The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-04-09
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ly going over it again and again. How
it was never out of his mind. Such
was the condition of Thaw's mind
when he parted from Evelyn and sent
her to America before him. 1t was
the first faint dawn of a mental condi-
ton which was manifested three years
later. He says he went to see her upon
his arrival in New York and found
that in the meantime such things hap
pened that when he. the man she loved
called. she refused to see him alone
He found her mind poisoned against
him. He said she didn't understand.
Then she told him sheshad heard GER
tain stories that he put a girl in a bath
tub and turned boiling water on her;
that he took morphine and that ne was
crazy; that he was in the habit of ty-
ing girls to bed posts and beating
them.
He shook and said: Poor, little, de-
luded Evelyn
"She told him how she had gone to
Hummels office and had seen there pa
pers purporting to be part of suit
against him by a girl he had mistreated
and he told her if she wished to be-
lieve such things she could.
"She said: And he kissed my hand
and said he would care his best for me.
That l was an angel to him. and we
parted as though we were never to see
each other again.
"Pitcure his state Of mind when he
received such greetings from the wOm-
an from whom he had parted so tend
erly short time before; whom he
loved. had asked to be his wife. Pict-
ure his state of mind when he found
she was mentally poisoned by the man
who was the cause of all her wrongs,
so that she refused to see him alone
when ne exclaimed: Poor little Eve
lynn Then recall the letters he wrote
her and how he wrote the next day.
Oh! The madness of it! LAS you are alb
solutely honest he won't trouble you,
he would have done anything for you,
now you must get stronger without
him. Pages neither of poetry nor ora
tory contain a sadder story of utter
desolation than when Thaw bewailed
his loss The world appeared blank to
him. He felt he had nothing to live
for.
The advocate then depicted how
Thaw and Evelyn had met almost as
strangers. How Evelyn at last learned
the story told her about Thaw was un-
true.
Then" exclaimed Delmas, hope be-
gan again to dawn in this mans breast.
The hour of reconciliation was at hand,
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closer together until that blessed night
of Christmas Eve, 1903, the night
White had prepared in the high tower
a banquet for this girl, his victim.
When he tried to lure her to the den
again that night to renew the wrongs
done to her. that night this man, de-
voted to her, snatched her away from
the jaws of death. from the snares of
disgrace, and took her away
And that night the real love for
each other began. That night, when
hunting for the man who had rescued
her but found him not, pistol in hand,
White threatened to shoot the man
who had baffled him."
Delnps explained how Thaw believed
White had employed Monk Eastman
and his gang to kill him, then con-.
tinued:
Then the spectre that he might lose
his own life was added to the one which
haunted him so long. From that night
he went armed"
Continuing the story of Evelyn and
Harry. Delmas said:
In the latter part of 1904, or the be-
ginning of 1905. the second operation
was performed on Evelyn When con-
valescent the man who, for two years
had sought her love, who had been re-
fused because she thought their union
to his detriment, persuaded the mother
he adored to come to New York
She came and besought the girl to