Evening journal., 1921-10-29
EVELYN NESBIT
TRIES suicide
Takes Morphine While Au-
thoritieS Are Dismantling
Her Tea Room
CALLS LAWYER
AFTER RASH ACT

NEW YORK. oct. 2s.-Evelyn
Nesbit was resting comfortably to-
day. after taking an overdose Of
morphine taken yesterday when
a city marshal began moving furni-
ture from her apartment.
1t was a dreary day in the life
OF Miss Nesbit. once the wife Of
Harry X. Thaw. later the wife Of a
dancer. Jack Clifford, and now Eve
lyn Nesbit again. no longer a dancer
herself, but owner OF a tea room
in the theatre district.
Her financial distress, which
caused all the excitement. came
to light a month ago when a
city marshal appeared at her tea
room with an eviction warrant.
Miss Nesbit arranged to pay over
due rent on the $500 a month tea
room and her $3.50 a month apart
ment upstairs. The marshal went
away.
Yesterday another came on a similar
mission and began taking furniture
out to the street while Miss Nesbit
sobbed, wrung her hands and fran
ucally called her lawyer on the tele-
phone. The lawyer obtained a truce
OF a few hours with the landlord.
and Miss Nesbit begun calling
friends in the hope OF raising some
cash. In this she failed.
She telegraphed TO her mother In
Philadelphia. and a few minutes af-
terwards leaned out OF the window
and screamed.
I've taken enough morphine 70
kin twenty persons" she yelled TO
the marshal, falling back with the
cry that she was going TO die.
An ambulance surgeon came
quickly and used a stomach pump.
The landlord on hearing about the
episode announced he would wait
until noon next Monday before press
ing for the enforcement OF the evic-
tion warrant
Since June 25, 1906. when Harry
Thaw shot down Stanford White on
the Madison Square Garden roof
Evelyn Nesbit has been a marked
woman.
In her early life Evelyn Nesbi
was a Floradora girl. and attracted
attentions not only in the Casin,
chorus. but as a model for photogra
pliers and artists.
When she apparently had passed
out OF Stanford Whites life. the biz
cities of the East were surprised on
October day 20 learn an entry Of '1I
X. Th0w and wife" had been mad
on the register Of the Carlton Hote
in London. II developed the wifi
was the Floradora show girl.
The Thaw family made tho best q
Il anticipating Thaw might settl
down. He had been leading such
gay life IN the worlds big capitals
Il was said. his income Of $4,000
year from his fathers estate had {
be literally supplemented by al
lowances from his mother.
After Whites murder, two Ion
and sensational trials. Thaw's In
generation IN the Mattewan Asylui
in New York. his escape to Canadi
and finally his arrest and detentio
In Philadelphia. served TO keep Ev,
lin Nesbit in the public eye.
Like her first husband. Evely
Nesbit came from Pittsburgh. H'
mother. who was Miss Evelyn Fl'
renee Mckenzie, married a lawye
Winfield Scott Nesbit.
After the first tragedy Evely
Nesbit was almost continuously in N
public eye as was the husband froi
whom she was divorced. For a tin
she was on the stage in London al
pearing i'm the cast Of cover Here
IN 1913. She was taken up for n
movies by manager in Philadeiph
and went through a long series
n.m episodes at Betzwood. But n
past prevented the picture from b
ing shown successfully.
Also she went into vaudevill
marrying Jack Clifford, her danciI
partner. Next she returned 10 q
legitimate stage as the star OF
play which opened in Washingt'
in the fall Of 1920. A "polishii
up" tour was 20 be a preliminary
Broadway appearance. But aft
the presentation at Harrisburg, w
kes Barre and Ithica. n. y, the pr
duction was Withdrawn.
Although billed on the progra
only as Miss Nesbit," the stai
past made her Objectionable TO a
diences in the smaller cities. and q
tour was abandoned as a compile
failure
The last venture OF Evelyn Nesl
was her tea room = also seemed
suffer from her past. as she has be
in financial trouble since she start
It