New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-18
"His Ego Is Too Great for Him
10 Rest" Wife Asserts, land
He'll Wipe Slate Clean
Here in New York."
MADDENED BY HER SUCCESS
Dancer, Apparently in State of
Fear, Exclaims That Only She
Knows Terrible Will of
the Slayer of Stan
ford White.


Nesbit Thaw, as she stepped from d
taxicab at the Hotel Brevort, after
her appearance at Hammerstein's yes
to-day afternoon. Four men guards
followed rs. Thaw from the taXicab.
u was surprised" she said. but in
q way have expected something of the
sort. I know Harry Thaw better than
any one on earth. and know that he
will never stop until he has utterly
ruined me.
NY success has maddened him.
And what can I do?" she asked,
with almost plaintive resignation.
How can / escape him? l presume
am fairly safe as long as I stay right
here in New York, if it is really true
that he cannot ever come back here.
But have reasons for believing
Harry Thaw will start new proct edings
here 10 have his commitment set aside.
He believes that he can do this surely
if he is outside directing the work.
know he will never rest until he has
his own way-that is it. his Cwn per-
sonal We.
His ego is too great for him TO rest
now that he is a free man. He is d.
termined that his slate shall be wiped
clean here in New York. an6 what is
$1,000. $4,000, $4,000 or even $780,
on 20 that family? Look what it mas
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Knows His Terrible Will"
Ever since Harry Thaw was put
away up there everything has been up
side down at that place He is pow er-
ful because his money is powerful.
know the terrible VIII Of the man,
backed Iy his millions. The greatest
mistake this state ever made was TO
get rid If Or. Lamb and DR. Bacon.
Thaw's money did it. Thaws money
has corrupted the whole institution,
and it will go further"
You say you have reason to know
that Thaw is preparing TO renew pro-
ce,dings. How
Il can't say. bat l know, and you
will see that l am righ, Harry could
not stand my success. This was tie
thing that induced him TO plan this e.
cape
You believe persons inside Of the
asylum aided in The escape" Mrs.
Thaw was asked.
Well it certainly looks that way.
It couldn't have been done any other
way"
Did you know that it was being
planned?"
1t Is cruel 70 ask that l am entirely
ignorant Of any plan. But know the
Thaw family. THAT gives ne enough
insight They are the most wilful peo-
pie / ever met Harry Thaws viii is
great enough to have made a wonder
fully successful man of him if he had
never drank. one drink sets him wild,
and his win is 50 determined that he
viii never stop. He sees only one thing
10 be- attained. he keeps right on the
same track until ne arrives, smash or
no smash.
Can. Turn Him from Purpose.
Where do you suppose Harry will
go?"
Straight to Pittsburgh. straight TO
Pittsburgh. That is where he is bound.
First 10 the bosom Of his poor family!
Yes poor family, Because pity them.
There will be- the devil TO pay when
they try 20 turn Harry from his pur-
pose. He will make their lives miser-
able
Why Because his one aim-hls
whole purpose in getting free-is 70
punish. That's true TO his miserable
nature. He could not DO otherwise and
Doc Harry Thaw He is out TO get
square, and unless he is killed he pro-
poses 20 get square
It's the reason he has been able TO
keep W this stubborn and shifty fight
dlsplacing superintendent Of insane
asylums and finally laughing at the
state"
DO YOU fear for your personal
safety?"
"Oh. don't know. dont know what
60 think I'm all upset. But all the
time I was travelling in Europe this
last time felt uncanny-just as if his
eyes were on me all the time"
You don't wish 10 suggest that lis
emissaries were watching you?"
NO. not that But | felt in a lin
way that he knew all that l was doing
every move / made. ] tell you | am
afraid Of that man. / am afraid Of his
vengeance"
xiii You Next" She Quotes
-Four years ago he said 1 suppose
I'll have to kill you next Many per-
sons will worry now that Harry is free.
Il first learned of Harry's escape
when Dr. Austin Flint called me up
and told me- Harry hates DR.. Austin
Flint, the alenist. whom he considers
his worst enemy. and / am really afraid
that Harry will make trouble for him"
is there any other person. aside
from yourself and DR.. Flint. who should
fear Thaw?" the dancer was asked.
Yes. Delafeld. The lawyer told
Mrs. Thaw that Harry was crazy. That
was some time before he shot White.
Harry never forgave that remark His
revenge Is unbounded. He made fear
ful faces AT me during the last trial up
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