The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-22
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Evelyn Thaw Will Decide Between
Nursing Bottle and Career

Evelyn Thaw VIII Decide Between
Nursing Bottle and Career
New York, July 22,-Nvelyn Nesbit
Thaw, In an interview yesterday, told
the first comprehensive story that has
ever come from her lips of the events
connected with the tragedy on the
Madison Square Garden roof on that
night in June three years ago. This
takes into account her testimony tell
ing Of her relationship with Stanford
White. the victim of her husbands
hatred. She said:
Il have no desire to pose as an ex-
ample for young American women to
follow. I want no one to have illus
ions as to what am. But I am just
as anxious to end for all time the rid
iculous nonsense that is being spread
abroad as portraying me. l want two
things thoroughly understood.
Tried to Prevent Murder.
"The first one is that never COM
mitted any crime. am young wo-
man whose unfortunate upbringing
has ended In my being connected with
sordid murder, III which had no
part and which tried. for three years
to prevent.
During my married life with Thaw
I lived at home as quietly and with
as much regard for the conventions
as any woman ever had.
II may marry again. 1t is all a
question in my mind as to the advisa-
bility of giving up a career ! have
mapped out for myself or of settling
down to rear children in the fashion
of good housewife and mother.
"If you will have the truth, am
distinctly immoral, as the world today
views morals. have my own code of
ethics, and / live up to them. But
from present-day ideals l am immoral.
There is no question of It,"
And here Mrs. Thaw made 1t known
for the first time that there is a man
of whom she thinks more than Of any
one else in the world. She would. not
tell his name.
Not "Bad Woman
But I am not bad woman" she
went on, "in the sense that l spoke Of
bad women in that first trial. If
make up my mind to marry the man
love shall do it and the world will
hunt in vain for a chance to accuse me
of indiscretions.
"If, on the other hand, reach the
! conclusion that my art means more to
me than the raising of children; il
decide it is not right for me to become
| a mother and stigmatize children with
the curse brought upon my name. I
shall tell the man l love, as have al
ready told him should do. that can
not marry him.
"That is that our marriage would be
| a thing to hurt us both later.
Dazzled by White Gifts.
"It is not strange then that when
Stanford White singled me out and
bought me pearl drop that cost ST.
600 and let every one know he ap-
proved of met is not strange I
thought he was the most wonderful
man in the world. But mistake num-
ber one comes right here-and, my
mistake, mean the popular impress
sion that was gained from my cross
examination in that first trial.
"You will remember swore on the
stand I was dragged by Stanford
White and left unconscious. also
said I recovered from the i'll effects
of that drug in less than three hours;
dressed and went home.
'At the time knew as we'll as any
one else that every one doubted the
truth of the statement.
But 1t wasn't untrue, and what is
more, District Attorney Jerome has
told me since that he has discovered
what he had believed was Impossible,
that there is not only one drug but
three drugs that can do this.
I; Says She Loved White.
! 1T is not true that hated Stanford
+! White then or at any time. He was so
much finer and bigger-hearted and
more cons.derate Of all women than
/ any man one meets in the ordinary
: course OF events that his unhappy at
/ titude toward women and girls is a
fault to be minimized in summing up
; his whols lies career.
"Thaw stole me away from White.
! Just the same as men In the Stone Age
stole women, II folk lore says such
! things happened, and l understand
: chat is the way the old tales go.
: For more than year before that
! Christmas night In 1903 had seen
/ White only occasionally. But he was
my protector, ny patron. II you will,
! and I loved him more than ! ever had
/ any man or woman In my life, my
/ mother and father not excepted.
HE wes giving me birthday party
! the very night Thaw appeared with q
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. I hardly knew him. I
! did not like him. It was a case of go
or be killed. That was the beginning
of our love affair.""
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