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Show "How .lone - had your mother been away?" "One week." . "Have you ever seen Abe Hummel, since the day you saw . the affidavit burned In his office?" . "Tea." "When?" ! ' - "I think It was at some sort of a theatrical thea-trical benefit." rwaa It In the children's Christmas festival?" . , "Yes. I think So." ? "Who was you with?" - - ' "With a gentleman. . a friend of Mr. Thaw's." v "Were you and this gentleman not the guest of Mr. Hummel at the supper?" - "Mr. Hummel was at the table. I did not know I was his guest." - "Were you not his guest at supper?" "I did not eat any supper." ' ' "Didn't you sit down at the table and drink champagne as Abe - Hummel's guest?" "I sat down at a table where he was and drank some champagne, but I did not know I was his guest. I thought I was the guest of the gentleman I was with," Mrs. Thaw answered defiantly. "Did you converse with Mr. Hummel?" "Slightly." ' "When did you first see Mr. Hummel?" "In 1903, when Stanford White took me to his office." "Before or after your trip to Europe." "After." Mr. Jerome introduced the register of the hotel Savoy, showing that Evelyn Nesbit arrived there October 24. 1903. Mrs. Thaw said the. signature on the register reg-ister Evelyn Nesbit, Paris was in her handwriting, but the words "and maid" were not. 7ITE SUPPLIEDHER WITH MONEY WHEN SHE WASHT WOMIIHG NEW YOBK, - Feb. 21.-In continuing continu-ing his cross-examination late' yesterday yester-day afternoon, Mr. Jerome handed Mrs. Thaw Several ehecks and asked if she knew in whose handwriting the indorsements indorse-ments were. Five bad been indorsed by her mother; one indorsement she did not recognize. "In whose writing are the Indorsements Indorse-ments upon the others?" "It looks like mine." "As a matter of fact, does It not look more like your writing than that of any other human being: you ever saw write?" "Yes." "Where were you living May, 1902?" "At the Wellington hotel" "Except yourself and your mother, whose names were the same, was there another Evelyn Nesbit at the hotel?" "Not that 1 know of." Mr. Jerome read seven of the checks to the Jury. AH were Indorsed "Evelyn Florence Nesbit." "While you were living at the Wellington, Wel-lington, were you not entitled to and did you not draw 125 a week when you were not playing?" "Yes." "Who furnished that money?" "Stanford White." Mr. Jerome next introduced In evidence sixteen more checks, each for $25, the Indorsements on which were also identified iden-tified as In Mrs. Thaw's hand writ inc. The date ran weekly from February I, 1902. to April 24. 1902. "Wasn't this money received by you In pursuance of an agreement by which rou were to receive from Stanford White 25 a week when 'you were not acting?" "That Is too long a Question," pouted Mrs. Thaw. "I'll break It up for you. Was not there an understanding by which you were to receive $25 of Stanford White's money every weekt you were not acting?" act-ing?" "Understanding with whom?" Mrs. Thaw .queried in return. "With anybody," snapped the District Attorney. "I don't know." "Who did you think was putting up this money for you?" "Stanford White." "Were you to receive this money when acting aa well as when not acting?" "I don't know." "Have you any doubt as you sit there that you were not to receive any money while playing?" "I have." "Then let me show you some letters by Stanford White, and see it that will not refresh your memory." Mr. Jerome delved into a big leather pouoh. Mrs. Thaw sat rigid. Harry Thaw straightened up from his bent position over the table. "Now let me ask If you ever saw Mr. Hartnett write?" "No." "Ever see his writing?" "Yes." "Did You Writ This Letter?" Mr. Jerome handed witness a paper. "Yes." The District Attorney read the letter as follows: "Dear Sir: I have not been working SI1 last week and this. Will you kindly send my money at once. Evelyn Nesbit." "To whom was the letter addressed?" "I don't remember." "From whom did you want the money?" mon-ey?" "From the Mercantile Trust company, 1 suppoae.' - "Did you ever have any money deposited de-posited to your credit before this?" "Yes." "How much?" "I don't remember." "By whom?" "Stanford White." "When?" "Late In 1901." Mr. Jerome then read, another letter, as follows: "Mercantile Trust Company, New York: I have stopped playing and wish you to would begin sending the $25 weekly, beginning be-ginning this Friday coming, until I get another position. Yours Truly, Evelyn Neeblt." The District Attorney also showed the witness a check and receipt and asked: "Do not thene refresh your memory as to ths conditions?" "No. sir." "Do you remember now that there was such a condition?" "I do not remember. From that letter, I think I wrote it at the dictation of Stanford Stan-ford White. It does not sound like a letter let-ter I would write." What makes you think Stanford White dictated it?" "Because all important letters about money matters Stanford White would dictate, dic-tate, and either my mother or I would have to sign them." "Did you believe Stanford White when he told you all women were bad, and some were simply clever at concealing It?" "Yes." "You believed all women unchaste?" "Yes." "And you were Just 161 years old?" "I don't know that I was 16! exactly I was 1." "When did you begin to doubt that proposition about all women being unchaste?" un-chaste?" "When I went .abroad in 1903." "You believed that all women were bad?" "Yes." "How old were you when you went to Europe?" "Eighteen." "So you say that until you were 18 years old you believed all women with whom you were associated that all women were unchaste, and that some had simply been unfortunate enough to be found out?" "Yes." "Were you ever Instructed In the Scripturesthe Scrip-turesthe Bible?" "Slightly." "Did you ever attend church?" "Slightly." "Did you ever attend Sunday-school?" "Slightly." "What denomination?" "I don't rtmember I went once to a Methodist church, 1 think, and to a Presbyterian Pres-byterian church, an donee to a German church of some sort." "In rejecting Thaw in Paris had you anything in mind other than your own unworthlness?" "No." i "Did you consider yourself better than other women?" "No, sir." "Or worse V "No, sir." "Do' you recall the state of the weather the day you had the experience with Stanford White?" "No, sir." "Do you recall the day of the week?" "No. sir." "The day of the month?" "No. sir. ' "Do you remember the month r "I think It must have been September or early October." "Are you sure It was not late October or early November?" "I don't think so. I don t remember exactly. I might find out from my mother." moth-er." "Yes." replied District Attorney Jerome, Je-rome, J,but you understand I cannot get your mother here. Will you try to exert ex-ert your Influence with her-to come?" "You can't remember the day of the week on which the Incident occurred In the Twenty-fourth street studio?" "No." "Was It a holiday?" "I don't remember." i "Was It Sunday?" '"No, for I came from the theater." "How many performances had there been that day?" "I don't xsoiember whether there were two or f . , . i ( |