The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-03-13
A FALSE MOTHER
THE CHARGE AGAINST MRS.
THAW'S PARENT.
SHE SOLD HER DAUGHTER
Such Is the Accusation of the Young
Woman's Grandmother and
Two Aunts,

Pittsburg, Pa.-The mother and two
sisters of w. Scott Thaw, father of
Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw, have re-
pudiated Mrs. Charles j. Holman, who
was the wife of w. Scott Nesbit and
the mother of Mrs. Thaw, in a most re-
markable statement. This statement
was written out at family conference
held at Miles City, Montana, most of
the Nesbit connection residing in that
vicinity.
In sending the letter to this city, the
tire women who sign the statement,
also send letter in which they request
that their joint statement be pub
lished.
I'VE own properly in Livingston.
Montana, and in Spokane, Washington,
says the letter, land we are willing to
stand back of this statement"
The statement in full follows:
1.-THE attitude Mrs. Charles J. Hol-
man, mother of Mrs. Harry X Thaw
has taken toward her daughter. Evelyn,
is, to our minds, almost inhuman. The
evidence that has been given at the
trial reflects very discreditably upon
Mrs. Holman's character. From the
facts that have been proven we know
that she has accepted money in large
sums, not only from Stanford White,
but from other men as well. and now
her plea is that she thought Mr.. White
was a grand man and friend of the
family Does she wish TO give the i'm
preston that she, woman in the
twentieth century, having attained the
age long past maturity, was so limo
cne,t so unsuspecting, that she thought
the money given the family was given
without recompense whatever?
II, Itch tn. oil n l.
can people believe she was innocent
enough to think that men gave her
money for nothing or simply because
they were friends?
NO. she knew better. She was sac
rificing her childs's soul for money by
which TO live without effort. Had she
been a true mother she would have
taken in washing before putting her
daughter out as an artists model or a
chorus girl, knowing what temptations
under such circumstances would be
placed before the childs way. What
girl could live the life that Evelyn Mes
bit lived and come out untarnished
Mothers. answer Do you think your
daughters could be placed in the same
circumstances, mind you. with such an
example of a man as Stanford White
to teach them morality, what was right
and what was WfOng- coulu pe PioSeu
in his hands for protection, at the age
of fifteen years, pass through such
crisis and come through all right?
Admitting that Mrs. Holman did
not know the true character OF Stan
ford White, should she have left her
beautiful little girl under the charge OF
an influential man of the world: unpro-
tected otherwise and in New f"'k
City?
And now considering that she did
all this innocently-giving her the ben
eft of thousand doubts-is she cot an
inhuman wretch to turn against heI
daughter in the hour of her need
Even a dumb brute would protect It's
Young. but this woman turns against
her daughter, and, after being the indi
rect cause of her ruin and her down
fall, will not admit her errors, but is
making strenuous efforts to save hei
reputation by sending information to
prosecuting Attorney Jerome so tha'
he can torture the girl under cross-ex
| animation.
"Signed: Eliza ]. Nisbet tmother
Of w. S. NesbiD: Carrie Mortimer isis
ter of w. S. Nesbit: Laura c. Cal
braith (sister of w. S. Nesbit).