The Washington times., 1915-06-25
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/ TALE EVELYN TOLD
ThaW's Prosecutor Declares
White Was Not the "Beast"
! She Painted Him.

Stanford White will stand clean before
all the world before the present Thaw
trial Is concluded, Deputy Attorney
General Cook declared at the opening
of the trial today.
Another feature of the States at
tack on Thaw's sanity plea will be
moving pictures. shown in open court,
of Thaw's actions In the Coaticook,
Canada. jail. and at Sherbrooke. Can
ada, and Concord, N. II. Cook was
making the necessary arrangements
today to have them shown in Justice
Hendricks court.
Il am prepared to prove" said Cook,
that White never was the beast which
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw painted him. L
am prepared to prove that she played
Thaw against White for financial gain.
After almost a decade of villifying. his
name will be clean when this trial
ends
To do this. he declared, Evelyn's life,
from the time she left her Pittsburgh
home as a girl of thirteen years, for
the night life of Broadway, will oo
barred. Cook asserted he would prove
have to ruin her.
ParanOia Alleged.
Cook hopes to prove that the story
which Evelyn told Thaw of her rela-
tions with White did not cause Thaw's
act. as he knew long before that Evelyn
was not the innocent girl she claimed to
have been when she met White. Cook
believes this new version of the White
Evelyn story shows that Thaw was suf-
fering from paranoia long before he met
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Many Of the facts he will use, Cook
said. were obtained from Harry Nesbit
Eyelyn's brother.
John B. Stanchfield. Thaw's chief
counsel. had twelve more New England
witnesses ready to testify today They
were people Thaw had met during his
two years sotourn in New England,
following his escape from Matteawan.
This delegation marks the end OF the
New England witnesses,
It became known as court opened that
a secret conference was held last night
: by Deputy Attorney Generals Cook and
Becker, Doctors Flint and Carlos Nc
Donald. the States alienists. at DR..
divulge anything that occurred at the
meeting.
Memories of Favors Last.
As far as the court proceedings went
yesterday was 'old home" DAY for
Thaw. The towns of Coaticook and
Sherbrooke. in Canada. and Colebrock
Gorham. and Berlin. N. H.. furnished a
reminder Of the Thaw money that was
literally spent after Thaw escaped from
Matteawan. OF the fourteen witnesses
that testified Thaw was rational, one
had sold him an automobile and rented
him an office. one had been his paid
guide on mountain climbing trip. one
was manager of a hotel at which he
stopped, several had been his lawyers,
one had rented him piano, and one,
though a sheriff charged with his Gus
tody, had been paid SO day by him
as One %nass w6en 6eT siStssn sSsd mSGhs
% ever know o,. him to display any signs OF
say a profane word In my life"
B. B. Pickford. guide. philosopher and
had tried to sell Thaw insurance on
his auto but failed. Thaw and he went
over the mountains together.
You can learn more about a man
him than you can in three years any
where else" said Pickford 'If he's
got yellow streak 1t will come out"
Did you find a yellow streak In
Thaw?'' asked Mr.: Smith.
Not a bit" said the witness, who
next said that in some respects on the
trip Thaw had him ''skun a mile
In a breezy way he said he had
friendly feeling for Thaw
III. He doe doesn't t.. owe me anything and l
ford.
"Guesses" He Spent Lot.
"And Thaw was a good spender In
your town." asked Mr.. Cook.
"I think So"
Spent a lot of money!"
IT guess So"
Made lot Of friends?"
II hope So"
You hope to see him released?"
"Sure: he deserves it,"
Harry Noyes, Judge, real estate man
and seller Of automobiles In Gorham,
told with great weightiness of his rela-
tions with Thaw. He had rented him an
office and had sold him an automobile
"The six-cylinder racer the news
papers talked about?" asked Mr.. Smith.
Yes, only 1t was a Ford" said the
witness.
Merton M. Willis, undertaken of Cor
ham. also deputy sheriff. town clerk,
first baseman on the local ball nine. and
local expert on fishing, has his own
way of determining sanity.
''Thaw." he said, was the most ra-
tional fisherman l ever saw"
On the trip the two took together
Thaw would not quit, though Willis was
not getting a bite.
THE mosquitoes were getting a mite
too plenty for me-" said Willis, land
wanted to move on, but he didn't seem
to mind a bit"
Did you ever know him to show
any egotism?" asked Mr.. Smith.
Never heard him say profane
word in my life" said the witness
solemnly, and even Justice Hendrick
laughed loudly.
Mr.. Stanchfeld read into the record
the testimony given at the conspiracy
trial by the storekeeper at Matteawan,
showing that Thaw made out reports
there and acted nationally, and the tes-
timony of DIR. William A. White of
Washington, as to the sanity of Thaw
whom he had examined In the asylum
Mr.. Stanchtield failed to get in Mr.
Jerome's summing up In the White
Plains habeas corpus case before JUS
tice Keogh.
None to Vote If Allies
Fail, Says Mrs. Pankhurst