New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-11
EVELYN THAW'S DENIAL
SHE DID NOT ASK $500 900.
Thinks. HOUCUer. She Deserves a
Fortune for DeUOtiOn TO HARM.

VI thIt IOf tItNOttOH ~ iIuf ".
Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was at home to the
newspapers last night at her West SD street
apartments. First she advanced 4 slim slipper of
| dove colored suede and set 1t down prettily and
| firmly In denial that she or her lawyers any
| body else had ever demanded that the Thsws set
| tie $500 coo on her
Then she chatted on FOR hour and more in
breezy and characteristic comment upon herself
and her affairs her husband. his lawyers and all
| that they had done since Thaw shot Stanford
| White on the Madison Square roof. Before she
was finished it camt out that income of s5oo0oO
year would not seem an excessive provision 10
Mrs Thaw, and any much smaller than that
| would be absurdly insufficient
Six thousand year for mtonairss wife,
| she exclaimed. That's rid culous. But that is
what I m getting now, and il comes very irregu-
| larly. They send me SO week and 500 more the
nrst OF each month Now. you see, pay s95 for
these apartments and then electric light and gas
ana my maid and so on-why, it's really dread
| fully hard 70 &c along. And Mr. Morschaussr has
been very irregular in sending that
Mr.. Morschauser told me once that had earned
my living before. and I ought 10 do IT now. Yet
how can I? was actress. Thaw took me
from the stage and can never go back except
as freak 10 be stared ar. not a real actress
am studying sculpture now. I have two orders
Tor portrait pieces But it means years ot work
before can hope 10 really make a living at that
And. anyhow. / refuse 10 sacrifice myself any
further for Mr. Thaw. l don't consider that I am
responsible for his past for his present in
generation. and ] think the least he can do for
me now is TO support decently When l was
telling my story the atand it was all Dearest
Evelyn. Darling Evelyn our little girl.
and ali that
4 saw 1t like this: This man had married me 7
could either be gutter. do what l did When
l had the house in Park avenue I was getting a
settlement of $4,000 year. and. of course. other
money besides. for you can't big house like
that IN New York for any such sum
Mrs William Thaw proposed that have the
marriage annuled and accept a settlement OF sl2,-
600 year for life. That was not what I really
ought 10 have II WAS absurd for the wife OF a man
| Ike ThaV but so sick Of il ali, and wanted
II done and over with Then Mr.. Morschauser ap-
peared. and though I had signed the aunulment
papers the settlement was never made and the offer
| withdrawn"
| Mrs. Thaw." it was suggested here's great
| chance TO say what you really think Of Mrs. VIII
| tam Thaws charge that YOU dragged down her son
20 his ruin
why should l." with a shruE The young man
| had been dragging himself through the mire of
| Paris and New York before 7 ever him"
| DO YOU intend 10 get a divorce
''1hai can't say exactly think Ia rather "a
annulled than divorced"
Reasserting his sanity. Harry X. Thaw issued a
| statement yesterday reviewing the evidence given
in his recent hearing his app,, alton Tor release
| from Matteawln. Thaw says
Mr.. Jerornes witnesses were an unprofessiona1
Jic,gt osrG IT. ,is ,T,s - la; liz, 49, ii.,i.s
and Or. Baker who. from his testimony. might have
| been either side. except that 10 showed some
| unfrieudliuess 20 US and could not remember many
| admissions he had made 20 me and 70 Dr. Pilgrim.
| Ths best experts have Informed ma that II any
! insane man was questioned for twenty minutes a
| jerome questioned he would asSuredly show his
INSANITY As Jerome kept this up over fifteen hour.
IN all during liz trial hc proved me san" forty
| utes during his Htteen hours % Wild and cxtraor
| binary questions would have settled any parsnoiac
might have. / don't consider my testimony one
,enth 50 important a. that OF the twenty alensi.
| have sworn l am sane. or III" testimony OF th'
II seems 70 me I must be perfectly sane n nart
headed, sensible men who slept In the same noon
| wake w, then eat my breakfast dinner and sup
| per. and who took me up on me mountains wher'
! could have left them miles behind had n"
| been trustworthy These and many cIcrEymeD
| headed by President Patton % Princeton. an,
| ladies' some Of whom have knQwp mo an nv lire
| and bankers and manufacturers and police and
and insane men. Also city clerks, editors. farmer.
| lawyers and the Ex-Governor OF great state. al
| find perfectly sane. and none ind anything ir
This seems 10 mo TO prove my sanity time,
| better than whether or ! could handle Nj
| Jerome I'm a fourteen and "A half hours debate or
svery possible subject except the alleged delusion
| when ne ala not seem to want explained. Mayb.
| explanation would have spoiled his Hypothetical
question.
Pi,tsburg Aug. i0-Roger O'Mara has returned
| 20 Pttsburg and tonight declared Harry Thaw Il
4 be no; only sane. but able TO pass lawyers eX
animation with credit right at the present moment
| Mr.. O'Mara says the former Pttsourger Will soon
be liberated and viii go 10 Europe. where In some
secluded spot he will quietly rest. never again 10
| touch drop pack n gun.
| Mr. O'Mara declared that absolutely obstacles
would be placed In the way Of Evelyn Thaw suing
| for divorce He added:
Mrs. Thaw and Harry deserve all credit II the
! boy is freed. Evelyn Will not be troubled by
Harrys company. No more " mite lights or bub-
bling wine for him. He Will live in the future for
| the mother Harry Thaw is "A safe sane man"