The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-28
Attorney Delrnas Succeeds in Block ing Most of the Lawyers Evidence.
MRS. THAW AGAIN PUT ON THE STAND
Cross Examination Finished by the Prosecution and the Redirect En- animation Begun by MT. Delmas-- Mrs. Thsw's Diary Placed in Evi- dcnco

gerald to letter he had received
 from ]. D. Lyon, vice president of the Union National bank of Pitts
 burg, who was witness two weeks ago.
 MT. Lyon had custody of the Thaw
 will He was requested by MT.
 Jerome to send all of Harry Thaw' s letters and papers he had in his possession Tuesday the district at torney said he had received a letter from MT. Lyon stating that Mir. Hart
 ridge of the defense had written him saying no letters or papers of date subsequent to June %, 1906, were desired. Mir. Lyon asked that the court instruct precisely as to what papers are desired. Mir. Jerome asked Justice Fitzgerald to make an order directing MT. Lyon to send all the papers.
 The matter of the letters having
 been disposed of MT. Jerome directed Abraham H. Hummel the lawyer who drew up the affivavit to which
 Evelyn Nesbit is said to have sworn and which charged Thaw with cruel ties during their 1903 trip to Europe,
 He was shown the photographic copy of the last page of the famous affidavit, which Mir Hummel said refreshed his memory so that he could state positively that the date on which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw called at his office was October 27, 1903. MT. Delmas objected several times to the use of the photograph, but the court allowed the questions
 The affidavit contains the allega- ton that Thaw whipped Miss Nesbit when she told him there was no truth in the statement about White and refused to sign papers making the definite charge against the archi- tect
 .T am not endeavoriDg to impeach the witness protested MT. Jerome, "but I want to prove the existence of an original affidavit in order to in troduce the copy and intelligently continue my cross examination. Justice Fitzgerald overruled the objection and Mir. Hummel said he did dictate statement in the pres ence. of Miss Nesbit.
 Mir. Jerome asked Hummel several other questions. where he gave the paper to Miss Nesbit, what become oi it. and when she next went to his office. but objections to all of them were sustained.
 I MT. Hummel was thereupon ex- k cusel temporarily.
 Abraham Snydecker. who was a clerk in Hummel's office. next was ca led. He said he knew Evelyn Nes- bit.
 Did you on october 2s, 1903, see her sign a paper?" asked MT. Jerome MT. Delmas objected to the ques- ton, the court ruled with him, and Mir. Snydecker was excused, Mir. Delmas having successfully blocked for the time being all testi- mony regarding the alleged affidavit Mir Jerome asked that Mrs. Evelyn Thaw be recalled.
 When she had taken the stand MT Jerome handed her paper and asked if from first to last it was in her handwriting. Mrs Thaw spent somt time in an examnation of the paper similng occasionally as she read. It soon developed the paper was diary. While Mrs. Thaw was reading a packet of letters which were re ceived from Pittsburg was turned over to ths c'erk.
 Mrs. Tbaw then said the paper sh' had examined was all in her hand writing.
 Neally 40 minutes was here oc # #clpied~by Mir Delmas in reading tn # Iapef~ He offered no objection an' Mrs. 1haw said she kept the diar. q whie at school in Pompton, N. , # in 1902. Mir. Jerome then read a fey # extracts from the diary.
 From the time you first becam intimate with Thaw until the shoot # ing of Stan ord White. did you eve # see anything in his condition tha & was irrational?" asked MT. Jerome #''Yes.'
 # Mrs. Thaw then detailed seyera # instances. She said that one nigh
 while on Broadway in a cab they say " White. Thaw became much excited
 He cried and sobbed and bit hi
 nai.s and talked rapidly # Ibid you ever see man in al # epileptic fit?" asked MT. Jerome
 *rve seen cats" There was con # siderable laughter
 Well, did Thaw act like thatg'
 Prompted by MT. Jerome, she sai
 his body tremtled, he clasped am
 nnclasped his hands and his eye aIolled. This manner of Thaw. sh
 said, kept up from 1903 to the tim
 of the killing
 & Mir. Jerome's next question prove
 the last. IL was Did Thaw recol
 lect having seen White after thes
 cutbursts?'' "Yes." That is all
 except that may at some futur
 fime ask the witness to explai
 phrases in Thaw's letters which "
 have just received" At 12:4o lunch
 ean recess was ordered.