The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-02-08

answering further questions she Sal0
she refused to marry Thaw in Paris
In 1908 because of an incident in her
life connected with Stanford White.
She declared she told Thaw of what
had occurred at the time of his pro-
posal and that the effect of her story
on him was terrible. He sobbed and
walked the floor and remained all
night sitting in the room and talking
1t over
Describing her relations with White
Mrs. Thaw told of being introduced to
the architect and of visiting him in
his studio at his invitation. She tes-
lified that White sent her mother to
Pittsburg and then took her to one of
his studios, where she dined alone
with him. Mrs Thaw then told of an
experience with White in a mirrored
bedroom. She screamed and screamed,
but he said 1T is all over"
Unable to Sleep All Night.
She sat up all night after he had
taken her home. White made Mrs.
Thaw promise she must never tell her
mother. He said it was all right
that there was nothing so nice as
young girls and nothing so loathsome
as fat ones. You must never get fat"
Mrs. lilaw broke down and cried
and could hardly proceed as she re-
lated her experience with White.
Thaw sat with his face buried in a
handkerchief.
Mrs. Thaw testified that she became
i'll at school early in 1903 and that an
operation was performed. It's nature
was not gone into. The doctors did
not tell her what was the matter.
When she recovered Thaw took her
and her mother to Paris.
Mrs. Thaw recovered her composure
after she had got over the most SEN
sational part of her story. Many of
the women in the courtroom were cry
ing and the most intense silence pre-
vailed in the room.
Mrs. Thaw said that she had also
told Thaw about her early life with
her mother and of her financial diff
culties. The money she earned as
an artists model she gave to her
mother. That was their only means
of support. Later she applied for a
position On the stage and accepted it,
in spite Of Thaw's objection. The lat
ter, she said, had offered to send her
and her brother to school.
At the afternoon session letter
written by Harry Thaw was intro
duced by Mr.. Delmas tending to show
the state of mind of the defendant on
the White incident. The letter, ad-
dressed to Attorney Longfellow, was
as follows:
Ia Ruined by Backyard.
"Mrs. N. insisted sailing New York
when her daughter left l kept Mrs.
N. in London three months, cost over
$1,000. Mrs. Nesbit sails tomorrow
for New York She thinks kid
mapped her seventeen and three-quar-
ter-year-old daughter. Before she
lands she will know that I have al
ways done the best could The child
cannot be with her mother because
when she was fifteen and two-thirds
years old she was ruined by black
guard. Don't worry, but find out her
address. Telephone Mrs. NJ, but not
in your name. Ask her if she saw
Mr.. Thaw aboard. AS soon as she
answers hang up the phone"
An attempt by Thaw's attorney to
introduce several other letters written
by the defendant brought out strong
objections from Mr.. Jerome and a
long argument as to their admissible
ity followed. The letters were finally
withdrawn for the present.
Resuming her story Mrs. Thaw, in
reply to questions by Mr.. Delmas, tes-
titled that when Thaw returned from
Europe she refused to marry him be-
cause she had heard that he had put
girl in bathtub and poured scald-
ing water on her. Mrs. Thaw also
told Thaw that White and Abe Hum
mel had shown her an affidavit charg-
ing him with these things which they
had drawn up. Thaw, she said, de-
MED the charge and declared White
and Hummel "had been making fool
of her"
Mrs. Thaw said she finally told Mr..
Thaw that she could find nothing in
the stories that had been told her
about him. The persons who told her
had contradicted themselves and she
found they were not men of good
character. The witness was then tenn
porarily excused and Fred w. Long
fellow, an attorney, was called to
identify letters written to him by
Thaw.