The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-22
EVELYN THAW'S CAREER
NOW PUBLIC PROPERTY
All the Misdeeds of the Young Wife
Drawn from Her on Wit
ness Stand.
Defendant Lost Sight Of While the Slight Figure Faces Mer
CHESS Prosecuting Attorney.

New York. Feb Binder the stress of
crOss-examination. in which District At
torney Jerome gave no quarter. Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw broke down today
I upon the witness stand. With binding
tears burning their way down cheeks
which from ashen white had flushed to
crimson, she admitted that after her
! first experience with Stanford White her
relations with the architect continued
several months.
There were other confessions also.
which, while damaging TO herr own char
acteT. acCentuated ali the more the ter
rible personal sacrifice she is making in
the effort to save her husband from the
electric chair. The case has progressed
to the point where the defendant has
been all but lost sight Of His girl-like
lashes. She it is whose life is being
searched out and who is being held up to
scorn by the prosecution.
All Eyes on Evelyn.
Thaw his face buried in his hands
might easily have been out of the court
room picture today, and none would have
missed him. All eyes were upon the wit
ness chair and the slight figure in blue
which occupied it, During the day and
at all times heretofore Mrs. Thaw has
had to sit on the edge of the chair in
order that her feet might reach the floor.
To make her more comfortable for the
long ordeal a foOtStOol and back cushion
were provided during the afternoon.
At the close of the most eventful day
of the trial, Mr. Jerome announced that
he probably would keep Mrs. Thaw I'M
der fire for two more days Adjourn
ment was taken until Monday morning.
although at one time Justice Fitzgerald
said that to accommodate out-of-town
witnesses he would hold court tomorrow
and Saturday.
There was no subject affecting the
witness of so intimate nature that the
district attorney hesitated to haul it from
its bding place and hold il before the
gaze of the world. all the while requiring
that she should recognize and own the
fault in her own words.
Newspaper Women Reiterated.
When MIR. Jerome was flaying Mrs.
Thaw with questions as TO her relations
with White. demanding to know every
detail and while bitter tears were swell
I ing to her eyes. two newspaper women
| accustomed 10 h9rsher scenes OF life
I hastily left the courtroom and made a
! hasty retreat out Of the big portals. At
/ last the prosecutor himself reiented
somewhat and suggested that the pro-
ceedings should be suspended
+ Mr.. Deimas thought he detected an IN
| favorable slant to this and protested that
the witness would be able to proceed.
Mrs Thaw wiped her eyes. stiffened up
a bit and nodded to Mr.. Jerome to pro-
coed.
Deeper Into the Mre.
After bringing out that her relations
&
jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw admit
ted that in 1908. after the return from
I Europe, she spent the night at Thaw S
apartments in New York, and that for
/ three weeks he and she occupied con-
Meeting apartments at the Grand hotel
here.
Mrs. Thaw ADMITTED freely that the
champagne which she had declared had
/ tasted bitter the night she lost con-
I sciousness in the mirrored bedroom was
no more bitter than any other cham
payne she had drunk In fact she de-
clared il tasted like all the rest and de-
MED that she had intended for the jury
I to assume otherwise.
Mrs Thaw made what was considered
her most damaging statement to the de-
| PENDANT when she had showed her copies
| of cablegrams sent to Stanford White
/ from Europe asking him to use his in
| fluence with a certain man in London to
prevent Mrs. Nesbit from interfering
| with Evelyn continuing in Thaws COM
I pany.
Spent Whites Money.
Mrs Thaw also was forced TO admit
| that when she and her mother went
abroad With Thaw in 1903 they were still
drawing upon the bounty of Stanford
White Evelyn declared that she had a
I letter of credit for 800 or $500 which was
given to her by White and which she la
ter turned over to Thaw. There was
still a balance in the Mercantile company
to her order also.
But mamma got all OF that" said the
witness
Mr. Jerome dwelt for long while upon
the cablegrams which Thaw is said to
have sent White He brought out that
the cablegrams were sent after Thaw
knew of the relations which had existed
between Miss Nesbit and the architect
Mrs Thaw would not admit that she
knew positively who sent the cabiegram
OF whether her name was signed to them
Surely" remarked Mr.. Jerome you
don't mean to say that he signed his own
name7''
mo" she replied. . don't mean that
at ALL
Gay Life il Paris.
A letter written by Mrs Thaw in 1904
telling of her gay life in Paris with Har-
nv Thaw and bunch from the tender
loir" was read TO the jury by Mr.. Je-
rome. This brought out more testimony
as to the Dead Rat a Partisan cafe
There seemed TO be nothing in the wit
ness past life about which the proSecu-
tor was not informed. He seemed to have
been able to trace her every step. largely
due doubtless. to the typewriter state
ment OF. the mother. which Mr.. Jerome
nearly always holds in his hand while
hurting questions at the daughter. In
single spaced typewriting the statement
seems TO cover fully seventy-five pages
Indictment Threatened.
The springing of sensations did not rest
all with the district attorney Mr.. Del
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