The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-10-28
EVELYN NESB|T
TAKESDRUG WHEN
ORDERED EV|cTED
Swallows Morphine in Rooms
Above as Marshal Waits in
Tea Room.
PUMP SAVES HER LIFE.
$500 Rent Overdue, Phone;
Defiance to Officer, Who
Acts Quickly.
PUMP, SAVES HER LIFE.

Evelyn Nesbit, former wife OF
Harry Thaw, over whom he shot and
killed Stanford White, tried 10
commit suicide this afternoon by
taking twenty grains OF morphine.
What proba bly, saved her life was
that she telephoned the fact of
having taken the narcotic, to a City
Marshal. who at that moment was
waiting to cart away the furniture
Of her tea room. No, o35 West SD
Street, for farilure to pay her rent.
An ambulance surgeon was sum-
moned from Flower Hospital and he
removed the drug with a stomach
pump within short time after she
had taken it. She refused ogo to
the hospital and remained in her
apartment over tho tea room with
one OF her mattresses in care OF her.
She was well out of danger when
the surgeon left her.
For several hours after sho had
been relieved OF the drug Miss Nesbit
was compelled to walk UP and down
her apartment, every effort being
centred upon keeping her awake IT
was feared that if she dropped into a
deep sleep it might not be possible TO
wake her.
Later in the afternoon her ply
sician. DR.. Harold Rothman of No, 439
West 47th Street, said she had taken
nearly twenty grains OF morphine.
Miss Nesbit called from time to time
for her son, Russell. When Patrolman
Hurty asked her IL she was once
Harry Thaw's wife, she cried out:
MY name isn't Thaw, it's Nesblt."
The seizure of her furniture by City
Marshal William Kelly was, appar-
emily, the reason for Miss Nesbit's
attempt on her life.
The building in which she has her
tea place and her home two flights
above it is rented to her by the
Shuberts. There is a matter Of $500
past due for months rent and to-
day Marshal Kelly was sent to take
the furnishings of the tea room.
Marshal Kellys men were busy
carrying out the pink tables and
chairs and the colorful cushions and
other embellishments of the tea room
when Miss Nesbit got In touch with
Hugh McCurty, her attorney, and
told him what was happening. He,
in turn. communicated with the Shu-
berts and obtained from them two
hour respite for his client,
AS soon as Miss Nesbit heard Of
this, she sent a telegram to her
mother in Pittsburgh asking for the
$500, telling the Marshall that she
would probably receive an answer
well within the allotted Uwo hours
Then she went up TO her apartment
on the third floor.
Marshall Kelly then went into the
Tea room and sat down 10 await de-
yelopments. While he was waiting,
the telephone rang and he answered
lt. The voice that cam TO him was
Miss Nesbitts. speaking from her
room upstairs. She said:
I've taken enough poison to kill Il
cart horse so don't care what you DO
now!"
Then she hung up the receiver with
a defiant bang,
The marshal, taxing her at nc: word
ran outdoors and called Patrolman
Patrick Hurry Of the Vest 41th stree
station, who sent IL n hurry CAL for
an ambulance and also so, a ply ~.2a
from the ne!ghborhood.
Kelly thought that Miss Neso. {
m ght be shamming, but he took no
chances, and when the Flower Hospi-
tai surgeon arrived he corroborated
Miss Nesb!t.
When the Shuberts learned OF what
she had attempted, they granted her
q reasonabl tim TO make payment of
the money due them, 49,.