Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-20
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY JER.
ONE poEs NOT SPARE FEEl.
aNes or WITNESS.
MOTHER Defended
Never Ressd In Nude Or AsseeIatsd
With Married Men-proseeutlon
win Try 10 pssprose Her story.

New YoFk. Feb. ga ruling was
made late during yesterdays session
Of the Thaw trial that Jerome may
examine Evelyn Thaw an 10 the truth
of her statements II has been hela
all along that under the Law II n
immateFiai whether the story Eve.
lyn told Thaw In true or not. the
point being that Thaw believed Ii
true. Justice Fitzgerald however
held that Jerome could investigate
tho truth of her story In order 10 at
tack the eredibiIity Of the witness.
crossesaminatlon Continued.
The eross-examination Of Mrs
Thaw was continued when the hear
Ing was resumed this morning Jer
ome jriIped from the par. Ct her
story 10 another In the examination
ny his questions he Indicated that
b. did not intend TO spare the feel
ings Of the young woman In any
way. He interrogated her sharply
~ 10 details OF her dress when she
posed for artists in Philadelphia
and New York. He persisted I'm Ger
tain questions. even after pelmas
Objected. and Insisted In definite an
swers. though Mrs. Thaw usually
said that she could not exactly re-
member. Mrs. Thaw fenced with the
district attorney quite stanchly q
times, keeping her Wits well about
her. Jerome spent an hour or more
upon the subject Of Stanford Whites
letters. Mrs. Thaw declared that
fourteen letters which Thaw turned
over to Hartridge. We're the only
ones she positively knew were in ex'
istence. When Jerome would ask oc.
casionaliy a very pointed question
with the purpose evidently OF trip
ping her. Mrs. Thaw would reply.
with an emphatic nod Of her head u
didn't say that"
Not Sold by Mother.
Finally Jerome dropped the sub
iect OF the letters and turned to Mrs.
Thaw's story to her husband. "How
long were you unconscious In the
24th street house at the time OF your
experience with Stamford Whittier"
asked Jerome. IT don't remember"
She said she thought It was after
midnight when she became uncon'
scious, but before daylight. Jerome
read from Mrs. Thaw's direct testi'
mony the statement that she sat up
all night. She replied that she
meant the rest of the night after she
had been taken home. Jerome asked
IL there was anything to show that
Mrs. Nesbit was willing to sacrifice
her daughter for a pecuniary con
sideration. mo" said Mrs. Thaw,
shaking her head Indignantly. Jer'
ONE asked the witness about a man
named Hoppe or Hopley. He press
ed her closely about this man and
wanted to know IL he had not lived
In the same house with her, which
the witness denied. "Have you seen
him since 1907" "I may have pass
ed him on the street" II don't mean
that way" NO" said Mrs. Thaw
with a stamp of her foot.
Never Posed In Nude.
The district attorney asked IL she
had not quarreled with her mother
over her going with married man,
James A. Garland. and that her
mother considered she was becoming
unruly In the spring Of 1901. This
the witness denied. She also denied
that she had ever posed In the nude
or had a cast in the nude made. She
said she did not know Garland long
and the acquaintance ceased when
she met White. Her mother always
met her at the theater except when
White came. :.