The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-09

NO"H uJn avenue one day in a ham
som cab with my maid. and we passed
White. ] heard him say. 'Oh. look at
Svelyn. A few days later I was called
10 the telephone and 1t was MIR White
ne SAID, My. but it is good to hear
your Voice again. He said he wanted
70 come and sec me. told him 1 could
TOT see him. He said il was very inn
portant that / should see him at once
| he said he had had much trouble with
my family and must see me. I asked If
my mother was III. He said il was a
matter OF life and death. he could not
tel me over the telephone. So he came
10 see me at the Hotel Savoy.
White Tried to Kiss Her.
When he came in ne tried TO kiss
me. but | did not let him. He asked
what was the matter. I told him to
SIT down, and asked again if my mother
VAS III. DE said no, and also began to
TAX about Harry Thaw. He told me
that dlnerent actresses had told him
! mat was I'm Europe with Harry Thaw.
ne SAID after while that Harry Thaw
| LOOK me 10 Europe and asked me why
went around with a man who took
morphine
After that he came constantly 10
see me. He also sent people to me who
told stories about Mr.. Thaw. the stories
told him. ] got very nervous for
knew Mr.. Thaw was coming over. and
didn't want 10 see him. ] told Mr.
NH'te did not want TO see Mr. ThaW.
Took Her to Lawyers Office.
"One day Mr. White telephoned me
That he was going to send carriage
Ior me, ana ! was to go to Broadway
ana Nineteenth street. 7 did so, and
white met me and got into the car
rage. he said he was taking me TO
see Mr.. Hummel. the greatest lawyer in
Now ork, who would protect me from
Mr.. Ihaw. He said ] was not to be
AFRAID of Mr.. Hummel; he was a little
man with big, bald head, warts on his
race and was very ugly.
When 1 got to Mr.. Hummels office
MI White went away. Mr.. Hummel
asked me how I came TO go to Europe
with Mr.. Thaw. and I told him that I
aid not, that / went with my mother
/ and that Thaw followed He asked me
about my quarrel with my mother in
LONDON. | said ii was a continuous
quarrel between us, we simply could
not set along. She wanted to come
nome to America. and | said she could
come. but | was going 10 stay there
ana return to the stage. but the doctor
told me | could not dance for a year.
He (HummeD asked me all places
where / went with Thaw. I told him
all / could remember. He said | was
minor and that Thaw should have
been more careful. He said he had a
case i'm his office against Thaw. but the
woman in the case was a very bad one
and he did not think the case was much
good Then he said Thaw was a very
bad man and / must be protected from
him.
Statement in Hummel's Office.
Mr.. White said must leave everything
in Mr.. Hummels hands. Then they sent
] must not interrupt him in what he was
about TO say 7 was very nervous and
excited and began to cry. They began to
dictate a lot of stuff that l had been car
ried away by Thaw against my will 1
started to interrupt. but the lawyer stop
ped me-
They put in that ] had been taken
! from my mother, that I had been badly
treated by MIR. Thaw. Then they sent
the man out of the room.
Several days later AIR. Hummel called
me up and asked II had my letters from
Mr.. Thaw. 7 said 7 did but could not sec
what he had TO do with it. Mr., White
also called up and said if I was not going
! to help in every way they could not pro-
| tect me from Thaw. He said l must do
| just what Mr. Hummel said. I made
| the letters up in a bundle and took them
| TO Mr.. Hummers office. lie said ne did
not want 70 read them and did not care
what they contained. He asked. however,
| If they were love letter and ] said yes.
| He said he just wanted to hold them
over Harry Thaw's head.
Lawyer Suggested Suit.
''Then he asked me why did not sue
| Harry Thaw for breach of promise. I
| said that was absurd. for If there had
been any breach OF promise IL was on my
part. He said that did not matter.
''Mr. Hummel said breach of promise
suit would be fine advertisement for me.
I told him I did not care for that kind
Of advertising. He told me an English
| for breach OF promise. He declared he
could easily win a suit for me. | did not
want TO sue anybody. That made Mr..
| Hummel mad and he told me I was fool
| ish''
what more did you tell Mr. Thaw."
suggested Mr.. DeImas, to give the girl
a breathing spell
Story Aeitated Thaw.
Mr. Thaw asked me il 7 had signed
anything in Mr.. Hummers office and /
| said had not. Re said that was funny,
for IL they wanted TO cause trouble | must
\ have signed something. ( said I had
signed nothing in Mr.. Hummels office.
Mr. Thaw was very much agitated. He
| said Hummel was q blackmailer and he
I said / think. that there was something
| bad in the air. and ne impressed men that
he was going to see Mr. Longfelow, his
| lawyer
Mrs. Thaw testified to going to her
own lawyer and relating her experiences
with Hummel.
MY lawyer told me that Hummel was
I q shyster." laugh went around the
room.
'NIr. Thaw told me 7 had no business
to speak again with Stanford White He
! accused me of having improper relations
I with Mr. White since I came back from
4 Europe and ! said that IL was lie He
/ said it would look to people as il I was
q blackmailer by going TO Hummefs Of
( flee"
did you tell Of another incldent?"
HummeI Got $1,000.
Yes. told him OF one day when White
came TO the hotel Navarro. and he was
/ terribly mad MY child. he said. what
did YOU tell Mr. Humnel about me?'
said 7 had not said anything and then
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