The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1907, Page 1

blame, that he loved her and'insisted on making her his wife. Hee That after the shooting Thaw satd to her: “Its all right, dearie, I’ve probably sabed your life,” Hess SWEATER —Moderntingy/11 ht-«now,te-night, “the- eastircth .story:to i: Thaw when. he asked her to. marry him;. that. Thaw de... WEATHER—Moderating} Mght-snew to-night. | FULL STENOGRAPHIC REPORT: OF TESTIMONY IN THAW TRIAL | i | | | | ; | i t ‘PRICE ONE CENT. poe “How Stanford White Made Elaborate EVELYN NESBIT TH, AW ON o Many Retreats. . © LOSnEhnnNERNNNY RE NBOHENMNENE MND NUE enUINUINH BUNNY nad emanates repemennereebOoenenon SPECTATORS WEEP AS. # : . SHE EBRES OF POVERTY Vf A pale, slim little woman on the witness stand this afternoon -laid bare the-horrors ofa life such as few women have led, in her effort to feet save Harry Thaw from the electric chair. The woman was his wife. —— For_nearly two_hours during the moming ‘séssion and for an. equal length : ~ of time in the afternoon she traced her history from childhood: i == Men and-wontert-wept-as this-life-story—was. infolded,.. sometim, artlessly, sometimes with thrilling dramatic force and ferv ~~ Harry Thaw sobbed unrestrainedly as_his wife ‘half-whispered the story of her degradation when she was a slip of fifteen. It was a public] Z rending of-a-woman's soul, but a powerful argument to substantiate the é claim of the defense that brooding’ ‘over the wrongs his girl wife had suffered shifted the mental talince of Harry Thaw. The news that-Evelyn Thaw was on the witness stand spread over the city during the morning session and the fragmentary reports of i | | | Thaw’. ener ‘Admitted—One- Ac; - "Rurinoneot is | STAND TELLING HER EMARKABLE STORY : | | it ; | pened after that. I remember Mr. MoCaleb or pore Posy) saying he must cused Evelyn Nesbit's Mother -of- Being Negligent-in Care of Her GREAT CROWDS FLOCK TO THE COURTROOM “He was behind me, I saw him a moment before ry saw Mr. White.” “Did you see a reyolver?” “TL heard three shots.” “What did you dot” F HOSUR RACER aEANI “I cried to Mr.'McUaleb, “My God, he has. shot bim!” “Describe his manner aa he approached you." “What did you Bay?” “Lnald, Harry, oh Harry, why did you do it?What-haye you done?’ “HE ANSWERED, ‘ALL RIGHT, DEARIE, | HAVE PROBABLY SAVED YOUR LIFE." “I was taken away in a cab and do not remember: much of what hap- ihave beeen crazy, It was atl confusion.” ~ \Well as the girl wife bore up under the Sanne of the ordeal, she mads\you think=of some weak—trapped-creature—whose—trightaned heart Jumped Inside fets ribs—like a brown hare:{n a deadfall or a bird in a net her testimony troused intense interest. While. the court was resting at noona crowd of probably. 40,000 persons gathered “around and “inside the Criminal Courts Building. oe _kIOTOUS SCENES IN THE CROWD. There were riotous scenes as the tide-of-humanity-beat-against-the: {mmovable police lines. A few slipped through— a sufficient number to fill the court-room to the limit of its capacity. Those-who-gaine: entrance heard a story Confirming all the -rumors:that-have-gained cur -yency about Evelyn Nesbit, and Stanford White since the night Harry | § ‘Thaw ended the architect's on the roof of Madison Square: Garden Evelyn-Thaw held nothing back; she told it all. How as a child, hungry for childhood's playthings, she had-carried the weight of a-whole shiftless household on ber shoulders; how, with all the wiles of the ser- 1g Y “pent, ler-etderty-sedtrcer— Aad-brought hideous shame to her; how, when the chanée-of honorable wedlock came:to her, she -bared-her- secrets-to-the young-lover; how the dreadful news shad maddened him;_how. finally she ~—had- seen: Stanford =White, the - by: ay Tabane * : -SHE IS CALLED TO ‘THE STAND. HE al -Mes,_Evelyn Thaw, said Mr. Delmas, chief counsel for they : defense of Harry Thaw, as soon as the trial was resumed-to-day, = SPg She-came,-white-and_cold and_outwardly ¢calm,_in her little, plain | blue frock, her white turn-down collar, her big, schoolboy tie and her black velvet hat. A court officer let her in by the sige door, ands natn slipped down the panelled aisle back of the jury-box and halted alongsid:j re the witness-chair and put one of-her’smalt: hands, -wit-a-yelow-glove,+ upon the Book that the usher held out to her. She was sworn to tell! the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help her Goa. The biggest scene in New York's biggest murder trial was at hand. | She slipped -into-the-big-oaken-chair-yawning for her and nestled | ¢ a herself there almost like a tired child. Her hands dropped into her lap. | = : "There was something pitiably small and paltry and weak about the girl) Roof Garden on the might af June 25, They got there after 9. They had) This ‘question was ruled out, q? sitting there ready to crucify herself for the sake of her husband. left the Cafe Martin shorely after 4. “Withowit asking you for the contents of the paper which you wrote,| { t x 5 : . Thaw ; the ~ While you wer Jafe Martin did you see Stanford White?" | if the writing 1 esence of § rd White?" He was twenty feet away from her, directly in front of her, with he sb iyi Sele adieel Day te ce | gta Mr Denne sty: Se ee lm eran srr n ae “ his-elbows on the counsel table. He never looked her way. ‘Sweat was “When dtd you see him?” | 'NOTE REFERRED TO WHITE, dripping in big soggy drops off the ends of his stiff hair, “Shortly after: we arrived.’ eg | Ina low, sweet voice, plaintive but perfectly steady, she made her “He came in and you yaw him méely pass through the Fifth avenue! — The witaess responded in the affirmative, but the question was ruled} » first answers to Delmas’s smoothly modulated questions...” Biel out } "You nore the wife uf the defendant, Horry Thaw?" asked the counse Sat Tho witness then told of driving from the Cafe Martin In a cab to the} lpeeimetntinanee The wituers doserihed the way: she and Marry ne thelr ty Madison Square-Garden, ‘Harry Thaw stopped by the aisle, Almost. im-| “Yen A mutes Me tho Cafe Martin wire seated, Her face. w wher mediately after sitting down,;-the prisoner got up and walked out. Ho iy) “When were you Y bovn?” Avhite was!with his con and the son's friends, | was away from bis wife about five minutes, Mo returned and sat talking oo MecaTner GRIAERT os you ask for a pencil while at the table?” MaiTRT he cael néees 1ées halt sait hours : | t Henne eave eens) | Deseribe how arty left,” requested: Mr. Delmas, STRAND ERS PAA EAR He LHe! See enh tothe Sethe Baaguare “Then you wrote something on a paper?” | “We did not go directly after I suggested going. We sat chatting a : ‘ muse ee Hiittle longer.’ | da, epee set World Help Wants’ will quickly "What did yon do with. the paper on which you wots? “What did yeu see then?" ; | ni pane =t9, Na deorthe KIND of “I passed “it to. my husband.” | “I saw Stanford White seated at a tae towards which we were going.”| workers that do‘ things RIGHT. ‘Was there anything visible In your appearance to denote emouou?” “Did you see your husband then?” I ) i : fl : ry eae os ARRAN A IT RRA ig anabuse é that is still cniy because it has worn {tself out with hopeless atruggling. The way she patted: her hracelet-watch—the only. jewel-she- ‘wore—alo! hotrayed the Hghtness of the _gtIp she had upon her tortured nerves. THE REAL SECRET OF THE TRAGEDY. A dee frown made _a_cleft in her forehead. Never until she reached j the revitalcob, ,the tragedy liselfdid-the telltale tremorcreep-tnte-har ‘owes! yoice, Aa pooh, ag Delmas-had-canred-her to tell-the story of the shooting the switched ieway abruptly on a new tack, taking up marriage of the xi and thus getting close to the She sald eke hid been marricd to the defend: 1903. Josinh Thaw snd. Mr, Holman, Mrs. Thaw’s stepfather, were present, ‘Mrs. Thaw sald that Thaw had-trst- proposed: to-her- ge ears: fe She had refused to marry him at that time. = = Mr. Delmas asked with #olemn- emphasis, “In stating your reasons to-him; Thaw, why you wonld-not ae him eld you state a reason based upon an event earlier in your life as a for. refusing. him?" THE MARRIAGE REQI UEST.” “}-SAID JUST BECAUSE? HE ‘REPEATED —THE HY DON’T YOU MARRY ME?” AGAIN 1 REPLIED” “BECAUSE.”2 THEN HE CAME OVER TO -ME-AND -PLACED-HI8-H; MY SHOULDERS AND LOOKED ME_ 'BTRAIGHT IN” THE HE. SAID “EVELYN, I8 IT BECAUSE OF STANFORD WHITE SAID “YES" THEN HE SAT DOWN AND TOLD ME HE WAS FRTEND, AND THAT IF 7 01D NOT MARRY HIM WE WOULD: NEVER MARRY ANYONE AT ALL. THEN | CRIED.” Mr. Jerome agreed that Sirs. Thaw in telling of hee -ralations wit Stanford White should omit the names of all persons inyolved in her relas! , sis with’ the archite:t-except Stanford White himself. Then Mra. Thaw. went ahoad and told of her meetings with White, ‘Tt was a girl friend who first introduced me to Stanford White, When she first came and told me Mr, White wanted to meet me I objected at firat. 1 sald my mother wouldn't let me. But she came agatn and again, and told me Mr. White wanted to meet me, and that he belonged to one ‘of the { beat {nmilles In New York, BOW. SHE WAS LURED TO MEET ‘WHITE. “IT WAS IN 1901 WHEN | WAS. SIXTEEN YEARS AND SOME MONTHS OLD, THIS GIRL FRIEND AND t GOT IN A CAB AND DROVE TO THE WALDORF, WHERE | HAD AN ERRAND. THEN | WE DROVE TO A DINGY DOORWAY IN. WEST TWENTY-NINTH- STREET, AND THE GIRL TOLD THE DRIVER TO STOP AT THIS" DOOR. ‘WE GOT OUT, MY GIRL FRIEND LEADING THE WAYv ; “When was tiid?” j “In August, 1901," ‘ f ay “You were how old?” 7 “Sixteen years. My hair was down my back and I had on short dresses.” “You say'that your mother dressed you on this occasion t* "Yes." 4 THE TRAP WAS ALL SET. : ‘i Mrs, Thaw described her climb up the steps, She sald the wide doow slammed behind them as they climbed the stairs, The girl seld sho halted twice,-nlarmed, but her frjend reassured her, At length they. cama, sha.