The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-09

warts on his face and was very ugly. Mr..
Hummers office walls were covered with
photographs of actresses with writing on
them.
Sees Hummel.
"He asked me how l came to go to Eu-
rope with Harry Thaw, and l told him
that I did not, I went with my mother,
and Thaw followed He asked me about
my quarrel with my mosher in London.
l said it was continuous quarrel between
us We simply could not get along. she
wanted to come home to America and
said she could come, but I was going to
stay there and return to the stage.
.Hummel said he had a case in his Of
flee against Thaw, but the woman in the
case was a very bad one, and he did not
think the case was much good. Then he
said Thaw was a very bad man, and above
all things I must be protected from him.
"They asked me If I went to Europe
of my own accord. and I said | certainly
had. I said I remained in Europe after
my mother left because I had quarreled
with her and could not dance for year.
and I liked Mr.. Thaw very much ana
could do nothing else"
Nevertheless. Hummel said, you are
a minor and he should not have taken
you away from your mother I said he
did not take me away.
Carried Away BY Thaw.
Mr. White said strong methods must
be resorted to to keep Thaw out of
New York, and to protect myself l must
help in every way I could.
Mr. White said I must leave every
thing in Mr.. Hummels hands. Then
they sent for stenographer, and the
lawyer said l must not interrupt him In
what he was about to say. Then they
began to dictate and put in a lot of
stuff that l had been carried away by
Harry Thaw against my will. ! started
to interrupt. but the lawyer put up his
hands and stopped me.
''They put in that I had been taken
away from my mother, and a lot of stuff
that was not true-that l had been treat
ed badly by Mr.. Thaw.
Several days later Mr.. Hummel called
me up and asked if l had any letters
from Mr.. Thaw.
4 said l had but I could not see what
that had to do with 1t. Mr.. White also
called up and said If / was not willing
to help In every way they could not pro-
teet me from Thaw. He said ] must do
Just what Mr.. Hummel said. SO I made
the letters up in bundle and took them
down to Mr.. Hummle's office. He asked
If they were love letters and l said
Yes
He said he just wanted to hold them
over Harry Fl. Thaw's head.
Another Incident.
Then he asked me why l did not sue
Harry Thaw for breach of promise
said that that was absurd, for II there
had been any breach of promise it was
on my part. He said that did not mat
ter. Mr.. Hummel said breach of prom
ise suit would sbe a fine advertisement
for me. I told him l did not care for
that kind of advertising. He declared he
could easily win a suit for me. said
did not want to sue anybody This made
Mr.. Hummel very mad and angry and
he told me l was foolish"
What did you tell Mr. Thaw," sug-
gested Mr.. Delmas. to give the girl wit.
ness breathing SPELL
Mr. Thaw asked me II l had signed
anything in Mr.. Hummels office, and 1
said / had not. He sal dthat was funny,
for IL they wanted to cause trouble |
must have signed something. Mr.. Thaw
said Hummel was blackmailer, and he
said, l think that there was something
bad in the air"
Mrs. Thaw testified to gong 10 her
own lawyer and relating her experiences
with Hummel Her lawyers, she said,
was greatly incensed at what she told
him of her experiences in Hummels Of
flee. Mrs. Thaw said:
MY lawyer, too told me that Hum
mel was a shyster" A laugh went
around the room. Mrs. Thaw continued.
Mr.. Thaw told me that l had no bus
mess to speak again with Stanford White
He accused me of having improper re-
lations with Mr.. White since l came back
from Europe, and ! said it was a lie.
He said it would look to people as IL 1
was blackmailer by going to Hum
mels office"
Another Incident.
Did you tell of another incident?"
Yes, | told him of one day when
White came TO the Hotey Navarro and
he was terribly mad and walked I'm
and down the room with a camp chair in
his hand. My child he said, what did
you tell Mr. Hummel about me-? 1 said
| had not said anything, and then Mr..
White said l must have told Hummel
because Hummel had just squeezed $1,000
out of him and he was not going to send
another thousand"
The witness, continuing, said that she
did not know what she had signed when
she signed the paper at the request of
MI. Nhlte In his office in Madison
Square Garden.
Il called Mr.. White up on the tele
phone after l had talked to Mr.. Thaw.
and demanded of Mr.. White that he
put the paper in the fire. He said he did
not have II but that 1t was in Mr.. Hum
mels office. Then White said he would
meet me on the corner.
when | met him we went down IN
Mr.. Hummels office. He showed me the
paper and showed by signature and asked
II II was mine, and | said 1t was Then
he put the paper in big iardinere and
burned 1t. Afterwards | told Mr.. Thaw
all about II and also Mr.. Longfellow.
How did Mr. Thaw treat you from
that time until he proposed MARRIAGE"
lie treated me very nicely; carried me
up and down stairs when I was sick and
Drought me flowers and took me car
riage riding"
After her marriage with Mr.. Thav
the witness said they took a trim tbroush
the west. While in Pittsburg. she said.
she had lived at the home of her hus-
band mother She related how she had
persistently refused to marry Thaw.
Because of Reputation.
What reason did you give him for not
marrying him?"
1T was because of my reputation. I did
not want to separate him from his family
1t was because I loved him that | would
not marry. If | did not love him so much
might have been anxious to marry
him."
After your marriage did you visit New
York from Pittsburgh asked Mr.. Del
mas
1--WE did"
Did You tell your husband of the eff
forts of Stanford White to renew your
friendship?p
81 did,"
What was the first occurrence you