The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-21
MRS. EVELYN THAW
 STICKS ID HARRY
There Appears to Be Another
 Woman In the Case
REAL CAUSE OF THE BREAK
Mrs. Thaw Admits That Trouble With Harry's Relatives Was Not Cause of the Suit Which She
 Filed Against Him.

New York, June 2O.-(special.) That Mrs. Evelyn Nesbltt Thaw knew that Harry K. Thaw had access to apartments in the home of Mrs. Susie L. Merrill In West E'iiiy-fourth street, and knew 1t dur ing the first trial of Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. was told Friday in the offices of her attorneys. O'Reilly and Sullivan.
 Furthermore it was said that this Knowledge and not any disagreement with Thaw's family caused the break in the relations between herself and Thaw. At that tune Mrs. Thaw was in- duced to divulge what she knew about her husband freQuenting the Merrill house by the published evidence in the breach of promise case of Susie l.. Merrill against Lazarus Levi, the banker, in which plain tiff testified that Thaw came to her apart ment with Mrs. Thaw." Mrs. Merrill testified that she knew him ''when he came with the furniture and that she did not know Reid was Thaw until he had been arrested for Whites murder. T want to make the statement as em- rhatic as posible,' said Mrs. Thaw on Friday to MT. O'Reilly and myself, said Attorney Sullivan, that l was never in tl,at house and that I never set eyes upon the woman until the days when l was in the witness room In April 1907. Then dld not understand she was witness for the defense. l was told that she had been subpoenaed by my husbands attorneys, and I was suspicious of her. In fact 1t seemed to me that she had been placed in the witness room by orders ofs MT. Jerome or some of his assistants. l com plained about her presence, as you know, end was informed that she was interested in the defense of MT Thaw."
 Mrs. Thaw did not know at the time that Mrs. Merrill had been subpoenaed by her husbands attorneys to prevent her from being subpoenaed by the prosecu- ton to testify to Thaw's actions in her house after he had been married to Evelyn Nesbik.
 When 1t was reported, said Mrs. Thaw, that my relations with my hus- band had become strained and that it was due to the conditions which existed in the relationship of myself and the meni- bers of the Thaw family, l made no com ment. But at that I knew that Mr. Thaw had been to the apartments of the Merrill woman, and resented it until l recover ed my composure. 1 never, never, never, saw that woman until she came into the witness room, and I want to say with the greatest emphasis that I was never in her house.
 'I have been faithful to my husband during all his trials, and I am going to stand by him now. As regards the separ- ation suit I will say nothing. I see my husband often and will continue to see him. There is no doubt about the fact that Mrs. Merrill was in the witness room with me during April 1907."
 This statement Is most interesting In the light of the fact that Mrs. Merrill tes- tified that she had been delivered of Il child, April 6, 1907, and that 1t was Bank CT Lewis daughter.
 The relations regarding the two came out when counsel for MT. Levi in the $100,- coo breach of promise action were search ing for evidence against Mrs. Merrill to disprove her story of her associations with MT Levi and that the latter was the father of the girl known as Dora Mer- Till.
 Since Mrs. Merrills commitment to the Tombs in default of $2, 900 bail an effort has been made to get from her a state- ment dealing with her associations with Thaw, but she denies herself to inter- viewers. Late this evening an unknown bondsman produced the necessary bail and Mrs. Merrill was released