The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-26

New York. Feb. with the exception
Of some questions about the afidaF..
which she denies having made in 1893
against her present husband Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw's cross-examination in the
Thaw murder trial was completed to-day
District Attorney jerome so announced
this afternoon before adjournment
The surprise Of the day was precipi-
tstod by the action OF counsel for the
defense in preventing the district attor-
ney from Offering in evidence what pur-
ported TO be a Photographic copy OF the
last page or the affidavit IN question. The
court having sided with Delmas on this
point jerome announced that he would
call Abe Hummel and a notary public,
who is supposed to have witnessed the
AFFIDAVIT. to prove that the Photographic
copy was in fact a true copy OF the
original
Defense Anticipates Jerome.
II Jerome should fail in his effort to
prove that the former Miss Nesbit really
and knowingly did make the affidavit
against Harry Thaw which she has on
the stand repeatedly denied having made
he viii have failed TO shake in any ma
terial manner the story she told the
jury on her direct examination
That the lawyers for the defense have
all along anticipated the prosecutions s
effort to prove this affidavit is evidenced
by the fact that on the direct examina-
tion Delmas drew from the witness a
statement TO the effect that White took
her to Abe Hummel and made her tell
the lawyer something Of her trip to
Europe with Thaw; that Rummel then
dictated a statement To a stenographer.
which she told him then was full of lies
and that later Stanford White got her to
sign some paper. the contents OF which
she did not know.
When Thaw came back from Europe.
she said, he told her il meant somethin 4
crooked and she went to HUmmers Of
fee, where he showed her "a paper bear
ing her signature and burned it before
her eyes.
Abe HummeI in Evidence.
Harry Thaw's wife has all along insisted
that she never knowingly signed any az
fdavit against Thaw. She said so again
to-day. and repeatedly declared that she
never signed any paper for Hummel CT in
HummeTs Office.
Jerome was apparently well-primed with
some sort OF ammunition furnished by
Abe Hummel, for while he questioned the
young witness about the incident oG the
affidavit. he held in his hand a typewriter
paper from which he read long passages
verbatim.
The district attorney wanted TO know if
young Mrs. Thaw did not tell Hummel
that while she and Thaw were living in a
German castle in 1903 the defendant had
repeatedly beaten her with cOwhide
whip He asked if she had not told the
lawyer that Thaw beat her again later on
in Paris.
He wanted to know if she had not said
that she had seen Thaw take morphine
and cocaine, and that he had tried to
force her TO take drugs. toe. He inquired.
still referring 10 the memoranda he held
in his hand if she had not told Hummel
that Thaw took some Of her jewels and
gowns away from her, and asked a va
riety of other questions of similar char
acter.
Makes Emphatic Denial.
The witness declared with increasing
emphasis that she had not told Hummel
any Of these things, and when the district
attorney wanted 10 know il she had not
accused Thaw of making upon her still
more brutal assault than the others re-
ferred to, she answered defantly:
Il never did. No, sir; never told him
that"
1t is expected that Abe Hummel will
be the first witness put on the stand to-
morrow morning, and should he testify
that he drew for Mrs. Thaw an affidavit
containing all these charges against Harry
Thaw. some interesting developments are
looked for when Delmas begins his cross
exaInination. Hummel has not been court
ing the liEelight much since he was con-
victed OF conspiracy in the Dodge Morse
divorce scandal and was sentenced to the
penitentiary.
IT is known that the prosecution intends
70 try 20 prove that not only did Mrs.
Thaw make an affidavit charging all kinds
of 6ruelty against the man who is now
her husband, but also that the paper was
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