Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-29
"Tn vonr oninion are YOU sane ?"

yes" said Thaw, land in other per-
sons opinions"
The witness was shown the pamphlet
issued by his mother.
did YOU make the allegation with
which this pamphlet opens, namely,
that a cowardly combination of power
full men existed against your" asked
the prosecutor.
'I thought my mother must have
been so informed or she would not have
said it," was the reply.
Thaw said he did not believe such a
combination existed to conceal the
wrong doings of Stanford White and
his associates"
How do you explain all the trouble
and expense that Mr. Hartridge, your
former counsel went to in order to get
this whip that was presented yester-
day." asked Mr.. Jerome.
HE never went to any expense" an
swered Thaw, but he amended this by
adding he had heard it had cost $40, of
which Hartridge paid half and Daniel
OReilly half.
The witness said on one occasion at
least he had deceived DR.. Evans, the
alienist, though not Intentionally.
"At least he told me so the other
day." he added.
Explains Brainstorm
| irritation 1 displayed at this time indi-
Gated brainstorm. And I think Dr.
Flint, or DR.. Mcdonald or any of your
alienists might have made the same
| mistake"
Have you any reason to believe, as
is limited in your mothers pamphlet, "
said Jerome, that l was influenced
against you by malevolent motiVes?"
Naturally 1 don't think So
do Won think | was influenced nv
any other motive than a desire to per-
form my duty?"
"Well-I did think you might have
been moved by a whim," answered the
witness, and he went on to explain that
after his acquittal he was told that
Jerome had said if he remained in the
Matteawan asylum for thirty days he
(Jerome) would be satisfied. The man
who told him this, he said, was his
former attorney, Russell Peabody, now
dead.
The first evidence given by Thaw of
any excitement was when Jerome
probed further into the events leading
up to the shooting and questioned him
regarding his early relations with Eve
Ign Thaw. The witness measured his
words carefully, with. an evident de-
sire to present this part of his career
in the best possible light.
ENeIYn'S OTdtndIiC
At this moment Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
herself slid into a seat among the wit
nesses If Jerome had planned her ap-
pearance to confuse the witness, he
could not have brought her in at a more
telling juncture. Thaw insisted that
Miss Nesbit was well taken care of in
Europe and in Paris. He recalled his
anxiety to marry her, and repeated the
story of her reluctance for reasons
associated with her alleged treatment
by White.
Thaw seized the chance to display his
keenness when Jerome, in reading one
of his letters, made a mistake in an
algebraic equation it contained. Thaw
said the record was wrong and read
from the original the mathematical eX-
preston as it should be.
Jerome produced a number of letters
written by Thaw to his wife before
their marriage, and presumably given
to the district attorney by Evelyn Thaw
since her break with the witness. The
object of the peoples attorney in pre-
senting them in evidence was clear
when it was found that nearly all bore
upon Miss Nesbit's relations with
White.
In one letter Thaw drew for Miss Mes
bits benefit a picture of their future
happiness in Pittsburg.
your reputation as beauty would
spread over the whole world" wrote
Thaw.
1--WE could own Pittsburg. I would
settle down and be a senator"
Is Sorry for Charges
Thaw stated that, after Whites
death, he was exceedingly sorry for
certain charges he had made against
the architect in his will. This instru-
ment was drawn in 1906 on the day of
his marriage.
The codicil set aside $4,000 to be
used in investigating Thaw's death i'll
case is occurred under suspicious cir
cumstances and this clause has been
advanced as evidence of an unsound
mind.
Thaw explained it had nothing to do
with the White matter. 1t was in
serted, he said, on account of his re-
collection of a trip in 1905 to Mount
Olympus, Bithynia. Asia Minor, where
he learned travellers were frequently
murdered by bandits and outlaws.
The father of a certain Mr.. Mcmillan,
| he was told, while in Asia Minor, had
offered large sums for the recovery
of the body of his son, lost in that
neighborhood.
"Thinking that I might some DAY
revisit Bithynia or some other equally
dangerous neighborhood, said Thaw,
at made this provision"
Did it touch you with remorse or
horror that you had taken human
! life" asked Jerome.
Somewhat, but the circumstances
diminished thor H-~Hn"s,'