The Washington herald., 1909-07-18
MRS. THAW TELLS
Or FATAL LOVE
Declares She Was Stolen
from Stanford White.
SAYS SHE MAY MARRY AGAIN
Pretty Young Woman Admits that
I'm the Eyes of the World She May
Seem bad, but Adds that She Has
Her own Court OF Ethics, Which
She Has Followed strictly.

New York. July 17.-Evelyn Nesbit
/ Thaw, in an interview to-day, told The
( first comprehensive story that has ever
come from her lips Of the events con
nected with the tragedy on the Madison
Square Garden roof on that night IN June
three years ago.
This takes into account her other re-
cigal OF her relationship with the victim
Of her husbands hatred on the witness
stand
7 have no desire to pose as an ex-
ample for young American women 10 FOL
/ low" she said 7 want no one 20 have
illusions as TO what I am. But I am just
as anxious TO end for all time the ridicu-
lOus nonsense that IS being spread about
/ as porraying me 1 want two things
/ thoroughly understood
The first one is that have never COM
mitted any crime l am a young woman
whose unfortunate upbringing has ended
in my being connected with s0rdld mur-
der in which had no part and which I
tried for three years to prevent
Life with Thaw.
During my married life with Thaw I
lived al home as quietly and with as
much regard for the conventions as any
woman ever had. may marry again. It
IS all question in my mind as 10 the
advisabiiity OF giving up a career I have
mapped out for myself. or OF settling
down TO rear children in the fashion OF a
good housewife and mother.
III you viii have the truth. I am dis
tnctly immoral. as the world to-day views
morals have my own code OF ethics.
and live Up to them. But, from present
day ideals. I am immoral There is no
question Of it.
Mrs. Thaw made 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
But am not bad woman she went
on, in the sense that l spoke Of bad
women in that first trial If I make up
my mind to marry the man love. 1 shall
do it. and the world will hunt IN vain
for a chance TO accuse me Of indiscre-
tions II. on the other hand, 1 reach
the conclusion that my art means more
10 me than the raising Of children: II I
decide II is not right for me to become
mother and stigmatiZe children with
the curse that has been brought upon
my name, I shall tell the man I love
as have already told him / should do
that l cannot marry him: that our mar
riage would be a thing 10 hurt US both
later
1T isn't strange then, that when Stan
ford White singled me out and bought ne
a pearl drop that cost $1,000. and let
every one know he approved OF me-it
isn't strange I thought he WAS the most
wonderful man in the world.
Mistake Number One.
But mistake No. 1 comes right here.
and by mistake I mean the popular i'm
preston that was gained from my cross
examination in that first trial.
You will remember I swore on the
stand I was given a drug by Stanford
White that left me unconscious at the
end Of a minute I also said 7 recovered
from the III effects OF that drug in less
than three hours and went home. At
that time I knew as well as any one else
that every one doubted the truth Of that
statement But it was not untrue.
1t isn't true that 1 hated Stanford
White then or az any time. He was so
much finer and bigger-hearted and more
cOhslaeIate OF al women than any men
one meets in the ordinary course Of events
that his unhappy attitude toward woman
and girls is fault TO be minimized IN
summing up his whole life career.
stolen from White.
'Thaw stole me away from White. illst
the same as men in the stone age stole
women-foik lore says Is uch things
happened. and I understand that Is the
way the old tales go.
For more than q year before that
Christmas night in 1903 had seen White
;. II; small 4 sons. 17lOrIsI..