The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-11
Fair Evelyn With a GoodIy
Supply of Gold, Will Travel
Beaten Paths and ThaW
Family Will Be Relieved.
ON ALL SIDES THERE Is
SILENCE AS TO PRICE.
Practically Assured, HoWev-
er That Little Woman Who
Saved Neck of Whites Muir
derer Will Be Rewarded.

New York. March 11.-Papers in
the suit of Evelyn Nesbit ThaW
against her husband, Harry Kendall
Thaw, for the annullment of their mar
riage were served on Thaw in Matte
avian asylum today. At the same time
a complaint was handed to the defen-
aant's mother, Mrs. Mary Cafely
Thaw, she being made codefendant,
because of the possibility that the
courts of New York county Will ap-
point her guardian of his estate. The
papers set forth that Thaw was insane
at the time of the marriage and gives
as proof, peculiarly worded letters,
and his will, etc. 1t is understood that
EVELYN first took aversion to her hus
band when he killed White. She de
slares she fears he will murder her il
she euds with him.
This sensational finish to the Thaw
White tragedy came about through
the efforts of Dan OReilly, persona
counsel for young Mrs. Thaw, at the
Hotel Belmont and a. Russell Pea
body, who is Thaw's personal coun
sell
Will Provide For Her.
Everything has been arranged
Harry Kendall Thaw will defend the
action, but back of it all there is 6
definite understanding that the wife
is TO be provided for.
What is to become of young Mrs
Thaw if her action succeeds" NJ
Peabody was asked.
She will be provided for" was the
reply.
by the Thaw family?"
by Thaw."
This is the important feature of the
affair, for the Pennsylvania statutes
the marriage having been contracted
in that state-do not provide for any
settlement on woman whose marri
age was annulled, and there are grave
doubts as to whether any settlement
can legally be demanded i'll New YORK
under similar circumst tances. There
fore all of the interested persons
Thaw perhaps excepted-his stay ir
Matteawan being indefinite-have got
together in an amicable arrangement
and the final phase of the Thaw case
will witness the chief actors going
their respective ways-the wife with
a goodly stock of Pittsburg gold--the
laborer being worthy of his hire-ant
the Thaw family with that deep sigh
OF relief and resignation which goes
with hard bargain made necessar.
by force of circumstances.
Amount Unknown.
On all sides there is silence as tc
the price. That is to be an affair out
side of law and the courts. No one
will talk about it. A shrewd guesser
however, ventured a prediction tha
1t would amount to about $50, 900 il
cash and an annuity of $1,000 or sS, ,O0t
per year. Young Mrs. Thaw will. O
course be permitted to marry again.
Mrs. Thaw herself will have to TAX,
The witness stand at the trial of hel
action, and then will come the anti
climax to the series of dramatic Incl
dents which have marked the progress.
OF the Thaw case. Where, on two his
torfc occasions, the wife barred he
soul In the tremendous effort to say,
her husbands life from the grin o
the law, she will now be seen swear
ing away the bonds that bind them to
<ether.
Holds Him in Terror.
Her task completed. she will asl
her discharge. And he will be there
too, under guard, though, for he i
stamped insane. and thereby hang
one of the stories that is being told o
this wonderful complex affair
There have been< stories of Thaw'
attacks upon her i'll the Tombs, on TIL
Bridge of Signs, in the waiting room
just off the trial chamber and in tn
asylum. All of them have been do
MED, though evidence of the facts i
plendfully at hand. True or not. how
ever. the fact remains that Evelv1
Nesbit Thaw holds her husband i,
mortal terror. 1t has not been a wee,
since that she expressed the conyit
tion, with blanched face and tremb
ing hand, that if he was set at libert
he would kill her before "A hours ha
elapsed. His counsel have expressa
a similar conviction. His family. ever
share these fears.