Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-09
THE THAW SENSATION
Search for Motive for Whites
Murder Continues.
AFTER THEATRICAL FOLKS
Many Actresses Scampering to Avoid
Subpoenas.
AFTER THEATRICAL FOLKS
INTERESTING POINTS PICKED UP
Edna Mcclure, Show Girl, at Dis
trict Attorneys Office Added zest
to the Prosecutions Work.


of the district attorneys Office to discover
the motive for the killing of Stanford
White by Harry Thaw is bringing To the
office of the prosecutor many young women
of the stage. The Broadway theatrical dig
trfct has been flooded with suhpoenas
Many chorus girls have left the city and
others remain at their homes to avoid tine
subpoena servers. Two young women
whom the district attorneys Office has been
particularly eager to interview are Miss
is alleged that these young women were
followed and annoyed by detectives who
had been employed to watch White.
Paula Desmond. whose real name is
Paulina Kellerman. is now at her home in
the district attorneys Office has gone there
to see her.
Miss Grant has been abroad for some
time. but returned last Saturday. Detec-
tves were watching all the steamships. but
the girl slipped ashore unseen, and her
whereabouts now lis not known.
Both Miss Grant and Miss Desmond are
known to have been friends of Stanford
White.
The activity OF the district attorneys Of
flee in running down all clues in the theat
rical district is largely due to the story told
Assistant District Attorney Caravan by
Edna Mcclure show girl and former
friend of Mrs. Thaw.
Miss McClure's Story.
Miss Mcclure said that when Evelyn
Nesbt was in The Wild Rose" company
both Stanford White and Harry Thaw were
pursuing her. There were two cabs at the
stage door for her every night, and two
punches of flowers White won at that
time. and he took the girl from the stage
and sent her to school in Pompton, n. j.
She was taken i'll while there and under
went operation. Then White sent her
and her mother to Europe.
Harry Thaw learned of this and went
abroad. He met the girl in Paris, and Eve
lyn went with him. leaving Mrs Holman.
the girls mother. penniless in Paris. She
had to cable White for money to get home.
Evelyn tired of Thaws conduct abroad and
left him. When she got home she went to
Stanford White and told him of the treat
ment to which she had been subjected by
Thaw. White then took her to his attorney
and had her draw up the affidavit, which
is now so badly wanted by the prosecution.
Thaw followed her home. and after some
time she rejoined him and they went abroad
together.
Miss Mcclure said that Evelyn was on
the point of leaving Thaw after bitter
quarrel when he offered marriage to her.
Saw White Enter Restaurant
Miss Mcclure also told the assistant dis
&rict attorney that while entertaining a
number of guests in a Broadway restau-
rant one night Thaw saw Stanford White
enter the place. He began to abuse
White. says Miss Mcclure, and said to his
wife:
There goes that Backyard now that
owned you before I did"
Mrs. Thaw is reported to have an
swered:
stop raking UP my past. Harry. That
brute over there is responsible. Go to
him about it,
4 will" Thaw said. TN get him yet
Mrs. La Grand Mink, the mother of Edna
Mcclure was with her daughter at the dis
trict attorneys Office yesterday. In speak
ing OF the Thaw case today she said:
Harry Thaw's hate for Stanford White
was like that of maniac. He seemed
possessed of consuming horror of White.
1t was plainly a mania with him
The district attorneys Office also is
searching for William Sturgis, a close
friend Of Harry x. Thaw. who has dsap-
peared since the tragedy. 1t is reported
that Sturgis had heard Tfaw make threats
against Stanford White.