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OFFICE HOURS: For tenseness and for tragedy It was the biggest moment of this big, tense, tragic trial All the session he dug away with I prying, pitiless hands at the very foundation of the young wife's shane, {doing his lawyer-like best to rack 2 down the fabric of her tale whic h is | Harry Thaw's minark of | He didn’t sncceedd Nat for a minute {ata he come anvwhers near siicveea] fing. In the defense minor shadings ard turns Fleer EDNA GOODRICH {of the serpentine luquisition Evelyn [Thaw bLeld her own with him well, jparrylog bis questions with seeming: {ly candid answers, having about them every element of lunocence, yet such {answers were they that Jervme found | Dimseit pot balked, but actually check- mated, | His persistence brought tears from {her—that was all. It was a big day {tor the defense, for certainly the sight {of Evelyn Thaw crying didn’t hurt her [husband's cause In the eves of the jury, and certainly she suffered in no [other regard. | The pathetic story told by Evelyn [Nesbit Thaw on the witness stand has won over her hrother Hownanl. In a statement made In court to {press representatives Howard Nesbit i — Tres { { "Much has beeu sald and much has {Leen written about what I am gulag to ido If I am called to the witness stand {In the trial of Harry Thaw, but you fcun say for me through your papers {that If | take the stand [ will not say {anything to hurt or lwjure wy sister {or against her.” | Mrs, Thaw wit ness chair seemed even wore confident [than when she faced the first real {stress of the ordeal | She bad wrestled with Jerome, her as she came to the {ngainst his frout of Intimidation, her |fauity memory agalust bis unappeass {ble curlosity—and she had uot suf (fered. Thaw looked as If he might have been combing his hair with a knife {and fork as he came Into the rear cor ridor. The stiff scalp lock at the top of bis skull stood out =tiff and straight {dently nervousness had not leen re- {sponsible for his tollet, since he seem- {customary place ol Mrs, Thaw was still costumed In the igirlish blue frock sald to have been patterned and conceived by the In genjous Miss McKenzie. When {turned to the witness stand at the Both Phonea. THE BREWING OF OUR P IANS THAT THE CONTENTS y¢ hd OR YOUR PROTECTION, RODUCT. ARE YURE. inounceinent of the court's convention {her eyes looked tired. It develop [that she had been sick throogh the night and that she still felt very badly {when she came to the criminal courts |bullding. Mr. Jerome asked ber If it was ne ithe realization of a wrong that was th {reason for the renunciation of Thaw’ [love Mm, Thaw created some su [prise by saying: “Not exnctly. It wa [because 1 had been found ont.” The {she told of how one man, a friend « { White's, had known of her relation with Stanford White aud had told o fit There was a sharp conflict © [tween counsel as to whether or no fn open court, but the name was with held It was at this polot that Mr. Jerom came down to the mevtings of Evels Nesbit amd White after his atta upon her. Mrs Thaw apparently kne what was coming aml answered tl first guestion unfinehingly. She ad mitted that she called at the Tyventy Tsecond streef honse, the Twenty fonrt street house and the rooms In Madison Square tower th see White on many occasions between the latier pari “lof 10L when the attack was made [and January, 102 She could not re w LAN ould be termed ferocity, Mr. Jeroms put question after quesiion to the wit bess, and ber agitation began. She told of meeting White after the theater, of how on golug to his moms she was again plied with wine On these visits she declared she was always placed un der the Influence of wine. although never again drugged. During this pe riod ber mother was at home, and sha had oot told her of what was going on “I would rather have dled than told her,” sald the witness as her tears be At first she seemed as if she was making every effort to keep from ory- ing, then sobs shook her frame and she held her handkerchief to her face She went on to tell brokenly that when ever White asked her to weet him it seemtied as If she bad to go. Through her sobs she told the details of her meeting. Then came the break In her . Mrs. Thaw held her handkerchief to her eves and wept There was a strained feeling In the cotirtroom, and no one stirred Back in his chair Thaw, whose face had become ushen, was sitting, anid soon his face was buried in the hand kerchief ®bhich he held “in his hands An alieaist to the right of him put his arm around the prisoner's shoulder in a comforting fashion and tapped him gently once or twice : ‘When did yoo first meet Stanford White? interrogated the district at torney, turning to the witness after his fruitless passage with the lawyer “In 1001, when 1 was playing in the Florodora' company” ‘Who introduced yon ¥* Edna Goodrich.” Where did you meet him" In the tower of Madison Garden.” “How did you happen to go there “At Miss Géodrich’s invitation” “Did your mother know you were zolng¥ “Yes Evelyn sald Edoa Goodrich told her White was na very nice wan, interest ing and a Bone entertainer. She (Miss Goodrich) sdld he was a great society man “He seemed very fond of Miss Good- cich,” sald Mrs. Thaw, “and 1 asked her If she and Mr. White were en aged” . You did't kuow he was a married man then?’ “No. “Did you know that he was a mar ried man at the tie of the drugging¥* “Yes “Did anything wrong ever happen when White took you te the photogra- pher's in Twenty-fourth street to be posed 7 “No. The photographer's was a very proper and nice place.” After meeting White in the tower Evelyn sald she and Edina Goodrich went for a ride In the park In a cab ind discussed the architect at length 12 they drove along “Were there any Improprieties at this irst meeting In the Jawer?’ queried lerome, “Mr. White kissed us. At the theater he used to go up to the girls and rub thelr arms and shoulders” (describing the White with a gesture), ‘and that time we went to see him he 1lso hugged us’ This didn’t offend your wmaldenly podesty at that time’ “I don't reenter t was not right. He seemed very kind ind fatherly. He always treated me just like a father except (u the Way hie took advantage of we Outside of his vue awful part of his life he was very nice, very kind, and except lu one way he was always very good to we In reply to another of Jerome's Inter rogations the witness sald, leaning for vard in her chair, marking time with her forefinger and talking with almost thrill emphasis: “Outside of that one errible thing Stanford White was & grand man, He was kind and ousiderate, He acted toward me lke He wus much more thought others. [| told this to Mr White's kind and fa therly manver—and be sald that it only made him all the dangemus Harry sald that his being so kind and considerate only him the dangerous to the community.” “Can you tell we the names of any toward whom White be this fatherly, affectionate Square CATesse's I know pow that very ore unaved in manner?” She whispered to the district attor- “Now, then, how did he treat those Aris?” asked Jerome One of thenl he treated Just as he il me. He was fatherly to her and allel her ‘little girl Just nx he did I know, too, that he would never 't her drink more than one glass of hampagne, He put up the same bla ith her that he did with me” “Did you, after being wronged, con ‘inue to go out to dinner and to din wer parties with Stanford White?” ‘Often Hines two or three times a week “So he calle] on you at your home nd at the theater often?’ ‘Yes. He came nearly every day.” “How Jong did that continue?’ “Well, for nearly a year. 1 guess “rom the winter of 191 until | went » Pompton to school, in the fall of wl Sometimes every day; some ‘How did he treat you when in com any kindly ¥’ No, I eaunot say that it was kind le was constantly coaxing me to go ith him to his That vasn't right™ “When was It that you refused posi vely to continue the practice of going uo his room or of seeing him alone? ‘It was In January, 1004, 1 think." “Did he conx you often ¥ “Yes, very often. He would scold rie and grow very unpleasant If [ tried 149 refuse.” . “Did he continue to give yon money the period. that these jmp yf rooms alone relations between you were maintain pe “Yes, he gave me money a sumber of times during 1901 dung 102 and; ahce or twice | thiok early In 19m) IYEr & year iu all I think Mrs. Thaw said that at many of the parties she attended in the tower In 1901 and 12 there were lots of wom #n present “At any of these parties,” ask] the prosecutor, “did you ever see any acts of impropriety ¥ “Yes. There was a lot of drinking” “Is that all?’ “No. There were bad stories told fine woman io particular used to tell bad stories” “One of the guests told particularly rauk stories?’ “Yeu, but [ didn't against her character told stories” “Did White tell obscene stories?" "Yes “Did any of the others?” “No, | think net.’ ; “Why do vou remember White's particularly 7° ! “Because Mr. White told me he heard] all of them at a certain club,” she an-| swered lnnocently Mrs. Thaw in answer to Jerome's question sald that en Christmas IE, she the night in. Thaw's! apartments in New York | Mr, Delmas of the defense. wha had! beegy sitting close to the wiiness chair, know anything I only know she about ove, spent sand the district the questions as aud about gol up in protest ih a husky ary cruelty The aad been asking driven to it by a stern necessity sotncthing voice Hieces attorues ii iis} tone had been as moderate as prerssible | auder the clrvuinstan: A few more questions of Mr Jerome and the story was over. Then the dis trict attorney took Mrs. Thaw back | again to her Paris trip and read to the jury a letter which she had written! there to a girl friend then playing in} London. It was not long before Mrs | Thaw regained her eomposiire to a de | Zree= bit tears remained in het for quite awhile she bwonine | easy again utider the iuestiions § ~ eyes iw fore Before the recess hour came Mr, Je! mate asked her alsut one of the letters sheMiad recelved from Stanforn White She =ald that she had given it to Mr Hartridge, and Mr. Jerome eallesd onl Fhaw's lawyer for the Mr. | Hartridge refused to give Mr un epistie it Jerome candles him as a the LT id be give up the letter. basing amd wilness LU stand =i would net his grounds on the relationship between counsel and client, Mr. Jerome seems to have been able to trace Mrs. Thaw's every step, and this seems to have heen largely due ta the typewritten statement of the moth er which be nearly always holds tu his hand while hurling telling questions at the daughter. In single writing the statement fully seventy-five pipes At the close of the most eventful d 13 of the trial Mr. Jervne announced that be prolably would keep Mr« Thaw under fire two days more Adjourn ment was taken until Monday morn ing. spaced pe secins to cover ——————— Saw Negro Soldiers Shooting, BAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb Her bert Elkins. clerk In the Leahy hotel at Brownsville, testifies] in the Penrose court martial that he beard a negro ay that night, “I'll back and finish the whites” He told how. from bis room In the rear of the Leahy botel on the second floor, he saw pe EToes «oie up the alley and fice into He positively den titted thew a= negro soldiers He saw froin the ta hig negroes firiug from the barrack's galleries and beard the moll cull of Company B. Under cross examination be repeated his direct textimony > Colle the Cowen house window of the roow next New Ydrk Actor Found Dead NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -Frauk Mac Vicars, a well known who for some thine had been plaving the lead ing part in “The Man of the Hour” at the Savoy theater lu this city, wax found dead In the nreaway leading to the basement of the Hotel Rivoli, His skull bad been fractured, presumably by a fall from the stone steps leadi up to the first flour on the outside the building. It is supposed that Mae Vicars, who was a very large slipped and fell into the areawnay police are Investigating Ha # of nan The Prealdent Gets Dig Sliver Cap WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. President Roosevelt was presented with a splen did cup of honor two feet high a san ple of Slavonic art en by General Count Arthar de Tole rep-Spicldovitel, the president of thw Slavie society of Moscow, The cup is of gold and sliver, with an Incrusta tion of enamel handwork. It Is of oll Slavic style on three How legs and is capped with a helmet In side 1s a cylinder, designed for holding parchments and other papers The cup was giv stunding Roosevelta Leave For Hoston. WASHINGTON. Feb Bocas George Wash ing of the cabinet. The president, how ever, wus in his office the greater part of the morning attending to public business, Later, with Mrs. Roosevelt Mrs. Longworth and Miss Ethel Roos velt, he left for a two dave’ visit to Boston and vicinity, Styner Tried ta Kil Himeselt CITY OF MEXICO. Feh 22 The story In clremlation in the United States that the recent general manager of the Mexican Central milroad, BE. BE Styuer, has been murdered by a mew her of the anti-American society without foundation. No such soclety Oxists here. Styner Is Iving at the polnt of death in his home here as the result of self inflicted wounds. id is Wenther Prob ibilitieoa, Tair aod cold; west winds, HITHOOK OF HOLLAND Liner Berlin Wrecked While Entering Port. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO LOST 3 Captnin Farkeston, a Passenger, the Only Sarviver, Tells of Rescue In Howling Gale While ¢ lunging to Wreck Timbers. LONDON, Feb 22 -The worst dis aster for many years in the history of the busy cross channel traffic between England “aud the continent during a violent gale shortly before § o'clock In the morning, when the Hot terdam mall steawer Beglin, from Har ered weathered the wrecked hurricane she was sud entering ly as Was passengers and crew, numbering alto gether 143 persons, lost thelr ives The territhe seas broke up the steam er with such awful suddenness that all efforts to save life appear to have wen utterly hopeless. At a late hour it was reported that some few survivors the herole efforts all day long of the ifeboat crews had failed reach them little hope ‘that they will saved remains The story of the disaster is told with dramatic Intensity by the following brief but pregnant messages reaching Harwich from the agent of the fireat Eastern Railway company at Hook of The first message handed In the Hook rman follows The Berlin is stranded the north pler, and there Is a heavy gale blowing She has broken In two “It was Impossible to reach the Ber Hin to save the passengers “The Berlin i= a total loss her crew and passengers.” A terrific southerly gale was blowing right inshore and drove the steamer oli a sand bank close to the porthern to enter the new waterway. Heavy seas quickly pounded the to She broke in two, her forepart sinking im mediately, gers and to be ix nt with all vessel pleces while the doomed crew could passen be seen for a Then the latter slipped off the ledge and disappeared in the mountainous waves. Tugs and lifeboats when the alarm was first sounded promptly put out to the assistance of the Berlin but the violence of the gale and the heavy seas made it Impossible to approach the wreck, and the helpless would be iife savers saw the steamer break wp and the crew and passengers washed away without being able to render the slightest assistance The only person to reach land alive was Captain Parkeston of Belfast, Ire land, who was thrown upon the shore by a glant wave. He was unconscious when taken to a hotel and is now inn high fever as a result of his cxperience I'wenty five bodies have been washed ashore, Among the steamer's Passengers were nineteen wembers of the German opera company who had Just completed thele season at Covent Garden and burrying home to Germany With the exception of the members of the German opera company, there were only four and two chil dren among the passengers, the other travelers being chiefly ) Were Waoinen business geen, many of them uatives of Holland re turning home after visiting England Awmoug the Iatter were dia wond werchauts, who car ried valuable parcels of dinwonds, and besides, the packuges of valued eral thousand potitnds sterling Arthur Herbert, the service messenger, who by the wreck of the Berlin a grandson the thinl Earl of Powis ad was on a mission to the rourts of Copenhagen, St Petersburg Berlin and Teheran, bearing lwportant dis patches to the heads of the foreign of- fices at those capitals No cause yet has been assigned for the terrible accldeut, and it protably never will be Known bow the steainer came to miss the channel, which, ak though 3% yards wide and well buoy ed and Hghted, is always difficult of 1woeess in rough weather, It is COT Je tured that of the engines or steering geat may have ren dered the uncontrollable tain Precious of the Berlin had a good record of fourteen years’ service. The Hst of passengers on the fated steamer was lost, and nll the those who were on board have not yet been learned talued there were no Americans among the passengers Captain Parkeston when struck and broke in twain hurried to the bridge to offer Captain Precious his help, but faust as he put his fool on the ladder he =aw the captain and the pilot swept away by the Of what followed Captain Parkeston When he recovered himself he was ln the water surrounded by floating timbers One of these he seized, and he succeeded in Keeping himself afloat until he saw the lifeboat. His ery for help was heard amd be was picked ap and brought ashore several doubtless had hi= =afe at purser hn dinmowls wey king's forvign wis drowned Wiis ol some dermngement vessel Cap uaines of but as far as has been ascer the ship Sens cannot give a clear account Pastor's Sudden Death, ROCKAWAY, N. 1. Feb 22 — Rev Thomas A. Reeves, pastor of the Rock iwWiy Presbyterian church, died snd denly of neuralgia of the heart. 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