The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1907, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD. Women in Court, and They Fled from the Scene While Witness Sobbed Out Her Answers. - JEROME SO FAR UNABLE TO ——FIND A FLAW IN HER STORY. i | Its Horrors Too Great for Most.of the With composite Broken Down, Nemes Racked and Ears Tortured by the Merciless. Prose. _cutor, Thaw’s Wife Still Stands . By Nicola Greeley-Smith. Soe hundred ~ years. ago} picion of the law refused to| confess their guilt they were tor tured by the authorities until they admitted it. Justice no—fonger—tortures—the- body. The rack and thumb-screw are things of the past. Yet It is diffi-{ cult to imagine greater suffering | than that inflicted in the name of the law in Justice Fitzgerald's} court yesterday -upon—-Evelyn_Nes- bit Thaw. ; Here was the vivisection of. aj woman’s soul, the tearing from it of its profoundest secrets, a rend- ing, wrenching, merciless digging | into its depths that by comparison | made the rack seem less hidcous and awful. = No one believes that District-; _ Attorney Jerome likes his task, and | young woman is made to suffer under cross-examination | am offering” no- criticism of the methods which, 1 ~ suppose, he considers it his duty to the people of New York to employ. 1 simply feel that comparad with the ordeal to which this frail young | in describing the agony which this OY ‘at Gie-Chitcago-stockyards-e—pastoral delight. —Before-an-audience_of many hundred men young Mrs. Thaw was “com- | pelled to reveal in all its hideousness every detail of her association with + Stanford White after his crime against her. Not once. but many times. Over and-over and over ugaln came the -same-revolting questions, the @ame trenibiing- pitcous answers —~ It seemed aa {f, in his effort to overcome the young woman's, 5 etory, Mr. Jerome had dragnetted the sewers of the world for crude words, raw phrases that cut the tortured soul as the knout draws hlood from the tor- ored-body,-to-hurl-at the qutvering woman-on-the witness-standr WOMEN FLED FROM THE SCENE. _ : The ‘newspaper women, perhajs balf a dezen In number, whore duty {t 1s to report tho trial, writhed under tho sting of the prosecutor's ——greations-bowal thelrhoads befure the hideonsness from which Mr. Jerome Futhlesaly_tdre-the -yetl- Sume-of-them fled before It. T honor those who remained, though I was not of them.There ts no “duty to a hewspaper—and none that any newspaper would wish to enforce —that should not have’ succumbed to the horrors spoken in that court- “room, -But-there wasn dity of giving to the trembling, weeping. woman on the witness-stand any support that the presence of members of her own » pex might afford. I think all the women: present felt it, and only a sense utter mental and ystcal nansea made any of them forget it and fiy “from the flaunted shames, the ark Korrors of what court-room: Moreover, they fled from {t in-vain.-For these horrors followed theny Into the sunlit street, into thelr ofides, “back-to- their homes, ‘and Kept re- Jentless yigil at their pillows, making them wonder If the iniquity ‘through which Evelyn Thaw had passed waste leave a permanent poltuttag etamp on-all who henrd it. AND STILL HER STORY STANDS . More than once 1 have asked myself what possible good could come of ‘thia public autopsy on & woman's Innocence, and J marvel how Evelyn _/Thaw was able to survive the torture—trom the mere spectacle of + which other women were compelled to ty. 2 We know that Mr. Jerome broke down her serene calm and made her weep, but that he did not break down her tesUmony, ~Throngh-tears that rained down her pallid cheeks, through sobs that shook her sfender: buy, throngh all-the-yite bywayn-of sin that the. District: Attorney Jed her, the story of wrong Evelyn Thaw (did er hustand’s jury emerges, strong ana “untouched In Its essential facts’ aa on the day she uttered tt, I don’t belteve that Evelyn Thaw suffers more on the stand than many ofthe spectators—-posstbly-not_so -much. Stanford White posnd—her- the Gay before the incident round which this whole sordid tragedy revolves as #. tired butterfly. Later he addeil her to_his collection of dead* butterflies, young Women WhOKe soulk were siain-and-exhibited-for ‘the delectation-ot! materlalists and connofsseurs. Perhaps she suffers vaguely, a8 she says she! realized her wrongs vaguely. At least I hope tint she does not taste her agony to the full. “POLICE SERGEANTS TO DINE, ‘The police sergdants will dine at the (Waldorf-Astoria on March 7 at $8.60 a plate, Commissioner Bingham and many prominent city officials will be present, nd Gov, Hughes has been invited, LINER’S CHIEF OFFICER DIES, ORR Officer Louis Dunod, of the; French Fabre line steamehip EC] which siggy remereey, from Mar-/ ofjles. Years old and a sihatiee © of Marselies. ii | cs THATS Be a HAT'S the exact | i number of Positions, es Investments, Bar- | gains, Etc., Etc., offered through yesterday's World Want Directory. 1 051: atlas ict through <-Uncontradicted. sz spies | ees when persons under sus-|. WOUIAL WAS mIbjected a -prive-fight-must_be_an_elevating spectacle, and nj FRIDAY, — FEBRU ARY 22, 1907, “The Vivisection of a Woman’s Soul,” Nixola Greeley-Smith Calls _ District-Attorney Jerome’ s Cross-Examination of Evelyn Thaw Hattie Fo rsythe, WhoMay Be a Jerome Witness —fparrets ot otf and wha tebors—Hitent /ACCUSE FIREMEN OE THET ~ESCUNG MARY Strange Accusations MaGE : by Tenants of Threat- ened Tenement. ‘There wan a typical with a lot of smoke « and—no vers great dmibh. faced. tenement a of Buffolk and § and after It Way 0: tenants Med we atrowt that the flremen had r In the ground floor Wil haw a clothing store, 0; he has a wife and a family of the aver- age Stanton street dim: six children, all emall ones, One of the jittle girls, Cella, was kiralting a fire In the parlor stove, gent a puff of flame face, She arose with hei [and rolied about scream! | in the store below, racking up hia atocl He ran up, gathered heard her cries. her jo his arms and with her. “A> nelghbor a i ieee eer” | pull the burning clothing off the little ‘and then they carried her to the airh shop of Silverman's de rlyal across the mtreat. son, an ambulance surgeon from Goll: verneur Hospital, dressed the big bil’ tera on her face and limbs. pl Panic Starts at Once. ‘The back draught set fre to Silver: man's flat and the fro spread There are twenty fanitl ing, and they run abi family. The inevitable ‘on the first qush of aipoke aud the Art ences. of the Siivermar £ ost a ere—the; eaves ston ap ited ti tomer vette naa! 8 aS NICARAGUA WARS _ CAINE TREATY found 9 GUNG throug tis sideboards= where rad two-Teal old watehes—a | bracelor and a fve-dollar ay whoop of _rigo andr alickered ohe (ui handed -bim-dack -the--warshes and. the bracelet, gaye him a e face | jit ateippeared tn th AFTER, which tly the mmoke choked him. Two Watches Also “Gone.” _ cused anda New Battle _._|s Imminent. = ie ‘She two & z Batak fair was in charge cast side fire, |says, ae he te MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb, 2—-|mitteo, of Whicir (We Gear eae nd acblg scare | fully saved the tite of Ii bo) cap-| Chairman, with Charles B.) An em tretho prod |eAPUrB, aged w hd <, 8. Gatchol cael wasivtants, sctclneche proud | even and wii Wass : the town of] AO ©) Pine beat known men in the thewsouthwest corner hall ieee . Vruinto, Howdnras,-and-yeater- p present peaides if treeta to-da G nnie Greenbu afte: noua’ ht h Wy oH. Ander: anton aireets to-day, | | Mire. Jennie Gre after six hours’ hard fighting, the ar @ cHobie, | Charles # the rouled-oH | pona, but ros “| Aahmaker, Of, i, Carini % ‘quecr-charger triste dey + Me pote Leon Don: Riedl teh ean’ ted It aloud and munication by | Roach, a, ate reltingSr: iam Bilvermen |The hook and ladder men and the tn- the Niearaquan | Grote, Arthur Lee Cot nthe next Noor |surance patrol men united In. denying | a Apel, We emni that ithere bad bosn any robe Kale ina ow are se killed ior, George < M q ensions, to wil |ooine or them and. wot cwled’ Nard bacretrea Mba cereiyateth | Ate sresona marina Quack: names, The ft ine “ ammunition and many |'Veinen, ft. Wot C, Lattemer, fine Bid | ihe, wntatnh et ciftea on the neta swe Wace tts; Sardine tN 2 rare clot —— erie ytied-On-the Mi t hard Moos! James cay) 340% when a daci? draught the Nicaraguan aide | So0nce, Lerwecatteins Thomas wounded. “Phi 4 few n out 5m In. into her ANOTIFEN BE L cHAnyts |} DANA GIBSON ART suPPLEh WIT NEXT SUNDAYS WORLD. pS MRS. LEASE TO SPEAK. to-day sdeopa tel for, “Managua, ication: Nicarague, Fob, 21. tore downstairs helped him to of Corinto and renewod Mary Elizabeth Leas, of Kansas, whos strenuous personality aia much to effoctually anqwer tho famoys quea- tion, ‘What ts the matter with Kan- sas?! will be the gtar speaker at aditest business are now marching upon Tegucigalpa." where Dr, Ofa- “the: Tegucixajpa tn ax nnd in ett oper | a, in New York minea ‘of the sootety |B every foreign noclet bo present. The obje Viallver and copper fast | ja to let down'the bars and Invite, to | Sat rm Hea in the Dull’ | thin country the batter class ofthe wir. | EUCHRE GAME FOR CHARITY! out! aunt to | pli" population of erorded Wuropeali | ryie Ladies! Aualllary of the German ae enema | Among: the othe rapeakers at the | Hospital will hold their aiaual pro. |uressive euchre Denofit In the ballroom Na Most ot the | Meeting Will he Coogressmen Sulzer | TT satel Awtor on March 6. Tt broods, and fed | Mt Goldtosie, } Guo" thousand eae \Ne Ixten Charge for rt. for—the- World may De sea oA lorena saa chre and com: tines. Any women will attend the ‘ouped on the the od, Mean UFANCS.- PALTOL | aq, see ted: that more thai pete. for numerous |_| ncopes and binocul ~ WAS MOLATED eooere Officially Ac- Nicaraguan La- nistied the Oollowing “Honduras having violated the treaty her provoca- ostilities were rewumel Monday, Mae Nicaraguan troops, trluniphed and 1 of Ton- Aifgy mnlive Union to-night at a hi mass-méet It\ has nned by the National Liberal £1 fa ae the: ton League, Steprosen ’ oathodral gratlon ae UC, eprosentatives ea pohA e Raaaiaal :|POSTUM a the xdmlasion 94 ot fe he gumes begin BlG WHALE OFF "LONG. ISLAND 4 ~LUREFOR CREWS Three Life-Savers’ Boats | Disappear in Chasing Leviathan. —tiie-maxine. | tained thar peartd: fn’ the to capture, bi ten Ia content The whale ors | shore, halo which it went of a water, spout, Dutt binoculars revealed a great Tidival al nwrrateortwe und three m: omerK- ine ‘Ite mammoth head w yawning jwws. Every time the Ja opened, eecording to Capt. Spar of the Coast Guard, - plainly | seen g great maw, Capt Sparks —rrekoned serie hundred to keep a cornet factory going for a year. ‘This speculation fred the men of the Ilfe-saving station with a lust for the whale hunt, and a party was speed- ‘ty organized. Boats Are All Connected. ‘The Ufe-navers set out in two whale- |boats and three fish-boals. “There “was & smooth sea and a norfhwest-north wind briak enough to tear off ‘an occa- sional whitecap. ‘The whale was still pouting splendidly when the boats were platncied in tha. breakers and sped out lows, The men were liber- jally supplied. with harpoona, pike-po! | and several miles of tow: iin |_“Xnen, In cose the monster ‘adrolt- Hy harpooned and started to blow awa: he would take tho entire little fleet for & lively sail. Te Gabt Spare, did not accompany the ded to remain on wateh witha veiumaran iwonehed. and Tread’ | to-mpred to: the rescue, From hiz_point observation he deseried the whale lyawing of hore aa the Towed in pursuit. craft noon appea | Selteeelia inthe netehborhood of the great fish, The whaling party had ot long been our onthetr—periious—adventure when the news spread through Amagansetl amd neighvoring —villawesof_ Lhe. pret. ence of the huge creature, Hundred: Pof..men_and. women. thronged, to. © shore and ecinnad the oes ‘8 ment when Capt Sparks aent—out the announcement from his tower point of vantage toat the whale ha {ed aad so hod the boats, These was, a gray mist ty che offing, quonater, still ASeutinae and had disappe Before the hunters and t their pursult had gone out of fn @hore could eee the life-savers hurl: Ing hanpoons und ploks. Tiny puffs of Moke miso told that the boaimen were Shooting atthe great-esa animal. Then the miss In the offing that @ elassee failed ot pone- not 0 fort) -to the rescue catamaran, He did not feel equal 1. ne ae ther han I #een must “One of them harpoona be tr dep sehole object of Whalers can tell thay. all fo too n swim, and fret Hae ates co vonldnt De eat rat Sema turned up off the coast of Ireland to- morrow, in-which._c sod satamwiacita roason that I'd be a dum fool to met out-Arilln' after them {na catimaran.” Tant observations from Cnt Bitarke Ald not Include olther whale or boats, See “FRIENDS.OF TRADE” ~ EAT BEEFSTEAK. Paint; Varnish and -Wallpaper-Men. eee Feast..and... - Entertainment. ee Friends of the ‘Trae. an ation representing the paint, and wallpaper suppty houses the greater_clty: held their annual beet steak dinner last aight at Dormntms Dungeon, One Hundred and ‘Twenty: jecund wtrent-end agai avenue, Near Te every hig ouyae tn the city was rom resented, While (here were RUests press ent from -svery city from, Boston w rish ot \Lester Ferguson, Georke Lat jeorke Koorner, Ooo. Fe Hi. Geller. John Fait “ Deemls, Joseptr Cartland J. H 1 ‘Connell, O'An euealent vaudeville entertainment during the dinner, Can get well by use of , Roosovelt ticckwith, FA ROOSEVELT “SEEKS A DIVORCE jaa el, Young Jimmie, Cousin | of- the President. — Jamies i Mrs: of a month or so ag family affatra of crisis, according to frinnds of Mra “Dutch Sadie," who tn real: Baillo Misnenger, that brought ithe wah home tie furnished for ner The aristocratic young man‘a ifnther t him out of his will, but he had an. Tincome of $15,000 a t to ok In comfort. and the happiners-of * ib amt [th a cloud appeared. the past was forgiven and forgotten and everything was all right Loved a Burglar. But Hattle Mosor had been itving in a flat at No, 361 West One Hundred and} Rialimatrests “Sto met -Jonn rater w well-known burglar, the police allege, and loved him. ‘They were married and John was admitted to tho flat, This bilsaful union Iuated almost twenty-four hours, when Brafler waa thrown out. He claimed that soon after his eject- ment “Jimmie” Roosovelt stole his bride and carried her away In hie ditonibile ler was furlous, He hired a law- yer and threatened to aue the Preal- Gent'x cousin for $50,00 cush for “ate fhe his wife,” bot ‘to further appea his aching heart he took the fur: Of the fat and stored it away’ in his| own-nam: Meanwiiie young Roosevelt lawyer and replevined the Thin was sald to have been for Mra, Roosevelt: which ah survived. From that day on. st away ‘and was disconrolate. 1 appealed to her love for " 4 Iidussd her not to hale him. eto court | Just thon; but last evening she hed hor) ay hired: = furalture. | sranam, “A Model wite: efforts ta hold the ture and hia talk of ming both collapsed whe that h ‘i Roasies' ction. to second-story men Ninth eipit—Couirt—pare, Roosevelt the urn t evening -when- the: flat furm- Roore one of the! wellknown, men about. the Tendertoln, and notwithstanding his conduct has) deen unsatisfactory to his family, he Js sald to enjoy himself hugely at ai times. “He jaa HG thay eek of Mrs. Astor. BECKWITH ELOPES AFTER EIS I$ ONORCE velt in Jessie’ Lincoln's Former Hus-| band Plunges Into a New | Romance. | = i | (Bpectal th The Evening World) CHICAGO, Feb. SWarren Teck: withy-former football atar-and proves: | sional ball player, who In¥t week no-! eured—a—divores from Jesate Lincoln. was married at Burt-| Sulla lope Abraham Lincoln, dngton. 1a.. Inet night to, plan of “Aurora, C from the e e. se Feinony. Mayor Unt Inimedinte a, purtoriied korcher, The couple left after for St. “Loutn and tuitter adinitted Twat matt Thadatett hor ot Know: anit red. ure i ee of they would: be- porn y- daughter ia twenty-four yeara old and has a right to go RWay if whe wants ¢ tions—candy, soda—everything. asked for IMPURE goods, SPECIAL for this FRIDAY Orange Aarghmalow Bon Bons 7 10c SPECIAL FOR THIS FRIDAY and proper, iron, derma’ vent 6. 0. _"There's a Reason." D, Cantles for our ‘out-of C “at a packed and. ehloged from ur Special Mall Order at TENDERLOW WIFE HOTEL GUESTS. | er feniade Alimony ‘from; Chimney Blaze aay ir hallways, th any jth ear from hin mother, | ty out an existence | tendant © | throu Later he Inherited 32,000, weet PD shalled ot had the jsp: Onemntete sex: Every Huniot Cus Assorted Fruit and Nut Chocolates, Pound ARE OUTED OUT. BY FIRE SCARE Normandie Creates Ex- citement at Midnight,” ft wlumbers early: to= of fire-fighting ap- ete their dream, they ran into the er, ¢ and cannot fo attendants an- fire the possibly, prevented a —cabinan wulnk from. the entnmn jer turning in an alarm, reported d clerk, Instantly the fire oo fe hotel wis sent to the root with ex- ulshers, while, all the available a summoned and scattered floors ‘with Ins meer aiiad the nclied | Tho filers, was the frst ‘intimation the to he frowns of tha Itoosevett-famtly; mocetey had of the-blaze. — ance of the attendants mare = the several halls in unifoi ‘There was lUttle work for the firemen, the hotel corps having put out the blaze. ‘in. the - ‘ormandle Yfotel were rte phetr windows they only to be assured \ yt and- Intelligent work by te + hada at x. ure the guests fect of at once allaying the — ifears of the more excitable ones, who had fled precipitately from thelr apart- ments, SCALY SORES AS GAS PENNIES | Covered Whole Head anc Head and Neck After an-Attack-of-Measles—Halr- All Came Out-—Doctor’s Treatment Had No Effect—Suffered 6 Months CURED IN 3 WEEKS BY. +GUTICURA_COSTING $1.90 hend_and_neck wero sores about as large as a penny mere juseme thick ok they could pest hty; hair ill came out. [let the trouble run taking -the-deetor's- blood rem=— did and rubbing on salve, bu ot scene to ger my er, itetayed that way for about siximonthes then got-a set cf the Cuticura Remedies, and in about a week 1 noticed a big difference, and in’ three weeks It was well entirely and I hayo not had tho trouble any more, and a this was saven years nj sider myself cu Tod ons batiia ct Curesea Tieal ent. ono box of Cuticura Ointment, and two of Cuticura Soap, I think it a _aptendia medicine, and 1 recommend {t 1 blow Keb. os rAuR. 25, FACIAL HUMORS Acne, Eczema, Ringworm Speedily Cured by Cuticura. Warm baths with Cuticura Soap, and ment, the greie Skin Cure, 84 - ipa eerste of cases, torturin; dinfigurin Tactel andthe of infants, children,—— and adults: when = =pecmm ingly: urable a other rete — dies, No other treatment so pure, 26 nweet, and -to-speedily effective for — _| preserving, puri by the-aktn,-sealy ying, and beautifyin; heir and-Tands;-ae- reall as forall the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery,-Guarantoed absolutal: and-may be-used from: the hou of bth ‘ELerTa! as ‘Internat “Treat fotnita of Cultura a e ae icra. ¢ es us fever ated Sold throustout Ue vei Bole. ropa, Hostou, FMatied ree How w ‘cure t Skin Humors, Tew Lofe Js the first candy manufacturer in the U. S. to make pub= Me demonstrations of purity throughout his entire line of produc- Loft was also the first to establish the policy of selling PURE goods at prices other manufacturers Loft adds one cent to the actus! pound CUST TO MAKE and that-one~ penny for the investigations of Washington authorities. represents_his_profit. Look _ SPECIAL for this SATURDAY Chocolate Covered 10c Smyrna Figs - Pound S4BARCLAY: I5¢ ils comreanor 9 CORTLANDT. ‘SE BO Gon cHURCIST, NE Rie sed SE AND SATURDAY gentle applications—of. Gutlonra— Oint.——_—