TRIAL OF THAW.
THE WIFE'S EVIDENCE. Received February 21, 8.31 a.m. NEW YORK, February 20. When the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White was resumed, Mr Jerome, for the prosecution, cross-examined Mrs Thaw with a view to assailing her credi bility. Mrs Thaw deposed that White told her he had put a beautiful girl, aged fifteen years, covered with gauze, with a lot of birds in a pie. When the girl jumped out the birds flew round. This happened, he said, at a bachelor dinner, and. created the best fun he had ever seen. The girl subsequently married, and when her husband heard the story, he cast her off. She was dying of poverty. Witness stated that White's practices with girls were unspeakable.
Witness admitted that when she was in Paris, after Thaw had proposed to her, she cabled White for advice, when she discovered that she had been made a co-respondent in the Lederer divorce suit. Received Last Night, 10.7 p.m. NEW YORK, February 21. Mrs Thaw.. acknowledged that White in 1902 allowed her to draw £5 weekly from the bank when she was not acting.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8365, 22 February 1907, Page 5
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191TRIAL OF THAW. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8365, 22 February 1907, Page 5
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