The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-19
Says EvyIin Thaw in an Inter-
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FLOWED STANFORD WHITE
Better Than Anyone Else I Ever Met"
Mrs. Thaw Declares Admits
She May be Immoral, But
Does Not Care.

New York, July lo.--EyelyA Nesbit
Thaw in an interview Saturday told
the FIRST comprehensive story that has
ever come from her lips Of the events
connected with the tragedy on the Nladi-
son Square Garden roof on that night
in june three years ago, This takes
into account her old recital Of Der rela-
tiouship With the victim Of her husbands
hatred on the witness stand.
4 have no desire to pose as an ex.
ample for young American women to
follow. want no one TO have illusions
as to what / am. But ! am just as
anxious 10 end for al time the ridieu-
lous nonsense that is being spread abroad
as portrasing me. want two things
thoroughly understood.
eThe first one IS that have never
committed any crime. ] am a young
woman whose unfortunate mp bringing
has ended in my being connected with a
sordid murder in which had no part
and which j tried for three years TO
prevent.
During my married life with Tbaw
/ lived at home as quietly and with az
much regard Tor the conventions as any
woman ever had may marry again
1t is all a question in my mind as 70 the
advisability Of giving up career have
mapped out for myself or of settling
down to rear children in the fashion
of good house wife and mother.
Never Traded on Her Eotorety.
The second thing / want made plain
Is that / win not trade on the notoriety
that has attached itself 10 me as re-
suit Of this terrible affair. II chose to
accept the many offers that have been
made to me To 70 on the vaudeville
stage | should be independently rich.
THAT | have refused these things IS
no indication that am wonderfully high
principaled II sou win have the truth.
am distinctly immoral, a. the world
today views morals. I have my own
code Of ethics and i've up 70 them Bat
from present.day ideals am immoral.
There is no question Of it."
And here NIrs. Thaw made it known
for the first time that there il man
Of whom She thinks more than Of amy
one else IN the world She would not
tell bis name.
May Yet Marry the Man She Loves
But ] am not bad woman, She
went On. IN the sense thar spoke
If bad women in that first trial II I
make up my mind e marry the man
] love, shall do it and the world will
hunt in vain for chance to accuse me
Of indiserctions II, on the other hand.
I reach the conclusion my art means
more to me than the raising Of chill.
dren; if decide it Is not right for m~
70 become mother aud stigmatiza chill.
dren with the curse that has been
brought upon my name-f shall tel
the man | love, as I have already told
him should do. that cannot marry
him; that our marriage would Be thing
TO hurt us both later.
sAnd shall have no hesitancy under
those circumstances Of giving him ain
The love any wife could give any hus.
band But always, that way / shall re-
serve to myself the right to devote my.
self to art, and there win be no bond
holding me to him.
Stage Life Flabbergasted Her.
But to tell the story ! have made
up my mind to tell / must begin way
back when was child Of fifteen, in|
The chorus Of @FloradoraH ! was fab.
bergasted by il ALL The lights and the
music and the cabs and tho suppers &
they left me wondering if l were stand.
ing On my head Of on my feet Remem-
Der had always been il more Or less
want for actual necessities and | was
only child besides.
1T isn't strange then that when Stan.
ford White singled me out and bought
me pearl drop that cost a thousand
dollars and let every one know .he ap-
proved Of melt isn't strange thought
he was the most wonderful man in the
world But mistake No. comes right
here and BY mistake, mean the popu.
lar impression that was gained from
my cross-exmination on that first trial
''You win remember ! swore on the
stand | was given a drug By Stanford
White that left me unconscious at the