Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-08

teriupt but the lawyer stopped me.
'They put In that | had been taken
away from my mother, that had been
badly treated ~ Mr.. Thaw. Then they
sent the man out OF the ROOM
Several days later Mr.. Hummel
called me up ana asked II had my
letters from Mr.. Thaw l said ] did
but could not see what that had to
do with it, Mr. White also called up
ana said If was not going TO help in
every way they could not protect mo
from Thaw. he said 1 must do just
what Mr.. Humme said.
/ made the letters up in bundle and
took them 20 MIR. Hummeps Office. He
said he did not want to read them and
did not care what they contained. He
asked, however. IL they were love let
tiers and l said yes. He said he just
wantd to hold them over Harry Thaw's
head
Then he asked me why did not sue
Harry Thaw for breach of promise. |
said that was absurd. Cor IL there had
been any breach of promise it was on
my part. He said that did not matter.
A FINE ADVERTISEMENT.
"Mr. Hummel said a breach OF prom
ise suit would be fine advertisement
for me. l told him l did not care for
that kind of advertising. He told me
an English duke had once been sued by
an actress for breach of promise. He
declared he could easily Vim suit for
me. 1 did not want to sue anybody.
That made MIR. Hummel mad and he
told me l was.- foolish
What more did you tell Mr.. Thaw"'
suggested Mr.. Delmas, to give the girl
a breathing spell.
MIR. Thaw asked me II ! had signed
anything in Mr.. Hummel's office and !
said had not. He said that was
funny, for If they wanted to cause
trouble [ must have signed something,
l said had signed nothing in Mr..
Hummels office. Mr.. Thaw was very
much agitated, He said Hummel was
a blackmailer and he said, I think that
there was something bad in the air.
and he impressed me that he was going
to see Mr., Longfellow, his lawyer"
Mrs. Thaw testified to going to her
own lawyer and relating her experience
es with Hummel.
MY lawyer told me that Hummel was
a. shyster.' a laugh went around the
room.
THAw ACCUSED EVELYN.
"Mr. Thaw told me 1 had no business
to speak again with Stanford White.
He accused me of having improper rela-
lions with Mr.. White since l came back
from Europe and / said that 1t was a
lie. He said 1t would look to people
as il / was blackmaller by going to
Hummers Office"
Did you tell of another incident?"
eyes, told him of ono day when
White came to the Hotel Navarro. and
he was terribly mad. My child he
| said. what did you tell Mr.. Hummel
about mep I said I had not said any
thing and then Mr. Thaw said / must
have told Hummel, because Hunmel
| had Just squeezed $1,000 out of him and
L.. Inc IN etnats 11Nt
sand"
The witness said that she did not
| know what she had signed when she
signed the paper at the request OF MIR.
White in his Office in Madison Square
| Garden.
II called Mr. White on the telephone
| after I had talked to Mr.. Thaw, and
| demanded of Mr.. White that he put the
| paper in the fire. He said he did no,
| have 1t, but that 1t was in MIR. Hum
| mel's office. He told me not TO talk the
| matter over on the telephone. he said
| he would meet me on the corner and
| we went to MIR. Hummei's office. He
showed me the paper and my stgnatutt
| and asked If 1t was mine, and l SAID
| 1t was Then he burned the paper
"How did Mr.. Thaw treat you from
| that time until he proposed marriage
HE treated ME very nicely. carried
| me up and down stairs when l was
/ SICK ana ftlt ioWtlS.
| After her marriage, the witness SAID
| they took a trip through the west
| While in Pittsburg, she said, she lived
| at the home of her husbands mother.
She related how she had refused &c
marry Thaw before she finally did.
WHY SHE REFUSED THAW.
what reason did you give nm 1oi
not marrying him."
TT was because of my reputation.
| did not want to separate him from MS
| family. ] knew 1t would be good
| thing for me to marry him, but II
| would not be for him. Ii was because
| I loved him that 1 would NOT marry
| If did not love him much might nave
been anxious to marry him..
Mr. Delmas got the witness to relale
| how she met some of the Thaw family
in Europe. ,,,.,, ia ,,o,
| To change your mind in regard TO mar
rying Thaw?" asked Mr.. Delmas.
You were given to believe that his
| family would receive you as ms wire!
Did you meet Mrs. Thaw. his moth
| err in New York."
II did"
After marriage did you visit New
| York from Pittsburgh"
we ala.
STANFORD WHITE.
"Did you tell your husband OF the
| efforts of Stanford White to renew
| your friendship"
81 did"
What was the first occurrence yot
| told your husband about?'
"Once whom was driving on Fifth
avenue when ! passed Mr.. White ane
| ne called out to me-"
did you tell your husband?"
II did, and he said II was not risht
for me to see him. and made me prom.
Use that II ever met White again
would tell him about IT,"
did you tell him?"
"I did"
when did you see Mr.. White asain?'
"It was on Fifth avenue one daS
when was riding. to DR.. Delavan's tC
| have my throat treated 1 was in q
hanson and Mr. White was also riding
| In handsom. When ] got home told
Mr.. Thaw that passed Mr.. White. II,
did not attempt to spa X to me but
stared hard at me. | looked away
| When got down 10 the doctors Office
| found Mr.. White coming there.
JEROME OBJECTS.
Mrs Thaw resumed the stand after
| the recess.
| Mrs. Thaw testified that one day In
| Whites studio lack RarrVlnorp nslxaf