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THAW'S WIFE'S TRIAL. Tells of Wanting to Laugh in Court. -Wanted to Cry Other Times New York, April 22.-The Evening World prints an interview with Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw, the first of any con .-sequence granted by the wife of Stan ford White's slayer .since his mis trial and whoeh was obtained by Nixola 0rely-Smnith. Notwithistandting lthe unsatisfac tory ouitcome of ier litisbandi's trial .and tle long a.gOly of suspenlse site -endured while tle jury wrangled over his lfate, sle looked last night in bet -ter healti and spirits than I had ever :Seel her, the intervier relates. She wor1e I s%imple %white tailored shirt waist, a small 'biown tie, anaid g brown skirt. Her vace sevileil 1fu1 ler. th;n1 it haid1 duriI t h1._ lle :1ti l, and altoe -dw sh mrsdIn. as a1 per s':' to hv!Imi1 a .respit ad been givenl. 1 1l1 hi tIhat sihe was lwin iiig nte Letter ani sie said: I am mlad you Iink so. But I anl'i 't anything. I have hal no :appeltite ' weeks ex i-epit once or 'Wice, mi, whiaen I Ihad Iunchelen witi 'Daniel O'leillv. lie is so f'unny "dbat. when I am wit Ii him I eat a iquant Iity~ of toiod wit houtt real izinag Mirs. Thaw, w hs beln made' persistinly patheivi rini tile last few itils. pr'veis. I simi liscov en-d. to) i)- mv. nyti v ie. Sht taki., I'he mnisfot une11m inl whivih .4he is 10hm1-r i9 lase. 'it' i eleilents it Il4 i YlI0r. Slte siets, ini.leei. a l'sin wh-14o has liveil so (n in such I'miil iar ternis withi trauagedY as it, be able to jilkeN with it now i:d then. "That ima,'' she sai(d. revertin -to her latest eritie, 'lsaid tlat I oil iiot Iyv (nui-i whien T was on the stan(l. I did not want to cry. I tried so haRd not to I: 1 ellencliel my hands so lhaird that my nails cut through my gloves and into the flesh. She Wanted to Laugh. "'I'lere were 41ther times whtenl I wanteil to buth,'' she con fi,ed. 'Onp )I' thiem wv: whelt .Mr. .-ret'ii1i la1 t1lld d ni. Inl ' t'a n in 1 . il;tit i i )e:al. an.d I s.t a 1l tIr: 1 i it .n th Sinl. The- wvrt e S Ilntvniy lilt! anlisitn- thills inl it alb 'tu t it schoo,141l lit omilpton that 1 hadI for'gottenl. 'One. in particular. -was ai aeciun -I ahurlestylite T arrimn-edi on "E ery Man. ' Our cla.'s had beei taken to see 'Everyv Man.' and on our re tuii'n1 T trOt up1) a par'otdy anti called it -'.Every Wima.n.' The diary haI a vWotv' o1f a Imster' aillinlneellietit of 1li- play, with 'amiliission 10 cets, and some local hits tihat seemed very anllilsI t) ite, tlimuglh. of couit'se, whey i w l IIot interest any one wilo ilidyn't know Panieo-that is the mime (it the school at I'milton. yol 'know, had for.otten all about the diarv.'' "Thlen you ditnt't keep otne noiw?'' 7 asked. "'Oh, yes, I do,'' said Mr's Thaw, ''but I sutppose, now T 've aditlted it, I'll have to hide it somewhere. They could break ini anid take it from tme." This was to mue very' iinter'esting. The yonug wotman wihiom we laud all wr aittlen sit n tith ablout duirina thle fa Tuloll t i'rlal litl ''ecretly' '2't eve ten nail at .ii'ta:' jditv tltat thais itaisi jintert' - i112 rti' d' iti all silt tlil arnia tan idetity f i-' i'elyn Thtaw. utf wlhitm we a JlIMave ga" id so nt "llurinjjj -111. 1by1-f1h1'm91t 'uimniinv - Illata is wlti lIaitrr' ataln clal- thei ixpiirt' eideni'ce. ' ' 'citatinu. ed Mrts. Thaw:t. " I drew '.'ome caica tures while we weire ini lie wiitnes Totoma. 'IThose'u ro e we're alIwayvs iah eleil 'te i;allid chte-il. ' Therea~ was -Onte itf youi i'alld thei ' L'iri'al Nixitla taking in the FTawi hieiw! ' I mtade' Rome oft May McKenzAiei also. Yoiu 'know,"' shte said, with itne oft her' sud <len f'lashes of' seraniunss, " 'it was very dr'ear'y waititag, atai I hail ti have somnething toi diio afra itatt'i i it' tntiot maler'ta n.hl;I I hat I, too. wiitl t haitk ant sIhe hadl 'not cried enouttgh."' Bitt I did una lortstand. "llidi yona e'it v tritt i:anyvthlinai buit le iarit~? asked, :t ftt'' :a linint'. toa'ether' in that prtoly t'urroiw of' co. - Lizard Gave Inspiration. . 'Tes," shte said, "'l wrote a comn position at Piamlico. It was very' fiun.. ny. I hand niot stuidied so much as the otvher girls, and I went to all of' the 3iter'atur'e elasses. '[here were tha'ec -or four of them, but 'I niever wrote anything. One day my teacher, Miss 'DeForrest, shut me up in a roomi -with a pad1 and pencil and1 told me 1 'bad 'half an hour to write a.n essay. 'Then she shuit t>hue door and weat a.way, "I wans glabbergasted. I sat arnd ) looked at the paper. For a long time 1 could not think of anything. Then remember 'Amelia,' who was Anic liat? Pamlico had a 1funn1y bathitubl. One or t birlws had an aMarium fill ed wvith lizar-ds and goldfisli. One day wh,]tel she was changing the water in the a(piarium Amelia, her pet lizard, disappeared down the escape pipe of the bathtub. The girls always expect ed Amelia to come up again, though she never did. But, of course, the possibility addd to the interest of taking a bath. I wrote my essay on Taking a Bath at Pamlico.' ''Aflter a while Miss De Forrest retturned and took the composition away with her. The same afternoon Mrs. De Mile, the principal of the school, sent for me. I went up to her bed room. She was lying down with a handkerehief siffed in her month and mlY ilomposition inl her hand. She lanh.ted I. lhed. Fina.lly she straihtene up1and told me,v wvithl urent11.1 1nn ,ta hadl a talent for liter-aiue. which I initst ciltivate. Sl '-aid I had a devided style. Chum of Her Father. "I w't to a German school for a little while. .v father was very anx imus to have me learn German, and used to give me a halt' hour's lesson eveiy mning. I was very fond of iy. father.'' said Mrs. Thaw. "We were 4g"reat. chums. Then he died, andi we beem:11e imlpoverished. My fatri4- 111 alwaYs Imade a baby of my IlmdterI. She was very helpless when he flied. She used tl sit and r. She t ried to '_et al e. . b t she wasi not sl4'Tess5fill. -Sme1b.d- had to d1 someth11n1).1 Theln chanve valle for' ie to pose af It'r We m11"vell to Philadelphia. At fir t I lmsedi Ily ror woman ar tists. like Jessie Wilcox Slith and Elizabeth Shippen Greene. Then we came jo New York and I met Carroll Beckwith. le was very kind and Ilice, and toldt me not to go knock in,x at stidio doors: that he woold -ive nc letters to artists. "After a while I got all tile pos itl 1 cI mild do. 1 pose(d for 'Mr. Ieekwith. Irvin' Wiles. Carl Ilen ner. J. Wvlls ClIaipney and 11mny .\%-'wel knmw arti!zt!z. "'The-n I went .In tihe st 11e. Tn '; r,I even :I a chibl, 1 h:14 l n2 ,,, t,. bIvlre t rezz.. I n1-edi to, I was bi o he Sarah Bernhardt No. 2. MV first rehearsal where I hadl any line eured mle of that idea. Mr. Jer-ome told the jury I was a -ireat actress. I wish he could have seen that rehearsal. It was in 'The Wild Rose.' and T lhad one line to speak. It was somethiin.r like 'Here 'mlles ithe bride!' When I said it Mr. Lederer ltoked ill) and stared. Then lie laiu.ghied and made ic say it over at:ain. It took him all mornin tr to teach me to say that one line. I lisp 'id then a little and I wotld say lb-wide.' T lost mv sta.te aspirations )y being on the stage.'' '"If you had to make you living agalin, would youi go back to) it ?' ' I isk ed. "No. indeed !'' said Mrs. Thaw, rehemnent ly. "'I wouldl do anyt.hing Ise first.'' She smiled. ''Daniel )'Reilly told me a manager wept 01n atis shoulder the~ othler day. 'Think >t all this notoriety' going to waste!' ie said.' Wants to Live on a Ranch.. .. . "Ii Mi'. Thaw is acgnited on his wixt trvial, what will von4t do?'' I "I wvill tell von whvlat I wo4nhl like.' .1h4 repliedl, hier' eyes spar'kling. stud West. I woul lov'e to live on a r'anchl md14 go aroitiund in a short skiirt andl ~weater. I sa1w a L'ood deal of the Wton my h,oneymnoon, '' she adlde.. We wenit thrionizh tIle Yosemli te andi I 'i neld Waly iit 1n 441h le Overhlia ngi ng Rocak. I arr inivitsisted oil holding mle bone foot. Ie was afraid I wou4)ld( fall, and I almost cr'ied with r'age, I will shlow~ y'ou a p)icture' of it.'' Mrs. S. I invites you to come an Dress Goods before just opened up a comr Silks. W ash Chiffons, l Lawn. The newest dE zelle Organdy and be in all colors. In fact w is needed in Dry Good Don't forget to corn Commencement dress When you want a HR give it to you. .Mrs. S. 1' She got a little album of photo graphs taken. on her honeynoon, and we looked theni over. In the picture then Thaw held her back as she hung way out on the Overhanging Rock and gazed down into the fathomless abyss. In the picture as we view it today it is Harry Thaw that has strayed for out oni the Overhanging Rock; the fragile Evelyn that reaches out a sav ing hand. I do not pretend to know what Evelyn Thaw is, to guess the answer to the eternal question, she has been called. I think, after talking with her several times, that she is an undeter minate problem, with more undefi nite niumber of answers.none right. to the exclusion of otlers. I believe there is a different. solution for each one who attellpts the problem. But, kn'wie not hin. I feel that mi vs selil tra-edy wraps here eve' in her li.-hiest m0loods and has m1lode her the central fi'-ure in the greales:t life drama of our time. "Good-hy. 'Swayer of Men,''' I quoted. as I left her, and she smiled faintlY. But leliind that smile, as blehind every movement, gay or solemn, of her- iinquestionably able mind, is the hauttinT fear, the terrible anxiety. for tile man she loves, which. since the evenin!_ of June 25, 1906. has never lifted. Ordinary Accidents. 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