Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-28
At the Threatening and
Insulting Statement
By Col. Bartlett In Relation to
Her Divorce Suit.
Can Prove That She Was Urged to
Sue Harry For Divorce.

New York, May 27.-That the rela-
tons between Evelyn Nesbit ThaW
and her husbands family are strained
to the highest tension was made APP
parent today when she gave out a
statement vigorously assailing 1.-The in
sincere gratitude assumed toward her
by MI. Thaw's relatives since the be-
ginning of his trouble
The statement followed an exchange
of formal statements between Mrs.
Thaw and Franklin Bartlett, counsel
for Harry X. Thaw's mother, which
We're given out after the discontinue
ance yesterday of the proceedings
which young Mrs. Thaw had begun
for an annulment of her marriage.
She declared at that time that she had
practically been forced to begin the
action by pressure eXerted by her
husbands relatives and that she with
drew her suit because she believed her
husband in his present predcament
meritCd her loyalty.
Mr.. Bartlett, acting for Mrs. William
ThaW, later on gave out statement
in which he denied emphatically that
neither he nor any of Thaw's relatives
had anything whatever to do with the
institution of the annulment suit. He
said Mrs William Thaw desired that
Evelyn Thaw be treated gen rously
and that at the present time $40 is
given an allowance Of $1,000 a month.
In her reply young Mrs. Thaw reit-
crates that the annulmont suit was
begun at the behest, persuasion and
solicitation of Col. Bartlett and A.
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Thaw family and declares that she has
written proof to back up her state
ment. She declares that counsel who
are harrassing ner have at the least
provocation sought to air their views
through the newspapers and adds:
"This may be one of the many
methods to influence her husband so
that he may be more pliable to their
desires"
Mrs. Thaw's statement in full fol-
lows:
I'm answer to the threatening and
insulting statement issued by Col.
Bartlett in the name of Mrs. William
c. Thaw, Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
has this to say, that the statement is
in keeping with the insincere attitude
assumed toward her by Mr.. Thaw's
relatives since the beginning Of his
troubles.
Daniel O'Reilly now reiterates that
the annulment proceedings were be-
gun at the behest. persuasion and So
licitation of Col. Bartlett and A. Rus
sell Peabody. representing the Thaw
family and so that the question may
not be discussed further. 1 have in
my possession the undeniable proof in
the handwriting of a member of the
family and that there is so much proof
is known to Col. Bartlett and A. Rus
sell Peabody. Mrs. Thaw deprecateS a
newspaper controversy but will resent
as long as she is able such an at
tack as was contained in the inter-
Wow issGed by Col. Bartlett last night
'There is place for the proper adj
justmont of Mr.. Thaw's family af-
fairs, but that place is not in the
columns of the daily press, notwith-
standing that the counsel who are
harra ,sing her, have at the least prov
ocation sought to air their views at
her expense through this channel This
may be one of the many methods to
influence her husband so that he may
be more pliable to their Desires