The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-03
She Is a Sister of Harry Ken
dali ThaW.
FRIENDS EXPECTEDIT.
Trouble Grew Out of Brothers
Trial for Murder.
Her Husband Objected to the
Plea of Insanity.

London. Jan. 3.-The Countess of
Yarmouth. who was Miss Alice Thaw
OF Plttsburg, has begun PROCEEDINGS
for the notification of her maria 4,
with the Earl of Yarmouth.
The Countess of Yarmouth is a sis
ter of Harry K. Thaw.
Inc Yarmouth case was entered in
the defended list for trial at the com
ing s1ttings Of the divorce court. IT
will be heard in camera.
Story of the Marriage.
new York, Jan. 3.-The marriage of
the Earl OF Yarmouth in Pittsburg to
Ance Cornel1a Thaw, followed a rather
DrleI courtsh1p and ended the earPs
stage career, which had begun in pri-
Vate theatricals at Newport and later
nad peen more or less successful in a.
professional way.
Lady Yarmouth has always been the
IaVor1te with her brother, Harry Ken
dali Thaw, whose second trial for the
killing Of Stanford White, will begin
Monday. She returned from England
and was present during the entire first
trial of her. brother. It has been given
out that Lady Yarmouth would not be
present at the second trial out of de-
ference to the wishes of her husband
and his family, the earl having strong
ly objected to the notoriety of the first
trial. The former Miss Thaw has al
ways been very popular and during the
tr1al OF her brother, she attracted a
great deal of sympathy. When she re-
turned to England it was generally re-
ported that her health had been wreck
ed. Later it was said she had gone to
Italy with her husband to seek rest
and the restoration of her shattered
nerves.
At the time that Harry Thaw shot
STANFORD White, Mrs. William Thaw
was en- route to England to visit her
daughter and it fell to Lady Yarmouth
At the wedding of the Yarmouths it
was planned that the brides eldest
brother, Harry, should give her away,
but he was absent. The ceremony was
delayed several hours to await his com
ing, but he did not appear. Josiah
Thaw, another brother, acted in his
place. 1t was reported that the delay
in the ceremony was due to further ne
gotiations with regard to the marriage
settlement from the Thaw family. The
earl is declared to have insisted upon
an increase and the papers had to be
drawn up before the marriage proceed
ed.
Within the first year Of her married
life Lady Yarmouth was compelled to
deny rumors of disagreement with
her husband. She endeavored to live
as quietly possible and entertained
only on a small scale.
All on Account of Harry
Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 3.-The news that
the Countess Of Yarmouth is seeking
notification of her marriage did not
create much surprise, as it has been
known here for some time that all was
not well between the couple
| 1t is said here that the eStrangement
results from two causes, the first the
action Of the earl during the first trial
Of Harry K. Thaw, the countess
brother.
1t is said that when the trial was
about to begin the count went to Egypt
and lived in seclusion in the select
colony of English folk there. The sec
ond cause is said to be the action of
the Thaw family in determining upon
an insanity plea for Harry Thaw.
From reports received here from Lon
don during the past month it is said
Yarmouth objected to insanity figuring
in the New York trial on the ground
that 1t would have a direct influence On
the succession of the Yarmouth estate,
in the event there was an issue from
the marriage. 1t is also said the earPs
parents used every influence tC prevent
the institution of proceedings to nulh-
fy the marriage. The Yarmouths were
married two years and half ago, by
the Rev. w. L. McEwan of the Third
PRESBYTERIAN church, the family pastor
who also married Harry Thaw and
Evelyn Nesbit.