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was recalled
for redirect examination after recess.
Diary Of Evelyn Thaw Read.
A sensational diary kept in 1902 by
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was intro.
duced during the trial and identified
by her. Mr.. Delmas read the diary for
nearly 40 minutes. He then offered no
objection and Mr.. Jerome began to
read extracts from it. One was as fol.
lows:
Mrs. De Mile said to come right in
and jumped with the agility of a sou.
brette and began to get shy"
Another read:
She has son, but must say he Is
q pie-face mutt"
Then Mr.. Jerome read this:
My room here is neither large nor
small. There is a white, virtuous bed.
took a nap and the last thing l re-
member was / wondered how far / am
from Rector's. Rector's is really not
a proper place for an innocent young
person, but l always had weakness
for it."
The district attorney turned to an.
other page and read:
Il hereby swear never to read an
other. But the one nice thing about
Janice Meredith is that she is not real
ly an angel-one of those persons too
good for this world"
When one comes to think it over
it is good to have lived. A girl who
has always been good and never had
any scandal about her is fortunate in
more ways than one. On the other
hand not one of them will ever be any
thing. By anything l mean just that
They will perhaps be good wives and
mothers, but whether it is ambition or
foolish, l want to be a good actress
first"
"Of course, can't live here all the
time. And l can't forget all the old
people. They do not know what they
are doing here, but give them a chance
to get away and see what they would
do. If stay here long I'll get just
like the rest. l am very susceptible
and I'll soon be "a"
MIR. Jerome said that here appeared
thGee exclamation points and a pen
sketch of nun.
This ended the diary reading and
Mr.. Jerome turned to the witness.