The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-17
TELLS OF EVELYN'S CAREER
MRS. HOLMAN ISSUES LONG
 STATEMENT TO PUBLIC.

If She Had Known the Truth There Would Have Been No Need of Thaw Shooting White for She Would Have Killed Him HerseIf-She Trusted the Architect Implicitly-The Personifi- cation of WhoIe-Hearted, Disinter- ested Generosity.
 Pittsburg, April 16.-In a six thou sand word, statement given to the newspapers to-day Mrs. Charles J. Holman, mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, make a vigorous defense of her conduct which was the subject of the bitter attack by Dolphin M. Delmas in his summing up at the trial of Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. In this statement, which Mrs. Holman de- clares is her first and last word, she says that had her daughter Evelyn told her the story she told to the jury of her mistreatment at the hands of White, she, Mrs Holman, would have gone to New York and killed White with her own hands.
 The statement opens with minute account of the daughters early life and the familys struggle with diversity. The going of Evelyn to New York as an artists model is recited. White, as she says, wCls introduced to Evelyn by Edna Goodrich. Mrs. Holman did not know whom Evelyn was to meet when Miss Goodrich asked her consent to introduce Evelyn. Afterward she made inquiries concerning White.
 Continuing, the statement says: "Soon after this MT. White sent a re- quest for me to meet him in his office. I went I was greatly impressed with his manner and what he told me. Among other things he said:
 Mrs Nesbit, do you know you have a remarkably beautiful daughter? She shouldn't be on the stage or going around to studios. She is too good for that sort of thing. You must be care full of her; watch her closely. Watch her associates, especially the men she goes with. You cannot take too much pains New York is very wicked city and it is full of dangers for a young T F
 girl
 We had many conversations and he offered to do all sorts of things for us. Why do you take such an interest in my daughter I asked him. Mrs. -sNesbit,' he replied, I like her because she is so pretty and so good She is so unsophisticated, and so are you. She must not be spoiled; she ought not tc be on the stage. Anything is likely tc happen to her there. For her sake anC for your own be very careful of her You should be in better surroundings.
 "Mr. White warned me specifically against several young men with whom Florence had become acquainted Ol one of them he said: Don't fol heavens sake, let her have anything tC do with that fellow. He is one of tht worst little rats in New York. You daughter Is not safe in his company
 He did not refer to Harry Thaw. was so persistent in demanding iron MT. White pledges and assurances o his good intentions toward Florenc that he grew impatient and said What sort of a person have you met Have you no friends? You must no be a nuisance to me, He told me tha there were several other young persons principally boys, he said, whom he wa educating abroad. They were poo boys, he explained, who promised t develop into great men.
 If ever a woman reposed implici confidence in a man I did in Stanf0rt White His manner his words, hi actions, were the personification 0 whole-hearted, disinterested generosity He was the first man with whom ha, come in contact in New York wh seemed disinterested; who seemed | be doing what he did without expecta tion of return.
 Referring to her trip to Pittsburg a the time when Evelyn charges Whit with ill-treating her, Mrs. Holmai says: