The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-18

dress. appeared promptly and walked brisHy to the witness chair. where Clerk Penny administered the usual oath.
 While Mrs. Thaw was sitting with anN ious face ready for her examination, Mr. Littleton changed tactics and asked her to withdraw for the time-beng to make way for Policeman Thomas r. Lynch, who was door man at the tenderloin po- lice station at the time Thaw was con fined there following the shooting of Stanford White
 Lynch repeated the testimony lie gave at the first trial as to Thaw complaining the morning after his arrest of hearing the voices of children 10 or F years of age in the tier of cells above his own. The officer said to Thaw: You must be dopy: l don't hear anything
 Thaws action in the station impressed the witness as irrational
 Doorman Testifies.
 Doorman Barrett who was on duty at the station when Thaw was first brought there, followed Lynch, and added his opinion to that of his brother officer that Thaw acted like an irrational man. Bar rett declared on cross-eXamination that Thaw, when arraigned at the sergeant desk in the police station, appeared like a man who had been stabbed or shot himself.
 His eyes wer something terrible ex- claimed the witness; they stuck out like two hard-boiled eggs
 The officer and the district attorney renewed the battle they had at the last trial and the cross-questioning was con- tinued at great length.
 ThaW, the doorman declared, complain ed during the night that some one was beating and abusing little girls in the station.
 Barretts cross-examination had not been concluded when the luncheon recess to p. m. was taken.
 Cordial Greeting.
 Mrs. William Thaw saw her son for the first time in months during the noon re- cess. The meeting was affectionate. Eve lyn Thaw, the wife, came in during the interview and it is said she was cordially greeted by the elder woman.
 Dorman Barrett's ss-eXaminatloli was continued as soon as the afternoon session began.
 When District Attorney Jerome had fin ished with the policeman, Mrs. William Thaw was called to the stand. AS she took the oath she gave her name as Mary Cooley Thaw and her residence at Pitts burg. She was questioned by MT Ldttle- ton Thaw looked intently and earnestly at his mother, who was very pale and weak. in sharp cOntJdSl lO Aiie tNNS o'Ne health which marked her appearance q year ago. Her testimony followed closely that of the last trial, beginning with the return of her son to his Pittsburg home in November, 1903 after Evelyn NesDit had told him her story in Paris that sum mer.
 .'Usually Harry came home buoyant and joyously, she declared. but this time there was not a smile"
 Peculiar Actions.
 Mrs. Thaw said she asked her son what was the matter. 'I can't tell you, moth- err he replied. T never can tell you. The nother then repeated what she had related on the stand last year as to her son crying and moaning during the night; of his frequent playing at the piano, when the music would begin loud and then die away until finally it would stop, ThaW slt- ting a long while at the instrument with head cast down.
 Mrs. Thaw said she frequently asked her son what was worrying him and finally he declared that a beautiful young girl he was interested in had had terrible eX- perience in New York. The mother told him he should not worry about such mat ters that the girl had a mother who should care for her. Thaw replied the girls mother had not looked after her and that was why it had all happened.
 Harry Thaw eventually told his mother the young girls name was Nesnit.
 Name Meant Nothing.
 "The name meant nothing to me- de- clared the witness flor had never heard Of the young woman before. Harry said f it had all occurred when Miss Nesbit was a little girl. It was in New York, he said. l I tried to impress upon him that he was 1 not responsible for the sins of other men. '
 Did you call in physician?' asked Nr. Littleton.
 l T did not; but Harry called in Dr. Bin gaman, our old family physician" 1 Mrs Thaw next told of the day she and her son went to Thanksgiving day service | at the Presbyterian church m Pittsburg, when Thaw broke down and cried while l the choir was singing Kiplings "Reces- sional.'
 'Just to think" Thaw sobbed, If it had rot happened she might have been here 1 with us today
 | At District Attorney Jerome's sugges- l ton MT. Littleton offered to suspend the examination for a time, but Mrs. Thaw said she felt strong enough to continue 1 for a while.
 Thaw said to her that the Nesbit girl had been put on the stage by her mother. l But she will never be able to make d l living" he exclaimed. She will never l be a great actress and all but great ac- tresses, mother, go under"
 Thaw Abroad. l In 1904 the family went abroad and 1 Harry was left at watering place in l France.
 ''When did you next see him% l Not until after the sensational return l to New York of the two on the same steamer. Evelyn and Harry came on the same steamer"
 ] Mrs. Thaw pronounced her daughter in-law's name the same way that young woman did when on the stand, with the 1 long "E" accent on the first syllable. 1 Mrs Thaw said she was not pleased with | the notoriety and sent for her son. He declared there was nothing wrong in anything he had done and the young woman had been very i'll. Mrs Thaw next told of her consent | carly in 1905 to her sons marriage with Miss Nesbit with the proviso that the l girls past history never was to be men | toned again. The marriage was per- | formed at Pittsburg in April, 1905, and | the two went west on their wedding trip. l "Harry, in all his talk, never suggested i at any time that it had been the Sirrs $ l fault said Mrs Thaw. i The examination was temporarily sus- l pended here Mrs. Thaw had to be as- | sisted from the witness chair. Evelyn ThaW Testifies. l Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw then was l called to the stand. She said she was | the wife of the defendant and was born o,, C.hrietraas dav. 1884 Her father died