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 in a studio in East Twenty-second street. The door opened of itself, she said, and the house looked at first as if no one lived there. She said that she went upstairs and met Mr. White, a photographer, and another man.

The witness whispered the name of the man to Mr. Jerome, who wrote it down.

"What did you see there?"

"There was a lot of expensive gowns there."

"What happened?"

"I went into the dressing-room to put on the dress. Mr. White knocked at the door and asked if I needed any help. I said, 'No.'"

Mrs. Thaw related in detail her experience in the photographic studio and said she posed until she was very tired and that White, who had come in, ordered food and they had something to eat. The photographer left, she said, and after they had lunched she went into a dressing room to remove her kimona and put on her dress.

"I shut the door while I was inside," added the witness. "Mr. White came to the door, knocked and asked me if I wanted any help. I said: 'No.'"

The former artist's model testified that she drank but one glass of champagne and when she was dressed she got into a carriage and was taken back to the hotel.

"The next night," she continued, "I got a note from Mr. White asking me to come down to the studio