The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-02-16
EVELYN THAW READY
FOR GREAT ORDEAL

Now that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
has gone on the stand, and by laying
bare her life, attempted 10 save her
husband, 1t Is interesting to know
just what sort of a gir1-what sort
OF stamina and courage-lies behind
the veil and simple frock which
ciothe the delicate looking wife OF
the prisoner. How is she equipped
to stand the ordeal?
She will be game to the CORE
said a friend today "She has been
building up her strength ever since
the tragedy She has gone on the
stand because she insists upon it.
From the very beginning she has in
sisted that she does not count-that
she will make any sacrifice to help
save her husband.
What do | count?" she said to
her husbands lawyers Harry Is
everything. l do not care for my
SELF
1t has been charged that Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw played White aginst
Thaw and Thaw against White.
Nothing could be further from the
u,
Harry Thaw loved Evelyn Nesbit
and IT can be said that Evelyn Nesbit
returned his affection with a love as
true.
1t was because of this that she
turned against her mother. When
she realized that her life had been
destroyed, she began to hate her
c1, L,
with her association with Stanford
White
Mrs. Harry Thaw is peculiar
as simple as a child, and she had a
child's intelligence. That was be-
cause she had had no opportunity to
develop.
But since then she has taken ad-
learn. Her studies, together with
the wisdom that accrues with wide
travel, have combined to make her
an unusually capable young woman.
$50 great has been her desire to
learn, to lift herself to the station
in which her husband introduced her,
that ever since the tragedy she has
had a daily session with a private
tutor. She has devoted three hours
to study every day at the Lorraine.
Zone might say that Mrs Harry
Thaw is fearless. That is, she is un-
afraid. It has been charged that
Harry Thaw beat her. That is alb
surd.
ANY one who knows her knows
that Harry Thaw would not be equal
to that. For, little as she is, she
would make it very interesting for
Harry Thaw if he attempted to beat
her. 1t is an old saying that it takes
wee woman to chaStise a big man.
That she is peculiar any woman
will understand when it is said that
she is fond of snakes-snakes of the
deadly poison sort. Her greatest
pleasure has been to hunt them"
After her marriage to Thaw they
went to the Yosemite Valley. Thaw
wanted to catch some trout. He was
told that only the Indians succeeded
in catching them, but he persisted.
And while he was fishing his wife
hunted rattlesnakes.
"She went about poking under
rocks with a forked stick. The guide
followed her around in alarm. When
he saw her stick her bare hand un-
der rock, he pulled her away and
warned her that she was taking her
life in her hands. She laughed.
Returning through the valley,
Mrs. Thaw saw big snake crossing
the wagon road, and she jumped from
the wagon and ran after it. Her
husband followed, and when he saw
her stoop and try to catch the snake
at the back of the head with her
bare fingers, he yelled at her.
She was startled by the cry and
it almost cost her her life, as it at
tracted her attention from the snake
Just one instant. In that instant the
rattlesnake poised to strike.
"Mrs. Thaw was equal to the oc-
easlon, however. She struck the
snake with her parasol and finally
killed it
Some time after this she discov-
cred a snake show in Pittsburg. She
induced her husband to take her to
the show After the performance
Thaw paid the exhibitor for the priv
ilege of letting his wife invade the
snake den.
Mrs. Thaw entered the den and
played with the hundred snakes with
the eagerness and innocence that
"She wrapped big blacksnake
around her throat and laughed at the
anxiety of her husband.
"This may all seem somewhat NOR
bid, but it is true And at least it
shows that Eevelyn Nesbit Thaw has
courage"