The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-21
WIFE OF DEFENDANT RELATES
NEW INclDENTslN LIFE
or HUSBAND
JEROME PlTlLESS
Makes Evelyn Describe II Detail Her
Relations with Sanford White and
Harry Thaw Before Her Marriage:
Objections BY Both Attorneys Delay
Trial-Mrs. Thaw Still Oh stand.

4 y y II H.,
New York, Jan. 20.-Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw told her story today for
the second time. The repetition lacked
the vitality of the first recital, but the
crowd in the courtroom where her hus.
band, Harry Thaw, is on trial for the
killing Of Stanford White listened In.
tently to every word.
William ID. Haywood, formerly sec
retary Of the Western Federation Of
Miners. was a spectator at the after
noon session.
& Justice Bowling had ruled that he
found nothing in the law for closing
the doors against the public, and there
was great clamor for admission from
the crowd which hung about the corri-
doris. "
Mr.. Jerome, failing In his move to
exclude spectators, took occasion in
his cross-e2amination Of the witness to
bring out all of the details Of the first
trial which Littleton had omitted on
his direct examination Of the witness.
Mr.. Jerome also sought to block Mrs.
Thaw's testimony in its entirety on
the ground that conversations which
occurred three years before the trag-
edy could not have any bearing on the
mind of Thaw at the time of the homi-
eide. Justice Bowling overruled the
objection.
4 Mrs. Thaw was on the stand an day
long, and Mr.. Jerome announced when
adjournment for the day was taken
that his cross-examination would take
the greater part Of tomorrow's session.
Repeated Objections.
Mrs. Thaw's story was broken into
by the constantly repeated objections
Of Mr.. Jerome, who sought to exclude
all details on the ground Of inmate
riality. The frequent objections led
Justice Dowling to request Mr.. Little
ton to cut his examination as short
as possible. fss 3
Mr.. Littleton took this course only
to find out that, on cross-examination,
Mr.. Jerome insisted on reading from
last years record nearly every word
the witness had then uttered. He did
this under the privilege sof framing
new questions. W, rs
Mr.. Littleton objected to It, declar-
ing that the district attorney, by read
ing the former Testimony In q dis.
agreeable manner, was trying to dis
credit her in the eyes 81 the jury when
he could not discredit her ~ direct
questioning. Mr.. Jerome made no at
tempt to disguise a tone OF complete
contempt IN reading the testimony.
Contempt also characterized most OF
the questions he put to the witness
whom he attacked in the loudest voice
he has yet used at the trial. Mr..
Jerome plunged immed ediately into the
more immediate details OF the testi-
mony, and made no delicate choice Of
words in framing his questions.
Littleton Frequently Sustained.
3 Mr.. Littleton's objections on the
ground Of ''offensiveness and impro-
priety" frequently were sustained by
the court. But one new feature ap-
peared in the testimony Of the wit
ness. This was when she told about
Thaw swallowing the contents of bot
tie Of laudanum at Monte Carlo In an
attempt to end his life. Previously to
this, at the Grand Central hotel IN
New York. Thaw had talked Of suicide,
his wife declared, and suggested that
she also take poison, as both their
lives had been ruined. Mrs. Thaw said
she humored Thaw at the time and
diverted his mind. She was out of the
room when he finally took the poison.
Why didn't you tell US about this at
the first trial?" demanded Jerome.
"Mr. Delmas said it might make
Harry out too crazy" the witness re-
torted before Jerome could stop her.
Evelyn 10 Sick.
Young Mrs. Thaw was suffering to-
day from bad cold and coughed
while testifying. In re-
sponse to questions from Mr.. Little
ton, the witness told again. but more
briefly than last year, OF her expert
ence in the Twenty-fourth street
house where she was taken to lunch
con with Stanford White and drank
champagne and became dizzy. She
told again Of the velvet swing and the
mirrored room and the Japanese para
sol attached to the ceiling. N
Every time you were swung up to.
the ceiling your feet would crash
through the paper OF the: parasol."
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