Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-11

New York, Feb. 8.-Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw told her story yesterday To
save the life of her husband. charged
with murder, she barred to the world
the innermost secrets of her soul-a
portrayal for which a sanctuary were
a more fitting place than the crowded,
gaping courtroom. 1t was the same
story she told Harry Thaw in Paris
in 1908. when he had asked her to
become his wife-the confession OF
one wha felt there was an insurmount-
able barrier to her ever becoming the
bride of the man she loved
In the big witness chair she ap-
peared but a slip of a girl and she
told the pitifuI story of her eventful
young life in a frank girlish way
When tears came unbidden to her big
brown eyes, and slowly trickled down
keep them back Though the lump
in her throat at times seemed about
to smother her, she forced words
from trembling lips, and by marvel
Gus display of courage, which took
her willingly through her staggering
ordeal, she took off the depression
which once threatened to become alb
solute collapse
AS the young wife unfolded the
narrative of her girlhood and told of
the early struggles of herself and her
mother to keep body and soul to-
gether; of how gaunt poverty stood
ever at the door, and how she finally
was able to earn livelihood by pos
ing for photographers and artists, she
won the murmured sympathy of the
throng which filled every available
space in the big courtroom
Then came the relation of the
wreck of that girlhood at 16 years of
age. 1t was the story of her meeting
with Stanford White, a story of a
sumptuous studio apartment, whose
dingy exterior gave no hint
of the luxurious furnishings within;
of a velvet-covered swing in which
one could swing until slippered toes
crashed through the paper of jap
anese parasol swung from the ceiling;
story of glass of champagne, of
black. whirling sensations and of
mirrored bedroom walls. In short,
she told all the story.
Don't scream so. It's all over It's
all right"
And this was Stanford White?"
The question came from Dolphin
M. Delmas, now conducting the de-
tense of Harry Thaw
yes, sir
The Struggles of Girl.
The stiffness Of the crowd was It's
own tribute to the effect of the girls
story Into the narrative there en-
tered nothing of the woman of the
world A girl in face and figure, Mrs.
Thaw was still girl as she with
stood the ordeal which might we'll
have startled into terror a woman of
maturer years and harsher experien-
ces than hers Into the narrative she
injected many little touches of d
young girls hopes and dissappoint-
menus. OF her early life she related
how her mother had gone from Pitts
burg to Philadelphia to secure assist
ance and how she and her brother,
Howard-the brother who has been III
court many days, but not once has
gone near his sister-were placed on
a train by friends and sent on TO
their mother. She recalled that the
two little travellers had trouble with
the conductor who wanted to put
their cat out of the car. But she
naively added, they held fast posses
sion of it just the same
She told of her arrival in New
York, of her life here, and eventually
the acceptance by her mother of the
thrice-refused invitation of a girl of
the theatre to meet some of her
friends at luncheon. The girls
mother told Evelyn's mother they
were people in New York society and
perfectly proper, else she would not
let her girl so with them.
When she came for me in the han
som" said the witness, I remember
hoping we were going to the Wal
dorf l had heard so much about It
and wanted so to go there. But the
hanson stopped in front of dingy
looking building in oath street and
/ was told to get out. Mother had