The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-04
MRS. 1HAW TELLS
STORY OF HER
LIFE
From Her School Girl Days
Denies Posing Nude as a
Model.
Special to The Evening Time..

New York, July AIRS. Harry
Thaw, in her long statement which
she dictated on Friday to ex-Judge
Olcott, told the story of her life from
the time she was school girl. Every
incident that she could think of con :
Meeting Stanford White and Harry X.
Thaw was given without reserve. This
testimony the defence believes will
be the most important that can pos
sibly be procured, and it is said it can
easily be brought before the court and
the jury. In her statement Mrs. Thaw
took occasion to deny emphatically
that she had ever in her life posed in
the nude for any artist. Instead she
mentioned the names of several we'll
known artists for whom she had posed
always, she said, in costume. The
part OF the testimony concerning her
artists model life reads:
Life an n Model.
When mother and came to this city
from Philadelphia, where we stayed a
short while after leaving Pittsburg
after the death of my father, we were
very poor. Father had made a great
deal of money at his practice in law,
but, Through bad investments had lost
1t, and left us almost penniless when
he died. 1t was necessary for us to
do something to earn an honest living,
and mother obtained employment as
cloak model in large department
store in this city.
Il soon obtained work as mode. for
the best artists in this city. Among
them were J. Carroll Beckwith, at
whose studio always posed under
the chaperonage of Mrs. Beckwith. l
also posed for Carl Blenner and other
we'll known artists. posed always IN
costume, mostly modern costume. For
this work got the usual pay of mod
els, 81 an hour. Later on ! saw an
opportunity to go into the chorus in
"Florodora" at SIS week, which was
a little better than could make pos
ing for the artists. Later on in the
course of the opera | got chance to
do some dancing, and was paid little
extra over the regular chorus salary"
Mrs. Thaw told of also posing for
William M. Chase. and being used in
his we'll known picture of Beauty and
the Beast" She was the subject for
the pretty girl in the act of putting a
wreath of flowers around lions NECK.
The rest of the testimony Mr. Olcott
refused to divulge, simply saying that
1t would all be used in the trial.
at is the most important and most
sensational evidence that we have"
counsel said, "and is very important
and valuable to us in every way 1t
will do more for Harry Thaw than
anything else."
1t was announced by the defence
that there is no foundation for the
stories that have been circulated con-
cerning Thaw and White at the Cafe
Martin Burns restaurant and other
places. These stories have all been
denounced as untrue.
Some Sudden Departures.
The prosecution has subpoenaed a
half dozen or more prominent men in
this city who were intimate associates
of White. Among them are two men
we'll known in artistic and legal cir
cles in the city. and a prominent men,
ber of many clubs who some months
ago figured conspicuously as defendant
in civil suit brought by woman
against him. Other men, associates
of White, are said to have left the city
very suddenly, and one man is known
to have sailed for Europe on Friday,
when week ago he is said to have not
had an inkling of his departure.