The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1907, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7s UO te and Facts Wh tonr people. said Mrs. Thaw. “It was beautifully “You must not tell ae name.” “L- will: not.” “f¥ou-ware-short dresses, did_you, and your halr was down your back?) "Yeg, my skirts were down to my siioetops.” told Mr. ‘Thaw all about this at the time he proposed to you?” £ se repeating_to-you-what I told Mr.Thaw at tho time he first): when be genesuoned me about Mr. White.” e with Mr, White got up and| os ‘and pretty soon tiie mari who Ww ri ‘is DUB ORE ~ He-sait He nwes ace HH: ‘We gotdm the swing and be pushed ‘The swing went 50 ‘Bigh that our s in the afternoun,” went on hy while Mr, White's: ae ies together in an electric buinson: iH ir} friend. Then we went to a dentist,-where the girl had. her* teeth: fixed: i went home and -toid-ify mamma all that’ happened.” S*The next time 1 saw Mr. White was after he bad writthn a letter to ‘Did zou. see this letter?” “Did you: state to Mr, Thaw ia that conversation what the cantante er “Yea, I did.” eee ward you: sbecanie: faratar with Mir, white’ writing? Ey The ‘District-Attarney objected to this caine. but tt rotiin. tr. Thaw asked me to tell him everything,” continued the witness, did,This letter of Mr. White's asked my mother to call-at:No.-160 “What clue was in the intter?” “WELL, MR, WHITE WROTE MY MOTHER ee IF I. HAD EARLY ALL THE. GIRLS OF THE ‘FLORODGRACOMPANY,_- cence said,” continued Mra. Thaw, -“‘in bis letter that it wes not at all musal. The next time I saw Mr. White at the same studio where I first him. Again we had luncheon. This was several weeks after thc ¢ luncheon. Z TTMY MOTHER GAVE sat as NEW DRESS-FOR- ‘THIB- LUNGH-— “i was uta a eab and started away for the studio. ‘AsL was crowning! | nly-fourth street. saw. a _man..coming. Park & Tiford's. It. eswent: up in the tower to Mr. White's apartment. “There was another young man there. We had a nice little luncheon, ¥ “Mr. White would Jet me have was a chocolate eclalr dnd a glass” ob} Zehampague. We viayed there having a nice tine uulll about 12 o’clocig) Sahat night, or maybe it was 1 o'clock. “asked Wihite-to-take me a tomy. i and be took ma phome all the way to my door and up to my mother, I told Mr. Thaw all, these parties. There were three parties Ike this in the tower. “of the jen. ‘After one of them Mr. White called on my mother and asked her ff aiid -not-want-io go. to Pittithure and vistt her friends. -My-mother seta: 't bear to go away And leave me wiono in New York. Mr. White! aadhave-i-htes timo-and-he-wontd-look-after-me am that nothing happened to me. __“THEN MAMMA WENT TO PITTSBURG. THE DAY AFTER SHE MICAWHITE SENT A CARIAGE FOR MB—-HE TELEPHONED era I WAS TO-COME TO HIS STUDIO. IN EAST se ENE Te OCLOCICIN-THE MORNING: went down-to-the carriage door and—drove to the studie. When qt there the door opened by itself. I think this was In September, 1901, nt-wpstaire-to-the studio, Mr. White was there.'There was anotuerj (thers I knew on the top janding. In the studio there was another | whom I-aiso idiew, one x photographer.” ‘Did- you tell Mr. Thaw what took place {n that studio?" "Yes, I told him al about it. In the studlo was a lot of clothing,includ- ‘& gorgeous himono. They (old me to dress up, in-the things-and they hed ine.many.times. I posed until I gnt yery tired. O-HEEP HER DRESS, eet Phen Mr, White ‘told “the olier nian to go oUt And get something to: We had a luich then, after fhad-pit-onimy-street dress-in-a-privats and Mr: White and I:had our lunch together, The others had gone, 6 photographer and the other man had both disappeared. Mr. White me -only-one glass of champagne. Then he sent me’ home, Nothing jhad happened except that wile foray dressing he had called to me-to ask! le I needed any help in dressing. T sald no. y SKET THe to cometo-n-party-in-hte-etudlo fn West Twenty-fourth street. J went there after the theatre. There was “ho one there except Mr. White. Ho Said tho others had thrown him dowa. BT hat's too bad,’ I said, ‘for now we cannot have any party.’ Z % yes, HS BU, “you-stny, i-want yow-to see-the rest-of-this-apart— ment. Thege are three very pretty rooms.’ We went Into one room hore there was a plano, I sat down at the plano and played a Mttle. Then « bedroc@my In this room there was a alittle bottle of champagne. He seve me HE SHOWED ME ALL AROUND THE geFULL OF CURIOUS AND SYRAN Ea HROUGH LOOKING AT Ti. THIN ue DRINK THE CHAMPAC ROOM, WHICH WAS WHEN WE GOT SAID, “WHY: DON’T ‘T DON'T WANT IT,’ AL "YOU DRINK 17. IT. THEN THERE ‘A DRUMMING IN MY EARS. EY, HING BEGAN TO Swi AROUND MEL APTER THAT RYTHING TURNED WHITE'S OBJECT GAINE dD. ‘ryhen -T-eame_tougily, 1 was In the bed all undressed. “My. clothes all scattered. Mr. White was alongside of me. He was entirely un- T begin’ to se Jumped up and put on sn ig kimono: hére were mirrors al! ar ound the room, mé to be quipt. <0 SAs T) got out. of the bed, is _ screamed and sercaitis “Where was M 1 eamed and screamed, He to scream more than ever, 1) n regained consciousness?" t sid Mr. White do?" r dnd took the he: of my ‘ aot8 he couldn't help it, i was 30 ing and prerty. girls were he did not\ike fat girls, md If everybody did as he: had | all that made life worth My. HOt out, wot dow Missed tt nnd told ine not to yeh woe younr ©. i He + He told me thet. T must nover ge jae ald shee re loathsome f. axked e SEES told me that it ess and -sadio—White.motthem-on.the stairs and took them into! young Iady upstairs to. room tn! a] gheny River. os ments the witness had told of making to Mr. ich Led to tl the Kill ent pa Vn eA AP PAYTON Tuy Ri bride baton Ing, but that I must always keop quiet about ourselves. He told me + WAS -80-BWeHt—And preity that he hid been unable to keep anay fromm. and that he loved m WHITE’S SPECIOUS ARGUMENTS. s¢ never tell my mother, He sald “He made me swear that 1 must never talk about {t. He said some of the giris {n the theatre w {fooliah and talked about It, He sald women in society were clever, They j knew" thatthe secret Of gettin, along was to never get—found out. jSald I must be just-as clever. He said he would always be good to me. [ue kopt me there all night talking like that. | would he would quiet me and teenie eve Ing we tight" BY THis ‘TIME: DO” <TH cx BOGY—-WERE-SOB- BING. HARRY THAW, WITH HIS FACE IN HIS JIANDK CHIEF, WAS WEEPING ALOUD. HIS-SHOULDERS SHOOK AND HIS “HANDS —TREMBLED, AGONY WAS WRITTEN DEBP IN EVERY LINE. OF THE “WIFE'S FACE, BUT SHE BROKE DOWN ONLY, ONCE, “What was the effect on Mr. Thaw cwhen you told’ him all thia?’’ sald) ‘mas. HE BROKE DOWN AND SOBBED-AND-WEPT," RAN-ON MRS. THAW, HERSELF. HAIL)! SOBBING. * TAR, CLINCHED HIS HANDS BEFORE HIS) FACE AND BIT: WIS NAILS, ORYLNG, ‘THE COW ARD, ‘THE COWARD!" “WE SAT UP. Alu: NIGHT PALE, t TOLD HIM; ALL ABOUT THIS.” “Did ke say. anything about your mothor?” . “Yes: he maid that she ought to have known better than allow me to take TOW eS, ANN presonts-from-an-old-merriod man—arcd then go out with him, } + “Dia Mr. Thaw persist in his requoat. that you marry pire?” “¥ HS; ABOUT TWO MONTHS AFTER [TOLD HIM ALL ‘THIS HE AGAIN URGUD ME TO BECOME IIS WIFE. HE SATD IT WASN'T MY FAULT; THAT I HAD—BEEN- DECRIVAD DY: MR, WHITE, AND THAT HE CONSIDERED Ba AS GOOD AND PURE Ae THAD NEVER. MET HIM. told Mr. Thaw that even {f I did marry him friends of Stanford white would always lavgh at him and shterat’ htm, —1-toidrim-some_of, ‘the ifs at the-thentre tad -airendy—tatd-mean-tings abst me. sald: | I can't marry you because | am a ruined girl. As soon Rs I am wat ‘ot this operation. 4-have just undergone [will learn to dance and go ack on the stage.’ Harry told ms that 1 must not feel so budly.” He totd me that all women were not Ihose {n their Hves;.that there were many, decent women in socfety, and that if I married him he would alwnys treat ime well and see that no one éver harmed or burt me again: He said his life would be ruined unless I married Mim." “Did you at that time give hint a history oz you met Stanfomt White? “Yea, I told him of all my Jife.” AWFUL STRUGGLE AGAINST POVERTY. Tho witness then said she had been born Dear Pittsburg, up the Alle-; Her father had died when she was tilt g-young-girl.-—They- -were-¥ery—poor___ They bad no ‘money at ail, their furniture was all selzed by the sheriff, and ang they rent to Ifve with their grandmother, where they all slept in one ¢—-witness's mother—had- bonowed mbuey. From Pittsburg, while she was atill-a very young firl, they went to Philadelphia. —"My_mother, on, “tried-to get work as a designer, but nev one would hire -ha: he had_never been to Parla and dit not-know} ™ the styles.-We-were awitlly poor, Sometimes wo hardly had enough to} reat, It was a mighty hard struggle to get along. - For cara) we only ‘had “Discutts.° _Harry Thaw had stopped weeping. His wife was now calmer too, | Th @ OMUN tines in-her-trawn;-p'iable.face,.and there were unut=}) terable worlds of pathos in her vibrant, shaking voice, Evelyn was taken to a Mr. Dana, in Philadelphia, an artist, who wanted to paint a picture of her, and wiile she was pcsing onother artist came In, who wanted her to pose. ‘There werv still other artists who appoaled to her to pose for them, saying she could inake good money and that there was no dlagrace “about Sie_was_sent-to-four—women artists und tivo men artists, also to a photographer. The girl hnd been pajd for posing! and had turned the money over to her mother. The money practically sup- pened the family, although at times the Aepfather won some money on 6 THLER, “Leaving Piiisdetpiia,—the-tamis went: back to aHegheny where they: Itved in one Ittle back room find had a very hazd timo of ft ~ WENT. HUNGRY AT. TIMES. _ Sometimes," said Mrs ‘Thaw. “we did not have half enough to- eat. “We were very —badly— off when-my mother ra my photobraph to Carroll) Beckwith. He posed me for a few weeXs. Then be told me I was not the sort-of a girl that ought to be knocking about from one artist’s studio to | the other. He told me he would elve me letters to some reputable, honest artists In New York, who would treat me kindly and give me work to do where I would be in no danger of mistreatment. “We camé to New York aud lived in one room, photographers. I would my-mother to pay our bills. I never kept a cent for myself. The money L earmed was all we had to take cure of all three of us—my mother, my brother and myself. One day a reporter for The World came to seo me, I-don't know where he found out about me. He wrote a piece in the paper about me, and after that other reporters came tp see me, and they had pictures of me in ‘The World and the Herald__That\was in 1900, HOW SHE-GOT IN. THE CHORES. The girl went on to tejl that she was then besieged: wanted her photographs. ‘They wero published,-and-a-Mz,—Marx_called on her and said he would give her a jou in the-“Fiorodora” company._He gave her a letter to & Me. Fisher, but when Evelyi-called_on him he sald,, “Phis-ts-nat-a-baby-farm.—L-can‘t take you," “I cried at_this, fort evanted to make $15 extra a week, and, with che -p28.4- awaseamiung- at posing, I thought we could got along nicely, 1-kept oh crying, nod he finally took me, though he said-I shouldn't teli any one how old I wns. By—posing-and -acling-tn—the- chorus [was week, but all of {t went to my mother.” “Wile yon first oanct Stanford Waite, did-yeu-rell-him_ that you hed posed. and who the artists were?” axked the prisoner's attorney. “You,-Ltold him all ahout_my posing, andhe-satd-the artsts—wore_n. lot of stutfs.. He said they were old fogics and no good at all. He spoxe of them all the time as old stuffs. THE MEETING WITH THAW. “When did you first meet Harry ‘laws’ “met him late in 1901, while-I was Jn the chorus. He called on us at the Hotel Audubon, where we WE! iving, and told my-mother tit die had begun to care for me, He offered to pend mo 2 to have my voice aaa He-also offered to-send moto school. We did not accept his offer. $-next saw Mr,-Thaw_in 1902. He called to see us and sald-he had been in Europe, “He again offered-to-send-me-and-my~— brother-to-echool, eaying-T was-too_young to be on the stage. In the meanwhile Mr, White bed beon sonding me to schocl in New Je: ore and had to be operated upon. Thie was -1902- “While L was in hed very {il Qtr. Tnuw came to see me. I was in the| 2 hospital. The doctors were there. They éald they would have to give me ether-dn-order to nee what Aves Oly Wiatler with me. J orap=tuoveak-to speak and the doctor said I was very iil. Mir. Thaw heard. what they sald and saw I was ina serious condition.” “Were you tkKIng pits at uny time so°that-you had-to-go-to-the- hoa: pital for this operation?” "Yea, “When was that?” “In the early part of 1903." “Whe dM you go to-schoolt* “In 1902." “Mr, Thaw, bad offered to send you and your brother to schoo!?"" “Yer,” WHITE SENT HER TO SCHOOL, ~ your iHfe up-to-the time I got work posing for by-reporters- who Ing about $32 a > —IWhitte had already arranged-to send you to-school-in-New Jersey?” “Yes, ‘So while you were.in school whore Stanford White had sent-you, you say that you became !Il/and had to have an operation?’ “T did, This was early In 1903." “Did Mr, ‘Thaw conie to see you then?” did." were very sick?" “Yes, I was, Harry came Into my room and sat down Leside my bed, He took my hand and kissed {t, He sald-he was very sorry for me, This) was just bofore I went under the effect of the ether. Ho was the:Inst person! 1 saw except the doctor.” Evelyn now said that the defendant sent her lotsa of delicacies while she was ill—jellies, chickens and sweet things. She began to cet well In May, when Thaw mado arrangements for her and her mother to go to Europe. They returned from the other side tn- October, Mr, Delinas interrupted the testimony: to offer In evidence several letters) | in the handwriting of the defendant. LETTERS ARE HELD UP. Mr. Jerome obsected’ strenuously to the admission-of these letters, Del-! mas argued that the letters should be admitted, as they referred to state+) Thaw. ‘The letters tram Thaw, Mr. Delmas sald, proved that she had told him the story as che re- lated it-on the stand, Mr, Delmas sald: “If tt was proper to admit the} | fact that the defendant said after tho shooting, ‘He has ruined any wife,’ as jan indication of his state of mind ,this letter is surely admissible.” | The Court consented to have the nussives marked. for Identification and argue the logal polnts later, 1 ng O Her ep acreaming, but) ‘Second Chapter it in the Ordeal of Mrs. Thaw. ke $17 or $13 a week, and-would give tt all to; While I was-there I was taken Il)} | girl caught with’ her Jeasonn unlearned. . Then Mr, Delmas asked for an adjournment out of consideration fon) of Stanford White. by ifer Husband 4, rae and also to Ate him. to joole up. some authorities The DI lct-Attorney graciously consented to. the proposal, remarking Tie ee THE SP AeAT We witness has-mftered has-been dreadful severe, and for her sake we would unze a reepite.” THE DISTRICT. ACLORND, Y EN WAVED TO MRS. THAW TO LEAVE THE § TOTT ERE D TO HER SPAT AND FOR A # 1, MINU 2 TH BEFORE SHE WAS ABLE TO FIND TH se ‘O THE PLAT. FORM, ASSISTANT —DISTHRICT= AN SCABGHT HBR ARM AND’ H s 3 wit ONE HAND GROPING FOR. SUPPORT, BOX TOWARD THE = THE DOOR SHE FRA: HBR HUSBAND'S COUNS ON-WHIOH SHE SANK IN z HBR SORS-WERE TKI SMOTHERED: ‘GROANS She recovered gilickly, however, and went out to Tanch with an escort cH AMBER AT APMSTOF-ONE OF SORTED HER TO A SEAT, O WEAK THAT { ecrridar | TWICE NEAR BREAKDOWN. (Twice the girl-wife nad been on the raw ellge of- a-collapse—onco when i she {old tho Hstening audionce the story of bér, ruliv.in the gilded dan, on} | Dwenty-fourth street arid cneo as her own words. brought back. to her the | mamortes of the days when gbe, 2 shabby, lovely, ‘unspoiled, innocent. child } Was buffeted about from studlo to stage door, from photograpa: gallery to "| ball Hedtoord, che ‘sole breadwinwer—ot-a-needy; reed yhottsehonh— Bet now, with the west over;-perhens, she sat-eroct, Bin=k-brotved, | plucky, sad-faced little woman, with the droop of childhood stil! in —hery ips and the knowledge of centurles in her biack eyes, with the olive'shad-} ows about-them. Tho two hotirs’ ordeal had borie her down as with a | lingering {Iiness. Ono could almost see the Ines deopening in her face, THAW ALSO BROKE DOWN. but his hands went up to his foreead and he gripped this temples. ‘He | also was swaying as {f about to fall, and for an-instant did not feel the pressure of the Deputy Sieritt's arn -at-his-elbow._Laaving the tribunal he walked with wavering steps like a inan suddenly dazed, by a blow. Not a person’ in the thronged tribunal moved or even breathed a whisper until the Thaws had disappeared. Then a prodjgious sigh rose up. Slowly and silently eyery one got to his feet and amla a solemn hush pared out through the portals into the buzzing iitenty For the sfternoon-nession the chambe: was crowded until {¢ wouldn't hold another pinpoint. But for every favored human who got past the warders..of the door, there wasn fil ecdre who didn’t have the paseword j and who wandered the corridors, disconsolately - ‘begging the olinceen of the outer line to let them by. Back to thé stand came’Fyelyn Thaw, -pale-as-ever,-and-holding-horselt ance. The second chapter-or che epic of-a girl's ruin was ahour to rolled ‘Ilke a scroll under the skilful handling of Deimus and Jerome. GOOD EFFECT ON THAW. Thaw seemed cheorm| slightiy, although the Ittle demons of neryous- ress danced thelr twitchiig dance fi lle teniptes: running through hts face were as constant and as fleeting as sheet-lHght- ning on an August night. He did not lool to where his wife sat, her soul fortified with courage and pluck for the 1 trials of the inquisition. His lawyers bad told him at the noon reces Evelyn Thaw’s testimony had madv upoa the jurors during eS, forenoon andthe sews had-exhilarated him. : chad wiliess, sho “woke “very much-alon very, some discussion and come to the businass in hand. THAW'S LETTERS IN EVIDENCE, letters to his wife, when he was cut skort by Mr. Jerome who withdrew hts eatly-objection. “Fhaw's counsel then passed ong of the letters to the prose- cutor who read St over carefully. fall finally on the jury box. After the District-Attorney had finished his perusal of the letter, It waa) marked in evidence and passed = back to-Mr, Delmas. Thaw's lawyar theo read froma typewritten copy of the missive. It was addressed to Mr. Longfellow,-an_attorney for Thaw, In this letter Thaw sald It cost him 41,000 to- keep Mrs.Holman (Evelyn's mother) in London. — He-wrote:_ “BV ELYN-CANNOT-ROMAIN WITH THE MOTHER BECAUSE OF HER SUPERHUMAN NEGLIGENCE WHICH WAS RESPONSIBLE _-FOR HER DAUGHTER FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF A BLACK- GUARD WHO SUBJECTED HER’ TO AWFUL HORRORS WHEN SH> WAS ONLY FIFTHEN YEARS-OLD. “The defendant wrote that Strs. Holman feared that he (Thaw) ‘would iddnap her seventeén-and-n-hatt-year-old daughter.-He added WILL HATE SOME OTHER. “wyhen she jesrns the true facts she will turn her hate elsewhere.” He asked Mr. Longfellow to telephone Oirs. Holman or Miss Simonton at the Hotel Algonquin and. learn their side of tha row and. cable him tully_about it. 5 The first etter was discoanected, Tambiing and badly phrased; of_it_was almost-without meaning because of ‘Thaw's welrd style of com- position. A second letter written by tho “prisoner to-Attorney—Longfeltow—was for the defense read from a typewritten sheet of. Thaw’s correspondence. JEROME WINS A-POINT- The District-Attorney objected to the second letter, as it was not proven on What date tt-hrd-bean written... Mr..Jeromo argued that it must. be shown that the epistle was written before the killing of White, | Mr. Delmas salad that the letter would show that Thaw was insane, lnboring under a delusion that sti! extats. “Ryen were this letter writtey only yesterday’, saaid Mr.. Delms, “it would have its force ae evidence to estabish tho unsoundness-of the-de-) fendant’a mind, ‘Though I can show that this letter was written at the time I indicate (prior to the slaying), !¢ 1s not noceceary to do 80,” The prosecutor did not see it in this way and there ~vas a tedious debate, the Court sustaining Mr. Jerome, ‘Mhereupon Mr. Delmas with- drew the letter and tentatively proftared another letter. which was Ike~ wise objected to-by-the—District- Attorney. ‘Through #)1 this Bvelyn Thaw sat bolt 4 hand to her lips, as if puzzling her brain to, tangle of worfls, might mean. She lodked “very. much a graiymar-school And yet, how many, lessons had this black-eyed irl Jearned In her twenty-three years—lessons of want and plenty, avarice and opulence. tinsel fame and gilded shame, gulleless- nese and guilt—all the lessons that those evil teachers, Temptation and Vice, can teach if the pupil have but innocence and be noedy and in want} and—haye—no_nrotection, {RIED TO SHIELD MOTHER, Nothing that Evelyn Thaw bad sald or done on the stand during the morning session made a stronger impression than ber sceming Inclinatio‘« \to save her mother's name os far as poasible from besmirchment in the shameful transaction of her downfall, She' had plainly glossed over Mrs. Holman's share {n the intrigue of Stanford’ White and hla ‘Room of Many Mirrors. This feeble, perhaps futile attempt of the child to keep the par- ent's figure {n the background of the shameful thing had helped, along with her conyineing manner and her alr of frankness and honesty, to carry home conviction at the least to the hearts of her hearers. Bedraggled pawn of misfortune and misery, Evelyn Thaw may have been, but in this second great crisis of her life the tnnate sweetness of pright with one slenae writing to her since 190%" and had sent her a great many letters. 5 “Have you noticed,” handwriting has undergone a visible change?” This jauestion wan ipppcved ‘by the Prosecutor, who argued that Mra taint fet | of Jawwerp} the ‘police driving # lane for them! through tha pack in the} w what all the wearing, | her personality. had stood forth to-day as a gleaming gem In a muck-heap,! The eecond letter was excluded, The witneds sald that Thaw had: begun} Te —~The-ordeai-had-worn_down-the-pricones to almost n‘atate of collapse.) When -he-got to tis-feet-toteave-the-court-rdom_his face was ashen gray, | ‘rigidly tn-band-ne-If-to-keep-within_her_the hysteria whieh erfed for utter-| the evident tmpression which; cost tell him—t—meent—to-feturnto the stage small and very weak, yet very brave,-as-she walted for ttic-inwyers to} 8%! Ihave an end of their wear! Mr. Delmas started in to argue for the admission of the prisoner's| Mrs. Thaw looked wistfully about her now aud then, letting her glance) crazy things. ) Should be circulated by-that-man>* Much} ory, ht your’ "Yes -L roptied 1 aa" put in evidence After Mr. Jerome had studied.it closely...Then the. counsel) - |THE RETURN FROM EUROPE fe Thaw wae nolan ‘oxpert, ‘The’ Gefundubt’s” Haveper stad: Sapte Pr BB tae § in tho excluded letter through Evelyn's test!mony. He failed. -Mr.-Delmasthan-sn}tohed fromthe letter for the time being, He sald sould offer It in evidence later, when Mr. Longtellow, to whom It was ‘ritten, could be cated to testify-that-he-received-it the day-of the murder. “You returned fem Furope Jate in 1905?" asked Delmas. “Yes J came back before Mr Thaw did. 1 reached New York on the starmey late in October, Boloro 1 left Europe Str. ‘fekw™toid~ me Mrs Longfellow, his lawyer, would meet me at the plier to see that I got by the officers. 1 Drought-Mr. Longfellow a letter from Mr, Tha: hen did you see Me. Thaw efter you arrived tn New York?” erat weeks. A bout-a month.cI- think. tere Md you see him?" ae htt —took—piace at—that time?” tdid nat ) him aléne, T_would not’ see him alone, and he knew it” Therefor » with him. the conversation?" ; ne Yn snd Kat down peste ine ow a trunk. "Mr, Thaw Tic other ;MAN Went Over by the window, Lrsked hin- not to-leave tho room. This man was a lawyer -of reputution in this cfty.":~ : “what did he say? ap HEARD EVII,; THINGS OF HIM. | : “HE ASKED’ ME WHAT WAS THE MATTER. I SALD THAT I THON CARE 10 SVEAK TO HIM, THAT“ 1 HAD ATEARD-TERRIS BLE-THINGS ABOUT HIM" LTOLD HIM-1-HAD HEARD CERTAIN STORIES ABOUT HIM THAT WERE VERY, VARY DREADFUL... TOLD_HIM THAT A CERTAIN WAN HAD TOLD ME-HE CHGKED A GIRL IN A BATHTUR AND PGURBD SCALDING WATER OVER TERS PLAT a WAS CRAZY, THAT HE-TOOK- MORPHINE AND- THAT HE W. 2 2 HABIT OF ‘TYING GIKLS TO BEDPOSTS AND BEATING fi THAW CALLED HER ANGEL, —“What-did-he-say-then 2" * - “He sald, ‘Poor little Evelyn. They have been. making a fool of you'r? ‘The witness said that she told Thaw sbe had gone to Abe Hummel’s ofice whore-documents had been shown her purporting to be papers in a sult brought against Thaw byva girl-he hud abused. "You told him atout this visit to the lawyer's. office? queried Mr. Deimas. “Yes,” responded. the witness. “He eatd that. {t was_only an—effart of Ftanford’ White to blackmal? him. He told_me not to pay any attentions to ft. “Was that all.” ves, that was all of the conversation,” ‘What was done at parting?” “HE_KISSED MY HAND ‘AND TOLD MF THAT NO MATTER WHAT I DID. I WOULD ALWAYS BE AN'ANGEL TO HIM. THE WORD ANGE + GOMMON-WORD-OF-ENDEARMENT-WITH- HIM: When did you see him next?" “Sete weeks later. I was in the Knickerbocker drug store getting some soda when hoe came In cad spoke to me. He told me T looked badty. T sald I hed been sick, He told me I should never put rouge on my face, ng Tl -Was pretty enowsh without-it- That was all-we-ssid: aheresy wan-no-— reconciliation.” Yhen did you seé-him next?” “T-passed_him-on-the-etreet.-He was with some.one:and we merely spoke to one another, A few days later we met casually at Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street, and had a few words of ordinary conversation,” SHE MEETS HIM AGAIN. ' Mrs. Thaw then told of mecting Thdw in the Cafe des Beaux Artx She went there with a young ‘voman, and met Thaw accidentally, She was surprised at secing him. ‘The estrangement liad then lasted some Tiese—ltette—tremora; Weeks_ 2s the time was now jist before Christmas, 1903, ‘What occurred?” “I told him that [ was. going back to the theatre. He told me that I looked badly and should not go back to the stage. He said that he would pay me any sulsry I might make to keey me from going ‘tack to the Under similar circumstances Evelyn met Thaw again a few weeke after, A girl companion wae with them. Mr Thaw wanted Rirt-not-to: hear our-eorvrernation, ana ah back; -said-(he—witnecs, er BweOt. Fata “brant Vo Fine: = ikea me to tell him everything that I bad heard about him, L Pa him the name of the-man-who-had-told-me about-him_puttlag_a_girl in-a_bath- tub and running scalding water on her. “She was in 4 ~hotel—where-Mr—Thaw—was stopping. “Aman whom she had told Thaw had heard screams, He traced them ton ae and purse open the door. in the room he saw a glri tled to a bed mith ropes. tr aw was standing over her beating her_with a horse The girl was sttloking. a “I went on and told him all the other stories that Stanford White repesited to me. I told him‘ that Stanford White had ssid to me teens was a morpaine eater, and nat wnen ne nad morpnine ne aia mean, vad, if THAW LAUGHED AT STORIES ‘Mr, ‘Thaw mere)ylaughed.ahout some of the things. The others “woreoall Hes. Harry sald -he-could- understand why Se white st : Abe ‘Hummel had told me’ ouch things, but there was-a thin man who Kad repeated some of these charges to me and when {- mentionéd these things to Hurry he was puzzled and sald: ‘I don't know why these things Bey “Did -you-tel-air,-Thaw-of-your-reply-to-Stanford—W) told. sae Saati p SF TItE took morphine?” nilgymenske pads “Yes"E bad told Mr. White that Mr. Thaw had no mark iF morphine. He (Mr. White) sald that there were lots of as of ania rer put Apis nats. ee & Rath might snuf 4t-up his tose or eS pu n his wrist with one of those pins—th ‘Unustrating “upon her own wrist), E soe, SYrinsee lke-thtn ‘ “Harry sald {t was evident that White than: he-did, “When I got through. tellin; vestigate these things and get them.” ‘Instead -I-went- tothe person-who toll. me-about. the-hot: dent and asked him to tell nic the story ngain. He told me the Renan dt was very difterent. ‘This time he said-it was’ a waiter who-had- rushed into the room, and not him. Then he asked me: {You didn't ‘belleve that Then-hi I only told: bari to please some ono.’ e-TAvebed_and-sald, a —Yon-tolt-Mr_ Thaw -the-resule-of your investigation? “Yes, He sald he knew 1would find the-real-tryth if { inquired.” [A PICTURE ON THE STAND. ~ st The~girl-was—leaning forward, -a~ picture of {ii pretty. halting wed of nald|arahes month open ning anew ‘sentence, er“ omy “Reature= was =a ilight: shoulders and~expresstve~apen=patm- movem: sae afothe: seers st Sete rule for her between Thaw om As she described the course of the st the one hand and White.on,the other she showed greater sprightliness and tay.” She“ grasped” Mr. “Déelmaa'’s animation ren ar ane Mus during’ the questions readily, and in her repiies mffae sien wita nfl je of the errors into whicty mow Thaw showed no emotion as his wife west along picving out = ments of the charges and counter-charges of the two Warring, rovere pute: know, more about those things g all thisto Harry-he said: “We will-tn- at the truth. 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