The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-27
Mother of Young Mrs. Thaw
Is OH Warpath.
HAS NO LOVE FOR HARRY.
Referred to Young Woman as "Taint-
ed Goods" and Other Names
Equally as Insulting.
Pittsburg, July 23.-Seated on the


porch of their suburban home in Brook
line, Mrs. Charles J. Holman, mother
of Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw, read in
newspapers her letters written while
she was yet Mrs. Nesbit, to the late
Stanford White. Her husband, Charles
j. Holman, the well-known Pittsburg
broker, sat with her and joined in COM
ment on the letters as did Master How
ard Nesbit, brother of Mrs. Thaw, who
is now home lfrom the Chester Military
academy on his vacation.
A newspaper representative joined the
party and was accorded an interview by
the beautiful mother of young Mrs.
Thaw.
Mrs. Holman is now under counsel as
she expects to be drawn further into
the great New York tragedy and her
statements were of course rather guard
ed.
''Yes, | see the newspapers have print
ed some letters of mine Well, | cannot
help that, can L? 1 surely had no hand
in making those letters public"
"The letters are bona fide, them" was
suggested.
''Oh, yes. But those letters were not
i'll my possession since they were writ
ten and if the people in New York
wanted to make them public I cannot
see how could have prevented it,
One of Mrs. Holman's close neighbors
and confdants' gave the information
that Mrs Holman was working practi-
cally night and day to round up her
end of the case and that at the right
time she will pour confusion into the
camp of the Thaws by an array of
damning facts tending to prove that
Harry X. Thaw ever had murder in his
heart against Stanford White.
'Mrs. Holman will be on the stand at
New York and Harry Thaw will rue the
day that he began insulting and malign-
ing her." said the friend of the mother
of Mrs. Harry X. Thaw
The letters of the woman who is now
Mrs. Holman to the man whom Harry
Thaw murdered, as published today,
created profound sensation in Pitts
burg.
And there was found here today some
detail regarding why the mother of Mrs.
Harry X. Thaw appealed to White to
rescue her daughter from the clutches OF
Harry Thaw.
1t appears that young Thaw was in
the habit of beating the young girl. On
one occasion the girl went to her moth
er and showed bruises and told her a
tale of mistreatment, which forced
form the mother a protest to young
Thaw and brought from him retort
which has ranked all the time since
Thaw is alleged to have referred to
Evelyn as tainted goods" and uDbraid-
ed the mother for the alleged Selling"
of her daughter to Stanford White, on
previous occasion. This is where Mrs.
Holman and Harry Thaw parted in bit
ter anger and it is said here that they
have never spoken since This informa-
ton comes from one very close to Mrs.
Holman here and it is said to be the
matter referred to by her in one of her
letters to White, where she says Harry
Thaw had threatened to publish story
in effect that she had sold her daugh-
ter.
1T is no longer secret that Mrs. c. j.
Holman is the woman who was driven
from the side of her daughter by the
elder Mrs. Thaw when Evelyn Nesbit
was married to Harry K Thaw in the
study of Rev. w. L. McEwan. If there
had been hope of any reconciliation be-
tween Harry Thaw and his mother in
law, Mrs. Holman, all hopes were dash.
ed by Mrs. William Thaw taking her
daughter law on her arm and stalk
ing past Mrs. Holman and her husband
to her carriage.
This snub has not been forgotten by
the woman on whose head Harry X.
Ihaw heaped insult after insult and
those close to Mrs. Holman now say
that the time is coming when she can
get even.
She has always figured that Thaw