Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-02-16
EVELYN TRAWS STORY
TELLS OF HER RELATIONS WITH
STANFORD WHITE.
LAYS HER SECRETS BARE
Hears Stories About Thaw and Is
Estranged From Him, But
Again Believes in Him.

New York, N. Y.-EYelyn Nesbit
Thaw, wife of the slayer of Stanford
White, was the first witness. called by
the defense at Thursdays session
Of the trial Of Harry Kendall Thaw. In
an effort to save her husband the
young woman barred her life story to
the jury. AS she related her exper-
ience with the man whom her hus.
band subsequently slew, she broke in.
to sobs, and as she told how, in spite
Of her confessions, Harry Kendall
Thaw told her that he loved her and
had made her his wife, the prisoner
buried his face in his handkerchief to
hide his tears.
Mrs. Thaw's story was told under
direct examination by Counsel Delmas
for the defense. Shortly after IL
o'clock court adjouMed to 2 p. m.,
with Evelyn Thaw still on the stand.
In answer to Mr. Demas first uues.
tion, Mrs Thaw said she was born
Dec. 25, 1884. She told Of going to
the Cafe Martin to dinner on the
evening of June 25 with her husband
and Thomas McCaleb and TruXton
Beale,
Mrs Thaw said she first met White
at private luncheon in 1901, and that
later White sent her mother to Pitts
burg and took her (Evelyn) to one of
his studios, where she dined with him.
Mrs Thaw told of an experience with
White in a mirrored bedroom. She
said White made her promise she
would never tell her mother,
She said she sat up all night after
White had taken her home. Mrs.
Thaw broke down and cried and could
hardly proceed as she related her ex.
perience with White. Thaw sat with
his face buried in handkerchief.
Mrs Thaw said that Harry Thaw,
when she told him, got down on his
knees, picked up the edge Of her dress
and kissed it.
Mrs. Thaw said the effect Of her sto-
ry on Thaw was terrible He sobbed
and walked the floor and stayed all
night sitting in the room and talking
it over,
Mrs. Thaw continued at length the
narrative Of her story, She told of
how she came back from Europe a
month ahead Of Thaw. During that
month friends Of Stanford White had
told her many stories about the
young Pittsburg millionaire, and when
he returned to America she refused to
see him except in the presence of a
third person. When he sought an ex-
planatiop she told him the stories.
One was that Thaw had put a girl
into bathtub and turned scalding
water upon her. Another was that he
was addicted to the use of morphine,
and third declared he had tied girls
to bed posts and beaten them.
He looked very sad" she said, "and
told me they had been making a fool
of me, He said he understood why it
was done. | afterwards got so many
conflicting accounts from the persons
who had told me the stories and ]
heard their regulations were so bad
that ! finally told Mr. Thaw I did not
believe the stories. He said you
know have never lieG TO you'-and
he never has" t.a. ,-
She paid other tributes to her hus-
band to save whose life she braved all
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Twenty-Five Bodies Recovered.
Elkins, West Na.-Twenty-two bod
les have been recovered from mine
No. 25 at Thomas, where an explosion
occurred last Monday. Including Mine
Loss Jones, who lost his life while
attempting rescue. the death list num-
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