The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-06-28
THE LIVES OF THIRTEEN PER
SONS MINED UP IN 1T HAVE
BEEN BLIGHTED.
SOME OF THE MANY VICTIMS

Lawyers. The Woman Who Was
the Cause of the Tragedy Living
Alone and Unnoticed and Forgot
ten by the Gay Throng That Make
Lively in the Great White Way.
NEW YORK.-The recent convic-
zion and sentencing to state prison of
Dan O'Reilly, for his participation in
a theft committed here, serve to draw
attention to the remarkable series
of misfortunes attending various per
sons connected with the Thaw case.
'O'Reilly was one of hte lawyers on
the Thaw side, and has never had a
day of luck since he was mixed up in
it,. While the crime for which he has
lust been sentenced and which dis
bars him as a lawyer had nothing to
do with the case of Thaw, many be-
aieve that it was the nemesis of the
White tragedy which worked his
aladoing. So far the lives of thirteen
persons mixed up one way or another
in the case have been blighted.
OF other lawyers besides O'Reilly
who figured in the case Clifford W.
Hartridge just now is facing disbar-
ment proceedings growing out of
statements made in connection with
it. He had to sue Mrs. Thaw, moth
er of Harry Thaw, for his fees, and
a bill of particulars were demanded.
In furnishing this he told of trips he
made seeking witnesses, of sums of
money paid to buy the silence of GER
tain persons and Of excursions to va
rious resorts entailing large expend-
ftures. His revelations brought upon
him the censure of the New York
Bar Association, and proceedings to
disbar him ere now in the courts.
A. Russell Peabody, who was asso-
ciated in Thaw's defense. is dead,
and so are two other lawyers, John
and George Lee, members of an old
southern family. Still another law
yer who figured in Thaw's defense
was Dolphin Michael Delmas, who
came out of the west and who on
the second trial of Thaw introduced
the famous plea of Dementia Amer
icana or brain storm. He has had
no big cases since
Two Broken Millionaires,
One of the associates of Stanford
White in the acquaintance of Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw was a Wall street fnan-
cier. He was millionaire, and the
head of a prominent banking house.
He was a man approaching the Bib
lical three-score years and ten, and
was known throughout the trial as
the Old Nan. Fascinated by the
youth and beauty of Evelyn he neg
lected his business in pursuit of the
girl He laVished upon her gifts. the
price of which it had taken years to
accumulate. Although the unsettled
conditions of things in the money
market he let things take their
course with the result that one day
he became a bankrupt. Today he is
broken mentally and physically and
has gone back with his wife to the
nome OF his early married life and to
close economy in his manner of liv-
ing.
There was another man who trOd
the fowery path in Evelyns wake.
Satiated with the pleasures his 1922
100000 had bought and could buy
his interest was whetted by this girl
whose name was on everyone's lips.
5er husband in prison, the light of
ttragic notoriety about her, her stand
ing in the family of the Pittsburg
millionaire extremely precarous, she
appealed to him and he constituted
himself her protector. But even the
gay white way withholds its favor
and approval sometimes. On more
than one occasion certain gilded pal
aces of refreshment denied them hos
pitality. This man, still young, has
had to submit to the tying up of his
fortune by creditors and to the in
asistence of his family that he remain
abroad, so weary and discouraged are
they with his designations. Today he
is derelict on the boulevards of
PallS-anOther Of the victims of the
most notorious tragedy New York
has ever known
Other Victims in the Case.
Still another victim is Alice Thaw,
erstwhile Countess of Yarmouth. 1t
is an unwritten law of the British
peerage that no one whose family
bears the faint of insanity may sue
coed to an English title When Har-
ry Thaw was pronounced insane the
Yarmouth divorce followed. The
countess, now Alice Thaw again,
takes her place beside her broken
mother and watches with her over
the wasted life that drags out its
days in an asylum for the criminal
insane.
The woman who more than any
other person has suffered and is suf-
fering in the case is Mrs Thaw, the