The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-08
WOMEN WEEP AS EVELYN
NESBIT TELLS HER STORY
Black Deeds of Stanford White, Which
Cost Him His Life in Roof
Garden, Portrayed.
Young Wife of Harry Thaw Passes THROUGH the Most Trv-
ing Ordeal of Her Life.

New York. Feb. Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw told her story today. To save
the life Of her husband, charged with
murder. she barred TO the world the in
nermOst- secrets of her soul. It~was
the same story she told Harry Thaw in
Paris I'm 1903. when he had asked her
20 become his wife-the confession of
one who felt there was ar insurmount-
able barrier to her ever becoming the
bride OF the man she loved. In the big
witness chair she appeared but a slim
OF n girl. and she told the pitiful story
Of her eventful young life i'm a frank.
girllsh way.
Tears Could Not Be Kept Back.
When tears came urbidden to her big
brown eyes and slowly trickIed their
way down scarlet cheeks, she strove in
vain 10 keep them back. She forced
the words from trembling lips and by a
marvellous display of courage, which
took her through her staggering ordeal.
she shook off a depression which once
threatened To become an absolute col
lapse
AS the young wife unfolded the mar
iative OF her girlhood and told of the
carly struggles of herself and her
mother TO keep body and soul together:
az how gaunt poverty stood ever at
the door and how she finally was able
10 earn livelihood by posing for pho
tographers and artists. she won the
murmured sympathy Of the throng
which filled every available space i'm
the court room.
Story Of Whites Perfidy.
Then came the relation of the wreck
Of that grlhood at 16 years of age.
IL was the story Of her meeting with
Stanford White; the story of the sump-
tuous stuCio apartment whose dingy ex-
terror gave no hint Of the luxurious
furnishings within: OF a Velvet-covered
swing in which one could swing until
Aippcred toes crashed through the pa
G>r OF 2 japanese parasOl swung from
me ceiling; the story Of a glass of
champagne. OF black. whirling senss-
tons. and Of mirrored bedroom walls
IN short she told all the story.
ION I scream 50. 1t Is all over. II
is all right"
And this was Stanford white?"
The question came from ID. NJ. Del
mas now conducting the defense.
Yes. sir
Thrilling Effect on the Spectators.
The stiffness OF the great crowd was
lis CWn tribute 10 the effect of the
girls story. Into the narrative there
entered nothing of the woman of the
World \ girl i'm face and figure. Mrs.
Thaw was still girl as she withstood
~ 'Ideal which might well have star
ted into terror a woman OF mature
years and harsher experience than hers.
Into the narrative she injected many
little touches OF a young girls hopes
aud disappointments. OF her early life
snc related how her mother had gone
from Pittsburg to Philadelphia to Sc
cure assistance. and how she and her
brother Howard were placed on q train
~ friends and sent on to the mother
She recalled that the two little tray
tiers had trouble with the conductor.
who wanted to put their cat out OF the
car But. she naively added. they held
fast to It.
Arrival in New York.
She told Of her arrival in New York.
OF her life here, and eventually the ac-
ceptance by her mother OF the thrice
refused invitation OF a girl OF the
theatre to meet some Of her friends at
luncheon The girls mother told
Efelyns mother they were New York
PSfPa' anu RtittttfI proper,
them.
When she came for me i'm the han
som. said the witness, Il remember
hoping we were going TO the Waldorf
mad heard so much OF it. and wanted
- go there The hanson stopped in
Ioht or a dingy looking building in
West Iwenty-fourth street and / was
Olu 10 get out. Mother had dressed
ny. ne. My skirts We're just to my shoe
ms was in August. 1901.
Meeting With White.
ne was a big and fat and ugly man
- remember him meeting US at the !
80 80 OF three flights Of stairs" she
NVuunued. He oavn me r,resn1,tr and 1