Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-26
Evelyn Thaw Wants a Western Ranch
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NEW YORK, April 19.-The Even
IN ing World today prints an inter-
view with Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
the first Of any consequence granted
by the wife Of stanford whites slayer
since his mistrial, and which was OBJ
tained by Nixola Greey-smith.
Notwithstanding the unsatisfactory
outcome OF her husbands trial and the
long agony Of suspense she endured
while the Jury wrangled over his fate,
she looked last night In better health
and spirits than I had ever seen her,
the interviewer relates. She wore a
simple white tailored shirt waist, a
small brown tie and a brown skirt.
Her face seemed fuller than Il had
during the trial. and altogether she
impressed me as a person to whom a
respite had been given. 1 told her
that she was looking much better. and
she said:
'T am glad you think so. But I
can't eat anything l have had no
appetite for weeks, except once or
twice, when / had luncheon with Dan
lei O'Reilly He is so funny that when
l am with him l eat a quantity Of
food without realizing IT,"
Mrs. Thaw, who has been made so
persistently pathetic during the last
few months, prefers, soon discovered
to be anything else. She takes the
misfortune in which she is plunged
courageously, and even finds in certain
phases of 1t elements of humor she
seems. indeed, a person who has lived
so long on such familiar terms with
tragedy as to be able to joke with 1t
now and then.
THAT man." she said, reverting to
her latest critic, said that l did not
cry enough when was on the stand.
1 cid not want to cry. I tried so hard
not to; / cenched my hands so hard
that my nails cut through my gloves
and into the flesh
She Wanted to Laugh
There were other times when I
wanted to laugh" she confided. "One
of them was when Mr.. Jerome handed
me my famous diary to read, and 1
sat and read 1t on the stand. There
were so many little amusing things in
1t about the school at Pompton, that
1 had forgotten. One, in particular,
was an account of burlesque I ar
ranged on Every Man. Our class had
been taken to see Every Man. and
on our return 1 got UP a parody and
called 1t Every Woman The diary
had a copy of a poster announcement
of the play with admission 10 cents,
and some local hits that seemed very
amusing to me, though, Of course, they
would not interest anyone who didn't
know Pamlico-that is the name of the
school at Pompton, you know 1 had
forgotten all about the diary"
Then you don't keep one now?" II
asked.
"but 1 suppose, now I've admitted it,
I'll have to hide 1t somewhere. They
could break in and take it from mel'
This was to me very interesting.
The young woman whom we had all
written so much about during the
famous trial had secretly got even, and
1t seems pity that this most interest
ing record of all should remain un-
published. In it is the soul, the real
identity of Evelyn Thaw, of whom wei
have guessed so much.
During the days of the bug testi-
mony-that is what Harry ana called
the expert evidence" continued Mrs.
Thaw, II drew some caricatures while
we were in the witness room. Those
of me were always labeled the pallid
che-ild.' There was one Of you called
thu Logical .Nixola taking In the Thaw
pew! L made some of May Mckenzie
also. You know she said, with one Of
her sudden flashes of seriousness, '1t
was fSiy WdillH6, diLO idQ wi
have something to dol"
She seemed for the moment halfI
afraid that 1 would not understand;
that I, too, would think that she had
mot cried enough" But I did UNDER
stand.
Did you ever write anything but
the diary?" I asked, after a pause.
Mrs. Thaw drew her straight brows
together in that pretty furrow of cog
station with which the long months
of Harry Thaw's trial had made me
familiar.
Lizard Gave Inspiration
YES" she said, finally, II wrote q
composition ate Pamlico. 1t was very
funny. I had not studied so much as
the other girls, and 1 went to all of
the literature classes. There were
three or four of them, but I never
wrote anything. One day my teacher,
Miss De Forrest, shut me up in room
with a pad and pencil and told me
l had half an hour to write an essay.
Then she shut the door and went
away.
II was flabbergasted. sat and looked
at the paper. For long time 1 could
not think of anything. Then 1 remem-
bered Amelia Who was Amelia?
Pamlico had funny bathtub. One of