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 had told her he was going to take up White's affairs with Anthony Comstock.

"I told him it would do no good," she added: "that White had many influential friends and that he could stop it. I told him that lots of people would not believe the things about White on account of his personality."

Harry had begun to weep when his wife told of the operations, and continued to sob bitterly.

"Did you and Mr. Thaw discuss the fate of other young women at the hands of Stanford White and did you tell him certain names?"

Mr. Jerome objected.

Mr. Delmas put another question:

"Did you and Mr. Thaw discuss the fate of the 'pie girl?'"

"Yes, sir. It was in Paris in 1903. He asked me what other girls I knew of who had suffered at the hands of White. I told him I had heard of the 'pie girl,' whose name was known to both of us. A girl at the theater had told me about it and that night when White came to my dressing-room I asked him about it. He asked me where I had heard the story. I told him a girl had told me. Then he told me all about it.

"There was a stag dinner, he said, and the girl was put in a big pie with a lot of birds. She was very young—about 15 years, I think he said. He also told me that the girl had a beautiful figure and wore only