The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-18
CLOSE COURT WHILE
EVELYN TELLS STORY
(Contllu-u from FIRST Pase.)

tionai appearance and his complaining
of noises that did not exist.
In Her Blue School-Girt Dress.
Tx trial may be concluded IN two
more weeks. Mr. L.tt!eton caused q
ripple Of excitement when ne called
Young Mrs. Thaw. in he- blue school,
girl dress. appeared promptly AMI
walked brlskly TO the witness crair..
HHer. Clerk Penny administered. tile
usual oath. While Mrs. Thaw was slit
ting with anxious face ready for her
examination. sir. Littleton asked her
to withdraw for the time being to
Lynch, door;ran at the Tenderloin Po-
lice Station.
When District Attorney Jerome had
finished with the policeman, Mrs. VIII
liam Thaw vas called to the stand.
AS she took the oath she gave her
name as Mary Copley Thaw and her
residence as Pittsburg. She was lues-
toned By Mr.. Littleton. Thaw looked
intently and earnestly at his mother.
Her testimony, closely followed that of
the last trial, beginning with the re-
turn Of her son to his Pittsburg home
in November, 1903. after Evelyn Nes-
bit had told him her story in Paris that
| summer. Usually Harry came home
buoyant and Joyous she declared.
"but this time there was not smile"
Mrs. Thaw said she asked her son what
was the matter. II can't tell you,
| mother" he replied; II never can tell
you" The mother told of her son cry
! ing and moaning during the night: OF
his frequent playing at the piano, when
| the music would begin loud and then
die away until finally 1t would stop.
! Thaw sitting a long while at the. IN
strument with head cast down.
Mrs sThaw said she frequently asked
l her son what was worrying him, ana
| finally he declared that beautiful
I young girl he was introduced to ma
had q terrible experience in New fo OF :.
1 The mother told him he should not
worry about. such matters; that the
4 girl had a mother who should care for
| her. Thaw replied that the girls
mother had not looked after her, ane
] that was why all had happened Harry
Thaw eventually told his mother the
/ young girls name was Nesbit.
The name meant nothing to me-.
declared the witness for ! had nevel
heard of the young woman before
/ Harry said it had all occurred While
Miss Nesbit was little girl in New
/ York tried to impress upon him tina
lhe was not responsible for the sins o.
other men,"
Came Home with Evelyn.
Mrs. Thaw next told of the day sh'
4 and her son went to Thanksgiving Dh,
service at the Presbyterian Church II
pittsburg, when Thnw broke down ant
cried while the choir was singing klP
4 'linr,s "Recessionnl." Just to think,
Thaw sobbed, &c 1t had not happened
4 she might have been here with us TO
AIRS. Thaw described fIIarry's crying
a g "perfect shower OF tears. ThaH
q snid ia her that tho Nesbit girl ha,
3 been put on the stage by her mother 9th
.'but she will never be able to mai-
a living" he exclaimed; she VIII heVe
be "a great actress, and poor nctress 3
lmother go under. In 1904 the Tamil!
4 went abroad, and Harry was LETT at
watering place In France.
"When did you next see hlmT
mot until after the sensational re
3 turn to New York of the two on u
same steame r--Eyelyp and Harry cam
on the same steamer 80
Mrs. Thnw said she was not please
With the notortety.s and sent Tor, ne
Y wrong In anything he had done, n
that the young woman had been,3yer
III. Mrs. Thaw next told OF her corsst
4 .enrly an 1905 to her sons lnarrtag
4 with Miss Nesbit, with the provlso tina
y the girls past history never waste b
Il mentioned again.
The marriage was performed q
I'sitsburg; In April. 1905. and the! .tw
rent West Oh their wedding triI
-lHa FRY In NIL Wis tai never Isu ggests
al: Any xsEle that It had been tho girl
& fa,,it.H tAW Mrs. Thaw. 5s s.Sis
n The sxaminationglYa was temporarll
suspended here. Mrs, ,Tllaw.3 had sto j
asslsted from he witness chair.t III.
Nifes gu the = stand,
W Mrs. Evelyn ,Sesb!t rhaw then wa
sl5lb s{s III pa sSisS IL