The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-14
1HAW AIDS ANTl-vicE
SOCIETY,". AGAINST WHITE

@ SOCIETY,", AGAINST white
H# New York, Feb. 13.-Anthony Com
Stock, head of the Anti-Vice society.
given out this interview:
III IT know that Stanford White was a
Human monster. 1 know hat much Of
9YWhat Mrs. Harry Thaw has stated as
la witness is true. I know tina STAN
Aford Whites den in the tower of Mad,
iison Square Garden was as she has de,
9scribed it. 1 know that White made a
know of at least one specific instance.
sAnd what I know L learned after q
been given the first clews by Harry
3Kendall Thaw himself.
My first knowledge of this case dates
the summer of 1905-about a year
before the killing. / should say. One af-
sternoon a tall, well dressed, well bred
Sthe Temple Bar building. He seemed
Ito be laboring under excitement. and
cit was evident that he was desperately
Gin earnest. lie opened the conversation
by asking me if I were interested in the
suppression of vice. Then he wanted
Ito know If my society gave special at
&tentton to the arrest and punishment Of
men who preyed upon young girls. I
;#ltold him that we did. He jumped up
abruptly. said he would see me again
and left without telling me his name.
Introduces Himself.
"A few days LATER he came back.
This time he seemed more at ease, but
he was still laboring under strong emo
ton, as 1 could plainly see. He now in
troduced himself. AS nearly as 1 can
recall he said:
II am Harry Kendall Thaw. OF
Pittsburg. You may have heard Of
me, I want to tell you of a man who
has betrayed more young girls than
any man in New York. He is partic-
I'll 3r1v pjvon TO r11rcl1ino tha ,o,yp cirla
Vt the stage. 1t is a debt which society
owes to itself to halt him now, before,
he brings shame and sorrow to any
more victims.
He has come into my own life in
such a way that I desire above every
thing else to see his practices stopped
in order that others may be spared the
suffering he has brought upon me and
mine. His name is Stanford White,
ssHe is an architect, and he has an in
famous den In the tower Of the Madison
sSquare Garden
That in effect was his statement
continued Mr.. Comstock. although, Of
course, l asked him a great deal more
of the matter. He left after securing
my promise to investigate. He agreed
TO pay the cost Of looking into the
case. He at once mailed me a check of
sufficient size to defray the necessary
expenses, and subsequently wrote me
several times upon the subject of
White, asking each time what progress
we were making.
To Catch White.
Our investigation confirmed to a
great degree what Thaw a told me.
Our detectives were a%stounded at what
they discovered. We worked hard, and
Il learned a great deal, but Of all cases
these are the hardest to prove under
the rules of evidence, and before risk
ing an arrest I determined to catch
White.
II learned that his rooms in the
tower were as Mrs. Evelyn Thaw has
described them In the trial. Two of our
detectives e~ndeavored to hire rooms in
1.-THE same tower in order to watch his
goings and comtngs. The deal was al
most completed when one Of the de-
Electives made a bungle. Something
which he said or did CAV the alarm
to the janitor. and although we were
on the waiting list for a long time, and
although several times apartments in
the were vacant, we were never
able to secure a suite or a single room.
we We're still vainly trying to ar
range a trap from which there would
be no escape for White when he dis
,mantled his room in the tower.
Broke Up His Den.
II learned positively Of one case OF
Whites conduct to a, girl only 10 years
old almost identically as Mrs. Evelyn
Thaw describes her own case, but the
girl was in the chorus of a road COM
i'pany and we could not reach her and
make a witness Of her. We got evil
.dence of other things-things that CON
vince me that What Harry Thaw's wife
now swears is true. / believe In her
story and I base that belief upon What
i know of the man.
THE last time 1 saw Harry Thaw
was only two or three weeks before
he shot White. He appeared to be In a
desperate state-like a man who was
well nigh frantic. He said to me wild
ly: 'Yo must keep on, you must stop
this man. he must be stopped now-at