Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-20
No SECRET SESSION
N TRIAL 0F THAN
Court Refuses to Comply With
Jerome's Request to Bar
Crowds
EVELYN REPEATS HER STORY
Recital Of Relations With White Does
Not Vary From That Given at the
First Trial - Jerome's Constant OBJ
lection. Nettle LittIeton = Thaw
Wssps At Wife Story.

flH8y Fbat - S0IVVU0 = SSssSSss's
lection. Nettle LittIeton - ThaW
Wssps at Wife Story.
New York, Jan. 20.-When the Thaw
trial was resumed this morning. Mrs
sE,lyn Nesbit Thaw was called to the
stand to repeat her story OF year
ago. District Attorney Jerome immed-
iately renewed his motion of Friday
that the public. including representa-
tiyes Of the newspapers, be excluded
from, the court room. He cited crim-
inal case tried in Monroe county sew
eral years ago as a precedent for ex-s
cluding all persons except those mn
ntediateiy concerned with the trial.
Littleton, for the defense, said he de-
sired to leave the matter entirely In
the hands Of the court. Jerome de-
clared that he understood Littleton to
Join in the motion when It, was made
last Friday and did not quite grasp
his change Of front
4 said on Friday" retorted Little-
ton, Il would like to spare Mrs. Thaw.
from the gaze Of the idly curious.
but as to all the points of legality and
.propriety rt.iterate what said then,
that the matter rests entirely with
the court"
q Justice Bowling said he had consult
ed all the cases cited by District At
torney Jerome, and could find no war,
rant under the constitution for ex-
3cluding the public from q capital case.
I.The harm done by publishing the de-
tails of the revolting Testimony" he
added, was more than Offset by the
safeguards thrown around defendant
BY granting him . speedy public
hearing. The court Will not exclude
any one who conducts himself with
propriety.
Evelyn Tells Story.
Littleton then, asked Mrs. Thaw to
tell the story of her experience with
Stanford White as she told it to Thaw
- Paris in 1908, when he asked her
pecome his wife. Jerome was at
S1ice on his feet with q strenuous OBJ
lection. He argued the matter at
some length.
Here is recital Of years before
homicide" declared the prosecutor.
ut is absurd on, the face of it to say
that this conversation three years be-
fore accounted for the insanity Of de-
fendant at the time Of the killing.
Justice Bowling interrupted the dis
trict attorney to say that he found
nothing in the authorities fixing the
time limit to conversations or state-
ments Inducing or tending to induce
insanity. He overruled the objection.
Young Mrs. Thaw was suffering to-I
day from a bad cold and coughed fre-
quently while testifying. In response
to questions from Littleton, witness
told again, but more briefly than last
year, OF her experience in the Twen-s
street house where she was
taken to lunch with Stanford White
and drank champaign and became diz-
w. She told again of the velvet
swing, the mirrored room, and the big
JAPANESE parasol attached to the CELL
ing.
Evidently induced by Jerome's cons
slant objections and his manner of in
terposing himself between her and her
husband, Mrs. Thaw's voice had a tone
Of wormanly defiance 1t 1t, that was
lacking at the first trial, and did not
add to the effectiveness of her recit-
al. The. witness, when Jerome offered
some OF his objections, would turn to
him and insist:
'.That's what I told him. Mr.. Jer-
ome."
Justice Bowling ruled that Mrs.
Thaw first must tell all that she re-
membered Of the conversation without
any questioning from counsel, unless it
appeared that witness had forgotten
details, when her attention might be
called to them.
Story Makes Thaw Weep.
While relating her experience in the
Twenty fourth street house. Mrs.
Thaw's voice broke when she told Of
all that happened, and she went on
with some difficulty. Thaw broke down
completely and wept. Mrs. ThaW's
story varied in no. detail from the mar
rative of last year.
When Mrs. Thaw started to tell Of
her conversation with Thaw as to hop-
Jerome objected and Justice Bowling
suggested that the testimony be made
as brief as possible. Littleton main
tanned that he was doing this. The
object OF the district attorney had be-
gan to nettle the counsel for defense
by this time, and he made many re-
plies to that officer. Mrs Thaw said
that she was Is years old when she
came to New York, and 16 when she
met White. She went briefly over the
events which followed her return from
Europe in November, 1908. of meet
ing again with White, of hearing from
him that Thaw had made practice
Of beating young girls brutally, and
Of telling this to Thaw when he sought
her out upon his return from Paris
several weeks later. She told Thaw
also of being taken by White to the |
office OF Abraham. II. Hummel and
signing paper there. Thaw was very
much excited over 1t all, and told her
that she had been very foolish; that |
The ought to have known him better