Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-31
DIARY HER RUINATION
Evelyn ThsR's Notebook Causes
HPs. gshll| Q 10 Close Her School
GIRLS STONY RUINED iaE PLACE
Her Cynical Comments Which Were
Read to the Jury by District At
torney Jerome, Gave to the School
, Dlsaorccable Notoriety.

NEW YORK, Dec. sO.-The name
OF Evelyn Nesolt Thaw figurativeiy
is written across the voluntary poti-
zion in bankruptcy flied In the United
States Circuit Court yesterday by
Mrs. Mathilda Beatrice De Mile.
Evelyn Ncsbit Thaw, OF the. saint
like face. the chief figure In the Thaw
tragedy is the blight that has. after
II two-ysnr struggle, forced the widow
OF Henry c. De Mile. the brilliant
collaboration of Belasco two decades
age, and the mother of two success
fui playwrights of today. to plead be-
fore court of law TO be released
from the obligation OF her debts. that
she may make n fresh effort.
For It was the story of Evelyn
Neshit Thaw, as it was heard from
her own lips on the witness stand
during the trial OF Harry K Thaw,
last February that brought notori-
ETY. to the fashionable school Is. at
pompton Lake, n. j., in which Mrs,
De Mile. the woman of brains and
breeding, sought To rehabili,nte the
fortune crippled by the unexpected
death of her husband.
Girls Story Ruined School.
Yesterdays action was the climax
of a string Of circumstances that
have followed in logical sequence
the story by Evelyn of the life of Il
chorus girl, among the tended daugh-
tcrs of fashionable families at the
Pompton Lake school; the shock to
the fashionable clientele OF the school
when they learned that their daugh-
ters had the artist model as n com
panion for many months; the vacant
school rooms and dormitories. where
before they had been filed.
Three months after the ending of
the first Thaw trial. Mrs. De Mile
closed her school. She saw that the
struggle against the nosorety 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 to play brokerage
business, with offices in The Aston
Theatre building. 1t Is in these Of
fees that she has been. toilng for
many months. striving in vain
against competition as the expected
climax came yesterday in the two
lines upon the court calendar-.the
petition of n bankrupt
Mrs. De Mile called her school the
Pamlico. She spent 100000 rofitting
the pretty villa by the lake. and well
known among the fashionable set
herself, she had little difficulty in
filling her class rooms with Young
girls of the best families.
Stanford White selected this school
as the one in which Evelyn Ncsbit
should be educated
il was at this school that Eyciyn
Nesbit. when Il triile over 1G Yeas OF
age, fell i'll with appendicitis. and the
notoriety SURROUNDING the operation
would have-been sufficient in itself
TO close uhc doors of the school.
aside from what followed.
In the diary read at the trial, lin
the dfRact examination of Evelyn, one
line brought n smile 10 the somber
atmosphere.
"Msr. De Mile was very nice Dis
trict Attorney Jerome read from the
diary. She said. Come right In SO
/ jumped out with the agility of n
soubrette and proceeded to go in.
When We drove Up to the, mansion,
Mrs. MeNfille's son same up smohing
a pipe, and must confess he Is sim
ply pie faced mutt That describes
him.