The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-21

| dizzy She told again of the velvet swing
 and the mirrored room and the big Japa-
 rese parasol attached to the ceiling. Kicked the Ceiling. 1 "Everytime you were swung up to the | ceiling your feet would crash through l the paper of the parasold' said the wit ness, and fresh one would be put up" Evidently induced by MT. Jerome's con- l stant objections and his manner of inter- | posing himself between her and her hus-
 band, Mrs Thaw's voice had tone of
 womanly defiance in it that lacking | at the first trial and that did not add to the effectiveness of her recital. | Mrs. Thaw, as last year, constantly re- 1 1terated that she was repeating only what 1 she had told Thaw in Paris. District At torney Jerome constantly objected when it seemed to him the witness was trans | gressng.
 "The witness, when MT. Jerome of | fered some of his objections, would turn to him and insist that what I told him, | MT. Jerome"
 l Justice Bowling ruled that Mrs. Thaw i first must tell all she remembered of the conversation without any questioning | from counsel until 1t appeared the wit ness had forgotten any details when her
 attention must be called to them. 1 The witness said her experience in the 1 Twenty-fourth street house occurred after l her mother had been sent by Stanford White to visit friends in Pittsburg. Note From White. | Mrs. Thaw said it was the day after she | had gone with Stanford White to a stu 1 do in East Twenty-second street to have | some photographs taken in costume that I Sh m a | to lunch with a party at the Twenty 1 fourth street house after the theater. | She was playing at the Casino at the | time.
 1 When we got to the house there was | no one there except Mr. White and my self, continued the witness, ''and he l said: They have all turned me down; but never mind We'll have our supper l and then I'll show you all over the house. l You have never seen it." Mrs. Thaw's voice broke at last when l she told of all that happened and she l went on with some difficulty. Thaw | broke down completely and wept The l witness speedily regained her composure l and resumed her narration. The story | varied in no detail from the narrative or 1 last year.
 "Mr Thaw, when I told him, got very excited and walked up and down the l room and moaned and sobbed. His eyes were wild" said the witness. "He bit his nails and said, My God! My God!' 1 How long did that keep up?" asked l MT. Littleton. l "All night
 what did MT. Thaw say when you had | concluded?"
 1 He said it was not my fault and he l thought just as much of me as ever. He | said he wanted me to marry him, and I said it would make him the laughing stock | of his friends, for some of them knew l 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 told him my mother did not know anything about 1t. Jerome's Objections. | MT. Jerome would not allow any ques- 1 tions until the witness had completely ex- | hausted her memory of the conversation l with Thaw. His constant objections did | much to decrease the effectiveness of the recital. For several days after l had | told him about Stanford White.' said the
 witness, MT. Thaw would sit for hours looking into space. When l would speak | to him it was always some little time be- | fore he could answer"
 l Did MT. Thaw ask you anything about l your early life?'
 | "Yes, sir
 1 What did you tell him?' 1 Mr. Jerome objected.
 l q sustain the objection ruled Justice ! Bowling, "as to anything that occurred
 prior to the meeting with Stanford l White"
 MT. Littleton had sought to get the
 story of the girls early life, of her hard | ships and the poverty of her family be-
 fore the jury on Friday during his di-
 rection of examination of the witness,
 but an objection of the district attorney
 was sustained. MT. Littleton argued to- | day that the early life of the witness
 had a great deal to do with impressing
 Thaw with the truth of her story and
 thus had a direct effect as to inducing | insanity.
 Upon this presentation of the matter
 Justice Bowling reversed his former rul-
 ing and allowed the witness to proceed.
 When Mrs Thaw started to tell of con-
 versations with Thaw as to hoping of
 being a great actress some day, MT.
 Jerome objected and Justice Bowling sug-
 gested that the testimony be made as
 brief as possible.
 European Trip.
 Mrs. Thaw said she was 15 years of age
 when she came to New York and IS when
 she met Stanford White. She went brief l ly over the events which followed her re-
 turn from Europe in November, 1903, of
 meeting again with White, of hearing
 from him that Thaw had made a prac-
 tice of treating young girls brutally, and
 of telling this to Thaw when he sought
 her out upon his return from Paris sev-
 eral weeks later, She told Thaw also
 of being taken by White to the office
 of Abraham H. Hummel and signing a
 paper there. Thaw was very much ex-
 cited over 1t all and told her she had
 been very foolish; that she ought to have
 known him better than to believe the
 stories told her by White and his friends.
 Mrs. Thaw told again of the burning
 of the affidavit she had signed in Hum
 meFs office. She had tried to get pos
 session of it-not knowing what 1t had
 contained when she signed it-but Stan
 ford White would not let her see any.
 ton last year. that the witness and Thaw
 lived together both in this country and
 abroad prior to their marriage. ! "One day at the Grand hotel in Nov