Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-21
NOT FRIENDLY TO THAW.
Brother-in-Law Will Oppose Attempt
to Blacken Whites Name.

PITTSBURG, January 21.-Howard Nes-
Dit, brother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, has
been in New York city for two days If
an attempt Is made at Thaw's trial to
blacken the character Of Stanford White
Nesbit Is prepared to give testimony in
defense of the man whose death he still
mourns.
Mrs. Holman will not attend the trial.
as, owing to her nervous condition, coll
lapse would follow.
New York city attorneys, among them
Assistant District Attorney Garvin, while
In Pittsburg recently, obtained copies, pho
tographs and some original letters held by
Mrs. Holman. Some of these are from Mr.
White, and show his feelings toward
Evelyn Nesbit, her brother and their moth.
er- The most important is a letter from
Evelyn Nesbit to her mother. 1t was writ
ten after she and Thaw quarreIed in Paris
Evelyn Nesbit started for New York but
in London became very ill. For a time she
thought she was going to die, and it was
ihen she wrote to her mother letter which
in substance follows:
Il have been willfully disobedient / told
untruths about you, which were inspired
None OF the charges were truthful, and
l want you to know that you are freed
from all blame for my conduct in the past
Remember, dear mother, that l have been
headstrong, defied you and your better
judgment, and set aside all the safeguards
with which you surrounded me, and free
ly confess that 1 have brought disgrace
upon myself, for which 1 can never atone
Acknowledged Untruths.
Il am willing to suffer this, but in this
great illness it appalls me to think of the
false position l have placed you in before
the public, and l want to assure You that
each falsehood told was inspired through
the influence of brute force that never
did and never could love-"
In addition to all this, 1t is understood
Mrs Holman has made statement cover
ing her whole acquaintance with Mr.. White
and Mr.. Thaw, going into the minutest de-
tails The letters she has surrendered are
said to fully corroborate her.
"A friend of the Holman family. who ia
generally admitted to be Howard Nesbit
makes a long statement to the effect that
when Miss Nesbit was first discovered in
New York by Stanford White her mother
became fearful and took White to task
The gist Of Whites replies. how he showed
the mother that he was doing the young
girl only good, is shown In the statement
The statement says that White sent both
Mrs. Nesbit, now Mrs. Holman. and Eve
lyn abroad. and that Thaw, who had be-
come madly infatuated with the girl, went
alarmed Mrs. Nesbit previously by sending
her daughter punches Of American Beauty
roses daily with $50 bills wrapped about
the stems.
Mrs. Nesbit, the statement says, insisted
on the flowers and money being returned.
Then came trouble between herself and
Evelyn when Thaw sent Evelyn sealskin
coat. The girl wanted to keep this, but
Mrs. Nesbit refused to let her She then,
the statement says, threw the coat out Of
a nth-story window of the hotel.
Once In New York, the statement says
after the girl had been ordered not to see
Thaw again. he made a bargain with
porter to give him $40 every time he got
him an audience with Evelyn. He became
so persistent that both mother and daugh-
ter became afraid Of him and Howard Mes
bit was called in one day to help keep
Thaw away. He tried to entertain Thaw
while his mother and sister hid in q closet
IL Is declared. While Thaw and Howard
talked Evelyn fell OF a chair in the closet
and Thaw raced from the house in rage
saving he was being made fool of.