The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-13
This Announcement Sets Old Gotham
 By the Ears
MOTHER AND BABE MISSING
Evelyn Said to be About to
 "Break" With ThaWs
Thaw Family Detective Says
 Birth of Heir is Untrue

IuoW JdlhIl U6tCOlHO O0yo 1 Birth of Heir is Untrue New York, May 13.-Although the announcement. that Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw is here with a son 21 months old, came from sources known to be ! in constant close touch with her, it was impossible early today to get a direct confirmation from Mrs. Evelyn Thaw. herself. Her whereabouts was not made known, thOngh 1t was aS- serted that she was here. The announcement that she had determined / to demand payment on checks aggregatirfg $ib, ,000. flor the
 sake of her baby came as sensa- tained in years. The story was given out in such detail and published here in such elaborate fashion that the whole town was stirred by the sensa- ton.
 From Pittsburgh came the flat statement from Roger O'Mara. for years private detective of the Thaws, that the story was not true. The fact that the existence of the boy should have been concealed for twenty-one months was inexp1icable to many per- sons, familiar with the Thaw family. It Is asserted that Evelyn Thaw. if she had brought into the world an heir to the Thaw millions, must have
 been moved by most extraordinary motives to have kept the chi1d's birth secret for so long.
 In it's multifarious feature. the an- nouncement of the preSence of the child furnished moro food for gossip York newspapers seized upon 1t a. the sensation of the day and played it mp at great length with pictures of the famous Evelyn Thaw. In the newspapers the existence of the baby was apparently accepted as fact Thaw was not given.
 According to the tale the child was born in Hamburg, Germany, little lesg than year after thea16et test Of Thaw's sanity In White 1PlaiIb pr0s ceedinGD in July and August. 19o9 and ured publicly in the life of the young |. It is said that the boy baby. is, the reason for Evelyn Thaw being willing to give up the $5,000 a year provided for her by her husband and with $15 ,000 cash, which she now seekn, going back to the stage or taking up art work. .s
 It is said that immediately after the commitment of her husband to Matteawan, Evelyn Thaw was given three checks, totalling at $15,00O. Payment on these, cheeks was stopped before the young woman had chance to present them and she says she still has them.
 During Thaw's sanity hearing be- fore Judge Morschauser in 1909 the prisoner was allowed exceptional per- sonal freedom. He was given practi- cally unlimited opportunity for per- sonal association with his family in the comfortable quarters allotted to his use in the county jail by the sheriff at White Plains.
 That was the last time that Evelyn Thaw saw her husband. In the year following neither of them came into the public eye. The girl lived in New spring she left her apartment % on West Thirty-third street and 1t was announced that she had gone to Europe to study art.
 It was thought that she had. Rone. to Paris but instead she went to Ham. burg and spent several months Ifying quietly with friends who had 'accom- panied her from here. In the spring of 1910 the infant arrived. All who have seen the baby say that he is boy with curly raven hair and bright black eyes.
 Thaw was committed to Matteawan
 
 after he had been acquitted of the murder of Stanford White. At that time contract was prepared in which it is said it was provided that hin wife should receive $15,0OO in cash and 415.000 a year. According to its provisions she was to refrain from engaging in any theatrical ven- lures or to engage in any other occu- patton that would add to the already great notorfety of her husband.
 Then according to the story of the chorus-girl wife's friends. being told were given to Evelyn. One was sign ed by Thaw and the other two by relatives of Thaw. On these checks, 1t is said, payment was stopped and the mother of the twenty-one months old baby now has them. to have these checks honored. With the $15.000 thus secured she says she will cut loose forever from the Thaw.I family. With the fifteen thousand in checks held up and the original al- leged agreement to pay her fifteen thousand dollars q year reduced to five thousand, she is said to feel that there is no reason for her lonker look ing to the Thaws for her future.
 She has already disappeared from her apartment on Broadway and 1t Is said that her present plan is not to De a. WIIucSS aC Cuc ndOGaS COrDuS case of Thaw before Judge Keogh in White Plains. Her friends say that she has told them that to make cer- tain of not appearing she would leave the Jurisdiction of the court.
 O'BLARA DENOUNCES REPORT.
 Pittsburgh, Pa, May 13.-"The re- port that Evelyn Thaw is the mother l of a twenty-one months old baby is | not true," said Roger OMara, the de- l tective today. O'Mara for years has assisted the Thaw family in the fight l for the freedom of Harry Kendall | Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, l now battling for his release from Insane Asylum in New York. O'Mara today was emphatic in | his denials, of the report that Evelyn l Thaw was a mother.
 There's not a word of truth in the l he said, "I never heard of | the report before today and I don't | think anybody else did. It's a pure | cut out of the whole l c1oth'
 ''The people who started that story 1 will have to take it back" concluded 1 the detective brusquely as. he hung up | tho talsphone receiver.