The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-07
MOTHER Of THAW
Tells HER STORY
Rec0unts How Her Son Was
Affected by What Evelyn
Nesbit Told Him.
JEROME SEEMS BAFFLED
IN CR0SS-EXAMINATI0N
Size Breaks Down Under Stress
of Emotion While On
Witness Stand.

NEW YORK. March 6.-Anothcr dra-
matte chapter was added TO the history
Of the trial Of Harry X. Thaw for the
murder CT Stanford White today. when
TIE 5etendan:'s mother took the witness
stand TO contribute what she might to-
ward saving her son from the electric
chair. Mrs. .Thaw's stay before the jury
was brief. When Mr. Delmas had def
nitely limited her examination to the
change she had noted In her sons condi-
,ion following HIS return from Paris In
1908 after Evelyn Nesbit had told MIN
her life story. and when District Attor-
ney Jerome had with great consideration
conducted n short and Intellectual cross
examination. the mother love wclled
strong In Mrs. Thaw and she felt she
had not done her all. She was loath to
leave tho witness chair
There is the question of hcredity,"
she protested when both Mr.. Dalmas and
Mr.. Jerome told her she might step
down
II have asked you. madame. all that
is considered necessary" said Thaw's at
torncy with the utmost Difference
Mrs. Thaw half rose. hesitated and
was about 10 sit down again. when the
leading counsel for the defense offered
her his hand to assist her from the
stand
Twice during her recital Mrs. Thaw
orcke down and was unable TO proceed
Unable to Proceed
After few moments Justice FITZGERALD
asked solctously ii she felt able TO pro-
caed. and Mrs. Thaw evidently much
,haerined that her great grief had over
come her strong Will OF resistance. nodded
the affirmative. She declined a glass
n water. made an effort TO proceed. but
failed. Justice Fitzgerald then inter
posed a relief for which the elderly
woman facing him must have been deeply
grateful. Ile said that as many of her
remarks had been uttered in a very low
voice, it would be necessary to have the
stenographer read all her testimony up
10 that time 10 the jury.
When the reading was ended Mrs Thaw
had regained her composure and was able
TO proceed.
She said that when Harry came home
in 1903 he seemed depressed and appar-
entity had LOST all interest in life He
passed sleepless nights. would often leave
the table at meals and go into the parlor
10 play upon the plano. the music grow
Ing softer and softer until IL finally died
away.
He told me q wicked nan-probabI<
the wickedest man In all New Yorie-had
ruined his life."
IL was not until some time after he
had offered this explanation of the change !
in him that she learned the story os tho |
young woman who was to become her
daughter -in-law
Tells Of the Scandal.
Mrs. Thaw told OF her son breaking
down in a Pitrsburg church and exnioines
ing tnat II was all because of tho sorrnu,
which prevented the young woman he
loved being at his side Mrs Thaw told
OF coming 10 New York To meet E.veI,,
Nesblt and OF giving her consent To her
son marriage-the one condition being
'hat the girls past life in New Yo~k
should De closed book never 10 he re.
lerred TO la any way. Then came Tho
sloIg oI the marriage in Pltlsbure in
april. l9oo, The honeymoon trip and then
happy, placid summer spent al ibs
,hmotheI country homo In the mountains.
nr. De'nlas ended her testimony an
ruptly. The District Attorney was tai,nn
6y surprise anw began TO -examinn
nlrs Ihaw in very low voice He asked
,he conditions surrounding the SONS al
loWance, bur Mr.. Delmas objected IT..
asked what the sons lnsome amounted to
Mrs. Thdw said il was moderate anS
nothing IKE the sum the newspapers bawa
so oiten reported. Mr. Jerome next tread
sd upon what he must have felt the thin
nest oi Ice lest he put himself in the al