Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-20

NEW YORK, July 1y.--Eveiyn NeS- bit Thag. in an interview today with a World reporter. told the first com prehensive story that has ever come from her lips. Of the events connect sd with the tragedy on the Madison Square Garden roof on that night in June. three years ago.
 If you would have the truth, am distinctly immoral. as the world to- day views morals" said Mrs. ThaS. T have my own code of ethics and live up to them. But from present day ideals. I am immoral. If 1 make up my mind to marry the man I love, 1 shall do 1t, and the world will hunt in vain for a chance to accuse me of indiscretions. If, on the other hand. ] reach the conclusion my art means more to me than the raising of children; if l decide it is not rigAt for me 10 become a mother and stig- matize children with the curse that has beea brought upon my name, shall tell the man l love, as l have already told him 1 should do, that cannot marry him: that our marriage would bs a thing to hurt us both later.
 Mistake No. One.
 Tt isn't strange then that Stanford White singled me out and bought me a pearl drop that cost a thousand dol lars and let everyone know he ap- proved melt isn't strange 1 thought he was the most wonderful man In the world. But mistake No. 1 comes right here-and by mistake mean the popular impression that was gained from my cross-examination on that first trial. You will remember ] swore cn the stand I was given a drug by Stamford White that left me uncon- scious l also said recovered from the ill-effects of that drug in less than three hours, dressed and Wen. home.
 Al the time knew as well as any one else that everyone doubted the truth of that statement, but it wasn', untrue And. what is more District Attorney Jerome has told me since that he discovered what he believed was impossible-thatt there is rCt only one drug, but three drugs that can do this
 When l found out how widespread was the disbelief on thus .o,at ] cen suited one of the most eminent phy- SlCldHS -NcN 1o.k SAgA the three lruys that can prodaoe un- consciousness without de,eterious aft CT effects and work within sixty sec unds of their introduction into the system.
 Tt isn't true that I hated Stanfortl White then or at any time. He was so much finer and bigger-hearted and more eonsiderate of all women than many men one meets in the ordinary course Of events, that this unhappy at titude toward women and girls is a, fault to be minimized in summing uo| his whole life career.
 Thsw Stole Her.
 "Thaw stole me away from White. just the same as men in the stone age stole women, if folklore says suchI things have happened, and 1 under stand that is the way the old tales go. For more than a year before that Christmas in 1903, had. seen White only occasionally. But he was my protector. my patron if you will, ana I loved him more than l ever had any man or woman in my life, m mother and father not excepted.
 He was giving me birthday party the very night Thaw appeared with revolver in my dressing room and told me he would kill White before he would allow him ever to take me away from him. There was nothing for me to do under the circumstances but go with Thaw. l hardly knew him. l did not like him. It was sim ply 6 case of go or be killed. That was the nature of the beginning of our love affair. What an awful blow to the sentimentalists of the evening newspapers with their angel child talk, this is, But it is the truth.
 And right here. before we get to the rest of it, let me say it was nor easy what forced myself to do ol that witness stand. Do you think l followed my inclinations when I sat there and looked st that grinning Thaw down below me. that miserable man whose life I was soaring my heart to save. and told secrets l would have kept from the world at the cost of my own life? It wasn't easy. But ii was following out. determination l had made with the flash of his re- yoiyer that night on the roof gard 1T. That's all"
 Husbands Cruelty.
 Mrs. Thaw then told of her hus- bands cruelty to page at London hotel. She said:
 One afternoon Thaw placed big heap Of golden guines on the table in our sitting-room and then rang the bell. When the boy came Thaw told him to stay in the sitting-room While he went in the bedroom, ostensi5iy to write a cablegram. The poor little fellow saw the guineas spread ont on the table. Thaw was watching through :hs portieres. J'he page fell into the trap and put two of the coins in his pocket. Thaw rushed out on him and told him he would not send him to prison, but would punish him himself. He dragged the scared little fellow into the bathroom, stripped him and ficgged him with horsewhip until the child was bleeding all over his body. Then Thaw put him in the bathtub and rubbed salt into his wounds.
 -This is one of the things the peo- pie are going to bring out in the Whlte Plains trial now under way. It is the first of the proofs they are going 10 advance in support of their contention that Thaw is a paranoiac. The sane incident will figure in the suit oi Clifford W. Hartridge, Thaw's counsel of record in the first trial, when MT and Mrs. Hartridge's suit against Mrs. William Thaw comes into court
 The boys mother brought sui' against Thaw in London and he set tied out of court for several thou sand dollars.
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