Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-20
Justice Bowling Refuses
to Limit it or Bar
Public.
.LITTLETON HAS HIS WAY
Witness is Near Tears and
Prisoner Breaks Down
Completely.

New York, Jan. 20.-Jerome began
his cross examination of Evelyn Thaw
at 1905 p. m. today.
jerome Resumes Motion.
New York, Jan. 20-When the Thaw
trial was resumed this morning, Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to the
stand to repeat her story of a year
ago. District Attorney Jerome imme-
diately renewed his motion of Friday
that the public. including representa-
tives of the newspapers, be excluded
from the court room. He cited a GRIM
inal case tried in Monroe county sew
eral years ago as a precedent for eX-
Guiding all persons except those imme-
diately concerned with the trial
Leaves in Courts Hands.
Littleton, for the defense, said he
desired to leave the matter entirely in
the hands of the court Jerome declar-
ed he understood Littleton to join the
motion when it was made last Friday,
and did not quite grasp the change of
| front
Il said on Friday" retorted Little
| ton, Il would like TO spare Mrs. Thaw
from the gaze of the idly curious. but
as to all points of legality and pro-
priety, | reiterate what | said then,
that the matter rests entirely with the
court"
! Could Find No Warrant
| Justice Bowling said he had consult
ed all authorities cited by District At
torney jerome, and could find no war
rant under the constitution for exclud-
ing the public from a capital case.
The harm done by publishing the de-
tails of the revolving testimony, he
added. was more than Offset by the
safeguards thrown around the defend
ant by granting him a speedy and pub
lie hearing.
| "The court will not exclude anyone
who conducts himself with propriety"
Asked for Same story.
Littleton then asked Mrs. Thaw TO
tell her story of her experience with
Stanford White as she told it to Thaw
in Paris in 1903 when he asked her TO
become his wife. Jerome was at once
on his feet with strenuous objection.
He argued the matter at some length
Here is a recital of years before the
homicide" declared the prosecutor.
"and it is absurd on the face of it to
say this conversation three years be-
fore accounted for the insanity of the
defendant at the time of the killing"
Is No Time Limit.
Justice Dowling interrupted the dis
, trict attorney TO say he found nothing
in the authorities fixing a time limit
10 conversations or statements induc-
, ing or tending to induce insanity, and
, he overruled the objection.
The young Mrs. Thaw was suffering
, today from a bad cold and coughed
frequently while testifying. In re-
sponse to questions from Littleton,
, witness told again, but more briefly
than last year, of her experience in
the Twenty-fourth street house. where
she was taken 10 lunch with Stanford
White, drank champagne, and became
I dizzy.
I Tells of Velvet Swing.
She told again of the velvet swing
and the mirrored room. Every time
4 lyou were swung up TO the ceiling your
S feet would crash through the paper OF
l. the parasol,' said the witness, "and q
i fresh one would be put up
Voice Fails Her.
While relating ner experience in the
iTwenty-fourth street house Mrs
Thaw's voice broke when she told Of
# lall that happened and she went or
with some difficulty. Thaw broke dowr
n completely and wept. Mrs. Thaw'!
:, story varied in no detail from the mar
r rative of last year.
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