Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-24
MRS. HOLMAN HIDING.
She May Spring a Sensation in the
Thaw Case

PITTSBURG. January 24.-Interest in
the Thaw trial reached fever heat in Pitts
burg within half an hour after the case
was on in New York. At the same time it
was brought out yesterday afternoon that
Mrs. Evelyn Holman. mother of Mrs
Harry X. Thaw, is not only in New York
at the present time. ready to go on the
witness stand for the commonwealth, but
that she has been in New York. or as near
as Jersey City, since last Sunday morning.
Mrs. Holman left Pttsburg on the 10
o'clock Pennsylvania train last Saturday
night, it having been previously arranged
that j. c. Hartnett, former secretary to
Stanford White. should meet her on her ar
rival at Jersey City, and that she should
De taken to quiet place and kept there
until it might be necessary for her to ap-
pear as witness in the case.
On the same train with Mrs. Holman
was her son Howard Nesbt, shaking hands
heard of him. Mrs. Holman at the same
time was in a private stateroom and when
the train rolled into Jersey City on Sunday
morning Howard Nesbit on view to all
who might wish to see him. There was no
concealment on the part of the young man.
who now appears to have been only play
Ing part to help conceal the movements
of his mother. The latter made her escape
from the rear of the train to a closed car
rage, which had been provided for her by
MIR. Hartnett.
May Be Yet in Jersey City.
1t is likely that Mrs. Holman is yet in
Jersey City ready to reach the New York
court room on an hours notice No infor-
nation is being given out in Pittsburg re-
Garding her present whereabouts OF what
disposition was to be made of her in New
York. but it is not denied at the home of
j. {. Holman, her husband, that she is now
In the east. 1t had not been conceded until
last evening at the Holman home that Mrs.
Holman absent.
The arrangements for her trip were COM
pieted last Saturday morning from the
Moor OF the Pittsburg stock exchange j.
Z. Holman. her husband, is a member of
the stock exchange. being connected with
the brokerage firm of NJ. X. McMulin &
Co. He has taken charge of his Wife's
end OF the affair ever since the publica ton
of her letters to the late Stanford White,
1t is Holman who has stood between his
wife and publicity.
Mrs. Holman has ever been ready to talk
on the case, but since the afternoon of
the day on which the letters were nuh
iished in New York he has denied her tn
every one connected with newspapers. The
only ones fortunate enough to see her were
the representatives of District Attorney
Jerome and Roger OMara the detective
who was employed by Thaw within a few
hours after he fired the shot which killed
Stanford White.
On Saturday morning Mr. Holman. ac-
tive on the floor of the local stock ex-
change. received the last message regard
Ing what was wanted of his wife at New
York and was told that 1t would be best
for her to come Sunday morning when
the newspapers would not be so yigilant
at Jersey City. Mr.. Holman stepped to
the telephone from the floor of the stock
exchange and was overheard to call his
wife up at their home in Brookline.
You Will leave for the east tonight
Mr.. Hartnett viii meet you at Jersey City
IN the morning., was the tenor Of his
message to his wife. but this message
was not made public until late yesterday
when IL became known that Mrs. Holman
was really in New York or in that yicin.
ity.
Mr.. Holman remained at home that even
ing answering telephone calls regarding
the sensational statement purporting to b.
from Howard Nesbit in an afternoon paper
and declining to allow Mrs. Holman t,
come to the phone. Nothing was though
OF this, however as he has always refused
TO allow her to talk over the phone or Il
meet any one to whom she might talk fo
publication. In the meantime, Mrs. Hol
man and her son Howard slipped on tn,
fast train for New York.
While ii is admitted by close friends O
the woman here that even yet she ma,
not be called as a witness In the trial, al
assert that IL she is called she will be yer,
likely TO spring the greatest sensation
since the shooting of White by Thaw OF
the Madison Square Roof Garden
IL is intlmated here that the condition
on which Mrs. Holman placed herself vol
unfairly within reach of the authorities a
New York was that she would not b,
called to the stand unless Thaw SHOULD
take the ground that he did the killing t.
defend his wife's honor.
Would Be Star Witness.
In this event Mrs. Holman and not he