The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-08
MRS, THAW STILL ON STAND.

phone.
White Went to See Her.
$50 he came to see me at the Hotel
when he came in he tried to kiss
| me, but 1 did not let him. He asked
what was the matter. l told him to sit
down and asked again if my mother
was ill. He said no, and at once be-
gan to talk about Harry Thaw. He
told me that different actresses had told
him that l was in Europe with Harry
Thaw. He said presently that Harry
Thaw took me to Europe and asked me
why I went around with man who
took morphine. He said positively that
Harry Thaw took morphine, that he
was not even a gentleman and I must
have nothing to do with him.
after that he came constantly to see
me. He also sent people to me who
told me stories about Mr.. Thaw, the
stories 1 told yesterday. 1 told Mr..
Thaw afterward that the stories wor-
ried me so much 1 could not sleep
nights. I got very nervous for knew
Mr.. Thaw was coming over and did
not want to see him. ! told Mr. White
"One day Mr.. White telephoned me
that he was going to send a carriage for
me and l was to come to Broadway
and Nineteenth street. l did so and
White met me and got into the car
riage. He said he was taking me to
see Abe Hummel, the greatest lawyer
from Harry Thaw. He said l was not
to be afraid of Mr.. Hummel; he was
little man with a big, bald head, warts
on MS face and was very ugly
when I got to Mr.. Hummel'S Of
flee, Mr.. White went away. Mr.. Hum
mels office walls were covered with
photographs of actresses. with writing
on them. He asked me how came to
go to Europe with Harry Thaw, and 1
told him that had not done it, went
with my mother and Thaw followed
US. He asked me about my quarrel
with my mother in London. 1 said it
was continuous quarrel between us;
we simply could not get along. She
wanted to come home to America and
I said she could come but 1 was going
to stay there and return to the stage:
but the doctor told me could not
dance for year. He (HummeD
asked me all the places where 1 went
with Thaw. I told him all 1 could
remember. He said was minor and
that Thaw should have been more
careful.
What HummeI Said
HE said he had case in his office
against Thaw, but the woman in the
case was a very bad one and he did
not think the csc was much good.
Then he said Thaw was a very bad
man, and above all things, I must be
protected from him. Mr.. White then
said that the other man was to get
Harry Thaw out of New York and
keep him out.
"They asked me if went to Europe
of my own accord and 1 said certain
ly had. I said my mother left because
1 had quarreled with her and could
not dance for year. and l liked Mr..
Thaw very much and could not do
anything else.
Nevertheless Hummel said. you
are a minor and he should not have
taken you away from your mother
said he did not take me away.
Mr. White said that strong meth
DDS must be resorted to to keep Thaw
out of New York and to protect my
self must help in every way I could.
Mr.. White said that I must leave
the case in his hands. Then they sent
for a stenographer. and the lawyer
said I must not interrupt him in what
he was about to say. l was very ner-
vous and excited and I think 1 began
and put in a lot of stuff that I had
been carried away by Harry Thaw
against my WILL I started to inter
rupt, but the lawyer put up his hands
and stopped me.
They put in that I had been taken
away from my mother and lot of stuff
that was not true; that I had been badly
treated by Mr.. Thaw. Then they sent
the man out of the room.
Several days later Mr.. Hummel
called me up and asked If I had any
letters from Mr.. Thaw.
Surrendered Thaw's Letters !
"I said I did but 1 could not see what
that had to do with it. Mr.. White also
called up and said If 1 was not willing
to help in every way they could not
protect me from Mr.. Thaw. He said I
must do just what Mr.. Hummel said.
So | made the letters up in a bundle
and took them to Mr.. Hummels office.
He said he did not want to read them
and did not care what they contained.
He asked, however. if they were love
letters, and I said yes
He said he just wanted to hold them
over Harry K. Thaw's head. He sealed
them up in big envelope so 1 could
see, he said. that he did not care any
thing about them.
Then he asked me why 1 did not sue
Harry Thaw for breach of promise. 1
said that that was absurd, for If there
had been any breach of promise IT was
on my part. He said that did not mat
ter.
Mr.. Hummel said a breach of prom.
ise suit would be a fine advertisement
for me. 1 told him 1 did not care for
that kind of advertising. He said lots
of actresses had done the same thing
and he had won lots of cases for them.
He told me English duke had once
been sued by an actress for breach of
promise. He declared he could easily
win suit for me. / said did not want
to sue anybody. This made Mr. Hum
mel very mad and angry and he told
me was foolish"
What more did you tell Mr.. Thaw?"
Mr.. Thaw asked me if 1 had signed
anything in Mr.. Hummel's Office and
I said / had not. He said that that was I
funny, for If they wanted to cause trou-
BILE I must have signed something !
said 1 had signed absolutely nothing in |
Mr.. HummeIs office. Mr.. Thaw was
very much agitated. He said Hummel
was blackmailer and he said 1 think. |
that there was something bad in the
air, and he impressed me that he was
going to see Mr.. Longfellow. his law
yer"
Mrs. Thaw testified to going to her
own lawyer, and relating her expert |
ences with Hummel. Her lawyer. she |