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Show ONLY HER LOVE . PREVENTED EARLIER MARRIAGE TO THAW ' NEW - YORK, Feb. '20. Late yesterday yester-day afternoon District Attorney Je- i rome relented and agreed to cross-ex- amine Evelyn Thaw without further delay. de-lay. Mr. Jerome drew forth a large number of papers from a leather pouch. He selected se-lected one and handed It to Mrs. Thaw. "Is that your handwriting?" "It loks like mine: I can't say." "Weren't you In March, 1902, drawing $25 a week from the Mercantile Trust company, when you were not playing, and Is not this letter addressed by you to the trust company, directing what shall be done with the money?" Mr. Delmas objected. He declared that the letter would speak for Itself. Mr. Je-I Je-I rome withdrew It and asked Mrs. Thaw I to Identify the signature on three slips of paper. "It looks like mine;' I can't say positively." posi-tively." f "Are they not receipts for the 125 & week you drew from the Mercantile Trust company?" Mr. Delmas again objected, and Mr. Jerome changed the question. "Is it not a fact that you. In March. 1902. were drawing $25 a week from the Mercantile Trust company?" "I can t say." "Was It not about that time?" "I can't say positively." Couldn't Bemember Dates. Mr. Jerome handed Mrs. Thaw a large numhfi of papers, checks, etc.. and asked her to select Vie ones she knew she had signed. She did so. "What day was It you returned from Europe In 1903?" "I don't remember the exact date." "Was it on Saturday?" "I don't know." "When you left the steamer did you go to a hotel?" "Yes." "And register?" "Yes." "Would it assist your memory If I showed you the hotel register?" . There was no audible answer.' "When you refused Mr. Thaw In Paris In 190S did you tell your mother?" "Yes." "Did you love him enough to have married mar-ried if it had not been for the event In your life which you have related here?" "Yes." - "There was no other reason for your refusal?" f "No." "It was out of your great love for him that you refused?" "It was." "You were not thinking of marrying anybody else?" "No.' "I am sure It was In 1904." "Were you In Bologne at that time?" "I don't remember." "You heard of It after Mr. Thaw had proposed for your hand?" "Yes." , "Did you consult a lawyer?" Mr. Delmas objected, declaring this had nothing to do with either the witness' story to Thaw or her credibility. "It will tend to fix dates," suggested Mr. Jerome Je-rome In a tone which suggested that it was a matter of no -concern. It has been reported the District Attorney would attempt at-tempt to show that Mrs. Thaw consulted With Abe Hummell about the case. "The objection is sustained," ruled Justtice Fitzgerald. . "When you were In Bologne and after you had heard you had been named as a corespondent, did you write to any one in America?" "Yes, I think I wrote to Stanford White." Mrs. Thaw replied, readily. "And this was after Thaw had proposed?" pro-posed?" ' "Yes." "Did yov cable to Stanford White from Bologne?" "I don't remember." She Loved Barry Thaw. "You rejected him for no other reason than what you have told us about, and you gave him no other?" 4,No." "What part of the year was ibis?" "In the spring. . "Tour early life, you say, Was spent In Pennsylvania?" "res." "After your father's death you lived in much poverty?" "Tes." "The surroundings of your home life at that time were pure and good?" "Tes." "Tdu grew up to be fifteen or sixteen years old so simple that after all the trials you afterward went through you remembered the incident of the cat and the conductor trying to put It off the train V "Tes." "And also you remembered that you went on the stage and went to dinner and had chocolate eclairs?" "Tes." "All these pure ana simple surroundings surround-ings were due to your mother?" "Yes." "She was careful of you when you were in Philadelphia T" "Tee." "You posed only for women artists?" i "There were three men." "I now show you what purports to be ! the register of the Hotel Savoy, under the date of October 24th. 1903. Is that your signature 'Evelyn Nesblt and maid, Paris?" ' "Yes." "Does that refresh your mind? Does that remind you that you arrived Saturday. Satur-day. October 24th, 1903?" "Tes. sir." "At what hour of the day did you arrive?" ar-rive?" "I don't remember the exact time." To Photographer With White. Mr. Jerome here read extensively from Mrs. Thaw'a direct testimony, especially with reference to the visits she made with Stanford White to a photographer. Mr. Jerome took another tack. j "You were photographed on a polar bear, were you not?" "Tes." "Did you pose In a klmona with your chin resting on the head of the polar bear?" "Yes." "How many poses were there?" "I don't remember." "They were all modest, decorous poses whlh no one could take exception to?" "Yes." "You stated constantly on the stand that all of the things you narrated here were Just what you had told Thaw all, all about this terrible occurrence?" "Yes." "And those things you told Mr. Thaw at that time as having occurred at the hands of Stanford White were true?" Mr. Delmas sprang to his feet with an objection. "Tour honor," he said, "whether these statements were true or false Is entirely Immaterial. We have hot been allowed to show the truth of them. The whole question la whether or not she made the statements to Mr. Thaw as she says she did." . "The truth or falsity of her statements Jo to her credibility as a witness." said ustice Fitzgerald.. "She may answer." "Were those statements true?" repeated repeat-ed Mr. Jerome. "They were," was the firm reply. Named as Co-Bespondent. "When did you first learn that you had been named as corespondent In the Lederer Led-erer divorce suit?" Mr. Delmaa quickly objected "There Is no evidence here," he -declared with feeling, "that there ever vtas a divorce case." "Send for the' record." said Mr. Jerome. Je-rome. "It Is in my safe," lie explained to the court, "and It Is like playing a game of solitaire to solve the combination of that old lock. Maybe we had better adjourn." Meantime Mrs. Thaw called Mr. Delmas Del-mas over and whlspered-to him. "I withdraw my objection," he said, after returning to hie place. The lawyer apparently was acting under advice from the witness. Mr. Jerome repeated the question. "I first read of It In the newspapers," I said' Mrs. Thaw, In a voice that was decidedly de-cidedly cheerful. "When?" asked the prosecutor. '.'I don't remember Just when some-I some-I time in 1504." , "Sure it was not l03t" i |