The Washington times., 1908-08-07
EVELYN TOLD LIE,
WHITE, GENTLEMAN
Hattie FOrSythe
Lawyers Fixed Up Story,
She Says, and Girl
Learned the Part.
THAW'S CONCEIT
BLAMED FOR CRIME
Thinks Former Chorus Girl leased
Husband to Amuse Herself.
Architects Charities.

NEW YORK. Aug. 7.-''EveIyn is a
dear little thing. but she's an awful
story teller. There isn't a word o.
truth in that tale she told about Stan
ford White on the witness stand. She
simply traduced her benefactor TO save
herself
Harry IS a fine fellow and a good
spender, but he isn't crazy. He Is JusL
the victim of his own colossal egotism.
They may say what they please about
Stanford White. but he was the gen
tlest. the kindest the most thoughtful
and considerate man that ever hved.
never heard a man or woman who knew
him personally say a hard word against
him"
In these words Miss Hattie Forsythe
summed up her opinion Of the charac-
ters Ct The three principal actors lu the
Thaw- White tragedy. 1t was the first
time since Harry Thaw shot White
that any one competent TO SPEAK Of ali
the motives that LED 10 the crime has
spoken. Miss Forsythe gives her esti-
mate Of her one-time friends and inu-
mates.
Knew All Three Well.
/ Miss Forsythe knew both White and
| ThaW well. Her acquaintance with
1 Mrs. Thaw goes back 10 the days when
| Evelyn was a mere slip Of a girl in the
chorus OF the White Rose company
I She was with Evelyn and ThaW when
I they taught the gay Parisians a few
/ things IN the memorable summer IN
/ Paris. when Thaw proposed marriage
/ TO Evelyn. IL was in her apartment
/ that Thaw and Evelyn took refuge upon
/ their return to America. when hotels
turned hostile IoOTs 10 them.
! Please underJtand," said Mss For
| sythe, that / ana not saying anything
against Evelyn. on the contrary. I like
her very much and II she did as she
ctd-well, the temptation was terrible.
] She had herself 10 save and her hus-
band to save, and what was the poor
girl 10 dc?
Says Lawyers Fixed Up Story.
| "Besides. I don't believe she ever
made up that awful story about Stan
( ford White. I believe lawyers fixed It
/ all up. and that he told her it was the
only way to save Harry's life, and that
/ was the way he drove her into telling
/ it. Then he reheaTse her and re-
| hearsed her Ike it was q part on the
| stage until she was letter-perfect In
/ it. And Evelyn is clever enough 10
]
! through,
why. Evelyn was perfectly devoted
/ to Stanford White. I don't mean in
/ the way of being in love with nim.
! She's a little ic.cle. She never cared
| the rap OF her little finger for any
man. in my opinion. Not White. nor
| Harry-aor any of the men people have
| coupled her name with. She hasn't a
particle of temperament. She is 2 good
! fellow sort Of girl She likes clever
men and witty men, and men who viii
/ give her a good time-but as for falling
/ in love with thenr-pooh! Not she.
! but she was genuinely fond Of
| White and grateful 10 him for all he
had done for her. Why he was ike
I a father 10 her, and as for his treating
/ her in the awful way she described,
| why. ii Is simply a lie, He didn't do 1t.
| Il don't think that White had sen
timental feeling toward Evelyn, either.
She was simply at that time the pet
1 tiest cutest little trick, like a darling
| girl baby you know, and Just as full
| of pranils as monkey.
Marriage Pleased White.
"Why, just before he was killed
! saw him, and we were talking about
! Evelyn, and he said that she was the
| bulliest little thing, and he was SO glad
/ that she had married so well, and that
| ne hoped she would be very harpy.
! Evelyn is g gcOd-hearted girl. and
/ she's got Just as wonderful a mind as
| she has a fave. There isn't anything
| she couldn't do. and she's just as am
| bilious as they make 'em. From the
! first she always intended to do we'll for
| herself
/ Il think her ambition and her love Of
/ amusement are her most pronounced
| characteristics. She simply can't keep
/ quiet. she has got to be laughing and
dancing and singing; and her gayety
used TO get on Harry's nerves so and
made him perfectly furious with ner.
/ But his scOlding never did any good.
! She would just laugh in his face and
go on. Whatever Evelyn has done wrong
/ in her life wasn't for money, or passion
/ or love. It was just because she's got
] quicksilver in her veins, and is bound
/ 10 have excitement
That's my explanation of the reason
! why Harry Thaw killed White. Harry
married Evelyn and took her out of her
old life and pumped her down with his
mother in d country place that was as
| duh as ditch water, no matter how fine
ana artistic it may have been. She was
4 a million miles, so 10 speak. from
/ broadway and the cafes and restau-
rants, and her old friends. The only
WAY she could keep herself from going
crazy was by teasing nlIl' ana making
| him Jealous. and she just simply went
further than sfs intended.
Thaw All COnceit-
self conceitei! That's Harry Thaw's
/ trouble He has an idea that le is q
little tin-god, and that nobody would
dare to touch him. That's why he took
/ a chance on killing White He thought
I that he would look fine and heroic
/ shooting a man in defense of his wife.
/ Besides this. ne considered himself per-
/ fectly safe
/ "One night in Paris when four OF rs
were at supper, Harry suddenly dis
1 appeared and we went TO twelve diff
| ferent places before we found him
/ When we did discover him he was sit
| ting down by a table feeding peaches
to about twenty French girls. Evelyn