The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-18

to her son crying and moaning during the night; of his frequent playing at the plano, when the music would begin loud and then die away until finally it would stop, Thaw sitting a long while at the instrument with head cast down ward. Mrs. Thaw said she frequently asked her son what was worrying him ana finally he declared that beautiful young gfrl he was interested In had had a terrible experience in New York. The mother told him he should not worry. about such matters, that the girl had a mother who should care for her. Thaw replied that the girls mother had not looked after her ana that was why it all had happened.
 Harry Thaw eventually told hts mother the young girls name was Nes- bit.
 'Srhe name meant nothing to me" de- cIared the witness. flor I had never heard of the young woman perore' liar rv said 1t had all occurred when Miss Nesbit was a little girl. It was In New York, he said. l tried to impress upon him that he was not rssponslpie AOI the sins of other men.
 Mrs. Thaw told of the day she and her son went to Thanksgiving service at the Presbyterian Church In Pitts burg, when Thaw broke down ana cried while the choir was singing KIP ling's "Recessional." .
 Lust to think" Thaw sobbed. If 1t had not happened she might nave been here with us today.
 Restion. MT. Littleton offered here 10 suspend the examination for a time but Mrs, Thaw said she felt strong enough to continue for while. LnaW said to her that the Nesbf 6iri nao been, put on the stage by her mother.
 But she will never be .Ss ape s,,II II never never be a great actress, and poor actresses
 In 1sO7, the family went abroad and Harry was left at a watering piSoe II" France.
 Not until after the sensational re- turn to New York, Evelyn and AarrS came on the same steamer.
 Mrs. Thaw pronounced her daugn- ter-tn-law's name the same way Una. young woman did when on the stand with long "E' accent on the tirst sylable. Mrs. Thaw said she was nol pleased with the notoriety and sent l for her son. He declared there was nothing wrong in anything he had done and the young woman had been very | ill s
 Mrs. Thaw next told of her consent early in 1905, to her sons marriage witn Miss Nesbit. with the provision tnal the girls past history never was 10 De mentioned again. The marriage rns performed at Pittsburg in April lSOe and the two went west on their Wed' ding trip.
 Harry, in all his talk, never sne gested at any time that 1t had been th' girls fault" said Mrs Thaw.
 The witness was temporarily sns pended here. She had to be led asia' from the witness chair. s, Evelyn NesbIt Called.
 Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was theI called to the stand. She said she wa the wife of the defendant and was pori Christmas day 1884. Her father oie' when she was ten years old
 District Attorney Jerome objected t' practically evefy question put py MI Littleton to tho witness as to her carr history and was sustained in many o them. The questions ruled out usual ly had to do with how long she Iive' in various places and her age Wnei the moves were made. "
 MT. Jerome said he did not wan the time of the jury taken up this yea as it was the last time with storie about pet cats and other irreieVan stuff"
 Mir Littleton noted an exception eac time the court sustained the objections
 Young Mrs Thaw finally was al lowed to say that when living in Pnlla delphia. before coming to New 9orA she posed for various artists, anon them Elizabeth Green, Jessie Wilco Smith, George Gibbs and Rel Thomp son At this time she was l4 year old. Only about one question In nv were allowed to be accepted, the other being ruled out on the ground or 'H
 materiality.
 The witness was allowed to tell z coming to New York at the age Of Al