New-York tribune., 1908-01-21

him in everything he said L thought tnat was
the best thing to do
Mrs Thaw said she insisted on going to the
theatre, and they went to show instead OF
committing suicide. They went to Europe
shortly after that, about March l, 1904 Whlie
in Paris at the Palais d'Orsay Hotel, in March.
lust after dinner one day, she said Thaw went
into his
"He came back with his face deathly white.
like chalk" she said, land he said, I've done
it, it is all now l said, What do you
mean? He said I have taken a bottle or
laudanum' 1 did not believe him, and said.
Are you telling me the TRUTH or are you trying
TO scare me, or what? Have you done any
thing2' He said, Yes, 1 have. If you don't
believe it, you can go TO the table beside my
he'd and see His face kept getting whittier
every minute and his eyes were like glass, ana
I ran into his room and on little table by the
bed I found bottle that had Just been emp
tied"
She said she recognized the odor of laudanum
and at once summoned a friend, who caled d
physician It took some time for the physician
to bring Thaw around, she said. Previous to
this attempt she said, he had been sometimes
highly excited and sometimes greatly depressed
and that he spoke often Of their ruined hVes.
She continued the story OF their wanderings
ana MS repeated pTOpOSoiS VI llleiiA4"S~r N''~--
finally they were married in Pttsburg. She
then retold the story of the events OF the nlght
of the shooting and the note which she passed
TO Thaw while at dinner at Martins, calling his
attention to the presence of Stanford White.
Recess was then taken Intil 2:30 to give Mr..
Jerome time TO attend to the grand jury busi-
ness Among the visitors to the courtroom in
the morning were Anthony Comstock and the
Rev Charles F. Aked. The room was crowded
with men all through the session, most of them
middle aged or older There the same kind
of a crowd in the afternoon, and for the first
time Lieutenant Kelleher and his men had difti-
Guilty in keeping the corridor clear
The note incident at Martins taken up
again after recess. It read, according to the
record at the last trial, THE B. here
q minute ago. but went out" 'B" meant
blackguard. she said. From Martins the party
-Thaw Mrs. Thaw. Truxton Beale and Mr.,
MCCaleb-went to the roof garden. After sit
ting through a good part of the show, she said
they started toward the elevator. She turned
round speak TO Thaw. but he not in
sight and the next minute she heard the three
shots. When Thaw approached her after the
shooting she asked My God. Harry. what have
you done?" He kissed her and replied That's
all right, dearie; 1 have probably saved your
life
Sne then lGentllled several letters written Dy
Thaw, and her cross-examination began Mr..
Jerome was less considerate of her than before,
and several times visibly arouse her anger.
Some of her answers were in a defiant tone,
while others were delivered tremulously. When
ever in doubt about a question, particularly
when Mr.. Jerome wanted yes or no for an
answer, she asked the court for instruction
Mr. Jerome did not shake her testimony, al
though he introduced by reading from the pre-
vious record direct questions the testimony
he had said he wished delivered only in camera
and which Mr.. Littleton had avoided bringing
out He first directed his questions against her
story Of her alleged mistreatment by Stanford
White in the Garden tower. She said she did
not go there by her own free will
Q.-Who took you there? Ale took me there
Q-By force and violence? A.-No.
9M6WTe Sid y2q b wiqg r TO To5 gQi tboIa ANS ~,
know what else to do 1 thought 1 had to go /
cried enough about it
Mr.. Jerome took up each of the seven or eight
subsequent visits separately. getting the same
answers in reply Then he jumped to the trip
abroad, for which Stanford White furnished
some money, which she says Thaw had her turn
over to him too filthy" to keep.
so that when you arrived In Paris in June
1903, you thought all women impure and
unchaste. did you?" asked Mr.. Jerome The wit
ness not of her opinion at that time
She said that Thaw told her this was untrue
Mr.. Jerome asked her about her age at that
time and the time Stanford White is alleged TO
have said this about all women She said that
being two years older than at the time cf her
experience with White, she had modified" her
views. She said that she realized then that at
any rate it would be wrong marry Thaw with
out first telling him of her relations with White
The druSging incident was then taken up
again, Mr.. Jerome reading the record of the
first trial, none of Mr.. Litteton's objections be-
ing sustained He jumped from that TO her
European experiences and then back TO incidents
in New York with bewdering rapidity.
He tried TO find out the wherea bouts Of four
teen letters from Stanford White to her men
toned at the first trial, but without success
There was then long examination about the
entertainments at the tower studio and the fur
nishings Of the room and of the frequency with
which she and Thaw discussed Stanford White
She said they die frequently, although she
did all she could tc keep his mind off the sub
ject Her school experiences were also gone
into. The cross-eKamnation will be resumed
this morning.
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