New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-27
BLIGHTING TALE TOLD.
MRS. THAW LEAVES STAND
HummeI Not AIo1ced to Testify
about "AHdaUit.

When court adjourned yesterday and the trial
of Harry X. Thaw went over until this morning
his young wife, who had never appeared more
girIlike since she first began the story on
which the fate Of her husband depends, bade
farewell to the courtroom ana gl;ded out of the
limelight that shines upon the trial.
To save her husbands life she had blackened
the character of the man who first lifted her,
her brother and her mother from poverty
grand man." as she had testified full of gen
erosity and kindness. And this man is dead
and the law of the state does not permit
word OF testimony to be said to redeem him in
the sight of the public.
During his cross-examination Mr.. Jerome
tried, as far the laws Of evidence permitted,
TO have young Mrs. Thaw testify TO the eX-
cellence OF Mr Whites general character. It is
understood that If It was allowable. Mr.. Jerome
would go much further Fixing the date Of
the alleged assault by the books of EiChenmeyer
the photographer who, Mrs. Thaw testified. took
the pictures Of her on the preceding day, It is
asserted that il would be possible 70 show that
on that night Mr. White was at a public dinner
where he remained until the early hours of the
next morning. She had positively set this date
as the night following the day Eichenmeyer
took certain photographs Of her which are in
evidence, and the photographer's books fix this
date without chance Of cavi.
Besides blackening Stanford Whites reputa-
ton the young woman had placed her mother
in oGious light, and friends regulations had
suffered at her hands. There is no doubt that
the sacrifice was necessary and required & her
but it has been sad, disagroeable spectacle
that viii long leave an unpleasant impression in
the minds Of those who Witnessed it.
HUAIAIEL on THE STAND.
The trial had been adjourned on Monday SO
that 3Ir. jerome might cali Abraham HummeL
the disbarred lawyer TO testify that Mrs, Thaw
haG ---Je an affidavit TO him that Thaw had
been guilty Of many acts OF brutality 10 her
and that Stanford White was not the author Of
her ruin She had declared that these allegations
We're untrue and the District Attorney wanted
to prove by the testimony Of tho lawyer, OF the
stenographer to whom the statement had been
dictated ana by Photographic copy OF the
document itself that Mrs Thaw had really
made the charges attributed to her Neither Mr..
Hummel nor the stenographer was permitted
to testify yesterday under ruling Of the Court
that testimony to contradict young Mrs Thaws
testimony was not permissible at this time.
Later when Mr.. Jerome calls witnesses on re-
buttal. their stories viii be told.
Not the least interesting Of the documentary
evidence introduced in the case was diary kept
by Mrs. Thaw when she school in Pomp-
ton. y. J. The few extracts from it which the
District Attorney read gave Illuminating in
sight into the girls views Of life at time when
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losophy remarkable in one Of such tender years
was its predominant feature An Illustration is |
contained in tho fo1lov.ire evtraot
mTh i1 one 60 mo ,r smlg ga ana does
something each time one thinks there is lots in
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about her IS fortunate in more yvays than cne
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been kept from the world all their lives and |
then, on the other hand there is not one Of them