The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-20

nef mother hau Deen sent Dy 0IanIOfO
White to visit friends in Pittsburg.
Mrs. Thaw said it YVES the day after she
haG gone with Stanford White to a studio
in East Twenty-second street to have
some photographs taken in costume that
she received a note from hin asking her
to lunch with a party at the Twenty
fourth street house after the theatre. She
was playing at the Ca.tue at Inc time.
when we got to the house there was
no one there except Mr.. White and my
self" continued the witness, and he said,
They have all turned me down. but never
mind well have our suppe and then III
show you all over the house. You have
never seen it,"
Mrs. Thaw's voice broke at last when
she told of all that happened end she went
on with some difficulty.
Thaw broke down completely and wept.
The witness speedily regained her COM
posture and resumed her narration.
The story varied in no detail from the
| narrative of last year.
Mr.. Thaw, when 1 told him. got very
excited and walked up and dow the
room and moaned and sobbed, his eyes
were wild" said the witness. He bit
his nails and said My God: Ny Cod"
HOY long did that keep upF' asked
Mr.. Littleton.
All night"
what did Mr.. Thaw say when you
had co~ncluded2'
II "He said it was not my fault and thai
he thought Just as much of me as ever.
He said he wanted me to marry him. ana
1 said 1t would make him the Laughing
stock of his friends, for some people knew
of what had happened to me. He wanted
to know a lot about my mother and how
often she had seen Stanford White, and
what he had done for her. l told him my
mother didn't know anything about 1t"
Mr.. Jerome would not allow any dues-
tions to be asked until the witness had
completely exhausted her memory of the
conversation with Thaw. His constant OBJ
~iections did much to decrease the enectVe-
ness of the recital.
For several days after | had told him
about Stanford WHITE said the witness
Mr.. Thaw would sit for hours looking
into space. When l would speak to him
it was always some little time before he
could answer"
Ibid Thaw ask you anything about your
early life?'
Eyes, SIR"
What did you tell him."
Mr.. Jerome objected.
II sustain the objection ruled Justice
Bowling, ''as TO anything that occurred
prior to the meeting Of the witness with
Stanford White"
Mr.. Littleton had sought to get the story
of the girls early life, of her hardships
and the Poverty OF her family before tho
jury on Friday during his direct exami-
nation of the witness, but an objection
OF the district attorney was sustained. Mr..
Littleton argued today that the early life
story of the witness had a great deal to
do with impressing Thaw with the truth
Of her story and thus had n direct effect
as To inducing insanity.
Upon this presentation of the matter
1 Insfs~. l.x.,fto .raNga HE former ruling
and allowed the witness TO proceed.
When Mrs. Thaw started 70 tell OF con-
versations with Tbaw as to hoping to be
na great actress some day Mr.. Jerome OBJ
jected and Justice Downing suggested
that the testimony be made as brief as
possible. Mr.. Littleton maintained that
he was doing this.
The objections of the District Attorney
had begun to nettle the counsel for the
defense by this time, and he made many
sharp replies to that officer.
Mrs. Thaw said she was 10 years old
when she came to New York. and II
when she met Stanford White. She went
briefly over the events which followed
her return from Europe In November,
1905, OF meeting again with White OF
hearing from him that Thaw had made a
practise of treating young girls brutalls
and of telling this to Thaw when hi
sought her out upon his return from Pari'
several weeks later.
I She told Thaw also of being taken b.
d White TO the office of Abraham II, Hum
mel and signing a paper there. Thav
+ was very much excited over 1t all and toll
2 her she had been very foolish: that shI
ought 10 have known him better than Il
believe the stories told her by White and
his friends.
Mrs. Thaw told again of the burning OF
the affidavit she had signed in Hummei's
office. h had tried to get possession OF
llt-not knowing what it had contained
when she signed it-but Stanford White
Hculd not let her see anything more than
her signature before 1t was burned.
Mr.. Ldttleton made no attempt to shield
the fact. as was done on direct examina-
ton last year, that the witness and Thaw
lived together 10th in this country and
abroad prior to their marriage.
zone day at the Grand Hotel, In New
York, early in 1904 said Mrs. Thaw,
Harry was very respondent and he said
my life had been ruined and his life had
been ruined: that all sorts of stories had
been circulated about him and he was
going to end it all by suicide.
He went so far as to fix the time and
place and everything. He said he would
go to the Waldorf and get dinner and then
he would take laudanum. When he was
in one Of these moods | always agreed
I and said YES TO everything ne SuS-
gested. I thought that was the best way.
After dinner l insisted that we go to the
theatre"
WAS that the last Of it,"
"It vas the last until we went later in
1894 TO Europe. I came in one day at
Monte Carlo. and Harry's face was chalky
white. I asked him what was the matter,
and he said:
I've done it, It IS all over. Every
things all over
IT asked him what he meant. He said.
I've done Il: I've taken a bottle OF laud-
anum.' I thought he was trying to scare
me. but he told me where I could md the
bottle. and he got violently I'LL"
Mrs. Thaw then gave the details Of
securing physicians and the manner in
which they worked over Thaw all night
to save his life. This was the first new
incident she testified TO.
Going beyond the Incidents Of 1904 in
/ Europe and II Thsws repeated offers OF
marriage. the witness said the wedding
hrally occurred in Pit;sburg in April, 1915.
in the presence Of her mother and mem
bers Of Thaw's family, including his
mother.
Mr.. Lfttiefon here brought out the fact
thar Tnaw his wife had e~ndeavored
70 secure passage on the steamer Mrs.
William ThaE had taken for Europe the
Saturday preceding the Monday On which
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