THE THAW CASE.
♦ WDJE'S EVIDENCE. A GIRL IN A PIE. CO-RESPONDENT IN A DIVORCE CASE. [filbss association. 1 ! (Received February 21, 8.31 a.m.) NEW YORK, 20th February. When the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White was resumed, Mr. Jerome, for the prosecution, crossexamined Mrs. Thaw with a view to assailing her credibility. 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 around. ■mis hatvoened, 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 v- -'re unspeakable. Witness admitted that when she was J in Paris, after Thaw had proposed to her, she cabled White for advice, when she discovered that she had been made co-re-spondent in the Lederer divorce suit.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1907, Page 5
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173THE THAW CASE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1907, Page 5
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