Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

IHtIU ] HLUULU III
JEROME, MRS. THAW
HAS BAD MEMORY
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. And your mother gave them pictures
:: which subsequently were published?"
Yes
did you become acquainted with Ted
Marks?"
Yes"
Marks is a vaudeville manager.
"And received letters from him?"
yes"
Some Burned Letters.
Were those letters among the package OF
letters you burned after taking them from
a storage warehouse in this city,"
Mr.. Delmas objected to "this amazing
question" declaring there was no founda-
ton for it whatsoever.
Justice Fitzgerald sustained the objection.
Didn't you visit warehouse in this city
with lawyer"
{ YES"
What was his manner"
Mr. Hartridge.'
Did you take some letters out Of the
WAREHOUSE"
No
Examine any while there?"
NO"
Didn't you visit the warehouse with an
other lawyer before you went with Mr.
Hartridge?"
Il think So
What was the lawyers name"
Warren, think
DO you know a lawyer named Penoie-
ton?'
NO"
Have you any letters from Stanford
White?"
Il did have
The White Letters.
1t developed that the forty-two letters in
troduced yesterday and identified by MRS.
Thaw were written by Stanford WHITE 10
another girl.
Where are Stanford Whites letters?
Mr. Hartridge has some of Them
Mr.. Jerome demanded the production of
the letters Thaw's counsel made no re-
Spouse. Mr.. Jerome proceeded:
Did you give those letters to Mr.. Hart
ridge?"
NO"
"Who did?"
MIR. Thaw."
You gave them to your husband?'
Yes
WAS there single word of improperly
or indecency in Stanford Whites letters
to your"
Il don't remember.
did you keep all of Mr.. Whites letters?"
"No."
Have you a copy of the letter you wrote
Mr. White from Boulogne?"
mo"
do you remember it's contents?"
Nothing about it?"
mo"
How many letters did you give Mr..
Thaw?"
Fourteen
All Recollection Gone.
She testified that she gave the fourteen
letters to Mr.. Thaw in Paris in 1903. After
ward she received them from Thaws valet,
and gave them to Thaw again, presumably
after he had shot White. All of these let
tiers, she said, were received from White
while she was abroad in 1903. and were
given to Thaw. She also gave him some
letters, she couldn't remember how many,
which had been received before that time.
Where are those letters now?" asked
Mr.. Jerome.
Il don't know"
when did you see them last?'
'In Paris, in 1907
Have you been Intercepted by the
counsel for the defense as to their con-
| tents?
mo-"
DO you remember their contents?
"Only in a general way"
Mr. Jerome questioned the witness at
length regarding letters which were placed
in a warehouse before she went to Europe
| and taken out after her return.
What became of these letters?" he
asked.
II gave them to Mr.. Thaw."
Fenced With Jerome.
Mrs. Thaw fenced with the district at
torney quite skillfully at times, keeping
her wits well about her.
| Mr.. Jerome spent hour Or more on
the subject of Stanford Whites letters,
Mrs. Thaw declaring that the fourteen
letters which Thaw turned over to Mr..
Hartridge were the only ones she posi-
lively knew were in existence.
When Mr.. Jerome would ask occasionally
very pointed question, evidently for the
purpose of tripping up the witness, Mrs.
Thaw would reply with an emphatic nod
| of her head II didn't say that
You are sure these fourteen letters in
Mr.. Hartridge's hands are the only ones
in existence?" asked Mr.. Jerome.
There may be some in trunk.
where is the trunk?"
"In Paris"
whereabouts in PARISH"
'"rhaw was pressing you all the time to
| give him all the details Of this affair with
| Stanford White, wasn't he?"
| Yes"
sYou gave him the letters before your
marriage?'
, | yes"
Dropped the Subject.
Mr. Jerome here dropped the subject of
the letters for the time being and turned
. to Mrs. Thaw's story to her husband. He
! indicated that he would take every advan-
tage of the courts ruling yesterday when