Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-07
vas another man and girl with u.s."
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ness: Where did you go?"
ITO the studio in Madison Square
tower. We had a very nice time there.
White said that I was only to have one
glass of champagne and that l was to
be brought home early. / was brought
home early to the door of my house.
told Thaw that we had several parties
of this kind in the tower"
did you see White agan?"
Yes, he came to see my mother, told
her that I would be all right in New
York, and that he would take care Of
me"
Mrs. Thaw said that she met White
in September, 1901 in a studio in East
Twenty y-second streer. The door op
|eueG of itself, she said The house
looked at first as if no one lived there.
She said that she went upstairs and
met White a photographer and anoth-
of the man to Jerome, who wrote 1t
down.
What did YOU see there?"
"There was lot of expensive gowns
there"
What happened?"
II went into a dressing room to put
on a dress, and White knocked at the
door and asked me If needed any help
said No /"
She related her experience in the
Photographic studio, and said she had
posed until she was very tired, at
which White ordered food and they
had something to eat
White Gave Her Druseed Wine.
Next night" she continued. Il got
note from White asking me to come
down to the studio for luncheon after
the theater. with some friends. l went
down to the Twenty fourth street
studio again, and found White and no
one else there.
"'What do you think he said to
me. the others have turned us down
Then told him I had better go home,
but he told me 1 had better sit down
and have some fruit. So took off my
hat and coat. White told me that he
had other floors in the garden and
would show me around. So he took
me upstairs to the floor above. where
there were very beautiful decorations,
and a piano. played for him. and he
took me into another room. That room
was bed ROOM On small table stood
a bottle of champagne and one glass.
White poured out just one glass for
me- I paid no attention to it, White
went away and came back, and asked
me why 1 was not drinking cham
pagne. / said did not like it; it
tasted bitter, but he persuaded me and
I did. A few minutes after there be-
gan pounding and humping in my
ears. and the room got all black"
Mrs. Thaw was almost in tears at
this statement.
when 1 awoke my clothes had all
been taken off me. started to scream.
but White got up and threw kimona
on me- AS l sat up. I saw mirrors all
around the bed. I began TO scream
again. White asked ME to keep quiet,
saving that it was all over. When he
threw the kimona over me, he left the
room, / screamed harder than ever.
/ don't remember how got my
clothes on. He took me home, and l
sat up all night crying"
where was White when you recoV-
cred consciousness"
He was on the bed beside me, un-
dressed"
What did he say afterwards"
HE made me swear that ! woulo
never tell my mother about 1T. he
said that there was no use in taking.
The greatest thing in the world was
not to get found out. He said that
girls i'm theaters were foolish to talk.
He laughed afterwards"
Thaw Is Forsiving.
"Was ThaW excited when you told
him these things?'
eyes he was excited, and walked up
and down the room. We sat up al
night. He said it was not my fault,
that no one could blame me, that l
was only an unfortunate girl, and that
he did-not think any the less OF me; ne
would marry me anyway"
Did he offer to marry you again?
Eyes. and / told him if ] did marry
him. the friends Of White would laugh
at him and laugh at me, as they sus-
pected our relationship. il they did not
know"
witness told Thaw that 1t would not
be well to marry, on account of his
family. He persisted that he wished to
marry her Mrs Thaw recovered her
composure after she had got over the
most sensational part of her story.
Many WOIilell III llle Souie Aoo'AA w -
crying, and the most intense silence
prevailed in the room.
Mrs. Thaw said that she had also
told Thaw about her early life with her
mother. and financial difficulties. The
money that she earned as an artists
model she gave her mother. That was
their only means Of support
Mrs. Thaw told Of her experience as
a model and dancer, after she and her
mother came to New York in 1900. She
said she met Thaw in 1901, and saw
him but once between then and 1903.
Thaw, the witness said, opposed her
going on the stage, saying that she
was too young, and offered to send her
and her brother to school.
"You were sent to school later, how
ever; when"
I'm 1902, about the latter part of Oct
ober."
Were you i'll during any of this pc
riod?"
yes 1 had to go to the hospital"
'"The offer of Thaw to send you to
school was refused?"
"When you saw Thaw in 1908, did
you tell him about going to school?'
81 told him that White had sent me
to school,"
Witness then told of her sickness and
the operation to which she was obliged
to submit, and of Thaw's kindness to
iler at the time after her recovery,
when Thaw arranged European trip
for witness and her mother. Thaw fol-