The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-07
Goes Over in Minute Detail Rela-
tions With white
Was But Is Years Old When
She Net the Architect.
Wore Short Dresses and Hair
Down Her Back.
GIVEN DRUGGED WINE.
She Broke Down and Cried
During the Recital.
Husband Also Bursts Into Tears
During the Narration.
Many Women Spectators Wept
Over Her Tale.
TOLD ALL TO THAW.
He Insisted on Marrying Her
Regardless of Past.
And kneeIing Kissed the Hem
of Her Skirt.
Many Women Spectators Wept
Over Her Tale.
TOLD ALL TO THAW.
He Insisted on Marrying Her
Regardless of Past.
And kneeIing Kissed the Hem
of Her Skirt.

New York. Feb. 7-EveIyn Nezbit
Thaw. the wife of the man charged
with the murder Of Stanford White.
took the witness stand today in de-
fense of her husband and told the
story o. her relations with the famous
architect. who was killed by Harry K
Thaw-
1t was simple narrative. told in a
giriish way n its midst the young
woman broke down and cried and
could proceed only with difficulty.
Her husband sat brave faced for 4
while; then he too. burst into tears.
and buried his face for sometime in a
handkerchief When he again looked
up his eyes were red from weeping
1t was in September. 1901 said
Mrs Thaw, who appeared but slip of
4 girl in the big witness shair, with he-
hair touching the shoulders and tied
with big black ribbon. when Mr..
White invited me to another of the
parties I had attended with him
had been left in his care by my moth
er, whom he had sent 10 Pittsburg I
was Just past Is years old
Ihis night when got 70 Mr.
whites studio, there was not anybody
there
Mr.. White said: Wen. we'll. thev all
seem TO have turned US down He
said Never mind We will eat alone
Later 1 said l must go home He said
he wanted to show me another part of
the house and we went into a bedroom
with mirrors all around
He gave me more Champagne
Then everything became whfrIy and
black When I came to. my clothes
we're all Of I screamed and scream
ed. but he kept telling me TO stoD-
saying its over, it's all right
As Told to TElax
The girl told the story to the twelve
men IN the Jury box, she declared. Just
as she had related the incident to
Harry ThaW one night in Paris Tsra in
1903, when he had asked her to be-
come his wife and she had told him
she could not He pressed her for a
reason and Il was then that she told
him all When she had concluded she
said he kneIt beside her. picked mn
the hem OF her skirt and kissed IL
Sne mad been sent TO school in New
Jersey in 1902, by Stanford White
became III there and had to submit 10
an operation, the nature OF which the
doctors did not tell her. Thaw came
10 see her at the hospital and said she
should be taken abroad to recuperate
She went to Paris with her mother
and Thaw. end it was in Paris that
ThaW made his first proposal Of mar
riage-
The prisoners wife told the entire
story OF her Efe-hoW she was
brought 10 New York by her rnothe
and posed for famous artists 10 earn
money for the family support She
also took a place in the chorus of a
musical show and it was while there
she met White.
Mrs Thaw was on the stand two
hours Her direct examination had
not been concluded when the luncheon
adjournment was taken
As she walked from the witness
chair along the passageway back Of
the jury box she felt along the wall
with the finger tips Of her left hand
as If about 10 faint From scarlet her
face had paled to the whfteness OF a
sheet Except when she broke down
when going Into the details OF her ex-
perience with Stanford White. the girl
spoke in a clear soft voice on the
witness stand she appeared for the
1rst time IN court unveiled and her
gfrIish beauty was remarked on all
sides. a mass Of black hair framing a
fAcs Of dainty moulded features
BGr. Harry TIlaw's story.
New York. Feb. THE announce
ment that either the mother or wife
OF Harry K Thaw would be the prin-
cipaI witness at today's proceedings
brought out an unusually large crow q
At the criminal courts building The
corridors were filed and scores OF
people. many OF them women. tried in
every possible way to force them selves
by the officers at the court room doors.
but after yesterday afte moons faxitv
the bars were put up aFafn and very
few were allowed to pass However
half score Of women managed to
succeed
Justice Fitzgerald had Just taken
his seat on the bench when Mr. Del
nIzs OF Thaw's counsel requested the
clerk To call Mrs Evelyn Nesbft Thavv-
The familiar figure in blue. now for
the first time without her veil appear
Sd from the judges chambers She
stood near the jury box as Clerk Pen
nv administered the oath
7 swear repeated Mrs Thaw in
an audible voice at the end Of the for
nal deciarat ton
Mrs Thaw took her place in the wit
aess chair calmly
she looked steadily ahead at Mr..