The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-07-07
STILL FRAMING Up
DEFENSE FOR
THAW
ARE HIS ATTORNEYS WHO BRAND
AS FAKE MANY NEWS
PAPER STORIES.
WHITE HAD KNOWLEDGE
OF III Feeling That EvaIyn Nesbt
Thaw Once Bore For Her Hus.
band and This Angered the
Young Millionaire.

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New York. July G.-Accoyding tc
former Judge w NJ. * Oicott and his
clients, Harry X Thaw and Evelyn
Nesbit ThaW. there has bean a power
ful lot of plain lying II the New Yorh
Inewspape:s about Thaw and hi wife
and the former victim, Stanford
White. he architect Judge Olcott
denied today a story TO the effect that
Evelyn Nesbit, before marrying Thaw
! had Instituted suit against him
Mr. Olcott called on Thaw at noon
and the two were in conference for an
hour ANA a half This is the longes
time that Olcott has spent in the
Tomb. with his client
The story about the suit, which Mr
Olcott denies for the Tbaws, had it
that proceeding, were begun by Eve
lyn Neblt against Thaw; that ne
made an affidavit rejecting upon him,
and that the suit was compromised by
Thaw If any suit was ever contem-
plated or instituted no compla. Mt was
filed in court,
It had been given out that the dis.
trlc 5 attorneys representatives. hoped
to find much from this suit which
was said TO be for breach o. promise
and from Evelyn Ne bits affidavit
that wouI throw light on Thawc mo
tive for killing White, but Mr.. Gar
van sa d today that he knew nothing
about The AFFIDAVIT, or the suit.
When Mr. Ol-ott ISSUED from
Thaw's cell he said that ne had but
one statement to make. and That was
for Mir Thaw, at Mr Thaw's request
Il wish you to say for Mr. Thaw,
said Mr. Olcott, that Il no time was
there any uir contemplated by Mrs.
rhaw. nor apy action Of any nature
whatever eithkr before or since their
marriage The stories TO that effect
have been manufactured from whole
clio h, p'e.umably by the enemy.
Must Be True.
"You cannot say too cmplatically
first, that Mrs Thaw herself says that
she has no knowledge of such an ac
ton aud. secondly, that Mr. Fhaw dc
MICS that II was ever contemplated
by Mrs Thaw or any one el q. Mrs,
Thaw never went to any lawyer
office for any purpose regard ne her
alleged relation wi Thaw nor did
any lawyer ever go to nc. regarding
such a matter
How 90 you think thcae stories
started?" Mr. Olcoti Wa asked.
II have no idea whatever he re
piled They are inventions pure and
simpla."
At the anne inc Judge Olcott took
occasion to correct mi statement OF
hi- own. made few days ago The
Judge stated positively and finally
that his client had uc: oeen married
whjlc travelling in Europe 10 Evelyn
N,saIt his present wife
- was finally convinced no 20 last
Tuesday night said Judge Olcott
that the statement of Ms, Thaw. as
printed ia the papers in which she
was quoted a. having said that there
mad bscn an European marriage was
tue. had been led to believe tina.
uch was he cease. had asked Mrs.
Thaw about thc matter over the tolc
phone that morning and understood
her 10 say that The sta amcpt TO the
eff ct that She had been married was
true Eyidontiy she M suuderstood my
question. bBr later ha told me that
there had ben no European marriage.
"On Tuesday afternoon I asked Mr.
Thaw whe her he had been married o.
hi- wife In Europe as well as in Pitts
burg. and h. told me that there mad
baon only one marriage Later this
statement was corroboratcd by Mr.
Thaw herself
No European Marriage.
you can announce dcnnitely for me
that there was no European marriage
fhaf Mt and Mrs Thaw were married
in Fl tsburg. aud in PITT burg only
70 was int mated in tn evening,
however az the Office Of one law fii-H
that has been prominent in divorce
or breach Of promi g cases. that Eve
Ism y shit. before he marriage
visited tha office with certain legal
tn view. u was aid that
on cae c-cas on he was accompanied
b. White.
The INVESTIGATIONS of the pr1secu-
tIru have urore CdcI far n1Irh ta
practically confirm . statement made
.r di-patcf.s soon after the showing
iy irleaf of Mrs T53w TO the eject
'hat she was very friendly With Stan
fa-8 Waite up to q icr fiae p fore
her mariaea to Thaw. and that the
friend - was valued yeiy highly hy
he. J.. O. cia.mel thaf 90 nlslip
was the reauit II the imporunifi-s of
The taeH Miss Nesbii. ana not uf those