Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-08


! better than ever. 1 told him that 7
| couldn't marry him. for if 1 did White
! would know and he would laugh at him
| and talk. And then told him l couldn't
marry him because of his family. 1 said
if had met him before / came to New
| York it might have been different"
| Mrs. Thaw recovered her composuro
! some what when the telling of this por-
\ ton of her story was completed and de-
| tailed the events Of her early life as she
| had told them to Thaw at that time. She
said she was born in a little town up the
river from Allegheny and that her faith
| er. lawyer in Pittsburg died when she
| WAS about eight years old. His business
| affairs were in bad shape. She told 4
| story of poverty and the struggle her
mother had to keep the witness and her
brother in food and clothes. Finally her
| mother went to Philadelphia and sent
for Evelyn and her brother to come
there. Friends put them Oh the train
| and they Travelled alone.
| In Philadelphia the mother could find
no work and they We're very poor. Then
one day an artist saw Evelyn and
wanted to paint her and she went to
| his studio.
District Attorney Jerome, on several
occasions. objected to Mrs. ThaWs
story on the ground that in telling
| that she had told Thaw he would hav1
no opportunity to deny the truth of the
facts.
Mrs. Thaw was several times eau
toned To tell only what she had told
Thaw. Mr.. Relnlas stated that the de-
| fence would not enforce any right th"y
might have in this regard but would
allow the prosecution every opportur-
ity to disprove the facts if possible.
Mrs. Thaw said that she also posed
| for photographers ana made some mon
| ey in Philadelphia in that way. Then
| her mother came on to New York and
secured letters to a number Of noted
artists. She followed and began to
pose for them, making from ST. to SIS
d week and giving it all to her mother.
Mrs Thaw caused some amusement
when she said she had told Stanford
White the names of the artists she had
posed for and he replied: They are ii
| lot Of old stiffs, a lot of old fogies."
From Dec, 1900, to May or June in
1901" continued Mrs. Thaw. II posed
ana then l also went on the stage, also
posing in the meanwhile. l carmel
about $50 week and applied it all to
the family support. A Mr.. Holman of
Pittsburg, who knew my mother, also
helped us
Mrs. ThaW said she first met ThaT
in 1901 at Christmas time. She saw
him only once or twice at her mothers
apartments and then in October 1902.
Stanford White sent her to school in
New Jersey. Early in 1903. She became
i'll and the doctors said an operation
WAS necessary. it was performed az
the school and she was then taken to a
hospital.
Mr. Thlw came to see me just before
the operation. He was told | mustn't
talk TO anybody. but he just came in.
looked at me, knelt by my bed and kiss
ed my hand. Then he went out. The
doctors didn't tell me what was the mat
ter When / was well enough TO travel.
we all went to Europe as Mr.. Thaw had
arranged"
Mr.. Delmas here offered in evidence a
letter which Mrs. Thaw said had been
w.Wten to her by Harry Thaw soon Il,
ter she had told him the story OF nc.
life. 1t was offered as showing the eff
feet the story had on the mans mind
Mr. Jerome objected to the introduction
of the document and the point was I'M
der discussion when the luncheon recess
was ordered.