The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-28
HARDDAY F)R MRS. THAW|
District Attorney Jerome Will not Spare the Witness in Cross
 Examination.
DETAILS OF PAST LIFE TO BE LAID BARE
Proseeutor We'll Supplied With Notes and Information and Will Attack Ter Story in its Minutest Details --ouestioned as to Her Life as an Artists Model.


 Artists Model.
 New York, Feb. 21.-District At torney Jerome continued Wednesday his cross-examination of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and when the luncheon recess of the trial of her husband was ordered, it was apparent that he would keep the young woman on the stand all afternoon, and possibly for days to come.
 MT. Jerome indicated by his ques- tions that he does not intend to spare Mrs. Thaw in any way, but will turn over every leaf in her past life. He seemed well prepared with notes and information. From time to time his assistant supplied the details on which some of the questions were founded.
 The prosecutor took advantage al- so of Mrs. Thaw's statement Tuesday that the story she told Thaw about Stanford White was true to attack the story as to its inmutest details. It had been thought the rules of evil NShNS NOuiu DlCNtlt tiltS, IOI tnc story had been introduced by the defense merely to show it's effect up- on the mind of Thaw. Once Mrs. Thaw had stated on the witness stand that her narrative was true, 1t gave the prosecutor the opportunity he had waited for.
 MT. Jerome questioned Mrs. Thaw as to her manner of posing for artists, insisting upon definite answers to his questions. She denied in a positive manner that she had ever posed in the nude.
 The witness was put through clcs- est questioning regarding her rela- tions with various men about whom MT. Jerome asked, and in reference to what she had done with all the let ters Stanford White had written her. Mrs Thaw declared the cnly letters she knew to he in existence were in the hands of MT. Hartridge. The district attorney demanded the pro- duction of the letters, but MT. Hart ridge sat silent.
 Mrs. Thaw's voice ,rembled at times, but she bore the ordeal with much fortitude, and there was no in- dication of breakdown at any point of her testimony.
 District Attorney Jerome continued his tactics of Tuesday, jumping from one part of Mrs Thaw's story to another and avoiding sequence as far as possible.
 in his cross-eyamination of the witt ness by statements made 10 nim by her mother, Mrs. Holman, and her brother. Howard Nesbit.
 Mir. DaImas objected only to MT. Jerome reading from Mrs. Holman's statement, saying if her testimony was desired she should be brought forward as witness.
 q should like to do so,' said the district attorney, but you know where she is."
 Mrs. Holman is In Pittsburg.
 The cross-examination was ox- tremely dull at times. the witness fencing with the district attorney constantly, and seeming to hold her wits we'll about her.
 Mrs. Thaw was recalled 10. the stand after the recess, and was asked to identify several photographs of herself She identified the pictures handed her as having been taken at ko ct et,, <1t, the day when she was there with Stanford White all day being photo graphed Some of these were addi- tional copies of the famous picture on which, dressed in kimono, she posed on a white bear skin.
 Mrs. Thaw testified that the checks produced in evidence represented money furnished. by Stanford White.
 Pittsburg, Feb. 21.--Attorney John McCleaye Wednesday admitted that he drafted Harry Thaw's first will, and that he was asked to go to New York to testify in his defense. but had refused. Attorney McCleave gave it as his opinion that Thaw was perfectly sane when he drew the in- strument He said he knew nothing about the codicil offered in evidence, and declared he failed to recognl any portion of the will which he. had written, as those now published in the newspapers. -
 Memphis Railroad Man Drowned.
 Memphis. Tenn, Feb. 2S-Asator w. l.. smith, widely known nail road man, and his son, Mcclellan, aged 13, were drowned Friday in Menesha Lake. Ark. MT. Smith, who was a member of the Menesha Hunt ing Club, went there with his son Thursday for duck hunt. Friday morning a skiff containing the two,
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