The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-23
HARRY THAW SAYS HE
is NOT BADY'S FATHER
Knows Nothing OF 81 Months
Old Child, Except What Is
In Newspapers.

Fishkill Landing, N. Y, May 20.--AG
attendant at the Matteawan state hos
pital, where Harry Thaw is incarcera-
ted, says Thaw had talked with him q
great deal the last few days about the
newspaper stories of a child born to
Evelyn Thaw 20 months ago in Ham
burg, Germany. hR&yS 4,
The attendant is a reliable a but.
as the hospital rules are very strict
relative to the attendants divulging
anything that transpiresk there, his
name is withheld. He says Thaw de-
MES absolutely he Is the father or the
child and uses his exact words in say
never heard OF any until the
ment a few days in h news
papers" q
Evelyn Thaw, he says, never men
toned the birth Of a child when she
visited him at the hospital The at
tendant said Thaw remarked: "Her
last visit was more han a year ago.
and at that time ] talked with her only
a few minutes, and in the presence of
an attendant"
Trumped- Up Deal, Thaw Says.
Her previous visit, Thaw says, was
on Thanksgiving day three year sage,
when she remained about half an hour.
coming from New York on n train
n returning on the next. This visit
was hNG IlOIllI5 dIlCA LlC COL AA6 a.
White Plains.
Thaw further says: This is a
trumped-up deal to help defeat my
chances of being released from Matte
wan. and If it is, it. has failed, because
more than 100 persons can deny the
possibility Of such a thing being true"
Harry's mother, Mrs. Mary G.. Thaw,
is in Pittsburgh at the home of rela-
tives. Friends here, who have been
receiving letters from her say that In
these communications h a denied.
If there was a child, that her son is
the father Of 1t. She says her son has
concealed nothing from her.
Attendants at the Matteawan hos
pital, who accompanied Thaw to White
Plains when he went there to appear
at his hearing three years ago this
summer, say that although Thaw was
accorded some privileges there he was
never out of sight of the attendants
and guards. . ~ ~
These men say the story is absolute
ly ridiculous. DR.. John w. Russell, su-
p~erintendent at Matteawan state hos
pital, also stamps the story as f"un-
reasonable in the extreme" f.
Thaw's List of Marked Men.
New York, May 1S.-Harry X. Thaw's
letter, with his annexation Of XIII
after the names of Bancroft Davis,
FREDDY Gerhard and Stanford White,
will have ample confederation of his
deadly enmity for those men and for
Reginald F~rancklyn. also in the list,
without the sinister xiii" after Ii,
when Thaw takes the witness stand at
White Plains next month. a
AffidaVits to be used by the state in
its presentation of Thaw's ,maniacal
%unitness for liberty will fully and
strikingly disclose why Thaw in 1903
hated Davis as he had hated him for
thn kurn xynn rp nrnXvfn1tG 60 YnnnranrnnI
that Davis headed the list marked
Kill" by Thaw. j.
Davis won Thaw's enmity because
he yielded to the natural manly In
stinCt to protect the name of his women
folk. At a dance given by Racquet
club members in 1901 in Tuxedo hall,
which was attended by man. of the
girls in the F%lorodora company, Thaw
said to Davis that one Of the latter's
women relatives had told questionable
stories to King Edward VII"
Davis promptly gave Thaw a sound
thrashing. Mr.. Davis died in 1910 at
the age of "a. ..'
Knocked Down Again.
At the same dance Reginald Franck-
Ign Knocked Thaw down for some in
sultin: remark.
Mr. Sebhard was an intimate and
loyal f-!snd of Stanford White and re-
garded Thaw with contempt, ignored
AAAll OF Oil ~ oAAN " ~
he could with Thaw's pursuit Of Eve
lyn Nesbit, who often told Mr.. White
and Mr.. Bebhard that Thaw treated
her with atrocious cruelty. Every de-
tail of these occurrences and situa-
tons is developed in the afhdavits
which the state will be prepared to
use at White Plains.
Thaw went to the Tuxedo hall din
ner because of the expected presence
Of Evelyn Nesbit, whom he did not
know, but whom he hoped to meet
there with the other "Florodora" girls
who were to be present, the affidavits
show. She went instead to a dinner
party given by some other friends, and
when ThaW learned that she would not
attend the ball he seemed perturbed
and began drinking champagne, which
he usually avoided.
When he ask ed Frances Belmont, one
Of the 'FIorodora" girls, to lead the
march with him and she declined, he
showed more ill-temper, the affidavits
state, standing at the back of the hall
when the march began and trying TO
induce Davis and others to leave the
ball room and go to another to match
coins They refused and Thaw went
alone and began matching with the
walters.
Gambling With Walters.
"Thaw was in the supper room when
/ went tnere Win heSllalQ tFaICklyn
| and other men," one of the affidavits
reads, land Thaw was with a lot of
walters pitching coins. l asked a watt
Fer for some ice and Thaw turned
around and said something's don't
know what 1t was-and F~rancklyn
knocked him down on the floor.
There was a very nice young man
called Bancroft Davis and Thaw said
thu one Of Davis relatives had
told naughty stories to the king and
Davis knocked Thaw down three
times" .
As a result of blows struck by Davis
and Francklyn at that ball, Thaw's
face was discolored, the affidavit re-
lates, and he kept to his rooms for two
days. When he met Davis again soon
afterwards Thaw, according to the
states informant, tried to kiss Davis
and make up with him. and Davis again
loored him with a blow in the face.
AS a result of these thrashings Thaw
exhibited the widest enmity toward
Davis.
IOWA MAN AT THE HEAD.
st. Louis, Mo-, May lS.-George M