The Brunswick news., 1909-07-22
EVELYN THAW
TELLS HER STORY
FOR THE FIRST TIME SHE TALKS
ABOUT THE KILLING OF
STANFORD WHITE.
She Says She May Get Married Again
and Intmates That She is Very
Much in Love-Not So Bad as the
World Would Suppose.

New York, July 21.-Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, in an interview here last night,
told the first comprehensive story
that has ever come from her lips OF
the events connected with the trag-
edy on the Madison Square Garden
roof on that night in June three
years ago.
This takes into account her other
recital of her relationship with the
victim of her husbands hatred on
the witness stand
Il have no desire to pose as an
example for young American women
to follow" she said. 81 want no
one to have illusions as to what [
am. But l am just as anxious to end
for all time the ridiculous nonsense
that is being spread about as por-
traying me. l want two things thor
oughly understood.
The first one is that | have never
committed any crime. | am young
woman whose unfortunate upbringing
has ended in my being connected
with sordid murder, in which | had
no part and which | tried for three
years to prevent.
Life With Thaw.
During my married life with Thaw
| lived at home as quietly and with
as much regard for the conventions as
any woman ever did. L may marry
again. 1t is all a question in my
mind as to the advisability of giving
up a career | have mapped out for
myself, or of settling down to rear
children in the fashion of a good
housewife and mother.
IF you Will have the truth, | am
distinctly immoral, as the world to-
day views morals. ! have my own
code of ethics and live up to them.
But, from present day ideals, | am
immoral. There is no question about
it,
Mrs ThaW made known for the
first time that there is man of
whom she thinks more than of any
one else in the world She would not
tell his name.
L
Went on, Gin the sense that I spoke of
bad women in that first trial. If l
make up my mind to marry the man
| love, | shall do it, and the world
will hunt in vain for a chance to ac-
cuse me of indiscretions. IT, on the
other hand, | reach the conclusion
that my art means more to me than
the raising of children; if | decide
it is not right for me to become a
mother and stigmatiZe children with
the curse than has been brought upon
my name, | shall tell the man | love,
as | have already told him | should
do, that | cannot marry him; that our
marriage would be a thing to hurt
| us both later.
1T isn't strange, then, that when
Stanford White singled me out and
bought me pearl drop that cost over
81 600 and let every one know he
approved of me-it isn't strange |
thought he was the most wonderful
man in the world.
Mistake Number One.
''But mistake No. l comes right
here, and by mistake | mean the pop
ular impressions that was gained
from my cross examination in that
first trial.
you will remember | swore on
the stand | was given drug by
Stanford White that left me uncon-
scious at the end of minute. ! also
said / recovered from the i'll effects
of that drug in less than three hours
and went home. At that time | knew
as we'll as any one else that every
one doubted the truth of the state
, ment. But it was not untrue.
eIt isn't true that l hated Stanford
White then or at any time. He was
so much finer and bigger hearted and
more considerate of all women than
anv men one meets in the ordinary
! course of events that his unhappy
attitude toward women and girls is
| fault to be minimized in summing up
| his whole life career.
Stolen From White.
''Thaw stole me away from White
! inst the same as men in the stone
age stole women--folk lore says such
things happened and | understand
that is the way the old tales go.
''For more than year before that
, Chrietmas night in 1903, ! had seen
| White only occasionally, but he was
nv protector-my patron, if you VIII
and 7 loved him more than ! ever
had any man or woman in my me-
nv mother and father not excepted.
And right here before we get TO
the rest of it, let me say it was no'
easy-what l forced myself to DO on
| that witness stand. Do you tnlnh
followed my inclinations when ! sal
there and looked at that grinnins
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