Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-02-16
MRS. THAW TELLS
P|T|FUL STORY
THE SECRET WHICH 1T is SAID
DROVE THAW TO DO
MURDER.
SAYS WHITEDRUGGED HER
Husband Sobs AS the Terrible Story
Is Told the Jury AS She Told 1t to
Thaw Before Marriage.
The Meeting With White.

ne Meeting with Wnite.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. the beautiful
artists model and actress. wife OF
Harry Kendall Thaw. on the witness
stand told the story of her entire life.
When she related the crimes OF
which she said Stanford White was
guilty, she broke down and sobbed.
Many women in the audience wept
audibly. Harry Thaw, who had strug-
gled to retain his composure, buried
his face in his handkerchief and cried.
His eyes We're red and swollen from
weeping when court adjourned at
noon.
Evelyn Thaw said she first met
White in 1901 at luncheon to which
she had been invited. She expected 1t
would be at the Waldorf and that She
would meet society people, but it was
in sumptuously fitted apartment in
dingy Twenty-fourth street house,
where the doors seemed to open of
themselves. A woman took her to the
place.
Later there were several other din
ners given by White, of whom her
first impression was that he was big
and ugly. Finally, he sent her mother
to Pittsburg, saying he would look af-
ter her while she was gone.
She says White invited her to din
ner in Madison Square Tower, and
when she arrived told her all the 9TH
err guests turned us down" She says
White drugged her. She was 16 years
old then; wore short dresses and her
hair hung braided down her back.
She told the entire story to the
jury as she told it to Thaw in Paris
when he asked her to marry him. She
said the effect on Thaw was terrible.
He sobbed and walked the floor an
entire night He kissed the hem of her
dress and told her he could never love
any one else.
She also refused him a second time,
saying White and his friends would
laugh at them if they were married.
She said Stanford White sent her
to school in 1902, that she became i'll
there and had to undergo an opera
ton; that Thaw sent her and her
mother abroad to recuperate and then
followed to propose marriage to her.
Harry X. Thaw will take the wit
ness stand to deliver the final blow
in his defense for the killing of Archi-
tect Stanford White. Dolphin Delmas,
chief counsel For Thaw, practically
decided Saturday that the defendant
should become a witness and corrob-
crate the sensational testimony given
by his wife.
Should Anthony Comstock, head of
the Anti-Vice society, recover from an
attack of pneumonia in time, he will
be called as witness for the defense,
and will, he says, give startling infor-
nation to corroborate the testimony of
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. In an interview
Comstock said Our investigation
confirmed to a great degree what
Thaw had told me. Our detectives
were astOnished at what they discov-
cred. We worked hard. and l learned
great deal. but of all cases these
are the hardest to prove under the
rules of evidence, and l determined
to catch White red-handed.
II learned that his rooms in the
tower were as Mrs. Thaw has de-
scribed them. Two of our detectives
endeavored to hire rooms in the same
tower to watch his goings and COM
ings. The deal was almost completed
when one of the detectives made a
bungle. Something which he said or
did gave the alarm to the janitor, and,
although we were on the waiting list
for a long time, and, although several
time apartments in the tower were
vacant, we were never able to secure
single room.
Il learned positively Of another
case almost identically as Mrs.
Evelyn's Thaw describes her own. The
girl was only 10. but was in the
chorus of road company, and we
could not reach her and make a wit
ness of her. We got partial evidence
of other things--things that convince
me that what Harry Thaw's wife now
swears is true. | believe in her story,
and l base that belief on what l know
of White.