Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-20
THAW SAYS
SHE'S NO LONGER
AN ANGEL CHILD
Since Thaw Escaped Moose, She
Declares Situation Has Changed
and She Is Quite Ready To An
null Marriage

NEW YORK. July 1T was a darling.
an angel child. a sweet little woman and
everything else SO long as Harry X
Thaw was in danger OF the electric chair,
but once his precious body was saved
on. well. then IL is different
This was the statement made by Evelyh
Nesbit Thaw today when she told for
the FIRST time, how she consented to sign
parers in a suit TO annul her marriage
with Harry X Thaw and afterward with
drew her signature when the elder MIS-
Thaw failed TO fulfill her side Of the con-
tract.
while Evelyn Thaw refused to state the,
amount Of money that was offered 10
her, soon after Thaw's second trlai TOT
the murder Of Stanford WHITE, 70 ihuu -S1I
her TO consent TO an annulment II Is wen
known TO the authorities that the amount
was about $4,000 a year for life
AMOUNT WAS REDUCED
This amount was subsequently reduced
- e 600 n wear. when the elder MIS-
Thnw refused TO sign a $4,000 year
contract with her daughter-tn-laW-
1T was because I learned Things aoOu'
him during his second trial" said Eve
- Tbsv todav. that came to the
decision that we would never i've 10
rsther again as man and wife.
II do not want to say that / think
Mr. Thaw insane. or that l think MIN
a nsranoiac. but sooner or later ne VIII
20 back to his old habits
sswhy, say" she continued. nave
rot the prettiest divorce case you ever
saw. and IL the Thaw family does not
treat me right. they viii have trouble
on their hands 1 don't want oiFoIce'
hut there has been tank Of him starting
a suit for divorce when he gets out and
x he does TIL give him the greatest night
vou ever heard Of What I want though
Is an annuIlmsnt OF marriage. 1 want
a. get nv name back: I am so sick and
tired Of the name of Thaw that ] hardly
know how 10 express II.
NO TALK OF MONEY.
There was never any talk Of money
an any way whatever. either before or
curing the first two trials. but after
Thav had been sent to Matteawan his
mother proposed to me that get our
marriage annulled. She offered me
roodly sum OF money! will not say
f1st at present the amount-but have
a signed and sealed contract from her.
I was 10 get the money as soon as
the papers were completed. When every
thing was in readiness and my signature
AFFIXED TO the papers they were taken TO
her and she refused to make good her
end Of the proposition. Then withdrew
my part OF the contract and no further
action was ever taken. But can as
sure you that the mother viii be sorry
that she did not complete that contract
before she Is finished with me
HAS PETITION PREPARED.
mo, I viii not show IL until the proper
time comes. I have a petition which 1
may file in Pittsburg, In which / intend
20 ask for a valuation Of his estate, so
that I can get what is due me. / tell
some things In the petition that are in
teresting.
why, last summer, for months. he let
me go without a single dollar 10 live on.
When I vent to him and asked him what
he meant and how he expected me 20 live,
ne would simply grin az me and give me
not the slightest satisfaction"
Young Mrs Thaw then went on the
state that she hoped in six years to stand
at the head Of her profession as a woman
sculptor.
Il laugh ard play and cut up the high
est kind OF jinks in spite OF all / have
gone through" she continued II have
no desire 10 pose as an example for young
American women 20 follow. / want no
one TO have illusions as to what I am.
But I am just as anxious to end for all
time the nonsense that is being spread
abroad as pOrtraying me. l want two
things thoroughly understood:
MAY MARRY AG1N.
The first one is that I never have COM
mitted any crime. / am young woman
whose unfortunate upbringing has ended
in my being connected with sordid muir
der. in 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 conventionalities as
any woman ever had may marry again.
NOT TRADING ON NOToRIETY.
The second thing I want made plain
is that / viii not trade upon the notoriety
that has attached itself to me as a result
OF this terrible affair. II chose TO accept
the many offers that have been made to
me TO 20 on the vaudeville stage l should
Be Independently rich.
That I have refused these things is no
indication that 1 am wonderfully high
principied- II you viii have the truth,
/ am distinctly immoral as the world to-
day views morality have my own code
OF ethics and l live up 10 them. But from
present day ideals am immoral" And
here Mrs. Thaw made il 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.
as TO MARRYING.
But II I decide TO marry the man
love. shall do IL and the world viii hunt
I'm vain for a chance to accuse me Of in
OteCLeN0DN. II NGN4UE II - AUN EAkAAA A0E
me TO become a mother and stigmatie
children with the curse that has been
brought on my name-I shall tell the man
I love that 1 cannot marry him
But to tell the story 1 have made up
my mind 20 tell I must begin way
back when I was a child Of Is. I'm the
chorus OF Floradors. I was nabber-
gasted BY Il all Remember I had al
ways been in more or less want for
actual necessities and I was only a
child besides.
1T is not strange then that when
Stanford White singled me out and
bought me a pearl drop that cost a
thousand dollars and let every one know
h approved OF melt is not strange !
thought be was the most wonderful man
10 the world But mistake number one
comes right here and by mistake I mean
the popular Impression that was gained
from my cross-examinatiOn on that first
trial
EFFECTS OF DRUGS.
You viii remember I swore on the
stand I was given a drug by Stanford
White that left me unconscious and 1
also said I recovered from the ill-eTects
OF that drug in less than three hours
dressed and went home. At the time
knew as well as any one else that every
one doubted the truth OF that statement.
But IL was not untrue. And what Is
more District Attorney Jerome has told
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