The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-26
JEROME.


incnts in the big tower in Madison
Square Garden and elsewhere, an,
everything was perfectly proper
save that there wasn't any chaper-
on. lie never would let Evelyn
have more than one glass of
champagne and adopted a fathcrly
attitude toward her i'll everything.
Then one night he sent note
to the Casino thcaier and asked h,'
to come 10 a party ut his stul,,
i'll West Twcnty-foprth street. She
got into carriage and drove thcr,
expecting to- see several other per
sons present but there wasn'
anybody but Mr.. White. lie tol
her as long AS she was there she
might as well eat supper that wa
prepared. and she did so. Aftei
that he showed her abou; TIC plac.
There was room with many beau
tilul p'etlires and art objects and
OH tue top floor II ,tddio with D
velvet swing. Then Mr.. White
told her he wanted to show lie
NllVtltl ~ Wdr
bedroom and there was a glas
and Il bottle OF champagne. Mr..
White ,old her TO drink the cham.
paglic, and she tiil. il)ugn ii tasi
cd funny and biiter. Ttcn l,ic roow
began To go "o.r,a ani III, lo;'
consciousness All TINS aud what
she thought arl iii after slt
awokc the jury las hear, as th,
story which .ii., t,,l her l;usbond
and which the defeu.e ce1te:.a rp-
settled his mind.
After that Mr.. Wiki. tia hei
she mustn't mad, that all womer
were unciastc, only some were
clever at concealing it. So she
went OH fcr six months or Sc
meeting him. Always there wa
too much wine and she never yield
ed willingly, so she said. And il
1902, early IN the year, she thel
having turned IL. she stopped al
inproprieiics with Stanford White.
But all through this year h,
gave her money; $25 a week sh,
drew from a New York Trust com
pany whenever she was not en-
ployed on the stage which wa.
most Of the time. All the tim,
slie was living with her mother ane
her mother knew all about tn,
money Stanford White was paying
her. Yet she never told her moth
or of fhc terms on which she ha
associated with Stanford White
aud nothing in the evidence ha.
yet shown why Mrs. Holman al
lowed her daughter to take money |
from the architect.
Evelyn had brief thcatrica
engagement in 1902. One III then
was in tho chorus Of "Thc Wild
kcsc. T" While here she met Jacl
the actor, brother t,
Ethel Barrymore and she got t
like him. He proposed to he
twice, She said and when she TOLD
Mr.. White he got very angry too.
u wasn't much later than this that
she met Harry Thaw, though she
lidn't get to know HIM very wei
mtil carly in 1903. Before tha,
Mrs White had sent her to thu
Pamlico School for Girls at Pomp
lon, N. j., largely TO- get he
sway from Jack Barrymore, she
llougIt. Her mother approved and
Mr.. White paid all the bills. IIur.
y Thaw had not forgotten her
lowevcr, and he showcrcd her with
vi the attentions he could think
II having by this tim evidently |
allen III love with her childish
,eauly.
When she was taken ill and
submitted TO an operation for APP
,cndicitis Harry Tllaw became
more interested in her than ever
md when she came to be GONZALES.
cnt he Offered to pay the OK
lenses OF trip abroad for he,
md her mother. Again Mrs. IIol.
nan seemed TO see. no i,upropriety
n accepting money from compar
'tiv" stranger and III the spirne
4 1908 mothcr and daughter sail
i for Europe. Harry Thaw sale
bout the sane time on another
tcamship and met them in Paris.
hen the three saw the sights of
he Partisan capital together for
ONE time.
< II was an june of that year,
Abilc all three were still in Paris
hat Harry Thaw first proposed
larrlago TO Evelyn Ncsbit. She
'yed him. tco, but, she has tesli
cd she had to tell him she coultlnI
'arry him. Friends of Stanford !,
Vhitct knew about her relations b
it'll the architect she SAID, and !,
icy would jeer at Harry and make a
IN of him il he married her. She !,
we'd him too much to marry him.
he told HIM that, she says, and a
zen she told him about Stanford 5,
fhite.
There we're planted that night
Harry Thmw's mind, the defense \
tho seeds Of an abiding u
atred Of the architect. Evelyn 7
larrebled with her mother soon b