The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-17
MRS. HOLMAN TALKS
MOTHER OF YOUNG MRS. r'HAw IN-
 TERvIEWED.
Says She Has Been Misrepresented and Loves Her Daughter Dearly Would Have Killed White
 Herself.
Copyright. 1907. by The Pittsburg
 LAader Publishing CompanY.l

Copyright, 1907, by The Pittsburg
 Leader Publishing Company
 Pittsburg. April 16-The Pittsburg Leader this afternoon prints six column statement from Mrs. c. J. Hol- man mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in which she defends herself against the accusations expressed and implied against her during the Thaw trial .s
 The statement opens by saying that two nights after the night upon which Harry Thaw shot Stanford White. she received this telegram from her daugh- ter:
 Tt is most important for you to say absolutely nothing"
 Until now she has remained silent and has been forced to take the de- fensive because of the attack made upon her by MT. Delmas in his closing address to the Thaw jury.
 She denies that she aided the Dis trict Attorney in any way and that she had been seen by MT. Jerome, MT. Garvan or MT. Hartridge
 Mrs Holman then details her strug- gle following the death of her first husband. in her efforts to properly raise her two children, and says her daugh- ter first posed for an artist named Storm. of Philadelphia, Pa. who met Evelyn at Cresson. Pa, a summer te- sort, when a little girl
 "Florence," she says. twas in love with the stage"
 She did everything to discourage her but 1t was useless.
 The story of Florenoe's first meeting with Stanford White. she says, is sub stantially as told by her on the wit ness stand. When Florence returned she told her mother she had met the grandest man and later when MT. White sent for her, she went to his off, flee.
 Mir. White, she says, warned her specifically against several young mer with whom Florence had become &C., quainted, but dh not refer to Thaw.
 His manner, words and actions were the personifcation of whole-hearted disinterested generosity, Mrs. Holman says. and if ever a woman reposed im- plicit confidence in a man she says she did. Mrs. Holman then asserts If Florence underwent the experience that Is said to have befallen her, she did not take her into her confidence. Continu- ing she says:
 Had she told me what she told the Thaw jury 1t would not have been neo- essary for Harry Thaw to kill Stan ford White. I would have done it n.y. self" te9.
 Speaking of the European trip Mrs. Holman says:
 "Every detail of the trip was and is nL8ntmaro to me. 1hE' 1naW soineo us in Paris. Florence and shared the same apartments. Mir. Thaw had apartments by himself. There was no pleasure in the tour for me. The things which appealed to Florence and Mir. Thaw in Paris did not appeal to me. Florence testified that we quar- relied frequently while in Paris, in fact, continually. The dLsagreements were caused at my protests over visits to various restaurants"
 In closing Mrs. Holman says:
 T solemnly affirm that my love for my daughter Is as deep and intense as 1t was when first held her in my arms a helpless babe. Regardless of all that has transpired. my affection is unaltered. The door of my home is open to her and will swing wide at her lightest tap. today, tomorrow and al- ways, while live"