Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-21
Grifling of jerome Forces Wit
ness to Detail Most Intimate
Relations With White
DELmAs OBJECTS TO RECESS
Defense Insists That State Continue lts
Cross Examination, Regardless Of
Condition of Witness-Mrs. Thaw
Say. White Led Her to Believe All
Women Wore Unchaste.

New York. Feb. 21.-The climax OF
sensationalism seemed to have been
reached In the Thaw trial today When
District Attorney Jerome continued to
lash EVELYN Nesbit Thaw in pitiless
cross examination. No secret OF the
woman's past was too intimate for the
district attorney to make her lay II
bare. He made ner admit, with tears
streaming down her cheeks, that het
relations with White continued for
several months after the first event
when she claimed she had been
drugged. Mrs. Thaw declared that In
every instance she had been piled with
wine.
AS the district attorney barred heI
relations with White, Mrs. Thaw wepi
bitterly: Thaw sat with his face buried
in his hands. Two newspaper women
used to varying scenes of life, left the
court room. Jerome wanted every de-
tail Mrs. Thaw tearfully told all. She
said she had informed Thaw Of these
experiences with White. but had for
gotten to relate them during her d.
rect examination.
Toward the close Of the morning ses-
sion there came great surprise. when
Delmas stated threats by the district
attorney to indict Mrs. Thaw had beer
overheard in the court. Jerome denied
any such statement had been made in
court. but that was as far as he would
go. Mrs. Thaw at this time had been
temporarily excused to allow Jerome
10 question Attorney Hartridge regard
ing certain of Whites letters, said to
be in his possession. Hartridge de-
clined to answer the questions put to
him, on the ground that he had been
retained by Mrs. Thaw to protect her
interests.
Jerome says Mrs. Thaw's cross ex-
animation CAM not be finished in less
than a day and a half He wanted
the testimony of DR.. Deemar and DIR.
Bingaman taken today, instead of
waiting until later. He said they were
about to leave the state.
New York, Feb. 21.-There will be a
session of the Thaw trial tomorrow.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called when
court opened today.
Did you continue to believe all
women unchaste, as White told you,
until you talked with Thaw in Paris, in
1902" asked Jerome
"Yes, SIR" replied Mrs. Thaw, meek
ly.
Jerome then questioned witness at
length regarding her visits with Thaw
to Dead Rat cafe, Paris, endeavoring
that there were dances of suggestive
character performed, and that many
of the demi-monde were present. Mrs
Thaw's recollection of the visit was
very defective. her answers to most of
the interrogatories being II don't re-
member" e
Mrs. Thaw in Tears.
Mrs. Thaw said that after her first
experience with White, her relation
with him continued for a time. Tears
came into her eyes and her voice
trembled as Jerome continued to ques-
tion her intimately about her relations
with White. One newspaper woman
left the room. She said that her re-
lations continued against her will. She
cried bitterly. Thaw hid his face in his
hands, as Jerome bitterly attacked his
wife. Once Jerome offered to suspend
his examination for a time, but Del
mas would not consent.
Jerome questioned the witness at
length, as to whether she believed, be-
fore her talk with Thaw in Paris, that
meretricious relations between men and
women were wrong. She said that sht
knew they were indelicate, vulgar, and
in bad taste, but that she didn't fully
recognize that it was wrong until she
went to Paris. Jerome asked the wit
ness if it was solely because Of the
occurrence with White or because she
had been found out, that she refused
Thaw.
"It was both together" answered the
witness. when Thaw proposed, it
was the first proposal that ever had,
and 1t all struck me very seriously. 1t
all came together
You felt that most heinous wrong
had been done you at the time of your
ravishment?"
II did not know anything about it at
the time. All remember is what I
felt like when woke up. didn't un-
derstand what had taken place"
Jerome fierce1y demanded from the
witness reason why she had written
to White from Bologne. Mrs. Thaw
raised her voice as she replied:
Because my mother would give me
no peace until did it. She said that