Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-02-26
JEROME LOSES
IN CONTEST
) WITH MRS.
} I H A v
District Attorney Utterly Fails
in Attempt to Shake Young
Woman'S Testimony or. Dis
credit Her Veracity,
DEFENSE SCORES TWO
IMPORTANT POINTS
Cross Examination of the
Prisoners Wife NearS Close,
Attorney Abe HummeI Next
Witness for Prosecution

Attorney Abe HumneI Next
Witness for Prosecution,
tBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire
New York, Feb. 25.--Except for one
brief moment Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw had decidedly easy day TO-DAY
during the continuation of her cross
examination by District Attorney Jer-
ONE. When adjournment was taken
the prosecutor announced that he had
practically concluded with the witness
Mrs Thaw wiz be temporarily ex-
cused tomorrow morning to enable
Mr.. Jerome to introduce Abraham
Hummell to identify Photographic
copy of the affidavit EVELYN Nesbit
Is alleged to have signed and which
charges Thaw with many cruelties
during their 1908 trip TO Europe. The
district attorney got the contents of
the affidavit before the jury this at
teruoon by reading certain of its state
ments in the form of questions and
asking Mrs. Thaw if she had told such
things 10 Mr.. Hummel
In each Instance she declared she
had not. She also denied ever having
signed such an affidavit, admitting
that she had, however, signed some
papers for White in the Madison
Square tower. of the nature of which
she was not aware
During the morning session Mr..
Jerome played his strongest card of
the day Mrs. Thaw had denied posi-
lively that she had ever been to see a
Doctor Carleton Flint with Jack Bar
lymor2.
Call DR.. Flint" commanded Mr.
Jerome.
The doctor entered from the witness
room and was escorted to within few
feet of the witness chair.
did YOU ever see that man be-
fore? ?" Mr.. Jerome asked Mrs. Thaw.
The witness seemed a bit startled,
looked quickly and intently at the
physician. and then turned to Mr..
Jerome and shook her head.
Never" she declared.
Thaw was intensely interested, and
when the incident was over he turned
to the newspaper man sitting, nearest
him and whispered: THAT rh4n made
mistake in coming here. He stood
there a liar. Do you catch the point
q liar"
Mrs. Thaw was in much better spir-
its when she took the stand today, and
looked decidedly better physically
than she did last week. She had all
her wits about her and did not fare
badly i'm the hands of the district at
torney who was more gentle. In
stead of further hurting the cause of
her husband, Mrs. Thaw mapaged TO
make two decided gains. When court
adjourned last Thursday it appeared
from her own statements that she had
used a letter of credit from Stanford
White while touring in Europe and
had turned the letter over to ThaW.
She explained today that Thaw took
the letter of credit from her, saying
the money was poisonous; ana
neither she nor her mother should
touch it. and that he would provide
them with funds, Whatever had been
spent Of the money, she declared was
for her mother.
The second point Mrs. Thaw maze
was concerning the cablegram which
Thaw is said to have sent to Stanford
White from London. 1t appeared
Thursday that these cablegrams were
requests to White to use his influence
i'm keeping Mrs. Nesbit from raising
a row." and interfering with Evelyn
continuing in company with ThaW
Mr.. Jerome took up the subject again
today, but his questions elected the
information that the letters did not
concern Mrs. Thaw at all but related 10
a mana secretary of the American
embassy-in London, whom MIS-
ThaW said had "sneaked up to mann
mas bedroom and insulted her. She
said the man had also insulted her
and Thaw had gone in search OF hlih'
but failed to find him.
The proceedings of the day dragged
a great deal and IT was evident long
before he announced the fact that Mr.
Jerome was nearing the end of ms
cross-examination.
The proceedings tomorrow with IT
Hummell on the stand should pc
more interesting The defense on
cross-examination will attempt to dis
credit the witness, who is under in
dictment. II MAJ be late in the al
ternoon before Mrs. Thaw VIII again
take the stand for Mr.. Jerome's hnal
questions. which wiz have to do with
the affidavit. Should the defense de-
eide to proceed with the redirect eX-
animation Of Mr.. Thaw and Mr. Jer-
ONE should take IN the re-cross eN-
animation, Mrs. Thaw may be kept on
the stand a.! of Wednesday ana
Thursday.
Mrs. william Thaw. mother OF the
defendant. and Mrs. Carnegie. her sis
ter. were at the court house today for
The first time in ten days. Mrs. Thaw
has been suffering from severe
cold