Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-25
Jerome is Putting Her Through a Rigid Cross Examination
 Again To-Day
A GENERAL DENIAL
Made 10 Several oi the Questions Which the Prosecutor No Doubt Intend IS Trump Cards--
 Whites Letter Identified

New York, Feb 25.-When the Thaw trial was resumed to-day be- fore Justice Fitzgerald in the criminal branch of the supreme court, District Attorney Jerome continued with his cross examination of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. That young woman was im- mediately called to the stand after the judge had taken his place on the bench and without any preliminary statement the prosecutor plunged in- to his work.
 Mrs Thaw looked refreshed after her three days respite and answered the first questions put to her con- fdently. Thaw brought with him from the Tombs several packages of letters and papers.
 MT Jerome, as on the previous days of his cross examination. jumped about from place to place in the wit ness's story. He asked her first of all to-day if she had had trouble with her mother in Allegheny, Pa, before going to Philadelphia to live-if she had not run away with a. girl.
 Mrs Thaw denied that she had done such a thing. MT Jerome next asked: How long after the drug ging in the 24th street house was 1t that the account was opened for you in the Amsterdam bank by Stanford White?"
 "I can't tell how long-It might have been a month" .
 When did you first meet Frances Belmont?"
 When was in Fldrodora."
 Before you met Stanford Winter"
 T think so"
 Had you gong to supper with Frances Belmont before you met Winter"
 MT Jerome based aiI his questions evidently upon afiidavits made by the girls mother.
 Mrs Thaw said she had not gone to supper with Frances Belmont be- fore meeting White. She had gone to several afterwards. but White was present at all of them except one.
 MT Jerome asked if she had not often gone to suppers with two men whose names he whispered to her. She said she never went with them. but they were present. One took her home once and the other twice-But there was always another girl with her. The girl was not Miss Belmont.
 These suppers were after the theater?"
 "Yes."
 "On February 22. 1902. were you on good terms with Frances Bel mont?"
 "I think so."
 Witness said that after she left Florodora she was with the Wild Rose." that opened in Philadelphia.
 Who went there with you!".
 My mother"
 Do know Angela vincent!"
 Yes"
 A letter and envelope was shown Mrs Thaw, who identified the writing as that of Stanford Whites. The en- velope was postmarked Boston, Janu- ary 20, 1902, and was addressed to Charles Hartnett. Mir Whites private secretary. It read:
 Dear Hartnett: Please telephone Mrs Nesbit to let you know how soon Miss Evelyn Nesbit is to go on her vacation. Then send this note to the Mercantile Trust company: Please notify Miss Nesbit that on receiving word she is about to start on her va- cation you will send her the weekly checks for $25 and an additional check for S200.'
 Yours truly.
 STANFORD wHTTE."I
 By this letter and the introduction of checks signed both by Evelyn Nes- bit and her mother. MT Jerome re- freshed Mrs Thaw's memory to the extent that she said she lived at the Audubon apartments from February to April 1. 1902. The cheeks were given In payment of hotel bills and were drawn against deposit made in the new Amsterdam bank by White to the joint credit of drs Nesbit and her daughter.
 By peoples exhibit 23. a check Mir Jerome brought out the fact that be- tween April 1, 1902 and April IF. 1902. Mrs Thaw and her mother went to live at the Hotel Wellington. The district attorney apparently attached much importance to this point.
 Mrs Thaw said that she had often been to supper with George W. Led erer and Jack Barrymore. She was questioned very closely about her trip to Europe and she stated that | Whites letter of credit was used for her mother only that Thaw told her it was poisoned.