Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-06

received $500 more if the letters were
used in evidence but they never We're.
Mr.. Carvalho said he was present when
the $500 was paid. The letters were
not read today.
When Mr.. Carvalho began his testi-
mony about White, District Attorney
jerome seemed reluctant to admit it..
Defeated finally in his struggle to bar
it. he expressed regret that evidence
of this kind should once more mark
case already famous for it's salacious
details.
1t was at the beginning of the after
noon session that Thaw himself took
the stand. The New York district at
torney seemed anxious to lie him tell
all he knew nda led him through one
story after another. evidently with the
hope that the palpable eagerness Of the
witness to talk on this theme would
show Justice Mills that he was insane
on the subject. Thaw was eager to
tell. The words fairly tripped over
each other as he ran on. This thing
l am going to tell you now" he said,
prefacing one of his narratives, ar
fected ME very seriously at the time
Continuing, he described in detail the
alleged experience of a girl whom he
said White had tried to wrong when
she was but l6. He said that after
winning her confidence by a display
of disinterested friendship, White al
lured the girl to his place on gath street,
New York The girl escaped through
a lucky chance. he said, later obtain
ed $4,000 from White under threat OF
a suit. After that, he continued
White had the girl boycotted so that
for several years she could not obtain
an engagement at any theatre in New
York
The incident as related occurred
within a month of the events in the
Madison Square tower room narrated
at the trial by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
This woman now" concluded Thaw,
lis ore of the foremost actresses on
the American stage"
Nav McKenzie's story had been told
earlier in the day, but Jerome evidently
wanted to hear it from the lips of the
prisoner Thaw repeated it, beginning
like magazine story:
During the fall of certain year a
girl came to New York from Boston.
She was young and unsophisticated,"
etc, etc.
According to Thaw these We're not
all of the tales he could tell about the
man he killed. He gave the location OF
four places he said White maintained
for immoral purposes. one was in
Maryland near Baltimore, Thaw said
and it was called The Blind" The
others We're in New York.
nnl,, a olr1. \
| in his dead enemy's favor. Il believe, .
he said, at the conclusion Of his nara :
| tive, that White really was kind at
times. He rather liked to be good than
| otherwise" Mr.. Jerome's only effort to
defend the memory of the late archi-
tect after his legal skirmish early in
the day was an effort to prove that
Miss Mckenzie and White were on
good terms. He produced several let
tiers signed May" and beginning "Oh,
Stanford" and Stan dear" In one of
these the writer urged White to hurry
his return to New York and said:
| Il know where a sassy ball will be
given" and followed with remarks re-
garding the unconventional costumes
that the Young females" would. wear.
| The aged Mrs. Thaw's appearance
on the stand was pathetic. Before she
had spoken two minutes, her feelings
overcame here and she paused. Thaw
kept his seat, but his extreme agitation
was very evident A few minutes later
his mother stopped again. Tears came
to her eyes, she put her palm leaf fan
before her face and bowed her head
Then Thaw could not restrain himself
Springing to his feet he ran to the wit