Show I STORY OF FRAIL GIRL I I L TOUCHES E HEARTS OF JUR B Py iy Winifred muck Black Now New Nu York Feb Feh 7 The The court room was packed to the tile doors s when Evelyn Thaw went on the tho stand tanJ and oJ told the story of her misery and her shame sham this morning Women om decked ed out in gay colors men nen with bloated faces Caces and wih aces leering eyes let eyes lul in on who can 5 say sr what pretense pre iia- 10 ten tense c of oC official bu business business rowdell crowded and anel hustled bustled hurled and peered and anti whispered and ale sniggered h as aM the lie bailiff called cled lien her hel ham name u. u Outside the lw court room 1000 doors the lie hall ball was waR jammed 1 with protesting people peo pIe shut out nut from ho lie feast east of horror A quivering human soul was to be he laid lail hare bare there inside the thc door tool and all ail the human vultures V lurl N were anxious to lo tobe loho tobe be ho within till full ful sight fight 1 t of such a te feast east t of human anguish I N Thaw to tho lie stand I calel called the bailiff half The door boy of or the room ante opened and ant tho thu little woman wo wo- mUl man huh bent hent fragile fl white faced il big ing Iv Evelyn Thaw came lo to II tin the ll stand She looked ed nol not one otie da tiny day O over OI I 1 18 8 as me meshe she sIte stood up iii UI and look the tie oath SI Story of iii Pitiful Poverty In Iii the thc wet sweet voice ViCe of oC an il emotional Woman allf comprehending child nbc Ih ho began the tho tw hideous story tolY of or her pitiful stunted misshapen little IUle life a life lre first of or pitiful lak makeshifts and anc then o ot of open 1100 and undeniable PO poverty They lived 1 she li nl she he anti and her hr mothers mothers' and ant little brother in Ol one room and anc rented the rest relt of the hl house housein in Pittsburg anti and thou then the lie sheriff sherif caine clUne and anc tiei-e tiei was vas nothing lo to eat for fur days lout but wine some mc biscuits and anti then some said ald she he was pretty and a. a i photographer n paid her to sit fl for fat a lt photo t- t graph And nd one Inc da day her hel mother packed pack ac I. I e ed the meagre family wardrobe amid anil all brou brought hl lien her little Itt girl am and her r boy to New Ne' YOI York On the tw the thc witness said sitI toil sho cried the nil first Ilter S terms tenuS ten of h her I life 1110 the lie conductor I tor to would not nol let lei her tIer carry crry her pel pet petI I n with hc lion her They fy found S In III New York an ts well A 18 In r Pit The rue he little ii girl managed I to lo make nala I a afew afew few ft dollars h by posing in th tin the artists artists' l studios studios They were ere very ver kind t lj t me the time artists said faId Fel Evelyn n Thaw as she was vas wa telling the lw story toda today an anthe and amid the they told me tue I must mut never knock at nt time the doors of strange studios anti and a ask l for fOl work workS because It I would not be he safe fc for COt me tue I never ne Il did I It I ItC Hears iun ri of Ci Chorus it riis Work ork Ik And hen 1 It I seems the tho child for tor she sho he hewa was vas a child of fifteen heard irom rota tom sonic some man at some sonic studio that she sho h could earn earl fifteen dollars a ci a In the chorus She was ns almost t overcome overcome with wih tho the idea of such an amount of oC money mony and har hardly ly dared I suppose to hope that she could coul earn It f. f But ut she sho did dil It in the thc chorus churus anti and In Inthe Inthe inthe the daytime she 1 posed hosed in the studios I and amiul on the lie r or 01 30 a week weel she earned carnell in iii this way time the tl family lived let I II quite U com comfortably Anti And thou then one one night a 0 girl in the chorus asked her to go to supper with wih lien her and she she refused saying that her mother nother would not let lel her hr go The girl ask asked ell her lid again aln an and amid then lien her hI mother somehow hearing that time the giver of tin tin- supper was wa a man of If f in- in and money gave ga gahm her hem consent and Evelyn g N Nesbit Wt went lt to In the supper r mid anti t nu-t Stanford White the man lan Harry Thaw l killed This man mal White hip baited baNI the trap for Cor forthe forthe the tw girl made friends with wih her mother moth moth- er pr r. r and told lold the lie girl he would be befriend he- he friend her hll and all her hm family One Otie ni night ht said the witness m my n mother sent ent me inc a a. dress dres to th the threat e. re She he had made It il herself There was as a unto note with wih the dress re s andin antI and anc in iii the thiu tw note mamma told me rue that 1 1 was invited to lo a a. It party and that I 1 might go so and that 1 I must mut put on 01 the now nu dress anti and I look pretty v of oi a t iI-t E Jn Nesbit Thaw told tot this story ston of the lie dress and ant of the mother who ho ho homade made maee It for Cor lien her and bade her wear it it without a trace of oC bitterness s or even comprehension In her high high- pitched sweet childish voice She Sho hold held hoi hll self hem self elf under control wonderfully for fora a ii time Clenching her fists she made herself go on and amid anc on Into the very cry depths of oC horror When she came cume to the story of or tho the night when hen she walked the tho hoar floor foor In her hiem room in a screaming agony asony of or terror lerol at what had happened to her great gnat beads heads of oC sweat stood out on her pale jiahe forehead her voice thickened and almost almust broke l' l and anti her little pathetic babyish mouth twitched and trembled Hut But she sho caught her breath clenched lien her hands tighter lighter looked Jute Into the face of the the man she loved the pale face face- of hurry Harry Thaw am and amid went on She had set d her hel feet fee In iii 1 the path of oC sacrifice lice fice fee anti and she slit would go on in iii I that path swords If every step was sown o n with wih naked My ly Iy mother dressed me mc When hen I Nesbit e Thaw spoke that sentence she told lold the whole stor story of her life Effect on OIL Jurors I look looked l at the jurors when that lit littie little lit lit- l- l tie tle te pale pall broJ broken el gui for she looked like nothing nothing else told of oC how hen her hOl mother liked lal Mr lr Il White and told tol her never hovel to with h but him g go wi an any one and the face ace of one omi of the jurymen was scarlet and the tho man niami next to him hini was white as death and at the en end of ot the lie row rov 10 one man sat st and clenched his lists fists I wonder vonder if an any one of those thoe three th e men mel has lias a n little Itle daughter at home a little lite loving friendly lighthearted lighthearted light light- hearted d pretty thing who ho Is the tho core COO of or hl his heart If I he lie has ha the man maii who put Stanford Stan I ford tord White the murderer of th In Innocence iii- iii 11 nOCI nCe of a young oung and anc helpless child out of df ff the worl world orld will wi never go to lo the I electric chair chai under I a verdict b by this Jury jl- Ii i When the noon session was was- wasat at ut an I end the people drifted out of oC the court coUl room i stilled as with wih the shadow o of the lie horrible tragedy At t 30 1 the lie little lite pale girl Jirl was put on the lie stand again and anc she sat there and amid l listened to lo the lie read reading Ins o of letters leler written by 13 hem hor Ir band about her to his I legal gal friend Mr Longfellow be before before be- be fore tore became Mrs Tb Thaw Whatever r he lie has been whatever whatever he mav b be 11 again Harry Hurl Thaw loved and ant does oes love the gui girl to whom Il he lie cave mave e a his hi noor Door clouded etl name Those letters told toll hl his story tory Sho Slit is to go on the stand tomorrow and DI District ama will wil have a u hue fine to tear the lie n poo 1 little story of her life to lo pieces and ald sneer at It to his hearts heart's content content But Hut If that hint jury jUlY I Is nUll up of men nien nl of llesh and anil blood of men o of stone Iol-e Iol mIll all his hi sneerIng sneerIng sneer sneer- Ing oi d Hla sai m will wi not count the time weight eIght of if Ir the he shadow ha ow of a feather the story tory nf nC the poor hunted little IUle creature told lold on th the tho witness s stand 1 and the leler letters written Illen by hy her hu husband h nl about her hor which were read in iii com COUt t. t ii I i tS E. its s. li l in After fter Listening to Idl Pa Ia Pa Feb 7 Standing Standing by byS S the tho in lien her hom home tola today Mrs IrK S Charles J J. J Holman mother of if Mrs I Florence 1 Nesbit Thaw listened listen listen- Isten- Isten ed to the Ull h testimony o of her daughter as ns asIt asit It I was vas rend read to lu ii Iel from Crom noun a I newspaper ulc connected will iti a u direct wire vire with the 1 ci courts building In New e yli As Aim Al iho thio horrible details of of ruin degradation were told JJ I. I by th VH jt herself lf and repeated I tl to lo the Iho nuit her I the tw hi latter grew lW hy hysterical and Omia Inal liy collapsed etl Tonight sue she is completely com coin and amid anc in a precarious condition For months Mrs rs Holman has been under a ui C terrible nervous strain nl Refusing to lo see ee anyone but her most intimate friends she has remained In seclusion lon in iii her hel homo home in Brooklyn with wih lie tho except exception ion of throe three da days R about two Iwo weeks ago when hien she went to to lo Jer- Jer sey C City anti ami met Charles Challes Stanford former private ate s secretary to White S BI nested 1 it lo tn Kro itel 1 hll While Out Mrs Ir Holman has always In Insisted that lint Whiles While's hies name must not nol be sullied during the Thaw trial and amid It I was learned hero here hell today wrote to her Ier lo 0 not tb do daughter begging her hel anything anything anything any any- thing that would ic re-hect on oil the character character char char- acter actor of the lie murdered man mami murt Her trip tip to Jersey CI City CHy was for or the pUrIO purpose f of to lo have her sun son Howard NI Nesbit t testify try to Whites White's s 's good character and amid aut purely paternal Interest In t fie me When II g n Thaw Thaw was placed on the stand this morning anti and the lie news time the wire Ire to lo Pitts- Pitts reports came cani over oti O fl lw Pils- Pils burg M 1 Mrs rs I Holman III man was vas called cald on eli IH l the lie ht phone f flom i om a a. newspaper r oleo and Informed thai hint her daughter was sas testifying tin tying in iii Thaws Thaw's defense When the wife child witness began telling of Thaws Thaw's proposal of f marriage mar niage In iii Paris and amid her wr refusal because she sil had hat been Intimate with wih Stanford hite hl anti and feared cared that hint the latler's later's friends would laugh at al her hr an and amid Thaw should they mar marry the Iho te testimony was repeated to Mrs lh's Holman That Is terrible sho sue nervously answered The confession lon was WOR then read to her Frequently she hc Interrupted Interrupt Interrupt- ed with wih cries of on v t. t Mr I IH I thai rail I Is she through f Item Her IOU sobs could coull be ie plainly heard by bythe tIme the reporter r who read the time message age to i-i i her en I When the end of the lie awful story of itS the tl hue girls girl's return to consciousness I after ane the he tl effect of f drug had worn off of a aI aI I shriek o of anguish h and the sound of oC the receiver clattering against t time the wall wal came caine from the other end of or the wire A moment later a woman who said Id she was as a maid called over ovel and amid said salti Mrs Holman has fainted Ve We dont don't domi rt t want to hear any more B THAW V W STILL YOUNG Glow of ot Youth in iii II Checks and amid Fire In lii II Fye Bc ns us She lc Testifies New York Fob Feb 7 s When Florence Evelyn Nesbit took her seat In the witness chair chah toda today she had hac discarded her heavy veil amid for or time the first time her hem wr face was as seen distinctly In the court room She was dressed in dark blue and on lien her wide hat of the time same am I c color culO hot was set a bunch of artificial vio o il Io lets Th There Ic was wal as none of or the lie drawn look hook In iii lien her heI face ace and tuitI her hel eyes were i bright She went to the stand stam with wih nn atm al air aim of resignation hut but before long Ions her at attitude attitude at- at became spirited She spoke In a dIn maner manor slowly so that thai she could bo he heard in iii every cor corner o of the court room Her Tier high turned down collar with which she wore wars an un artists artist's tie tc gave o g her hel all al the tho moro more mor of a school girl look Jool She had a black ribbon in her hem hair hah While Mrs Thaw has ha a pretty face she he could coull hardly be he called n as sheat sue she sat at in the witness chair chah an J Ideal eal beau beau- ty Her Tier face in which there was nol not the tho slightest touch of color to today a is o al oval Her mouth Is large and ant droops at ot the time corners cornelS Even Kven while the she h was not lot talking her lips were ere parted and amid ant gave her something of oC a pathetic ap ap- ap- ap feal The young oung womans woman's eyes perhaps arc are the most striking ing hi features 1 of her lieu make make Thc They are ae dark durl anti and heavily fringed fu and the he look that comes from froni rom them beam at times seems to be lie transformed into a mule mute IX IN TIL TRIAL Ainu In Tells Jurors to in 11 Acquit J Thaw Thau mil milI Is Arrested I New York Feb 7 As As time the twelve Jurors who ure are to decide the fate ate of Harry Hany K IC Thaw Iha were leaving leaving the tho the I Broadway Central hotel this morning for fO the criminal courts court building a alimO aman aman man limO yelled at them Youve got gol ot to acquit Harry Thaw Iti Jr an nn Captain William J JLynch J. J Lynch with wIh his hiM assistants of the court from Crom In Intrusion lii- lii squad who guard the time ju jury rein tru II leaped C on iii I th the man and ant after arel sonic some rough handling took toik hIm him In lii custody cus cu cut cut- tody and anti escorted him down 10 1 with wih them to tl lh the criminal courts building for fur arraignment before Justice Fi Fits Fits- gc in iii the hit criminal branch of the time supreme court before beure the lie Thaw trial was ivan resumed After tm the tho 11 incident of f a man In thu lh the street addressing them time ors jurors proceeded pro pio- on iii their way tony down to ti tl the court ourt building without further Interruption |