The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-30
DIARY RUINED HER
Evelyn Thaw's Notebook Causes Mrs, De
Mile to Close School

Evelyn Thnw's Notebook Causes Mrs. De
Mile to Close School.
NEW YORK. December .0.-The name OF
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw iiguratively is written
Med IN the United States Circuit Court yes
s.eay by Mrs. Ma,hildn Beatrice De Mila
Evelyn Nesoit Thaw, OF the saint like face
the chief figure in the Thaw tragedy, is the
blight that has. after a. two-year struggle
forced the widow OF Henry c. Dc Mile. the
brilliant collaboration OF Bclasco two decades
Wrights OF to-day. to plead before II court
= law to be reaicased from the obligation
=. her debts. that she may make u fresh
ror It was tho story OF Evelyn Nesbl.
Ihaw. as 1t was heard from her own lips on
tle witness stand during the trial of Harry
tor.ety to the fashionable school at compton
lake. n j.. in which Mrs. De Mile, tho
woman Of brains and breeding, sought to
rehablitate the fortune crippled BY the uni.
eNrected death of her husband.
Girls story Ruined school
Yesterdays action was tho climax of u
string OF circumstances that have followed
n logical sequcnce--the story by Evelyn Of
the life OF a chorus girl, among the teude,
daughters OF fashionable families. at the
ponnton Lake school; the shock 10 tho
i clientele of the school when
artist model as companion for many
months; the vacant schoolrooms and dorm-
tories. where before they had been filed
Three months after the ending of the trst
Thaw trial, Mrs. De Mile closed her school.
She saw that the struggle against the noto-
t!ety gained through the Thaw trial would
he in vain.
Forced Into Bankruptcy.
Mrs. De Mile attempted again to win back
fortune by coming TO this city and starting
a play brokarabe business, with offices In
tic Aston Theatre building. l. is in these
OFFICES that she has been toiing for many
months striving In vain against competition
as the expected climax came yesterday III
the two lines upon the court calentlar-the
petition OF bankrupt
Mra. De Mile called her school the Pam
licc She spent 100000 refittng the pretty
vNia by the lake. and Well known among
the fashionable set herself. she had littie
yotng girls OF the best families
stanford White selected this school as the
enc In which Evelyn Nesbit should be cd9.
Gated.
II was at this school that Evelyn Nesbi,,
the., n trlte over sixteen years of age. fell
III with appendicitis, and the notorety sur
rounding the operation would have been
sufficient Ia itself to close the doors Of the
school, aside from what followed.
Kept Cynlcal Diary.
Evelyn kent diary while ahe was at
this fashionable school. 1t was there she
wrote Of the little white bed, the virtu-
Gus white bed; where cynicaly. she
ssitetched her life nun. These girls
hove been kept from the world all their
lives, and they, know very lttls OF the
near side of IT," II wonder how far ii ~
from Rcctor's?" ~
IN the diary read at the trial. In the d.
rect examination OF Evelyn, ono line brought
a smile IN tho sombre atmosphere.
Mrs, DE Mile was very nice" District
Attorney Jerome read from the diary. "Shc
SAID, Come right In so / jumped out with
the agility OF a soubrette and proceeded TO
go in When We drove up TO the mansion.
Mrs. De Miles son came up, smoking a
pipe, and must confess no is simply Il pie
raced mutt. That describes MIN. -