The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-21
JEROME CALLS HARTRIDGE

was sustained.
Bunch From the TenderIOin.''
Don't you know what I mean. -
asked Mr.. Jerome of the witness.
when l say did you see many of the
bunch from the tenderloin there? ?"
II think so.''
Have you any doubt?''
No
do you know Miss Winchester"
slightly
Did you see her do a cake walk at
the Dead Rat that night?"
Il don't remember
''In whose handwriting is this let
ter?" asked Mr.. Jerome. handing her
several written sheets.
Mr.. Thaw's. think"
Have you any doubt of it?
"I don't think 1 have
Mr.. Jerome then offered the letter
in evidence.
Mr.. Delmas objected on the ground
that it was mutilated and the date was
not fixed.
DO you know of your own knowl-
edge when this was written %
''I haven't the slightest idea
will you note the signing of thai
letter?''
yes"
Did not you and Mr.. Thaw. while
in Paris, write joint letters to friends,
you writing part and he the rest?"
"I can not say positively; very likely
we did,
I1dQ you your opinion IN
regard to the general chastity of
women %
'I had
How soon after your talk with
Thaw did you change your mind?''
Every soon.''
Her Change of Mind.
AT the time you left Paris in June
1903. had you changed your mind?"
The witness could not remember.
she said. how long it was after Thaw's
proposal of marriage that she left
Paris.
before the time you left Paris. had
you any appreciation that meretricious
relations between men ana women
were immoral and wrong?"
Not until after my later talk with
Mr.. Thaw.'
Before that you did not believe it
wrong?"
"Oh. yes
Very wrong?''
Not particularly. knew people
said it was wrong
Did you think it very indelicate
and vulgar?"
THAT is ALL
THAT it was only bad taste?"
Yes"
But you didn't think it was
Il didn't fully believe it until I went
to Paris"
But you thought it was wrong?"
Did you belong to any religious
organization ?"
mo"
"You went to church and Sunday
school in Pittsburg?"
"Not in Pittsburg."
'In Paris it was impressed on you
that White had done you a terrible
wrong"
"In a way"
Before you left Paris you had be-
gun to look on such relations as very
wrong?
Yes
Had you come to a full under
standing of the infamous character of
act?''
"Yes-but not so much so as have
now"
yet it was this that induced your
remuneration of Thaw's great love?'
DeImas Objects to Sneers.
Mr.. Delmas objected to what he
thought a sneering question.
Mr.. Jerome denied any such thing.
DO you use the word 'renunciation'
asked Mr.. Delmas.
IF this story is true. I do" said Mr..
Jerome.
Never in the history"
"I renew my objection" interrupted
Mr.. Delmas.
do you mean to tell me the story is
Delmas. That's the only reason you
can object
Justice Fitzgerald sustained the OBJ
lection.
Did you refuse Thaw solely because
of the occurrence with White ?" asked
Mr.. Jerome of the witness.
Because I had been found out,
Who told you you had been
caught?"
Friends of Stanford White"
$50 it was not because of the occur
renee. but because you had been
found out?'
1T was both together. had an in
stinct about it. When Mr. Thaw pro-
posed it was the first proposal I ever
had. and it all struck me very serious
ly. 1t all came together
you felt the most heinous wrong
had been done you at the time of your
ravishment?"
81 didn't know anything about it at
the time. All I remember is what I
felt like when I woke up. I remember
that distinctly. I did not understand
what had taken place.
1T outraged every maidenly instinct
in you. didn't it?''
at did and that is why I quarreled
with Stanford White
You were very bitter against White
when YOU told Thaw. weren't you?"
When you felt you were giving up
Thaw's love YOU didn't feel bitter
against White p"
Her Letter to White.
Ncl Intensely NOI until Mr. InaW
made me realize it,
You remember writing to Stanford
White from Boulogne?"
Yes"
How long was that after you had
left Paris?"
81 don't know
did you still feel bitter against
White -
yes I did,
cit was feeling of enmity against
your ravisher -
1T wouldn't say enmity-it was
hostility against him for this one
thinr. and subsequent things"
What subsequent things?''
The prosecutor caught up Mrs
Thaw's words