The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-28

l tables and everything movable again per formed their antics. finally landing in an l lndiseriminate mass, while the house WAS so closely guarded that not a rat could find ingress or egress without detection. The negroes in the neighborhood artt worked up to such state of superstitioas terror as never before and even the white people who have investigated the strange ] phenomena are mystified.
 
 One day the girl and her mother walked into the office of Fisher & Ryley at the Casino where the first "Floradora' com pany was playing, and the mother asked that the girl have a chance behind the footlights The beauty of the stage pirant caught the eye of the theatrical men, and the girl was engaged to appear | in the production, where she became one of the flower girls. She remained with the company when it moved to the New York theatre, but left 1t in October. 1 From the best accounts. it was while Evelyn Nesbit was in the "Floradora' | company that she met Stanford White. i It was through White the same report l has it, that she obtained an engagement in the White Rose" company which was then appearing at the Kniekerbocker un- der the management of George w. Led erer Up to this time Mrs. Nesbit had ] been very careful as to who should find favor with her daughter, whose fame had become such by this time that no l Sunday illustrated supplement was com 1 plete without her picture.
 l It was after White became friendly to Evelyn Nesbit and her mother that the Nesbits moved from their furnished room in West Twenty-second street to apart ments in the Audubon on Broadway. l While the girls beauty made her an at i tractive feature In performance, she was awkward on the stage and showed no special aptitude for 1t. It was Whites suggestion that she go to school. and, ac- cordingly. she went 10 the private school of Mrs H. c. DeMille at Pompton. N. J. White paid the bills. She was taken i'll there and came back to New York to take up her stage career again, and 1t 1 was about this time that she met Thaw. l Thaw began paying the closest atten- : ton to the girl at time when White was called out of the city. She was then playing in a musical comedy at the Madi- son Square theatre. He spent his money with a prodigal hand. On Whites re- turn the girl again smiled on the man who had been the first to be generous to her. and Thaws wrath knew no bounds. Thaw from all accounts, did not find favor with Mrs. Nesbit, but the young Plttsburg millionaire was undaunted. He sent valuable gifts to the girl at her apartments-one of them being grand piano-and sought hen on every possible occasion. About this time there was a report that Evelyn Nesbit was to marry Jack Barrymore. son of Maurice Barry more and an actor himself. The culmina- ton of it all was that Mrs Nesbit and her daughter went to Paris and it is said that White paid their expenses.
 Leaves Mother for Thaw.
 The Nesblts had not been in Paris long l when Thaw followed them He again i sought the company of the girl and 1t is said that she looked even more favorably upon him and his many gifts now that sine was away from home. Thaw finally induced her to leave her mother. The mother, left stranded on the other side, had to cable to White for money to come home. Thaw and the girl travelled through Europe for while, but it is said that his treatment of her was such that she was forced to leave him and come home alone. When she reached this side she first sought out Stanford White and 1 then prepared an affidavit in which she told of Thaws treatment in detail. In this document she is said to have set | forth that Thaw, besides being cruel to her. took away all her jewelry. The af- fdavit is said to have been written in | Evelyn Nesbt's own hand, and 1t is also said that White wrote in some of the in terlineations There talk that the girl was to bring suit against Thaw for s25.000 damages through Abe Hummel. | The suit however, if one was contem- plated, never came to trial. According to report, the original of the affidavit then made was destroyed. White, however, kept a photograph copy of it. according to general belief, for he knew at that time that Thaw had detectives on his trail watching his every movement.
 Sails for Europe With Thaw.
 Thaw followed Evelyn Nesbit home hn .ta hn district attorney has been told, began the very day he landed to get the girl away from White. He found where she and her mother were l living and sent vanload of furniture to the house. This Mrs Nesbit sent back. Thaw gave orders that fresh lot of flowers should be sent to the house every day. and he made the girl presents of the most expensive jewelry. He met her in spite of her mothers influence and the influence of White, and he finally won out.
 In December 1904. the girl disappeared, and the mother learned that she had sailed for Europe with Thaw after re- conciliation. Once Thaw and the girl got abroad. there were renewals of the re- ports of his cruelty to her It was when the pair went to Europe for the second time that White is said to have washed his hands of Evelyn Nesbit.
 ! From London, toward the close of 1904, came the report that Thaw and Evelyn | Nesbit had been married. It was said that they had registered as man and wife at the Charlton house. In the early part Of 1905 Thaw and the girl returned to New York on the same steamship. They went | to the Cumberland hotel. at Fifty-fourth 1 street and Broadway. where the manager | would not allow them to remain unless Thaw registered as man and wife Their | hotel experiences both here and in Phil adelphia were much in the public eye at l the time.
 Finally Thaw made a trip to Pittsburg. His mother, who had disapproved of his association with Evelyn Nesbit, gave her consent to his marriage, which took place in the parsonage of the Rev Dr. w. l.. McEwan of pittsburg, on April 4, 1905.
 Forced Into Pittsburg Society.
 With the former model and chorus girl for a daughter-in-law. Mrs. William l Thaw set about to fit the young woman for the new social sphere In which she found herself. She practically forced Eve lyn Nesbit into Pittsburg society, despite | the many snubs that were at first of ] fered. The short course in the Jersey private school had not been much of a | supplement to what learning the girl had picked up in the common schools of her ! native city so tutors were engaged for l her. She was set to learning French and German and the leader of the best Pitts burg orchestra was called in to give her l lessons