Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-22
Series Of Letters Throw
Light on Tragedy
MRS, THAWS MOTHER
APPEALED TO WHITE FOR AID
Declared Young Millionaire Scouu-
dreI and Asked Architect to Help
Rescue Her Daughter From Him.

New York, July 21.--The World a.
morrow will say;
The motive for the murder of STAN
ford White is indicated in series of
letters written by Mrs. c. ]. Holman,
mother of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
to Mr.. White and after the latters
death found among his effects
Abraham II. Hummell, of Howe s.
Hummell, who was counsel for Mrs.
Thaw, and also for Stanford White,
was consulted by the architect regard
ing the letters. In them Mrs. Nes-
bit-Holman complains bitterly of the
conduct of Harry Thaw toward her
daughter, now his wife, and implores
Mr.. White TO do all in his power %
bring her back to her mothers con-
troll
I'm the letters Mrs Holman refersto
Thaw as a scoundrel. a villain and 4
man with murderous intent in his
heart. She tells of an Interview she
had with Thaw while they were in
Paris, and declares that Thaw wanted
her, Mrs. Holman, to sign an affidavit
to the effect that he Thaw, had never
intended to make Evelyn his wife.
1T appears that Thaw becamf
aware of the fact that White had bee
appealed to by Mrs. Nesbit, now Ny
Holman, and that the architect kn(
of the quarrels between Thaw and
present wife, also that Evelyn Y
told her stepfather that she was
married to Harry Thaw at the
they arrived from Europe and
driven out of the Hotel Cumbef
"Thaw at that time had gJ
OF iAr Mt un inh ,afnu
ed from Pittsburg, that he and
had been married while in
rhaw knew that White was the
person not of his family who kn6N
| that his statement was false. and that
| Thaw did not marry his present Wife
uptil months later in Pittsburg,
Just what disposition Is to be made
of these letters is not known at pres
ent. The letters are kept in safe and
| ii may be that they will be produced
if Thaw should ever be placed on trirl
for murder and Mrs, Nesbit- Holman
should become witness,
District Attorney Jerome Is anxious
that Mrs. Holman come to New York
SO that she may be served with a sub
poena to appear at the trial. Ii she
| does she will be ross-examlned most
severely and questioned as to how,
among other things, she came to apply
to White for financial aid,
Among the papers left by White.
are also a number of letters written
to Mr., Holman, husband of Mrs. Har-
ry Thaw's mother II would appear
that he knew all about the relations
between Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nes-
bit, In all these letters Mrs, Thaw -
referred to as Florence. She was
called thus before she went on the
stage, and later on her friends came
to call her Evelyn But to Stanford
White she was Florence.
In concluding its story, which IN
cludes many letters. the World says.
Much has been said since the night
Harry Thaw killed White about an af-
fldavit which Evelyn Nesblt Is said to
have made i'm the office of Mr. Hum.
nell. and in which she Is reported 10
have said things concerning the man
now her husband. II Is known pos
itlvely that the original affidavit is N
existence and that 1t was drawn IN
Mr.. Hummel's office at the lnstigation
of Mr. white. who had taken the girl
to the lawyer. II is believed that this
affidavit, the contents of which are
known to Thaw, had much to do with
the murder Mr., Jerome may be able
to get possession OF the affidavit"