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f-ri .... . . ; . ,' ..... LURED TO RUIN BY FAT, UGLY MAN 1 , (Continued From First Page.) I THE MORNING OKEGOMAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1907. SKETCH OF EVELYN NESBIT THAW, THE WOMAN IN THE CASE PEC SALE New Jersey In October, 1902, and early in 1903 I became ill. The doctors said an operation was necessary. They told me I was very sick, but did not say" what was the matter. Mr. Thaw came to see me and was the last person, except the doctors, whom I saw before being placed under the Influence of an anaesthetic. He had been told it was dangerous' for me to talk, so he came in quietly and kneeled down by the bed and kissed my hand and looked at me for a moment and went out. "When I recovered I found he had made arrangements for my mother to take me abroad to recuperate. It was while we were In Paris on this trip that he pro posed to me." "While the Jury was on Its way to court this morning a snowshoveler In the etreet shouted, "Vote for Thaw." He was promptly arrested and taken before Justice Fitzgerald and allowed to go after a. severe reprimand. EVELYN THAW'S STORY OF LITE How White Drugged and Assaulted Her Thaw's Persistent Love. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Mrs. Harry K. Thaw was the first witness of the day at the trial of her husband. In answer to Mr. Delmas' first question, Mrs. Thaw said she was born December 25. 1884. She had been sent to school in New Jersey In 1902 by White, became ill there and had to submit to an opera tion, the nature of which the doctors did not tell her. Thaw came to see her at the hospital, and said she should be taken abroad to recuperate. The pris oner's wife told tne entire story of her life, how she was brought to New Yo'-k by her mother and posed for art ists to earn money for the family sup port. She also took a place la the chorus of a musical show, and it was while there she met White. She told of going to the Cafe Martin to dinner the evening rf June 25 with her husband and Thomas McCaleb and Trux ton Benls. While at the Cafe Martin did you see Stanford White?" "Yes, he passed through and, went on to the balcony." "Did you see him leave the balcony?" "Yes." The witness then testified that while In tne l.aie .narun ants caueu lur a pencil, y wrote a note on a sup or paper ana passea It to Mr. Thaw. "What did Mr. Thaw do?" was asked. "He said to me, 'are you all right?' I aid 'Yes.' " "Affected?" Mr. Jerome's objection to the question was sustained. "Was there anything unusual In your manner that was visible to othere?" Wrote Note About White. Again an objection was sustained. "Mrs. Thaw, have you that slip of paper now?" "I have not." "Have you seen It since?" "No." "Did what you wrote refer to White?" Mr. Jerome objected. "After you left the restaurant, you went to the Madison Roof Garden?" asked Mr Delmas. "Yen." "About what time was It?". . "About the middle of the first act." . Mrs. Thaw said she had seats With Mr. Besle and Mr. McCaleb. Her husband went to the back of the theater, she said. He was away about 15 minutes and when lie returned he took a seat beside her. "How long did he remain at your side?" " "About half an hour." "What was his manner then?"- "It seemed to be about the same as ever." "Who suggested going away from the garden?" "I did." "The play was not Interesting to you?" "Not a bit." "How did you start when you went out?" "I think that Mr. McCaleb and I were In the lead and Mr. Thaw and Mr. Beale followed." Her Story of Shooting. "How far had you gone when some thing happened?" "Almost to the elevator." "How far were you from Mr. White then?" "About as far as the end of the jury cox.'" "You saw Mr. White sitting there?" I did. ' "Did you see Mr. Thaw then?" "Not until a minute or so afterward." "Did you hear shots fired?" "Yes. Immediately that I saw Mr. Whlto I heard the' shots." "What did you say?" "I said to Mr. McCaleb: 1 think he has shot him." " "Did Mr. Thaw come over to where you were?" "Yes. I asked 'ntm what he had done. He leaned over and kissed ma nnd said: 'I have probably saved your life.' " ."What "happened then?" "I left." "You were taken from there?" "Yes." "You left and did not return?" "Yes " 'You said that you are the wife of the defendant?" "Tos." "When were you married V "On April 4, 1906." , "Where?" "in Pittsburg, at the residence of Dr. MoBwen, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church." "Who were present?" "I think Josiah Thaw, Mr. Thaw's brother," the witness went on after a mo ment. At First Refused Thaw. "When did Mr. Thaw propose for the first time?" "In June.' 1903, In Paris." "At the time did you refuse him?" "Ye-." "Were the reasons of your refusal based on an event In your life with which Mr. White vat connected?." Objection was sustained. "Did you state In explaining - your re fusal that It had something to do with Stanford. White?" "Yes." "State what happened." "Mr Thaw told me that he loved me and wanted to marry me. I stared at him for a moment and then he said: "Don't you care for me?' and I said that I did. He asked me what was the matter. I ald 'Nothing.1 'Why don't you marry me?' he said. He put his hands on my shoulder and asked. 'Is it because of Stanford White?' and I said, 'Yes.' Then he told me he would never love anyone else or marry anyone else. I started to cry. He said he wanted me to tell him the whole thing. Then I began to tell him how I first met Stanford-White." "Be kind enough to remember you are to omit," said Mr. Delmas. "in relating the narrative of what you told Mr. Thaw, the name of any other person save that of Mr. White. Now continue." First Meeting With White. "A young lady asked my mother several times to let me go out with her to lunch. She came, again and again to me before I sent her to my mother, and she said, 'AH right.' On this day I was to go my mother dressed me, and I went with Miss 1. F 8 tile&tt-&.:i&JZt3a&Tf.?-t - -M 1 r i m mm) , the other young lady, in a hansom, hoping we would go to the ballroom, be cause I wanted to see It. But we went straight down Broadway, through Twenty-fourth street, to a dingy-looking door. The young lady jumped out and asked me to follow her." "By the way, what was the date of that event?" asked Mr. Delmas. "As nearly as. I can remember it was in August, 1901." "You were then 16 years old?" "Yes." "Your mother dressed you to go?" "Yes." "I must caution you -to tell only what you told Mr. Thaw." "I will," said the witness. "The dingy door opened, nobody seeming to open it. We went up some steps to anotner aoor which opened to some other apartment. I stopped and asked the young lady where, we were going, and Bhe said, 'It's all right. A man's voice called down, Hello." " "Did you see the man then?" "No." "When did you?" "When we got to the top of the stairs." "Who was It?" "It was Stanford White." "What did you find In the room or stu dio to which you went?" "A table set for four." "This was all that you told Mr. Thaw?" asked Mr. Jerome. "It was." replied the witness. "I told him everything." . There was a halt In the testimony here while Mr. Jerome and Mr. Delmas whis pered. "How were you dressed?" asked Mr. Delmas. "I wore a short dress with my hair down my back." The witness said they went into another room where a big Japanese umbrella was swinging. Mr. Jerome objected. The witness said that afterwards they went for a drive to the Park and re turned to the house with Mr. White. She said when she got home she told her mother everything that happened. Presents From Rich Libertine. "Did your mother subsequently irecelve a letter from Stanford White?" 1 "Yes." "What was in the letter?" "It asked my mother to call on Mr. White at No. 160 Fifth avenue." "When your mother returned did she tell you anything?" "She did." "What did your mother tell you?" "He asked her to take me to a dentist and have my teeth fixed, and for her to have her own fixed, too. She satd 'No,' that it was a very strange thing. Mr. "White told her that he did that for the other girls." "When did you see White Bgain?" "I saw him in the studio. I got a note from him inviting me to a party and say. tng a carriage would be awaiting me upon the corner. Before, he had sent me a hat. a feather boa and a cape. There was another man and girl with us." "Where did you go?" "To the studio In Madison Square Tow. er. We had a very nice time there. Mr. White said I was only to have one glass of champagne, and that I was to be taken home early. I was taken home early to the door of my house. I told Mr. Thaw that we had several parties of this kind In the tower." "Did you see Mr. White again?" "Yes, he came to see my mother, told Study From Life by New York W6rld Artist. her that I would be all right in New York, and that he would take care of me. Meet Again in Studio. Mrs. Thaw said she met White In Sep tember, 1901, in a studio In East Twenty second street. The door opened of Itself, and the house looked at flrst as though no one lived there. She said that she went upstairs and met Mr. White, a pho tographer and another man. . "What did you see there?" "There was a lot of expensive gowns there." "What happened?" "I went into the dressing-room to put on the dress. Mr. AVhite knocked at the door and asked if I needed any help. I said. 'No.' " She related her - experience In the studio and said she had posed untU she was very tired and that White, who had come In, ordered food. The photo grapher had left and after they had lunched she went into a dressing-room to remove her kimono and put on her. dress. - "I shut the door while I was inside. Mr. White came to the door and asked If I wanted any help. I said 'No.' " She testified that she drank but one glass of champagne and when she was dressed she not Into a carriage and was taken back to the hotel. Given Drugged Ctuimpagne. "The next night I got a note from Mr. White asking me to come down to the studio for a luncheon i.fter the the ater with some of his friends. I went to the Twenty-fourth street studio again and found Mr. White and no one else there. "Wrhat do you think.' he said to me, 'the others have turned us down.' Then I told him I had better go home, and he told me that I had better sit down and have some fruit. I took off my hat and coat. Mr. White told me he had other floors in the Gar den and that I had not seen all of his places. "So he. took me up some stairs to the floor above, where there were very beautiful decorations and a piano. I played for him and he took me Into an other room. That room was a bed room. On a small table was a bottle of champagne and one glass. Mr. White poured out Just one glass for me, and I paid no attention to it. Mr. WThite went away, came back and said: 'I decorated this room myself." Then he asked me why I wasn't drinking my champagne, and I said I didn't like It; it tasted bitter. But he persuaded me to drink, and I did. "A few moments later after I had drurjk it there began a pounding and thumping in my ears and the room all got black." Mrs. Thaw was almost in tears at this statement. Screams on Awakening. "When I awoke my clothes all had been taken off me. I started In scream ing. Mr. White got up and threw a kimono on me. As I sat up I saw mir rors all around the bed. I began to scream again, and Mr. White asked me to keep quiet, saying that It was all over. "When he threw the kimono over me he left the room. I screamed harder than ever. I don't remember how I got my clothes on. He took me home, and I sat up all night crying." "Where waa Mr. White when you re covered i "He was upon the bed beside me, un dressed." "What did he say afterward?" "He made me swear that I would never tell my mother about It. He said there was no use in talking, and the greatest thing In the world was not to get found out. He said it was all right, that there was 'nothing so nice as young girls and nothing as loathsome as fat ones. . You must never get fat.' "He said the girls in the theaters were foolish to talk. He laughed afterwards." "Was Mr. Thaw excited when you told him these things?" "Yes, he was excited, and walked up and down the room and sobbed. We sat up all night.. He said it was not my fault, that no one could blame me, and that I was only an unforunate girl, and that he didn t think any the less of me." "Did he offer to marry you again?" "Yes, and I told him that If I did marry him the friends of Stanford White would laugh at him and at me, as they suspected our relationship, if they did not know." The witness told Thaw that it would not be well to marry owing to his family. Mrs. Thaw recovered her composure af ter she got over the most sensational part of the story. Many of the women in the courtroom were crying, and the moat Intense silence prevailed. Mrs. Thaw said she had told Thaw about her early life with her mother and of her financial difficulties. The money she earned as an artist's model she gave to her mother. That was the only means of support. She proceeded: Model and Actress. "Finally I met Mr. Carroll Beckwlth, the artist. In December, 1900, and he en gaged me to pose for him, sometimes twice a week. He gave me letters of in troduction to other well-known artists. and I posed for them. "Did you tell Mr. Thaw all this?" "I did." Did you tell him how much money you made? "Yes; it was J16 or SIS a week." Then, the witness continued, she applied for a position upon the stage. The first manager to whom she applied said that it was not a baby farm and they did not want to take her. She went on: I danced for the manager and he offered me a place, directing me not to ten how old I was." "When did you first meet Thaw?" "In 1901." "How many times . had you seen him between then and 1903?" "I had only seen him once in the mean time." "Were you 111 during any of this time?" ies, i had to go to a hospital." Thaw's Kindness to Her. "When you saw Mr. Thaw in 1903 did you tell him about going to school?" "I told him that Mr. White had sent me to school." The' witness told of her sickness and the operation to which she was obliged to submit, and of Thaw's kindness to her at that time, which was early in 1903. After her recovery Thaw arr&nired the European trip for the witness and her mother. Thaw followed them to Europe. Here reference was made to a letter that Thaw wrote to the witness while she was abroad and Mr. Delmas sought to introduce It as evidence. Mr. Jerome objected. "What is the relevancy of the letter?' asked Justice Fitzgerald. 'Its contents have direct reference to the statement made by the witness to Mr. Thaw and It is an evidence of the efTect upon the mind of Mr. Thaw of the state ments so made, replied Mr. Delmas. "If It were proper to admit the statement of Air. xnaw after the shooting, 'he h ruined my wife." " argued Mr. Delmas. Is it not proper to admit a statement made after the defendant had learned facta, to show what the effect of them was upon his mind?" Mr. Delmas said that he did not have his authorities at the moment. It was then 12:25 o'clock, and Mr. Delmas asked for an adjournment until 2 o'clock. The oourtroom was crowded to its utmost capacity this afternoon. Roger O'Mara, head of a detective force em ployed by the defense, had a lS-mlnute conference with Mrs. Harry .Thaw during the recess. May Call Oleott as Witness. Former Judge W. M. K. 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It waa as follows: Thaw's Letter About Girl. Mr. N. insisted on sailing for New York when her daughter left. I kept Mrs. N. in London three months; cost over $1000. Mrs. Nesblt sails tomorrow for New York. She thinks I kidnaped her 17-year-old daugh ter. Before she lands she will know that I have always done the best I could. The Child cannot be with her mother, because when she was 15 years old she was ruined by a blackguard. Don't worry, but find out her address. Telephone Mrs. N., but not in your name. Ask her if she raw Mr. Thaw aboard. As soon as she answers, hang up the phone. On a Blip of paper enclosed was written: "If you cannot read this, don't worry. Please telephone her incog, and wire me at my expense." The letter was signed, "H. K. T." Other Letter Excluded. Mr. Delmas offered another letter written by Mr. Thaw. Mr. Jerome objected on the ground that there was nothing to Indicate its date. Mr. Delmas declared that the letter was admissible as tending to -show a state of mind, re gardless of when it was written. "Suppose it should have been written yesterday," suggested Justice Fitzgerald. "I thins it would be admissible." re plied Mr. Delmas. "That the, defendant is now Insane?" quickly interposed Mr. Jerome. "TJrat he was Insane on the night of June 26, 1906," said Mr. Delmas. Justice Fitzgerald sustained the objec tion. "If the claim is that the defendant is now Insane, the letters are admissible," re marked Mr. Jerome. Mrs. Thaw was shown one of the let ters and asked: "Was this letter writ ten before or after June 25. 1906?" Mr. Jerome objected on the ground that Mr. Thaw wag not Qualified to express an opinion. The court sustained the ob jection. The subject of letters was then dropped. White's Slanders on Thaw. In response to questions by Mr. Delmas. Mrs. Thaw described her return trip from Europe in 1903, which preceded the re turn of Mr. Thaw. She said that she brought a letter from Thaw to Mr. I-ong-fellow. which she delivered. She first saw Thaw a month after his return at the hotel where she was stopping. She refused to see him alone, so another man was present at the interview. "The second man," asked Mr. Delmas, "was a member of the bar; a man of standing In the community, was he not?" "Yes." "What happened at this interview?" "I sat oh a trunk. Mr. Thaw came toward me and I asked the other man not to leave the room. Mr. Thaw said to me. "What Is the matter? Why don't you want to see me any more?" "I told him I had heard certain thlnirs Desperate Coughs Dangerous coughs. Extremely perilous coughs. Coughs that rasp and tear the throat and lungs. Coughs that shake the whole body. You need a regu lar medicine, a doctor's medi cine, for such, a cough. Ask your doctor about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. We vubuab the formulas of sil our preparations. 9. 0. Are? Co., boweU.Ksu. 5siii3 do about him and did not care to see him. 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