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 CHAPTER XV.

Scathing Denunciation By Jerome.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAKES ATTACK ON LIFE OF HARRY THAW—ATTRIBUTES WILD ORGIES TO THE DEFENDENT—THE ETHEL THOMAS TRAGEDY—ATTEMPT MADE TO PROVE EVELYN THAW A PERJURER—NEW LIGHT ON THE CASE—ABE HUMMEL ON THE STAND—JEROME TRIES TO PROVE EVELYN HAD SWORN THAT WHITE NEVER WRONGED HER—CHARGES PLOT BY THAW TO PUT ARCHITECT IN PENITENTIARY—FAMOUS ALIENISTS SWEAR THAW WAS SANE AT THE TIME OF THE TRAGEDY—EVELYN ON THE STAND AGAIN.

With the testimony of Thaw's aged mother fresh in their minds the jurors heard District Attorney Jerome make a sensational attack on the past life of Harry Thaw. Jerome insinuated that Thaw had in his wild youthful days, indulged in wild orgies no less iniquitous than those of which Stanford White had been accused, although differing in character.

Attorney Frederick Longfellow, Thaw's personal counsel, was a witness from whom Jerome fought to draw this information.

Longfellow was an unwilling witness and every answer had to be dragged from him, Delmas interposing objections to the procedure throughout the examination.