Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-11
THAW SUIT IS BEGUN
Prisoners Wife Begins Action For
 AnnuIment of Marriage.
TERMS OF SETTLEMENT MADE
After Case ls Decided She 10 to Re-
 ceive Lump Sum of $5o,ooo and An.
 nuaI Income of $15,ooo For Rest of Her Life-Husband to Make Contest.

nuaI Income of s1S,ooo For Rest of
 Her LIfe-Husband to Make Contest.
 New York, March 11.-Counsel for both parties announced officially that Evelyn Nesbit Thsw today would in- stitute suit for the annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw on the ground that he was insane at the time the marriage was contracted.
 The papers in the suit were prepared for service upon the slayer of Stanford White in the Matteawan Hospital For the Criminal Insane. Thaw will tech nically defend the action and endeavor to prove that he was not insane when he married the beautiful chorus girl in Pittsburg on April 4, 1905.
 The terms of financial settlement as agreed upon, however, stipulate that young Mrs. Thaw will receive a lump sum of $5O,OOO as soon as the suit is decided and $15,000 year thereafter for the rest of her life. Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother of the prisoner, is made a codefendant in the action. As next of kin she is technically the real defendant, as the law presumes her son to be insane and therefore le- gally dead.
 Harry's Mother Favors Evelyn.
 It is understood that the elder Mrs. Thaw looks with favor upon her daugh- ter-in-law's suit and that she is largely responsible for seeing that the young woman's future is provided for. She be- lieyes that her daughter-in-law should be treated with the utmost considera- tion in view of the sacrifice she made to save her husband from the electric chair.
 A. Russell Peabody, counsel for Thaw, visited his client at Matteawan and broke the news of Mrs. Thaw's in- tention to him. He was also the bearer of proposition from the latter regard ing a financial settlement. It is said that Thaw worked himself into terri ble rage and rejected his wife's plan. That he still loves her and will not permit an annulment of the marriage without a contest was made evident by the orders he gave his counsel.
 q want you to fight this suit to the end," he is reported to have said. T was not insane when I married my wife any more than I am insane now, and she cannot get her freedom from me on that ground. If I was only out of this terrible place this would never have happened"
 Young Mrs. Thaw III.
 Young Mrs. Thaw is ill in bed at her home, 446 Park avenue. The strain of the negotiations which have been pend. ing for several weeks has proved too much for her. Her complaint is nervous one, aggravated by a recent attack of grip. ...-...
 Coincident with the news of the bringing of the annulment suit comes the positive assertion from Lawyer Daniel O'Reilly, counsel for young Mrs. Thaw, that the break between the couple, far from being of recent origin, dates back to the middle of the first trial of Thaw.
 During the first trial" said Mir. O'Reilly, something happened which caused a decided coolness between Harry and his wife. They kept up ap- pearances, but their relations have nev- CT been the same from that time. The trouble was over a personal matter and had nothing to do with the attitude of the Thaw family toward young Mrs. Thaw."