Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-26
Delmas' Objections Sustained.

Delmas' Objections Sustained.
he was asked if it was not carbon copy
once objected and was sustained by the
court, it being held that the question was
an attempt to controvert collateral facts
brought out on cross-examination.
Mr.. Jerome asked Hummel several other
questions, whether he gave the paper to
Evelyn Nesbit what became of it, and
when she next went to his Office, but OBJ
jections to all them We're sustained.
Mr.. Hummel was thereupOn excused tenn
porarily.
Abraham Snydecker, who was a clerk in
Hummers Office, next was called. He said
he knew Evelyn Nesbit.
Did you on October g. 1903, see her
sign paper?" asked Mr. Jerome.
Mr.. Delmas objected to the question; the
court ruled with him, and Mr.. Snydecker
was excused for the time being.
Mrs. Thaw's Diary.
Mr.. Delmas having successfully blocked
for the time being all testimony regarding
the alleged affidavit Mr.. Jerome asked that
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw be recalled. When she
had taken the stand Mr.. Jerome handed
ieT d paper anu dSheu IL lTOIl uTSC 10 ldSC
1t was in her handwriting. Mrs Thaw
spent some time in an examination Of the
paper, smiling occasionally as she read.
1t soon developed that the paper was a
diary. While Mrs. Thaw was reading Mr.
Jerome announced that a packet Of letters
from Mr.. Lyon had been receiver. The let
tiers were addressed to Clerk Penny. He
| turned them over to Assistant District At
torney Caravan, who broke the seal.
Mr.. Delmas objected to this, and asked
that the letters be read and turned over to
the clerk.
Mr. Jerome handed the packet to Mr..
Penny. Justice Fitzgerald will have to de-
eide later what disposition is to be made
of the documents.
They were sent under a stipulation that
| they should be brought within the jurisdic-
| ton of the court.
Delmas Reads It.
Mrs. Thaw said the paper she had ex-
| amined was all in her handwriting.
rs 1t not diary which you kept in
| 1902"
Before Mr.. Delmas allowed the witness to
| answer this question he took the diary and
| began to read it to himself from end to
| end.
Nearly forty minutes thus occupied,
| when Mr.. Demas Offering no objection,
Mrs. Thaw said she kept the diary while
at school in Pompton, N. j.. in 1902. Mr.
Jerome then read few extracts from the
| diary. One was as follows
| A "Pie-Face MUTT
MRS. De Mile said to come hight in,
| and 1 jumped with the agility of a SOU
| brette and began to get shy"
| Another read "She has a son, but must
| say he is a pie-face mutt
| Then Mr.. Jerome read this: MY room
here is neither large nor small. There is q
| white, virtuous bed. / took nap, and the
| last thing l remember was, / wondered
| how far am from Rector's.' Rector's Is
| really not a proper place for an innocent
| young person, but 1 always had weakness
| for it"
| The district attorney turned to another
| page and read: Il hereby swear never to
| read another. But the one nice thing about
Janice Meredith is that she is not really an
angel-one of those persons too good for
| this world
Her idea Of Scandal.
when one comes to think 1t over 1t is
| good to have lived. A girl who has always
| been good and never had any scandal about
her is fortunate in more ways than one
Continued on Eighth Psge.)