The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-22
THAW POINTED OUT TO COM,
STOCK THE LIARS OF SEVERAL
MEN WHO FED ON MORALS OF
YOUNG WOMEN
JEROME HURT HIMSELF
Her Testimony, It Is Thought,
viii Hurt the Prosecution in Sew
eraI Ways.

New York. Jan. 22.-It was reported
today that Harry Thaw will be called
TO the stand before many days TO tell
in his own fashion. tie Incidents lead
ing to the killing of White. Thaw. it
is expected, will admit that since he
shot Stanford White realization has
come to him, that prior TO that time he
was swayed by strange impulse.
The first witness Of today, Miss
Frances Pierce of Philadelphia. testi-
fled that she witnessed Thaw's will
after his marriage in Pittsburg. Be-
cause she could not positively identify
the will. it was excluded from the testi-
mony temporarily. The codicil to the
will which she also witnessed was ad-
mitted.
Attorney Littleton changed his tao.
tics and read the codicil which provid-
cd 5000 for Marie Coreney and $500
TO Harry Bowman. Edna Chase, Paul
Desmond and Edna Goodrich, victims
ed. Provision was also made for An
thony Comstocll for the prosecution of
men charged with being implicated in
the orgies with White.
Anthony Comstocll was next called
to the stand. He told of the visits of
Thaw to his office to secure arrests
of White and Henry w. Poor. whom
he said inveigled girls to rooms for i'm
moral purposes. He detailed meIt to
investigate the charge. but they dis
covered nothing. Thaws letters to
Comstock were read in court. They
told how the place of these orgies on
West Twenty-SecOnd street might be
entered for information. They also
said that the rooms contained pictures
OF nude women. The letters called
White ''blackguard.' Comstock
said that Thaw contributed four hun
dred dollars for the suppression of vice
in New York. Comstock has prom
ised to produce all letters and papers
The interest in the Thaw trial yes
terday centered about the testimony
of Evelyn Thaw. She came on the
stand when court opened at 10 o'clock
and faced Jerome with composure.
The district attorney began just
where he left off last night. reading in
monOtonous and rasping voice the
testimony of the trial To each queS-
tion the girl witness answered in
the clear. firm tones of one unafraid
and with a fine memory.
With due credit 10 Mr.. Jerome, it
la ai bN
alton fell practically flat Not in the
least particular was the testimony of
Evelyn Thaw shaken. After a years
study she was able TO remember al
most without a fault all of her former
words on The witness stand.
When tle afternoon session began
it was evident that Jerome was run.
ming out of ammunition. He became
more gentle in tone aud demeanor
of his questions. He was like a man
studying a puzzle.
Finally he began to jump from place
to place like a cricket, in his endeav.
ors to trap the witness. He went
from Paris to Chicago: from Arizona
to the Riviera and from Switzerland
to Broadway in almost the time il
takes to tell it. 1t was impossible for
any man born of woman to understand
the object OF the questions unless il
was for the purpose of snarling the
witness in q mesh OF contradictions
y. II this was the purpose II failed utter
~. The answers were just as clear
just as concise and just rs alert and
Intelligent as ever. Occasionally her
own counsel smiled nj her wonderful
accuracy.
But after all it was only the recital
OF lesson which this small. keen wo
man has been learning for a year oil
more. While Thaw has been gnash
ing his teeth in his stone den, she has
been filling her head with what she