The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-17
Evelyn ThaW Has Nothing to
Say About Latter'S Letter
NOR DO ANY OF THE THAwS
Mrs. Holman Defended Herself From the
Attacks of Delmas During the Trial
The Prisoner Was More Re-
conciled To-day.

New York, April iY.--Evelyn Thaw
today refused to comment in any man
ner on the statement given out by her
mother, Mrs. G. j Holman yesterday.
In fact all the Thaw forces were silent
on the matter.
The letter was given in a copyrighted
interview to the Pittsburg Leader yea.
terday, In which Mrs. Holman defends
herself against the accusations express
ed and implied against her during the
Thaw trial.
The statement opens by saying that
two nights after the night upon which
Harry Thaw shot stanford White, she
received this telegram from her daugh-
ter:
'It ii most important for you to say
absolutely nothing"
Until now she has remained silent
and has been forced TO take the de-
fensiYe because Of the ATTACK made up
on her by Mr.. Delmas in his address to
the Thaw jury.
She denies that she aided the district
attorney in any way or tha she had
been seen by Mr. Jerome Mr.. Garvin
or Mr.. Hartridge, Mrs. Holman then
details her struggle following the death
of her first husband in her efforts to
properly rear her two children and says
her daughter first posed for an artist
named Storm, OF Philadelphia, who
met Eveyn at Cresson, Penn, summer
resort, when a little girl.
Florence" she says, "was in love
with the stage" She did everything
to discourage her but II was useless.
The story of Florence's first meeting
with Stanford White, she says, is sub
stantially as told by her on the witness
stand. When Florence returned, she
told her mother she had met the grand
est man and later when Mfr. White
sent for her, she went to his office. Mr.
White, she says, warned her specifically
against several young men, with whom
Florence had become acquainted but
did not refer to Thaw.
His manner, words and actions were
the personihcation of whole-hearted, dis.
intersetedness generosity, Mrs. Holman
SAYS, and if ever woman reposed i'm
plicit confidence in man, she says she
did
Mrs Holman then asserts that when
Florence underwent the operation that
is said to have befallen her, she did not
take her intoh er confidence. Continu-
ing, she says:
Had she told me what she told the
Thaw jury, it would not have been me-
cessary for Harry Thaw to kill Stan.
ford White. | would have done it my5
self
Speaking OF the European trip, Mrs.
Holman says:
Every detail of the trip was and is
nightmare to me. Mr.. Thaw Joined
us in Paris Florence and / shared the
same apartments. Mr.. Thaw had apart
ment5 by himself. There was no pleas
ure 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 quarreled
frequently The disagreements were
caused by my protests at visits to
various restaurants"
In closing Mrs Holman SAYS:
y solemnly affirm that my love for
my daughter is as deep and intense as
IL was when first held her in my
arms, q helpless baby. Regardless of
all that has transpired, my affection il
unaltered. The door Of my house is
open to her and it win swing wide at
her slightest tap today, tomorrow and
always while | ive,s
Thaw Is More Contented.
Thaw was today in good spirits. He
is said to be reconciled to the probabil.
ity of spending another summer in the
Tombs When district attorney Jerome
returns from Lakeyille today II is ex-
peeted that Thaw's attorneys will take
the first steps towards getting their
client out on bail