She went on to say that she had told Thaw this story before their marriage, and that he had been deeply upset by it. Was Thaw, then, simply a wronged husband, was Evelyn as innocent as she was enchantingly pretty? Alas, under severe cross-examination by the District Attorney, William Travers Jerome, it was made clear that neither of these people were quite as the represented themselves. Evelyn had been one of White's mistresses for a considerable time, and had received a regular weekly sum of money from him, she had been cited as co-respondent in a divorce case, she had traveled to Europe with Thaw as his wife before she married him. And Thaw himself? This 34-year old son if a Pittsburgh millionaire was revealed as a sadist who on his trip to Europe with Evelyn had rented an isolated castle in the Austrian Tyrol (some of the details in the case are like bits of a Gothic romance) and there beat her with a cowhide whip so savagely that she had to stay in bed for three weeks. Other beatings had followed. Nevertheless, Thaw had been passionately indignant about her seduction and always referred to White as 'the Beast' or 'the Bastard'.