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Show f -- - - f . - w a) i 1 t i ' r -tp ' . ' ' ', ; ' NEW YORK, Feb. 19.' When court convened " after the noon recess, Mrs. Caine's cross-examination was resumed. re-sumed. "How lonq did you and Mrs. Thaw occupy the Jwnetv-first street apart-ment'f" apart-ment'f" asked Mr. Jerome. "Three weeks." "Who raid the rent!" . I did' "Out of your om' money f" ' Yes. " Mrs. Caine's voice wits low, but she answered quickly and briefly. On several sev-eral occasions when Delmas thought Jerome's questions were being pressed too hard, ne interposed, and when the District Attorney attempted to draw from the witness the details of conversations conver-sations with Thaw ho made objeotions. "Where did Miss Nesbit go after you and she broke up housekeeping.. "To Mrs. Jewett's.' v "And then where t" "To Dr. Bull's sanitarium for .the second operation." Ali the time you were with Miss Nesbit in Ninety-first street, did you and your husband maintain your own apartment in West Tenth street!' ye8. "Did you and Miss Nesbit continue, to "go out with-Thawt" 'Yes." - . . , . "You said this morningyou wanted to protect Miss Nesbit. What did you want to'protect her fromt" " "From newspaper notoriety." , "What was the notoriety!1' , Decided Against Jerome. "I object most seriously," said Mr. Delmas. "What the newspapers said was not material." "What the -newspapers said is very material," commented Jerome. "You heard, did you not," said Jerome, addressing ad-dressing the witness, "that this defendant de-fendant and Miss Nesbit were ejected from a hotel!" "I read it in the papers." 'The answer was give A before Delmaa could state his objection and he moved to have both question ' and answer stricken out. ' . , "Did you hear anything except what you saw in the newspapers!" asked Justice Fitrgerald." "No, sir.? : "Then your question and the answer will be stricken out," ruled the Judge. "You want ns to understand," said Jerome, "that you took the money you earned in the department store, paid the rent of thi apartment for Miss Nesbit and were not reimbursed!" . "I waa not reimbursed in any way." ' "When you and Miss Nesbit went to the Ninety-first street house upon the first night, did you have any bag-gage!" bag-gage!" " ftNo." "Why did you spend the night there if you had another apartment!" "There waa not room there for Florence!" Flor-ence!" ' "Did you plan to stay there when you went out to find an apartment!" We had no plans." Thaw Generally BationaL "Had yon a telephone at that apartment apart-ment house!" -. : "I don't remember." "During the three weeks while you were there, did yon never use that telephone!".- - "Never." - "Did Misa Nesbit use It!" ' ' Not to my knowledge. ' ' "At all the dinnera and theater parties par-ties were the acta of. the defendant rational!" . "Except when he saw Mr. White." 'I suppose he paid' all the bills at the dinnera and theaters!" "Yes." "He evinced no undue excitement when he saw White!" "No." "He showed a full appreciation of the value of money in malting change, etc.!' - . . - "I did not notice." . "Aa to the use of intoxicants, did you at any time see him drink to excess!" ex-cess!" ' . "No." : "When you were in the bathroom, did the defendant's conversation disclose anvtMng erratic to your mind!" White, Thaw's Enemy. Mr. Jerome reverted to the Daly theater the-ater incident. "You knew there waa a feeling of enmity between Thaw and White!" "Yes." " "Did Mrs. Thaw tell you the rea-aon!" rea-aon!" "No." "How did you know it!" "From Mr. Thaw's appearance when he saw Mr. White. I lis appearance waa that of a man aroused at the presence pres-ence of an enemy." "Was the operation for appendicitis performed on Miss Nesbit in 1903!" "Yes." Delmas objected to this. He said the only evidence that the operation was for appendicitis was the statement by the "learned District Attorney," to which he took exception. "Did Evelyn tell you the operation was for appendicitis!'' asked Jerome. "Yes.'r , The matter was allowed to stand. Jerome aaid he was through and Delmaa Del-maa took up the redirect examination. The witness said Thaw always acted rational ra-tional except in the presence of Stanford Stan-ford White. Thaw 'a attentions to Miss Nesbit were always respectable, Evelyn Thaw Returns. - Mrs Caine ' was then excused and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw waa recalled to identify more papers. - Mrs. Thaw identified iden-tified a letter which she said had been written to Thaw by . her mother, "Did you ever see it in the possession posses-sion of Mr. Thaw prior to June 25 last!" Jerome objected and Justice Fitz- frerald read the letter. Delmas said the etter, which was written by Mrs. Nesbit, Nes-bit, subsequently to Thaw 'a proposal for the hand of her daughter, tended to show a condition impressed upon the defendant's mind. "The letter ahows that Thaw paid honorable court to this girl and with her mother's consent," said Delmas. "Aa I understand it," said Jerome, "this man came to Mrs. Nesbit and made a definite cash proposition." "If the learned District Attorney desires de-sires ta take that commercial view of it, he may do ao." Jerome said there was no necessity of showing the attitude of the mother toward to-ward the defendant at the time, adding: "If it comes to letters, I have in my possession an endless chain of letters' let-ters' Delmas noted an . exception to Mr. Jerome's statement. Justice Fitzgerald Fitzger-ald overruled the objection to the letter let-ter and it waa read. The letter was dated at the New Jersey Jer-sey school which Evelyn attended in 1903. . . i Later Jerome acceded to proceed with the cross-examination of Mrs. Thaw. Fcr Sale. Large oak wall ease, 9 ft. 6 in. long: will sell theap. Meredith k Guthrie Co., 333 Main at. ; . - - |