The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-31
A NURSES STORY.
She says White Paid Evelyn Nesbit's
Bills at Sanitariunl-

New York, July Sit has deVeloPeo
that the district attorneys once nas
obtained from a trained nurse loiiil9l
~ EMPLOYED in DR.. Walkers saultafluiH
at No. 81 East Thirty-third street whal
Is believed to be most important con-
tribufion of evidence to the prosecutor
which the state is building up agalhs'
Harry Thaw for the murder OF star
ford White. This woman's story places
Evelyn Nesbit as patient IN the
Walker establishment Immediately ar
ter her return from Europe in the ran
of 1904, when the girl fed from LhaW
in Paris and appealed to White for as
ststauce- Miss Crane, an aged mas
seuse, a week go said that IhaW nae
abused the artists model in Paris, ana
in view Of what is told by the nurse
perhaps more reliance may be placed
in her statements.
What the nurse told the Jerome as
sistant who examined her, as to the
nature Of Mrs. Thaw's illness was
cloaked yesterday in indefniteness. The
most that could be learned was that
the girl had suffered from a general
nervous collapse"
Mrs Thaw was in the sanitorium
many weeks-a sufficient length of time
TO permit Harry Thaw to follow her
across the ocean and become daily
visitor to her bedside Thaw is said
TO have left Paris two weeks after she
parted from him
White and Thaw Visit Her.
At the sanitorium it was understood
that Stanford White was the young
woman's patron. and hardly a day
passed but what he went to see her,
taking flowers and delicacies. Accord
ing to the nurse Th6W and White met
each other face to face at the hospital,
but were never together in the sick
room.
Mrs. Holman, Evelyn Nesbits mother
was also a daily visitor, but the meet
not pleasant. Invariably there was
quarrel. Stanford White had sent Mrs.
Holman and her daughter to Europe
and tn girl had deserted the elder Wo-
man to run OF with Thaw. As Mrs. Hol-
mans letters to White have shown, she
was deeply hurt, and It is not unreason-
able that, despite her love for her child,
she did not fail to remind Evelyn Of
the way she had acted abroad.
There is yet another view, and it IS
believed to be considered the most
important by the district attorneys
Office Ever since the lives of all
those involved in the tragedy have
been put under investigation it has
been understood that the girl upon her
return from Europe had formed such
a hatred for Thaw that it took him
months to break it down and regain
her. confidence It was while she
bore this attitude toward him and
when it was supposed by White and
her mother that nothing could ever
bridge the breach, that she made the
affidavit in Abe HummePs law office
against. the Pittsburger. The nurses
testimony upsets all this 1t estab-
Ished. II it Is true. that the girl was
not only in communication with
Thaws but received his visits in the
Walker sanitorium and that Stanford
White knew this.
Why the Mother Hated Thaw.
What White knew Mrs. Holman
must also have known and there is
another and plausible reason why
she should have quarreled with her
daughter 1t is known beyond a doubt
that she wanted none Of Thaw +ban
before or afterwards. although her
bitterness toward him was keener
perhaps, a that time than it has heen
at any other. He was the one resnon-
sible for the humiliation she suffered
by being abandoned i'm London with
out cent and compelled to appeal to
strangers for money to paw her nass-
age to America. And on ton of mis-
humiliation he had heaped the dis
grace Of trotting her daughter tbronsrT
Europe and making her name a Nv
word
The nurse also lets in sidelight on
what may nave been back Of Thaw's
rage when DR.. Walker sent him a bii1
Tor the illness of a maid whom his
wife had sent to the santa riI1r7
why don't YOU send this to Whit,
and let him settle IT as he did tbe
other bilIs2" demanded Tbaw -'u me
Had Thaw in mind the settlement
by White of the cost of EVELYN Nyes-
bits illness in the fall of 1s047