The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-03-01
MRS. TnAW MAKES
TWO GOOD POINTS
GIVEN CHANCE TO EXPLAIN
SOME THINGS WHICH SEEM
ED AGAINST HER.
LIVED ON BOUNTY OF WHITE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY Prizes INTO
PAST LIFE OF THE DEFEND
ANTS WIFE.

New York, Feb 22.--In continuing
| his cross-eXamination of Mrs. Evelyn
| Nesbit Thaw yesterday AT the trial OF
her husband District Attorney Jerome
brought out the fact that in 1902 Stan-
| ford White deposited 81 $50 with
New York trust company with instruc-
tions that it should be paid to the Mes
bit girl at the rate of s25 "a week. Mrs.
| Thaw frankly admitted receiving
checks from the trust company. but
she would not admit that there was
provision that she should receive the
money only when out of employment.
The prosecutor spent nearly the entire
afternoon in trying to make Mrs.
| Thaw admit that this was true. but as
! often and in as many ways as he pu'
| the question to her, she gave the one
answer: II don't remember
Her Feelings Not Spared.
Mr.. Jerome indicated early that he
had no disposition TO spare Mrs.
Thaw's feelings. He interrogated her
! pointedly as to her men acquaintances
of the past. He laid especial stress
upon her acauaintanceship with James
A. Garland, who figured for the first
time in the case Mrs. Thaw said she
knew Garland before she met White.
Weren't you named as correspond
ent in the Garland divorce case?' ask
ed Mr. Jerome
Mrs. Thaw was shaking her head
when Mr.. Delmas sprang to his feet
with an objection. Justice Fitzgerald
overruled the objection, but Mr.. Je-
rome withdrew the question.
Never Posed in Nude.
Mr.. Jerome questioned the witness
about her manner of posing for artists
and brought from her a denial that she
ever posed in the nude. Many proto-
graphs of Mrs. Thaw were introduced
In evidence. Mr.. Jerome piled the
young woman with questions as TO
what disposition she had made of the
letters written to her by Stanford
White. Some, she said had been de-
| stroyed and some she had given TO
her husband. Mr.. Jerome was assisted
materially in his cross-examinatiOn by
| typewriter statements made by Mrs.
Thaw's mother and by Howard Nesbit,
her brother. He consulted the state
ments from time to time. and Mr..
| Delmas let this fact become known to
the jury by remarking upon it.
| Mr. Jerome's cross-examination may
require several days yet
Mrs. Thaw Breaks Down.
New York, Feb. 23. Under the
stress of a cross-examination in which
| District Attorney Jerome gave no
quarter. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
broke down yesterday upon the wit
ness stand. With binding tears burn
Ing their way down cheeks which
from ashen white had flushed to Grim
son, she admitted that after her first
experience with Stanford White her
relations with the architect continued
! for several months. But this was not
all
| Damaging Confessions.
| There were other confessions which.
while damaging to her own character,
accentuated all the more the terrible
personal sacrifice she is making in the
effort to save her husband from death
In the electric chair
After bringing out that her relations
| with White continued for some time
Mr.. Jerome went deeper. Mrs. Thaw
admitted that in 1908, after the return
from Europe, she spent the night at
| Thaw's apartments in New York. and
| that for three weeks he and she occu-
| pied connecting apartments at the
Grand hotel in this city.
Defendant in Bad Light.
| Mrs. Thaw made what was consider
| ed her most damaging statement to
the defendant when she said he had
showed her copies of cablesrams that
| were being sent to Stanford White
| from Europe, asking him to use his in
| fuence with certain man in London
/ to prevent Mrs. Nesbit from raising
| fuss and interfering with Evelyn con
tinuing in the company of Tnaw
Mrs. Thaw also was forced to admit
| that when she and her mother went
abroad with Thaw in 1908 they were
still drawing upon the bounty of Stan
| ford White.
Gay Life in Paris.
A letter written by Mrs. Thaw in
| 1904 and telling of her gay life in Paris
| with Harry Thaw and bunch from
the Tenderloin' was read to the jury
by Mr. Jerome This brought out
more testimony as to the Dead Rat,
Z Partisan cafe.
l Courf adjourned until MOndoy