Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-12
MRS. HOLMAN BRANDED
AS lNHUMAN MOTHER
Mother and Sist~ of Evelyn's 5
Father Assail the Won
ans Course Say Girl
Was Sacrificed

New York March 11.-Lining up his
forces in rebuttal in the case against
Harry K. Thaw, District Attorney Jer-
ome today began an endeavor to lay
the foundation for the introduction of
I'm affidavit said to nave been made
by Evelyn Nesbit in the Office Of Alb
saham H. Hummel. He was blocked
Rt every turn, however, by objections
from Delmast, the leading council for
the defense and was soon switched to
She testimony of a policeman who saw
Thaw the night of his arrest and who
declared his actions seemed those of
v rational man.
Delmas asked one o fthe officers if
lie cad not overheard Thaw in his cell
says he had heard voices of women
crying out. The officer said there had
& been no such statement in his hear
Ing.
s. * Longfeilow on Stand.
New York, March 11.-Frederick w.
Longfellow was the first witness called
by District Attorney Jerome when the
Thaw trial opened this morning. Long
fellow was formerly Thaw's attorney.
Jerome began questioning Longfel-
low regarding the suit of Ethel Thorn
as against Thaw in an attempt to show
alleged acts of perversion by White,
| the revelations of which by Thaw's
4 wife are said to have unseated Thaw's
mind and which were set forth in the
complaint in that suit
Upon an objection by Delmas, Long
fellow was stopped from giving def
mite testimony on the ground that he
was acting as Thaw's counsel and his
dealings with him were confidential.
Mother Called Inhuman.
Pittsburg, March 1.-THE mother
and two sisters of w. Scott Nesbit,
father of Mrs Harry Kendall Tnaw,
have repudiated Mrs. Charles j. Hol-
man, who was the wife of w. Scott
Nesbit and the mother of Mrs. Thaw,
in a most remarkable statement This
statement was written out at family
conference held at Miles City Mont,
most Of the aNesbit family residing in
that vicinity.
In sending the letter to this city,
the three women also send letter in
which they request that their joint
statement be published. I'VE own pro-
perty in Livingstone. Mont, in Spo-
kane, Wash" says the letter, and we
are willing to stand back of this state
ment.''
Says Mother Is lnhuman.
The statement in full is as follows:
"'rhe attitude of Mrs. Charles J. Hol-
man. mother of Mrs. Harry x. Thaw,
has taken toward her daughter, Evelyn
Is to our minds most inhurnan The
evidence tnat has been given at the
\ trial reflects very discreditably upon
Mrs. Holman's character. From the
facts that have been proved we know
that she accepted money in large sums
not only from Stanford White, but
from other men as we'll and now her
plea is that she thought Mr.. White
was a grand man and friend of the
/ family
Does sac wish to give the impres.
sion that she, a woman in the TWEEN
tieth century, having attained the age
ibng past maturity, was so innocent,
SO unsuspecting that she thought the
money given the family was given
without recornpense whatever? Does
she wish to make the American peo-
pie believe she was innocent enough
to think that men gave her money for
nothing or simply because they were
trlendS
Daughter as Sacrifice.
No, she knew better. She knew
she was sacrificing her cAilds soul
for money by which to live without eff.
fort. Had she been true mother
she would have taken in washing be-
fore putting her daughter out as an
artists model or chorus girl, know.
3 ing what temptations, under such cir
cumstances, would be placed in the
cnild's way.
ssWhat girl could live the life that
I Evelyn Nesbit lived and come out un,
\ tarnished? Mothers, answer! Do yo,
think your daughters could be placed
in the same circumstances, mind you
with such an example OF a man as
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