The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-06-21
EVELYN THAW IS
WILLING WITNESS
AGAINST HUSBAND
No Longer Of the Giriish, innocent
Type, but Matronly and More
Beautiful
TELLS OF SORDi0 LIFE
Describes Scene When She Obtain
ed Handle Of Girl Whip tor
an Ornament

w Wilt -t!ttNs ~ - " N.'''N
Evelyn Nosbit Thaw IS testifying to-
day In the hearing OF her hushan | 5
petition to he released from Ml'tea-
wan Asylum for the Criminal thsnr,
telling story which the attorneys
fer the state feel will make Harry
Tha~'s release from Matteawan inn
possible. And she told II coldly,
calmly, willingly For an hour and
quarter Yesterday she gave evil
dance tending to show that her hus-
hand was 4 vicious lunatic during
her life with him. II is an even
more painful story today.
When last she testified lin Au-
gust, 1909 she then seemed but a
slip of q girl She Historically told
how her husband had threatened
should the doors Of the asylum open
to him to kill her just as ne had
killed Stanford White
The girlIshness has entirely dis
appeared, the righteousness, so
marked at former trials, has been
replaced with worldly synicism and
the big, fawn-like eyes, pictured by
artists as brown and melting. have
become as cold as steel. Only when
she smiles is there q suggestion or
the vivacious Evelyn Of old
Disoayds Girlish Dress.
The motamorphosis Of Evelyn
Thaw is indicated in physical
changes in her general demeanor
and higher gown. The short dress
and white sailor collar has been dis
carded for a long robe which clings
to her figure and touches the gold
buckles Of heS patent leather
pumps, and a faripg piQue neck
piece, the points Of which come well
up under her ears.
When the questioning began her
answers were given briskly and at
times sharply. Not once did she
hesitate The old shyness, seeming
fright and cOyness, We're gone. When
she did not understand a question
she said so; and when her memory
failed her she quickly so INFORMED
Jerome. Like a trained witness she
stopped short at signal and all told
gave evidence Of mental yigor and
alertness, and her testimony was
damniug to Thaw.
In clear sentences she related how
she had discovered chapters in this
prisonets past and of his rage wher
she demanded If the stories were
true. With brutal frankness she
told how she had found the ame
thyst dogs head, once part OF thu
whip with which Thaw Is alleged tt
have beaten women, and how sh,
had begged it for use as hatJir
ornament. she even told and wit!
apparent satisfaction--how her hus
band had declared She needed beat
ing herself that she might be chast
ened thereby, and then offered t.
give her a whipping.
Tells Of First Flowers.
Mrs, Thaw began by saying she /
26 years OF age and that in 1891
while she was chorus girl II
| 'Florodora," then at the Casin
theater, she had heard about tn
young PittsbyS-h millionaire arf
did not wish to make his acquaint
ance. so, when he sent her flower
the tossed them aside until $50 bill
was one night concealed among III
blooms. Then she sent roses an
money back. Later came the In
evitable meeting.
In 1903 while she and Thaw wer
IN Paris, he made his first propose
of marriage. AT an al-night sessio
she told him oS--her relations wit
White. She told him all, becaus
she thought 1t her duty, she salt
She could not marry him because {
what FAD occurred ann this'she mad