The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-16
she SPEAKS OUT
Mother of Evelyn Thaw Issues a
Statement.
Says Daughter Never Told Her
What She Told Jury.
IF SHE HAD DONE SO.
She Would Have Killed Stanford
White Herself.
Love for Her Child Is as Great
as Ever.
IF SHE HAD DONE so.

/ Pittsburg. Pa, April 16.-CCopy
right 1907 by the Pittsburg Leader
Publishing Company) THE Leader
! this afternoon prints a six column
statement from Mrs. c. ]. Holman
mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, ii
which she defends herself against the
/ accusations expressed and implied
| against her during the Thaw trial.
She says that two nights after the
night upon which Harry Thaw shot
| Stanford White. she received this tele-
gram from her daughter:
1T is most important for you to say
absolutely nothing"
Until now she has remained silent
and has been forced to take the de-
fensive because of the attack made up
on her by Mr.. Delmas in his closing
address to the Thaw jury She denies
that she aided the district attorney in
any way and that she had been seen by
Mr.. Jerome, Mr. Garvin or Mr.. Hart
ridge.
Mrs Holman then details her strug-
gle following the death of her first hus-
band, in her efforts to properly rear
her two children and SAYS her daugh-
ter first posed for an artist named
Storm of Philadelphia, who met Eve
lyn at summer resort when a little
girl
Florence" she says. twas in love
with the stage
She did everything to discourage her
but IT was useless The story of Flor
ence's first meeting with Stanford
White. she says. is substantially as told
by her on the witness stand.
When Florence returned she told
her mother she had met the grandest
man. and later when Mr.. White sent
for her she went to his office Mr..
White. she says. warned her specifcal-
~ against several young men with
whom Florence had become acquaint-
ed but did not refer to Thaw- His
manner. words and actions were the
interestedneSs and generosity, Mrs
Holman says. and if ever a woman re-
posed implicit confidence in man
she says she did in him
Florence Didn't Tell He
Mrs. Holman then asserts that if
Florence underwent the experience
that is said to have befallen her. she
did not take her into her confidence
Continuing, she says: Had she told
me what she told the Thaw jury, it
would not have been necessary for
Harry Thaw TO kill Stanford White.
would have done il myself"
Speaking of the European trip. Mrs.
Holman says
Every detail of the trip was and is
a nightmare to me- Mr.. Thaw Joined
us in Paris Florence and I shared the
same apartments. Mr. Thaw had
apartments by himself. There was no
pleasure in the tour for me The
things which appealed to Florence and
Mr.. Thaw in Paris did not appeal to
me. Florence testified that we quar-
relied frequently while in Paris, in fact,
continually.
The disagreements were caused by
my protests at visits to various res
taurants."
In closing Mrs. Holman says:
Il solemnly affirm that my love for
my daughter is as deep and intense as
it was when first held her in my arms
a helpless babe Regardless of all that
has transpired. my affection is I'M
altered The door of my home is open
to her and will swing wide at her light
est tap, today, tomorrow and always
while 1 live