Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-22
THAW TRIAL TO BEGIN in
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In u performance she was awkward
on the stage and showed lack of
finish. 1t was Whites suggestion
That she should go TO school, and &C.
cordingly she went to the private
school OF airs. H. G. De Mile, at
Pompton, N. ]. White paid the bills.
She was taken sick there and came
back to New York to take up her
| stage career again, and 1t was about
this time that she met Harry Thaw
The Girl and Harry Tnaw.
The best students of past perform
ances along Broadway have 1t that
rhaw first began paying the closest
attention to the girl ut Il time when
White was called out of the city. She
was then playing I'm musical comedy
Mt the Madison Square Theater. He
| spent his money with prodIgal
hand. On Whites return, however.
the girl smiled again on the man
who had been the first to be generous
to her and ThawS wrath knew no
bounds.
Thaw, from all accounts. did not
lind favor with Mrs. Nesbit, but the
young Fittsburg millionaire was un.
daunted. He sent valuable gifts to
the girl Mt her apartments-one of
them being grand piano--and
sought her on every possible occas-
ion. The elimination of 1t all was
| that Mrs. Nesbit and her daughter
went to Paris. and 1t Is said that
White paid the way.
Thaw Followed Her to Pnris.
The Nesbits had not been in Paris
long when Thaw followed them. His
influence was finally such that, 1t is
said, he induced the girl to leave her
mother who. stranded on the other
side. had to cable to White for
money. and It was with this that she
came home.
Thaw and the girl travelled through
europe for n while, but 1t is said that
MS treatment of her was such that
she was forced to leave him and come
home alone. When she reached this
side she first sought out Stanford
White and then prepared an affidavit
In which she told of Thaw's treat.
ment in detail. In this document she
is said to have set forth that Thaw.
besides being cruel to her. took away
all her jewelry. This affidavit Is
said to have been written In EVELYN
Nesbit's own hand, and 1t is also said
| that White wrote In some interlinea.
lions. There was talk that the girl
was to bring suit against Thaw for
S2b,0O0 damages through Abe Hum.
mel. The suit, If one was contem-
plated, never came to trial. Accord
ing to report, the original of the af-
| fidaVit then made was destroyed.
White. however, kept Photographic
| copy OF 1t. according to general be.
lief, for he knew at that time that
Thaw had detectives on his trail
watching his every movement.
| ThaW on the Trail Back.
Thaw followed Evelyn Nesbit home
on the next steamship and, as the
| District Attorney has been told began
the very day he landed to get the
girl away from White. He met her
In sDite Of her mothers Influence and
the Influence of White, and he finally
won out
| In December, 1904. the girl disap.
peared, and the mother learned that
she had sailed for Europe with Thaw
after complete reconciliation. Once
Thaw and the girl got abroad. there
were renewals of the reports Of his
cruelty to her. II was when the pair
went to Europe for the second time
that White Is said to have washed
his hands of Evelyn Nesbit
| The Marriage.
From London, toward the close of
1904, came the report that Thaw and
Evelyn Nesbit had been married In
the early part of 1905 they returned
TO New York on the same steamship.
They went to the Cumberland Hotel.
at Fifty-fourth street and Broadway,
where the manager would not allow
them to remain unless Thaw regis.
tered rs man and wife. Their hotel
experiences both here and in Phila.
delphla were much In the public eve
at the time.
Finally Thaw made a trip to Pitts.
burg. His mother, who had disap.
proved of his association with Evelyn
Nesbit. gave her consent to his mar.
riage, which took place in the parson.
age of the Rev. DR., w. L. McEwan,
of Pittsburg, on April 4, 1905.
. with the former model and chorus
girl for daugter,in.law. Mrs. vii
liam Thaw set about to fit the young
woman for the new social sphere and
practically forced Evelyn Thaw into
Pittsburg society.
Lived Apart from Mother.
According to gossip that from re.
cent events was we'll based on facts
the way of Mrs. Harry Thaw and
that OF her mother, who had become
Mrs, G. Holman, parted at the
Tune the young woman married Thaw
Her mother and her stepfather were
witnesses to her wedding, but it Is
said that one of the stipulations
:, made by the elder Mrs Thaw when
she agreed to the marriage, was that
!, Evelyn Nesbit should keep afar from
!, her mother. That the two did not
meet as mother and daughter ordinar
lily do after the marriage of the
, younger one is borne out by state
ments to District Attorney Jerome.
Following his marriage, Thaw die