The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-08
YOUNG WIFE OF THE
 DEFENDANT TO THE RESCUE.
Nafrates Perfidy and Vllainy of
 Man Husband Slew.
BsautifuI Creature Who Had Gone Astrsy Held Jurors, Judge and Spectators spell Bound Dur ,ss Her TessImesy sa
 stand .-

New York, Feb. 7.--Evsiyn Nesbit rhaw told her story today.
 To save the life of her husband. charsed with murder, she barred to the world the innermost secrets of her soui--a portrayal for which a sane tuary was a more fitting place than the crowded court room.
 It was the same story she told Har- ry Thaw in Paris in 1903. when he asked her to become his wife--the con- fassion of one who felt there was an lnsurmountable barrier to her ever becoming the bride of the man she loved.
 In the big witness chair she appear ed but slip of a girl. And she told the pitiful story of her eventful young life in frank, giriish way when tears came to her big brown eyes and slowly tricixled their way down scarlet cheeks, she strove in vain to keep 
 them back.
 Though the lump in her throat at times seemed about to smother her, she forced the words from trembling lips and by a marvellous display or courage which took her willingly to her staggering ordeal, she shook on a depression which once threatened to beconae an absolute collapse.
 As the young wife unfoided the mar tf,. tell early struggles of herself and her mother to keep body and soul togeth- CT; of how gaunt poverty stood ever at the door. and how she finally was able to earn a livelihood by posing Tor photographers and artists. She Wen ths murnpred sympathy ef the tlsFans Ehtel islssd very cry, asealaels
 story oa riFst Fall.
 Then caf1ie the relation of the wreck of that girlEiood of l6 years of age. It was the story of her meeting with Stanford White. the story of the stump tuous studio apartment whose dingy exterior gave no hint of the luxuri- ous furnishings within. of a velvet covered swing in which one could swing until slippered toes crashed through the paper of Japanese par asol swung from the ceiling; the sto- " of a glass ct champagne. Of black whfriing sensations, and of mirrored bedroom walls. Tn short, she told all the story.
 "And this was Stanford Winter"
 The question came from Dolphin M. ncImas now conducting the defense ot Harry Fhaw.
 ''Yes. sir rg
 The stiffness of the crowd. which was big. bustling, showing and snarl- ing over some especially coveted seat when court convened. was its own tribute to the effect of the girls story. Into the narrative there entered noth- ing of the woman of the world. girl in face and figure, Mrs. Thaw was still n girl as she withstood an ordeal which might well have startled into terror a women of mature years and harsher experiences. Into the narrative she in- jectod many little touches of young girls hopes and disapointments.
 Of her early life. she related how her mother had gone from Pittsburg to Philadelphia to secure assistance and how she and her brother Howard--the brother who has been in court many days, but not once has gone near his sister--were placed on train by friends and sent on to their mother.
 Trouble About Cat.
 She recalled that the two little trav- elers had trouble with the conductor who wanted to put their cat out of the car But she naively added, they held fast possession of 1t just the same. She told of her arrival in New York; of her life here and eventually the &C., ceptance by her mother of the thrice refused invitation of a girl of the theatre to meet some of her friends at luncheon. The girls mother told EsveIyn's mother they were people in New York society and perfectly proper NAk HAr rrs- Il aF Fl, them.
 s'when she came for me in the han son." said the witness, T remember hoping we were going to the Waldorf. had heard so much about it and want ed to go there But the hansom stop per in front of a dingy-looking build ing at West Twenty-Fourth Street, and was told to get out. Mother had dressed me. My skirts were just to my shoetops then.'
 This was in August. 1901.
 He was big and fat and ugly man--T remember him meeting us at the head of three flights of stairs" she continued. He gave me presents and my mother let me go to other parties Then he said my mother should visit some friends in Pittsburg. She said she would not leave me- Finally, she went. Then came an invitation to q narty. but no one else was there-just two, they all seem to have turned me down. he said after we had had dinner and I wanted to go home. He said I had not seen all of the apartments, and we went to the bedroom with the mir TOTS all over the walls"
 Thus the story ran with just here and there an interruption by MT. Del msa to advise the girl to fix the dates nf the various happenings and always to tell just what she had told Harry K. Thaw when he asked her to become his wife It was through the fact thai sbe had told everything to Harry that she was permitted under the rule; of law to give her story to the jury.
 Thayy stood ordeal We'll.
 Tbaw sat pale but brave faced beside bis counsel, when his wife took the stand. The two exchanged glances and the fainest of smiles played about ths 6rn,Iv set lips of the girl. She wore tha same blue. long coated dress she had on each day of the trial. About her neck was a flat turned down col