Show EVELYN THAWS ANSWERS to the questions directed at iler her by jerome 1 new york feb 20 during the cross examination yesterday in the thaw case mr air jerome jeome handed mrs thaw a large number of papers checks etc and asked her to select the ones she knew she bad had signed she did so what day was it you yop returned from europe in 1903 1 I dont remember the exact date was it on saturday 1 I 1 dont know when Wh enyou you left the steamer did you go to a hotel 1 yes 1 and reg register liter yes would tt it memory it I 1 showed you the hotel register there was no audible answer when you ie refused fused mr thaw in paris in 1903 did you tell your mother 1 yes yes DM you love enough to have married if it had bad not ban been for the event in your life which you have related here yes there was no other reason for your refusal no 11 I 1 it was put of your great love for him that you refused it was I 1 you were not thip thinking king of marrying anybody else N no 0 you rejected reject oa him for no other reason I 1 than what you have told us about and you gave him no other 11 no x what part pt the year was this in the spring i i to all of ol these abes questions mrs thaw answered ys yes your earls earl life you say was spent 1 in pennsylvania I 1 i after your fathers death you liv ed in much po poverty i the surroundings ct of your home life at that time were pure and good you grew up to be 16 15 or 16 years old so simply that after all the trials you afterward went through you remembered the incident of the cat eat and the conductor trying to put it off the 11 and you also remembered t that h at W when hen you went on the stage and went to dinner you had chocolate eclaire ec lairs all these pure and simple surroundings roun dings were due duet to your mother she waa was careful of you when you were in philadelphia you posed only for womer artists there were three men 1 I now shiow you what your pur ports to ho the register of the hotel savoy under the date of october 24 1903 Is that your sign signature evelyn nesbet and mad paras yes does that refresh your mind does boes that remand youa that you arrived saturday Oct 24 1903 yes sir at wha tho of tho day did you arrive 1 I dont remember the exact time mr ar jerome here extensively fro from mAirs mrs thaws direct t testimony especially ally with reference refe renge to the visits she made with stanford white to a photographer you fixed the datte date by your reference to this visit to the photographer did you not mr air delmas objected as the tile question related to an event and had nothing to do with the story mrs thaw told her husband he paid said the cross examina tion must be confined to the story as she had told it to thaw not as to historic events you were photographed on a polar bear were you not yes 11 did you pose in a k kimono wit with 3 your our chin resting on the head of the Polar tear bear yes how maar poses were there 1 I dont remember continued on pago page eight EVELYN thai THAWS 16 ANSWERS continued from page one they were all modest decorous poses which 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 bad to told d thaw all about this terrible occurrence yes anil and those things you told mr fr thaw at that time as having occurred at the han hands danof or of stanford white were true I 1 mr delmas sprang to his feet with an objection your honor he said whether these statements were true or false is entirely immaterial we have not been beefs allowed to show the truth of 0 them the whole question ii i i whether or not she made the statements to mr thaw as she says she did the truth or falsity of her state indents go to her credulity as a witness said justice fitzgerald she may answer were those statements true repeated mr jerome they were was the rm rin reply when did you first learn that you had been named as respondent co on the lederer divorce suit mr fr delmas quickly objected there is no eil eiden dence je here he declared with feeling that there ever was a divorce case send for the record said mr jerome it is in my safe he lie exclaimed to the court and it Is like playing a ft game of soll tair e to solve the combination of that old lock maybo maybe we had better adjourn Mc meantime antime mrs thaw called mr delmas over and whispered to him 1 I withdraw dinv inv abjection he lie said after returning to its 11 place the lawyer apparently was acting actlis under advice from the witness mr jerome repeated the q question fuestion ue stion 1 I first read of ailt in the 0 newspapers said sald mrs thaw in fil a voice that was decidedly glicer cheerful ful I 1 when asked thc jhc prosecutor rosec 1 I dont remember remember just juit when whon some time in 1904 11 sure it wag was riot 1903 1 I am sure atas 1904 1 were you in boulogne at the time 1 I dont remember you heard board ot of it a after it or mr thaw had proposed for bourband urband Yo your hand yes did you consult a lawyer mr dolman objected declaring this had nothing lo 10 0 o do with either the witness stor to thaw or her credulity it will tend to fix dates said sald mr jerome it has liar been reported the district attorney would t r r to how show that mrs thaw consul consulted fed with nith able ablo hummel roe about the case the objection Is sustained ruled justice fitzgerald did not stay long when you came out what did mrs Nesbit say to you you she said now you see his intentions arc are honorable had there been any discussion as to whether his intentions were or wore were not honorable wo no what did mrs nesbit say she said she wanted me to help her to induce florence to take mr thaw as a husi husband mr jerome pursued his questioning at great length he endeavored to bring out the fact from the witness that upon the second trip harry thaw and evelyn made to europe evelyns IF elens mother did not accompany them mr delmas objected to this line of cross examination but justice fitzgerald upheld the district attorney who declared he was not indirectly ly attacking attacking the credibility of mrs thaw mr delmas dolmas noted many exceptions Ue declaring claring the movements of young mrs thaws mother could not constitute evidence against the defendant did mrs lis evelyn thaw tell you that her mother was not upon the second see trip to europe nally asked mr jerome no did yon see mrs thaws mother in this country while her daughter was in europe in 1904 yes once here in new york did you you dincus miss nesbith Nesbit Nes bits 3 whereabouts we did not when did you next see bee miss nesbit or mr thaw after they returned from europe where did mrs nesbit then live on street most of the time part of the time at the gregorian Greg Gre onlan gonian in I 1 ath fc treet I 1 the house in slat street t was the witness wi said a private bouse house bo sides the NeFi bits and mr nir thaw she the apartments mv own name what name did misa nesbit give she did not give any it was not ne necessary ces sary at this point a recess until 2 1 was ordered mrs caines cross examination was wag resumed when court resumed how long did you and mrs thaw occupy the street apartment asked mr jerome three weeks who paid the rent 1 I did out of your own money yes mrs caines crines voice was low but she answered quickly and arid briefly on several occasions when mr delmas delman thought mr geromes Je romes questions were being pressed too har bardhe hard dhe he interposed and when the district attorney attempted to draw from froni the witness the tile details of the conversations with thaw hamade he made objections where did miss nesbit go after you and she broke up house keeping to mrs jewette Je V and then where to dr bulls sanitarium for the second operation all tho the time you were with miss nesbit in street treet si did you and your husband maintain your own apartments at west street yes did you and miss nesbit continue contini ie to go out with thaw yes you said this morning you wanted to protect misa miss nesbit what did you want to protect her from prom froin newspaper notoriety 1 I object most seriously said mr delmas what the newspapers news payers said zaid was not material what the newspapers said iq i very material commented mr jerome you heard did you vou not said mr jerome addressing the bitnes bitne wit nes that were the acts of the defendant rational except when he lie saw mr white 1 1 I 1 suppose he lie paid all the bills at the dinners and theaters yes he ile evinced no undue excitement except when he saw white no 11 he showed a full appreciation 0 ot the value ot of money in making change etc ote 1 I edid not notice As to the use of intoxicants did you at any time see him drink to excess no when you were in the bathroom did lid the defendants conversation conver sECtion disclose anything erratic to your mind no mr jerome reverted to the daly theater incident you knew there was a feeling of enmity between thaw and white yes tyes did mrs thaw tell yo you u the therea rea r son no i 4 how did you know it 1 from thaws appearance when ho he saw haw mr white his appearance appearance wag wa that of a man aroused at 1 t the presence of an enemy enem y was the operation for appendicitis performed on miss nesbit nesb lit in 1903 yes 1 mr delmas objected to this f he said the only evidence that the operation was for appendicitis was the statement by the learned earned district attorney y to which he lie took exception I 1 did evelyn tell you the op operation was for appen ditis yes the matter was allowed to stand the witness said thaw always act ed rational except in the present press nW of stanford white thaws attentions lows to miss were always respectable when you were in boulogne a and nd atter after you had bad heard you had been named as a sl respondent co did lid you writ write to an any one in america americ a yes nes r I 1 think I 1 wrote to stanford white mrs thaw replied replie ti readily and this was atter after thaw had proposed J yes did you cable to stanford white from fr orn boulogne 1 I dont remember 1 I understand your honor wishes to adjourn at this hour said mr jerome looking at the clock which pointed to 4 23 justice fitzgerald F ordered ori ered an adjournment jo journ urn ment merit I 1 yesterday afternoons proceedings on cross ci off mr jerome asked mrs calne several questions re 4 garding the visit to the theater with mr thaw and asked did lid thaw A abc when you see in mra Nes nesbitt bits apartments apartment were you vou in the room no I 1 I 1 was in the bathroom adjoining in 9 but the door was ajar and I 1 could see ec and hear plainly how dd you happen to be in the bathroom when mr thaw telephoned up to the room 1 mrs nesbit asked me to go into the bath room so I 1 could hear bear what was paid said did she tell you anything about thaw not then did mrs nesbit give any reason for asking you to go into the bathroom she said she wanted me to hear what mr thaw said what I 1 am trying to get at is any she made this request that you act as aa an eavesdropper 11 mr delmas wat wag on his feet exclaiming 1 I object and desire to note an exception on the ground of misconduct of the district distri bt attorney att ornic well paid mr jerome it is unusual 1 I protest and note another exception on the name rame ground broke in mr delmas well all right ill go at it another way mrs calne caine did you not consider it an unusual performance 1 I did lid not lot consider it at all all that happened some time before mrs nesbit told you that thaw was interested in florence and when he lie telephoned up tip all she paid said was to ask vou you to go into the bathroom and listen yes 4 what did thaw say first 1 I dont remember well what do you remember of the conversation he told irs nesbit about his doire desire s ire to send florence to europe and said if it she would marry him ho he would settle enouch enough nesbit and mr howard to keep them forever mrs nesbit said she would try and fix it so 80 florence would accept him how long were you in tho tile bathroom only a fow few moments mr thaw saw no one there but the maid did miss nesbit neg ft live for a time at the cumberland not thata that 1 I know of during the time did lid you ever have conversation with mr thaw 94 yes mr delmas objected to her telling of those conversations and was upheld during the two months yon voll and miss binl esbit were so much together do on know where mr thaw v cd asked mr jerome 1 1 no you had read in the papers about the hotel cumberland mr delmas delmag objected mr jerome explained to the court that he had bad a right to ask the ques eions in an attempt to show it if possible that the witness had not told all she knew or that she was mistaken after a wordy dispute between ohp lawyers mr delmas withdrew his ob I 1 ejection and mrs caine said she had bad read of the cumberland when this cumberland episode occurred r erred where were you 1 I went to if le e with florence in fo treet did she ask you yon to go no she came to the store where I 1 was working and I 1 told her lier I 1 was about to take tare an apartment and asked her to come and live with me wo looked up advertisements in the paper and fouer the street aparto e ent nt and stayed there that night it ivas basl a furnis furnished bed apartment did thaw go with you f 1 N no 0 11 whose name did you vou give in taking this defendant and miss nesbit wore were ejected from a hotel 1 I read it in the papers 4 the answer was given before maj f delmas could his objection action alyd anda he lie moved to have both answer stricken out 43 11 I 1 did you hoar anything exe cp avrit y you oil saw in the newspapers asked justice fitzgerald y no sir j 1 1 then your question an and d tho answer will bo be stricken out fl ruled the tho 7 judge you byoir want us to undersign under understand sian d said mr jerome that you too k the money you earned in the ithe deP department artmont store paid the rent of t this ails apartment for miss nesbit and were not reimbursed 1 I was not reimbursed in any way when you and 1 miss nesbit went to the dist street souse nithe first night did yon you have any bag baggage gage 1 no Why did you spend the night there if you had another apartment there was no room there for florence floronce ence did you plan to stay there when you went to find nn an apartment we ale had bad no plans had you a telephone at that apartment house 1 I dont remember dit during ring tho three weeks while vou were there did you never use that iha t ph phone one t never did miss Nes nesbet fill use it not to my my knowledge at all dinners and theater parties |