Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22
Important Letters
Are Found by
Lawyers
Now Declared Thaw Was
Not Married in
Europe
Epistles Which Passed Between STAN
ford White and Evelyn Nesblt's
Mother Are Given to
the Public

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O Special to The Herald e
O NEW YORK, July 2t.-The G
@ breach between Mrs. William G
@ Thaw and her son Harry appar-
q emily grows wider daily and G
@ whether the slayer of stanford G
@ White will go to the electric chair, G
@ Denitentiary or criminal insane G
@ asylum is still pr0bleInetic. 6
@ There seems little doubt of the g
@ mothers intentions to spare her G
@ self and the public generally un- 6
y pleasant revelations resulting 9
@ from trial in open court. g
@ She called mt the tombs today to G
g tell her son unless he acquiesced g
@ In insanity proceedings she would
@ go before the court and seek nm G
@ appointment as his guardian on ..
@ the grounds that he was mentally 6
@ incompetent and without funds. I.
@ She would then have the right to 8
@ take any steps she might deem g
@ best. Naturally her first move G
g would be to secure the appoint- 6
@ ment of a commission to pass on {.
o her sons insanity. g
@ But Thaw insisted on n trial 6
@ with unNvritten law defense. His (.
@ new attorneys are industriousIy (.
@ working up the case and are being @
@ guided largely by the advice of (.
g Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. @
@ Mrs. Stanford White will leave (.
y for Paris early i'm August to re- o
@ main abroad mt Ienst until Thaw's @
@ fate is decided. o
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By Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 21.-The World
tomorrow will say:
The motive for the murder of Stan
ford White is indicated in u series OF
letters written by Mrs. c. j. Holman
mother of Mrs. Evelyn Nesb Thaw,
to Mr. White, and after the latters
death found among his effects.
Abraham H. Hummel of Howe &
Hummel, who were counsel for Mr..
Thaw and also for Stanford White,
was consulted by the architect regard
ing the letters. In them Mrs. Nesbit-
Holman complains bitterly of the
conduct of Harry K. Thaw toward her
daughter, now his wife, and imploring
Mr.. White to do all in his power to
bring her back to her mothers con-
troll.
In the letters Mr.. Holman referred
to Thaw as scoundrel, a villain and a
man with dangerous intent in his heart
She tells of an interview she had with
Thaw when they were in Paris and
declares that Thaw wanted her, Mrs.
Holman, to sign an affidavit to the
effect that lie. Thaw, had never in
tended to make her his wife.
Declare ThaWs QuarreIed
ut appears that Thaw became aware
of the fact that White had been ap-
pealed TO by Mrs. Nesbit. now Mrs.
Holman. and that the architect knew
of the quarrels between Thaw and his
present wife, also that Evelyn had told
her stepfather that she was not married
to Harry Thaw at the time they ar
rived from Europe and We're driven
out of the Hotel Cumberland.
"Thaw at that time had given a
statement which was afterward cor
roborated from l'ittsburG that he and
Evelyn had been married while in
Europe. They new that White was
the only person out Of his family who
knew that this statement was false,
and that Thaw did not marry his pres
ent wife until monthc later in Pitts
burg.
Just what disposition is to pe made
of these letters is not known at pres
ent. The letters are kept in a safe
and it may be they will be produced if
Thaw shoul dever be placed on trial
for murder and Mrs. Nesbit- Holman
should become a witness.
District Attorney Jerome is anxious
that Mrs. Holman should come to New
York so that she may be served with a
subpoena to appear at the trial If
she does she will be cross-examined
most severely and questioned as to
how, among other things, she came to
apply to White for financial aid.
White Leaves Letters
Among the papers l. t by White
are also a number of letters written
to Holman, husband of Mrs. Harry X
Thaw's mother. 1t would appear that
he too knew all about the relations
between Harry Thaw and Evelyn Mes
bit. In all these letters Mrs. Thaw is
referred to as Florence She was called
thus before she went on the stage and
later her friends came to call her Eve
lyn, but to Stanford White she was
Florence.
Among the first letters was one
written by Mrs. Nesbit to Mr. White.
1t was undated but was penned by Mrs.
Nesbit after she had returned from
abroad. where she had been abandoned
by Harry Thaw and Evelyn, who at
that time was not his wife The .etter
was headed Friday, but evidently was
written in 1908. 1t is as follows:
Dear Mr.. White. You. letter re-
ceived. VIII send Tlorences letter as
you desire When we first went to
Paris and met Thaw he and Florence
quarreled continually. We were-at least