The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-26

desperate battle for liberty, Harr,
Thaw has given out an interview +
which he bemoans the fact that hi
wife has returned % her old life OF
the stage, and declares. anew hi
deathlcss devotion to her.
MY greatest misfortune is that
have lost the woman love" he says
But to me she will always be thu
dearest girl In the world. She il
the ono and only woman for me or
carth.nn.
If this be true, and in spite of al
that she has done, in spite OF al
that she has cost him. and the way
IN which she has treated him, Har
rs Thaw still loves his wife, he de
serves to rank-spcaking in vaudo
vile terms as bchooves one who
writes OF the affairs of Evelyn-al
headlincr among the IMMORTAL low.
crs OF history. In fact, he make.
the balance Of them look like four
fiushcrs and has got Romeo backc,
up against his poison bottle. ant
Lcandcr dashed to the mast as /,
were.
Also, and incidentally. he furnish
es thereby more convincing proc.
OF his insanity than was cycl
brought forward at either OF his
trials. For no man ever loved II wo-
man with less reason. No woman
was ever more completely man
evil genius than Evelyn Ncsbit has
been Harry Thaw's. and if, after al
that is past and gone, his heart still
cnshrineg her, 1t Is, case OF tho
grand passion" at which we can
only mrvcl-and feel the kind o!
snoakinS sympathy we always Dc
tCel when man makes Z; gloriou,
1901 OF himself over woman.
A Unique Case.
1.-THE Thaw case. wonder If
there will ever be another tragedy
In real life that will grip the popu
lar imagination as 1t has, or If there
Will ever be another story that will
run the gamut OF every human pas
sion that that did? Murder cas-,
I follows murder case on the cour,
dockcts, revelations of the tender.
loin come with sickcning frequency.
other sensations evoke but Il languid
curiosity, but the interest i'll til,
Thaw case is Just rs keen and vital
today as 1t was on the morning al
tel Stanford White was shot.
Seven years have not sufficcd tuI
turn the spotlight off the principal
actors-in. that DRAMAS vines
the Welcoming salary that Mrs. Thaw
lis enabled, through it. to draw Oh
the stage!
Now, concerning the Thaw case
there have not been iifty-Scvan dill
lerent varieties of theories held, but
fifty-sevcn million different theories
as 10 the why and wherefore Of it
have been entertained by every
man, woman and child who either
read of 1t or wrote OF ii.
My own particular theory and Il
reported both trials - is that It
islands as the one great and unap-
{p.oachabfc illustration of the truth
about the lue Of forbidden fruit and
sthe sweetness of stolen waters.
One Thing He Couldn't Buy.
Evelyn NcsDits unf;tiling iaaCina
tion for Harry Thaw was the fact
that She was forbidden fruit, that
he knew he should not marry her.
He killed because he was uncertain
OF her, and she holds his wandering
fancy yet because her love iS the
one thing that his money has never
been able to buy for him.
And | think she married him be-
cause he represented to her the for
hidden fruit Of rich and fashionable
Pittsburgh. where she was horn and
raised, the shut doors behind which
the. poor and humble little gland
daughter Of Il cobblcr had never pen
ctrated.
From its Psychological side the
STORY is curious OnG, as read it.
l,at us begin With ahes meeting of
Stanford White with Evelyn Thaw,
then a chorus girl and beautiful rs
u young Bacchante. with her dusk!
eyes and hair. her olive complexion
and her purp.e red lips.
Stanford White was an artist. an
aesthotc. He was man not young
in years, and one of whom his OK
ccsses had taken heavy toll, so
that he was older than his age. He
was worId?worn, weary. He had
exhausted every ordinary form of
vice. Suddenly across his jaded vi
sion flashed Evelyn Ncsbit. wonder
fully beautiful in u new type and
with a mind as keen and receptive
as her face was lovely.
She interested him. and he began
to amuse himself with her in a new
way-t0 debauch her mind instead
OF her body. She learned all OF the
wickedness of the world while she
still kept her little innocent face Of