The evening world., 1912-06-20
Woman Says She Rescued
Twenty-Five Slayer OF White
Had Whipped.
ONE GIRL PAID $1,000
Evelyn Thaw Tells How Hus-
band Proposed Double Sui
eide at Waldorf-AStoria.

Especial to Ths Evening World,
WHITE PLAINS, June 9.-The Harry
TAAw sanity hearing before Justice
xeogh in the Supreme Court mere took
On an extraordinarily sensational turn
to-day when Mrs. Susan 4. Merrill tes-
tined that scores OF young Girls had been
nogged In the apartments Harry X.
rhaw occupied In the witnesses house In
West F1fty-eourth street In 1905. pre-
vteus to the murder Of Stanford White.
0ra Merrill swore that shc herself
he'd found q score Of half naked young
women ct various times screaming and
wSethinG from their whiptngs on the
noee ef Thaw's rooms. She had been
eltreOtsd BY the screams OF the girls.
when she asked Thaw about II. she
rid. he told her that he was training
he young women for the stage and that
he he'd to whip them because they
weuad not learn.
The watnsss emphasized the sensa-
oooal character Of her testimony when
she told Of the payment of thousands
OF dollars to moro than two hundred
young women. She said that Attorney
hartridse. one Of Thaw's counsel. had
gtvsn her $1,000 to be paid to one girl
for her silence just before the frst
Thew trial. Another girl had got q, 900.
The oribss In the other cases had ranged
from - up.
Before tesufying Mrs. Merrill wal
taken into the Judges room, whore she
crssd Historically. begglng to be allowed
to 20.
MR& MERRILL WEEPs 40 she
COCO ON STAND.
!. Then Mrs. Merrill, stili weeping. wa,
brought In. She II q rather stout wom.
- with . fiord face. She sobbed q,
Jerome asked her the FIRST questions
She told OF testifying at the previous
hearing into Thaws sanity.
y nrst met Mr.. Thaw." said the wit.
ness. I'm isoi on Forty-slxth street u,
Mrs. oray's. rhaw was then known a,
Mr.. Reed. He received letters there. 4
number OF young women called there.
nsvsd away In April. 1876. and took al
apartment At No. 20 West fourth
street. rhaw accompanied me there. II,
had two rooms there. lie had visitors
females
Did you once enter ThaA's room |?
"Yss. Soon after moved to tn
Flfty-fourth street house. I saw Thay
In the room. There was a woman there
To- don't recoliect how young sh
hooked" ,-- -
At the last hearing Mrs. Merrill testi
NED that the girl was very young.
Did you hear anything before go!nl
into the room?"
"Yss. she was screaming"
When you entered what was tn
gisl dolng7"
che Was still screaming"
Refreshed from her testimony take
at the last hearing the witness, VIII
seemed TO forget q whole lot. said tina
thsrs were 'ws'ts'' on the girls limb
aaA seek
During the recess .Mrs. Merrill wa
In the care Of court attendant. sh
was more composed at the ufternoo
session. Jerome took her buck TO wha
she saw when she entered Thaw'
reom.
The girl was hollering and crying
satl Mrs. Merrill. she said he wa
trying TO murder her.
what did Thsw do or say.'
The witness couldn't remember, an
= Mr.. Jerome had TO refresh her sEai
from her previous testimony, She Ia
sid thsk Thaw went right out an
said nothinS.
DID you ever see Thaw with n whip
asked Jerome.
Yes. said Mr.. Merrill. and JeroI
handed up the hatpin-iike affair thu
had been part Of . whip handle. Mr.
Merrill said she never saw the artic
before. bot she thought she remembers
the jswelled head.
Mrs. Merrill repeated most OF the te
ttimouy she gave In the 1903 hearir
about ths whipping Of girls. On Sc
'sraa oooaAons she said she 'caug
Thsw In the act. HIS only excuse W
that he bad 70 beat them to tea
them snything about the stage" s.
saw ~ least twenty-five girls in al
trees
A youug girl who could not he mo
than fifteen called one day. She ask
for Prof. Reed.
y heard screams and went 10 I
door," the not y went on, ''He would
let me In ana = said ] would break
door down. When he opened the dc
saw the young girl with her cloth
Nail torn. She was badly beaten abe
the arms. Reed, CThaw), ran out OF I
room and jumped out 81 window"
How much money In all did TIL