The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-17
.EVELYN'S MOTHER
WRITES LETTER
Mrs. Holman Prints Statement
in Connection With
the ThaW Trial.
DID NOT ASSIST JEROME
SILENCE IMPOSSIBLE AFTER At
TACK OF DELMAS.

Pittsburg. Pa, April 15.-(Copyright.
1907, by the Pittsburg Leader Publish
ing Company 1.-THE Leader this after
noon prints a six column statement
from Mrs. c. ]. Holman, mother of
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. in which she de-
tends herself against the accusations,
expressed and implied, against her dur
ing the Thaw trial.
She says that two nights after the
night upon which Harry Thaw shot
Stanford White, she received this tele-
gram from her daughter:
1T is most important for you to say
absolutely nothing"
Until now she has remained silent
and has been forced to take the defen-
sive because of the attack made upon
her by Mr.. Delmas in his closing ad-
dress to the Thaw jury.
She denies that she aided the district
attorney in any way, and that she had
been seen by Mr.. Jerome, Mr. Garvan
or Mr.. Hartridge.
Struggle With Poverty.
Mrs. Holman then details her strug-
gle following the death of her first nus
band, in her efforts to properly rear
her two children, and says her daugh-
ter first posed for an artist named
Storm in Philadelphia, who met Eve
Ign at a summer resort when little
girl
Florence" she says, was in love
with the stage
She did everything to discourage her,
but ii was useless.
The story of Florence's first meeting
oh iS h
stantially as told by her upon the wit
ness stand.
When Florence returned. she told her
mother she had met 'the grandest
man." and later when Mr.. White sent
for her she went to his Office.
Trusted Stanford White.
Mr.. White. she says, warned her spe-
officially against several young men
with whom Florence had become ac-
quainted. but did not refer to Thaw.
Mr.. Whites words and actions were
the personification of whole-hearted
disinterested generosity, Mrs. Holman
says, and if ever woman reposed i'm
plicit confidence in a man, she says,
she did in him.
Mrs. Holman then asserts that if
Florence underwent the experience
that is said to have befallen her, she
did not take her into her confidence.
Continuing, she says:
Had she told me what she told the
Thaw jury, it would not have been nee
essary for Harry Thaw to kill Stanford
White. I would have done it myself"
The European Trip.
Speaking of the European trip. Mrs.
Holman says:
Every detail of the trip was and is
a nightmare to me. Mr.. Thaw Joined
us in Paris. Florence and 1 shared the
same apartments. Mr. ThaW had
apartments by himself. There was no
pleasure in the tour for me. The things
which appealed to Florence and Mr.
Thaw in Paris did not appeal to me.
Florence testified that we quarreled
frequently while in Paris.
1.-The disa greements were caused by
my protests at visits to various res
tauTants."
In closing, Mrs. Holman says:
ct solemnly affirm that my love for
my daughter is as deep and intense as
ii was when I first held her in my arms
a helpless babe. Regardless of all that
has transpired, my affection is unaI-
tered The door of my home is open to
her and will open wide to her lightest
tap today, tomorrow, and always while
! 1 live"