The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-07

when did he first propose to YOU"
In June, 1903. in Paris.
did you refuse?"
yes
I'm stating your reason for refus-
ing did you give any reason which
connected you in any way with Whittier
Eyes"
| what was the reason you gave to
Mr.. Thaw?"
He came to me in Paris. told me he
loved me and wanted me to marry him.
I stared at him and he asked, Don't
Won care for me?" Yes" l replied.
then he asked the reason of my re-
fusal He put his hand on my shout
der and asked rs it because of STAN
ford White?"
Il told him yes and he sat down.
Harry told me he would be my friend
for life. that he could never love any
body else and he would marry me
and no one else. l cried and Harry
asked me to tell him the whole at
fair.
She Meets White.
Delmas directed the witness to tell
of her first meeting with White just as
she told it to Thaw that day and Eve
lyn said a chorus girl named Goodrich
in August 1901 asked her to a lunch
con party where she would meet
consented and with a friend she took
a cab and went to the studio on West
oath street The witness said the
doors seemed to open of themselves.
1--WE went up stairs, said Evelyn and
when there met a man, who was in
troduced as Stanford White
Thought Him Ugly.
Il thought him an ugly man. There
was table set for four. Another
gentleman came later. l remember
White leased me about my hair, which
wore down my back and my short
skirt only to my shoe tops.
! after supper we went up two
flights of stairs into a room where
there was a large red velvet swing.
White put me in the swing and swung
me very hard, when one of my feet
crashed through large Japanese UNI
brella which hung from the ceiling.
Jerome objected to this side of the
testimony but his objection was over
ruled, Evelyn continued the testi-
mony saying that after swinging her
awhile White suggested a ride in the
park.
THE young lady and l went to a
dentist after leaving Whites studio
said Evelyn. then l went home and
told mother all about my visit
White Wanted Her Teeth Fixed.
Evelyn said White wrote to her
mother and she, Evelyn, saw the let
ter Jerome objected to the testimony
about the letter unless she had told
Harry about it in Paris. The court
permitted Evelyn to continue, and she
said. THE letter asked my mother to
call at 116 Fifth avenue.
! Again Jerome objected but was
overruled. Evelyn continued: MIR.
Thaw asked me what was in the let
ter and l told him Mr. White request
| ed to see my mother. She called on
him and he told her he only wanted
me to go to the dentists to have my
teeth filled. and wanted her to do like
WISE Mother said no. White said he
had had teeth fixed for nearly all the
girls in FlorOdora.'
| The Second Meeting.
| when did you see White again.
| 81 received a note inviting me to
party and was told in the note that
| carriage would be waiting to take me
question I got into a carriage and was
driven to Madison Square Garden,
where White had a studio. Two other
persons were there. White said at
the party that I need not have more
than one glass Of champagne, and as
l had to get home early to my mamma
he took me home that night right to
the door of our apartments"
Posed in Kimona.
Mrs Thaw said there were other
parties in the studio. White, she said.
called on her to meet her several times.
he proposed that Sne take trip 10
Pittsburg to see her friends.
white said he would take care of
me and it would be all right if man.
ma went away. White came for me in
4 carriage. We drove to his studio on
| Twenty second street There were two
other men there. one a phoiogra pher.
White brought out beautiful Japa-
nese kimona, and l posed
Then continued Evelyn. white
| dismissed the two men. l went into a
dressing room and changed to street
clothes. White knocked on the door
and asked if 1 needed any help. l told
him. no. l went out and ate little
lunch and he took me home" Evelyn
told of another visit to the Twenty
fourth street studio.
| Alone With Stanford White.
NO one was there this time" said
the pretty witness, except White, and
1 told him l ought to 60 home. He
said l had better remain and have sup
per. After supper he told me as 1 had
never seen some of the rooms in the