The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-22
GIVEN A REST.
Mrs. Harry Thaw Will Have a
Three Days Respite
From the Terrible Ordeal Which
She LIS Undergoing.
NOT NEARLY THROUGH.
She VIII Probably Be on Stand
Two More Days.
Outline of W hat Jerome Is Try
ing to Accomplish.
NOT NEARLY THROUGH.

New York, Feb. 22.-Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw has three days to rest and pre-
pare for a continuation of the ordeal
which she is undergoing at the hands
of the district attorney. The Thaw
trial was adjourned last night un-
til Monday morning after little Mrs.
Thaw had spent the entire day on the
stand under a searching, faying cross
examination at the hands of District
Attorney Jerome.
Monday morning she will again take
the stand and will be forced to go into
more details of her eVentful young
life. All day long she is expected to
be on the stand and there is consider
able question whether even then the
district attorney will be through with
her. Her associations with both
White and Thaw after her return from
Europe in 1903; the interviews with
Abe Hummel when was drawn the
famous affidavit which she has denied
she had any part in framing; the
European trip of 1904; the incident of
the Cumberland hotel and other Incl
turn; her marriage and the subsequent
events up to the fatal night on the
Madison Square Garden roof-none of
these have been inquired into on cross
examination. 1t would seem that the
climax of sensationalism had been
reached yesterday and it is said the
district attorney expects to bring out
on Monday incidents of at least as
sensational a character as those of yes
terday.
No woman ever before faced more
terrible ordeal on the witness stand
than did Evelyn Nesbit Thaw-an or
deal that is not yet half over.
Although it was very evident that
this slender. frail childish wife of
Harry K. Thaw was under great
strain yesterday only once did she give
way to tears. That was when after
fencing with the district attorney for
an hour she was finally driven into
corner by his almost brutal question
ing and took refuge in tears. But
even then the tears did not seem to be
caused so much by the details she was
all her fencing she had not been able
to Keep to herself the secrets which
she knew must fnjure her husbands
chances.
Throughout the day Harry Thaw
sat in his accustomed place at the end
of the table, fianked on both sides by
his lawyers. When his wife wept he
buried his face in his hands for a mo-
ment, but during most of the day he
made notes on a pad of paper or con-
Versed eXcitedly in whispers with
those of his counsel who sat neares
him. When court adjourned he hur
ried back to the TombS with a Snil,
on his face.
The details of the European trip of
1904, is still to be gone into. The re-
turn to America and the false an
nouncement of Thaw's marriage to
EVELYN Nesbit when the first scandal
arose, is still to be told of. The facts
of the pursuit of the young woman by
Stanford White after her marriage
with ThaW, the defense told of in the
opening address must be brought out.
TIL ese events of the two years before
the marriage must be described in de-
tail. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's ordeal is
by no means over.
OF course the actual truth of the
story which Mrs. Thaw told her hus-
band and which is said to have un-
balanced his mind can not be ques-
toned. If she told him the story and
as a result his mind became deranged
rhe truth OF the story is immaterial.
All that the cross examination can de-
velop is a doubt as to the Veracity of
the witness. a doubt as to whether she
really did tell him or not. That is all
the cross examination can show-all
but one thing. 1t is for the jury to
decide whether constant brooding on
the story which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
told Harry Thaw about her treatment
at the hands of Stanford White ac-
tually caused arrangement of his mind
to make him inca pable of
knowing he was doing wrong when he
killed White. Did Thaw's actions
after he heard the story; did his rela
tions with Evelyn Nesbit covering a
period of two years after the revela-
ton. did his treatment of her and of
White and a thousand other things in
dicate that he was brooding over the
story or that he was taking advan-
tage of it. This is for the jury to de-
eide and this is the doubt that Mr..
Jerome is attempting to instill in the
minds of the jurors. Whatever the re-
suit may be this is certain-Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw's ordeal is not nearly
over.
Thaw was in his usual vigorous