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Her Story Impressing THE EVENING WORLD,” THURSDAY? MARCH 7, 1907. 38. Mrs. William Thaw. a Militant Mother and a Good Witness for Her Son, — Its Truth on the Minds of All Who Heard It ~ Accustomed to Having Her Own Way,/Mrs. William Thaw as She Told the Jury She Gently Persisted, Despite Court and Counsel, in Telling Jury Her Views on Heredity. ONE OF THE “GOOD_ WOMEN’ "OF EVELYN THAW’S DIARY. Jerome, Seeing in Him Only the Man | Who Is Trying to Kill’ ‘Her Son. is By Nixola Greeley-Sm ith. trial. Thaw’s mother met it, determina- forehead, ‘the light of battle in her mild blue eye. This stately elderly woman, who had probably never faced a criminal ~court-room before, walked —to—the. to open a church bazaar Instead of to testify before a jury of men who are trying her son for his life. Only: in- the-low,- quavering tones of her voice, now husky and again : pitifully weak, and In a brief mo- ment at the beginning of her testimony when words failed her, and the proceedings were halted that she might regain her composure, did she ebttray any emotion. She gaye her evidence as If-sho were telling {t to Sfr. Delmas, oceaston- ally including Jus smile that was aimost regal in {ts gracious condescension, GAVE JURY HER VIEWS ON HEREDITY. Mrs. Thaw carries on her. silver hair_the town of noble’ motherhood of womanhood sheltered and respected and esteemed by all men, and Bhi {e not unaware of it. Tn appearance she 1s very tall and of a robust “gown, while well-fitted and becoming, wis such as almost any mother the land might wear, Its sombreness was relleyed bya touch of white at owrist-and throat. Her hair was drawn smoothly, back from her wide fore- head, and the small black hat she wore was set rather far back on her head, {ts swathing veils withdrawn from her fine, motherly face. Itis na Jarge face, with rather small fcatures, save for.the mouth, which is decidedly loug. In every line It breathes serenity, dignity and also, I + <ghouid say, determination and ever great-obstinacy-of- purpose. : Tt-was-very-ovident-yesterday-that when Mrs, WiNam—Thaw-has-some= thing to say she {fs accustomed to saying It, and. even the combined ef- forts of Justice Fitzgerald, Mr. Delmas and District-Attorney Jerome were Hot always successful Jn keaping her testimony within the narrow rules-of evidence. She wanted to tell the jury what she knew about heredity, and bad no hesitation in saying so even after Mr. Jerome and Mr. Delmas had told her the ordeal was over and she could leave the witness stand. ~ | HRS. THAW ANDEVELYN IN CONTRAST. _ A most interesting thing to me was the contrast presented by_the elder Mra. Thaw's Attitude toward Mr. Jerome as compared with that of Evelyn Neshit- Thaw. z i ‘ The District-Attorney spared the younger womad‘nothin examination. Yet her attitude toward him was always defe: had-at times-n-touch of unconsclous couuetry, Since she lett the stand ph has expressed an indub{tably genuine admiration for. some-of-the aa B ~—her -husband‘a-prosecutor,“whoin she ia able to look at-in-a detached, iz teliness. Her black ta} personal way, ‘seldom possible to women, To Mrs. WiMaia Tha, "on Cie eutrary, Nir, Jerome, though all deter. ence and consideration, was never for one moment anything but the man who was trying to send her best-loyed son to death, and-an unreay “womanly hostility hardened guze and speech.when she addressed him: The jurors Msteved ta the story told by Mrs Thaw with oning s —Feapecttut In= tentnass.... They. belleved every word of {t, as every one must have walle g -who-heard-It,--The-narrative-was-not-dramatic; as Evely Tha w's had been. Though {f had not the thrill of that wonderfully morying-atory; be-no question mark at the end. The truth from (ie mothers lps seemed, Ironically enough, less ef. fective from the spectacular standpoint than the narrative of. the wie, {Which many have questioned and around which the whole tragedy re. volves. _It may haye more welght with the jury,.It seemed to-have more weight with the majority of tie men in court, many of whom were remind. ed of their own mothers by the stately, sweet-faced-witness, ONE OF GOOD WOMEN OF EVELYN’S DIARY. The elder Mrs. Thaw seems to me to belong to tho highest type of the man-made woman—to be of the predestined good wives and mothers of whom the sixteen-year-old Hvelyn wepte in her dlary that they would They Tried Very Hard But the People During the last & week-days 11,552 Men, Women, Boys and Girls advertised in The World for Positions, Workers, Homes, \Investments, Bargains, &e,—-690 MORE than advertised in ANY TWO OTHER New York newspapers COMBINED. Nothing Brings ‘Advertising Like Results! Doesn't Share Daughter-in-Law’s Opinion of MILITANT MOTHER fs Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, | ~ whose testimony furnished! yesterday’s sengation at the Thaw] The second great occasion of the ' murder trial had come, and Harry| “tion written large on ‘her placid) witness stand as serenely as if about! 20 Fitzgerald at-one efde and the jury on the other in a 6 in his cross-| ential and even! “toleration and a little amusement. there cau Wouldn't Let Them fh; [pauae, hat lt thelr te Sua deoone i never be “anything,” Hc~ noble prinetples, her peraaps narrow prejudices| ] sil belong to Woman-as-man—has-made her_gper.— She couid-not—under—- stand, much fess sympathize, with the woman rebel as typified by | night vigils he kept with the tragedy dial stalked bestde him, told her at] last of the “wicked thing” that “the wickedest man in New York had done” | | Thaw. She sald yesterday that she did not encourage) Harry ‘Thaw, when her motherloye led her to break In upon the all- Of Her Son’s Grief Over White’s Misdeeds Sketched in Court for The J; vening World by ARTIST PERLEY. — OLLEGES NOW FOR THE LOVE SMITEN “HCH THER WIRE DECLARES ‘An Awful Awakening in| | Store for Manager ft Holland: “VENGEANCE. IS MINE.” Deserted Woman Is Busy Sending Stories to Girl’s Family. eaily worth while to hear Mra. 2 A, Holland tell how her hus- band eloped with Elizabeth Gatling, « |young woman from Nashville, Tenn, hose relatives are wealthy and proud. rs. Holland wak fotind tn her apart- | jar ment {n the Purttan, No, 2, Went. Ong ciping st pement from the newspapers and putting them Holand {s fifty-two years old and the projector of the Holland Theatre, at “pone Hundred dnd” Tenth wireet and Broadway, Ho has not been at his ho tha Purltan_sinoe Feb. 18 Mra. Holand 1s not alane in feeling sore over tha elopement. A young lawyer who was attentive'to Mins Gatling and ex- pected to marry her has played no small part in giving the affalr all the publicity possible. ‘There 1s no doubt that_my husband has eloped with Mise Gatling.'”-auld Mes, Holland. "I know every move they York. Iam not sory he has gone, I wens-married-to—him- eleven years ago and I know him. Steps have already been taken In my behalf looking to a divorce. “The whole secret of the affair Ia just this, My husband thinks that Miss Gat- ling has lots of'money. As a matter of fact she te not_on—goml-<erma—with her {family. Bhe thinks Mr. Holland has jlots of money and ts a good producer. I have pawned my Jewels to help him in his schemes many & time, She Took His Wife's Place. “He has known —Misw'Oa (lig aver 4Ince we were married, but tt waa not until about four months ago that my suspicions were aroused nbdout thelr re- lations. We bad a quarrel and I left Jthome for eleven daya He had— the teemerity to insall that woman right here In these apartments while I was gon, On Dec, 15 last he 1 ground floor flat in the De Puyster In West One Hundred and Eleventh street, Where gho ‘was Known as M’x, Gatling. It didn't take me long to find It out. I weht there numerous times after him! ‘Ono one occasion, at midnight, | forced talled her Ina Meonine a vatirs Do to-decpen-the Impresaton; but she did say that. Chicago. Sociologist Says the. ms iuiland\aam’ the nedeousn aoe iy he ought not to make the girl's cause his own; that “these things were con-| Nation_Needs- Matrimonial my, face. On enees Socasionie tutes stantly happening in big cities." Here was the Indifferent, wftily aloot au ok, Lage ‘ atinlent a Hiei clockstheinext morals titude of the protected woman. which was betrayed again in the stipulation | Instruction. Dollnek tories eucabendin That wenn | Stra. Thaw-made-at-the-time of her son's marringe, that-Evelyn Thaw's | past “should be a closed book” to her, a ener it! CuIcaso, peered This promise, she said yesterday courtship | | she had not done 10, if 8 | woman's reserve, if the younger woman could have reen t lity, the older woman have come to sympath | tunes or to understand her errors, both might have worked together to}, | aake Harry Thaw forget the spectre that walked beside him urging him to Ddile They aresworking together now to sare him- from: the death: chair, | but their common tragedy seems the only link between them. homsat tons. for { Heets rages of rexutta “at | women was their love for one mau—Harry Thaw, “I don't think Mrs: ALLA Lsam-Thaw- could-ever-underutand her. daughter-in-las, while the. Jatter's, brives aa But however different they are and mist remain; each Way done her] te ere best for Harry Thaw, the milltant mother, daughter of Josial Copley, noted] \, standards, substitute ‘declares. though-wide-as-the-world apart, lave stood together in a vallant effort to’ sare him-from—his-tata, oe ~ NEW YORK’S WOLE “HUNTERS ORGANIZE Canada and Northern. Michi- gan to Be Explored i Fortnightly, WASHINGTON TIRES ULTAN'S DELAY if { } “OFS Positive Action Probabie —Schoot Question 1s-Not Soon Settle queats, to marry. is CONSTANTINOPLE, March 7.—It jx | intimated that the U Swill I shortly take more The Wolf Hunters} Club of America jee nUaH met fast night in the oid Canadian shack al-the Sportsmen's Show and or ve measures to wanized the fre» York@Pranch. | enforce Its demands for official recog: They arranged for fortnightly nstend | aition of the American schools and jot-monthly-wolf-hunta fn Canada and ee cstacl alsin anirkey\ | Northerny Schigan, the ecotions where : - wolves are mast abundant, The officers | 0"! tof the exlat remo clected were C,H, Wide, of the Equtta- jit # be Mich longer delayed, he }.ble Life Insurance Company, Pre fal Committee appointed {Her Major Morrison, of the Royal + | to deat yw auention has been alt | dian Ariiiilary of Ottowa, Canada, Vi Ung at. the Yildlz Palace and hag al- 0 ready treamkmed the settleinent ar ¥ und Lieut! Carbadon, of the in | ranged thie, yeare ago’ with the Am fean Embassy, and a new decree ap: proving the agreement lias been sub-) | Mitted to the Sultan, It fs hoped tha the Jattor's signature will remove the obstacles placed by Ir- rexponalble oMfciala in the way of the proper execution of the arrangements. All the details necessary for the ful filment of the agreement were dgcided | upon by tha American Embassy ahd the| Fesponribio departmenta of the Porte | at the time the settlement was reachett, | and ‘conssqitently Ambassador Letwh- man has resolutely refused to consider | All) somwestiona to the , iN eee Feopen, eegterd | Tenth “Imnfantry, } Jamew A, Crutkst | Wolf muntirg 1s ¢ j sport In this country, lalthougihn wi it originated ‘it has been mie sport of winter sports for centuries. The \Volt Hunters’ Club of America now num- | bers twenty-five members, it rold ls | @ret hunt three weeks ago, and it wos 90 succesful that the formal orgaunixa- [Uon wan effected last night, Two kinds of hounds are ured in Wh 0 walt = tie Rurswdan snounds, wh it with | thete cyes. aut the Tridh [bunt owannes and also ary {| in: dort: Thy hunters travel ov And bare nos permanen ve In Open tentsand chanite ry as tha nicks of wolves | which esa Hip’ In the sued fram day, the profess The or temperamental point of contact between these WO) the “jiJusions'” of lov ‘he only mental soe aaa fromthe parent -Prof,-Henderaaa... palnta out J tteutar —evits mich pertiq aa “firtine: extravagance. presents, ignorance of te (ratning of children and courtship without Intent —— ANOTHER-CHANNE 5 STEAMER AGROUND. Cambridge the Second in Trouble Since Berlin was Lost on FLUSHING make wealth Grape-Nuts Is a special brain «THERE’S A REASON.’' for the ref of the-n. the Uni Tana. trent Hi r Urges-expert Inatruce smitten with divoree dnd mar: classed .aa nto whien conventence a) the ‘barbarism’ real view of her husband's mother would probably blend-much awe, some} \oeryhin and marriage have fatten: He examples of (tho decline in op hrere tre Avia rd Doubt. Nkxo-a_caw,_or_whers yo is compelled to marry to secure a -wite of a miliionatre,-and-the-pale-gigt-model,}-rortune trom-a-rien- foot: CUR ST Fishionadle society exhibits depraved nd alimony {s accepted asa Tor—rationa!—marriages,—ne as.or: modern lovemaking baiating of-eoue accepting costly of Coast. March 7,—The 6. belonging Hiway Company, ed early to-day ring a fox fm and the on prob B mteamner, t the Hook for the owner, food. | 1 of Anterican he-could have broken over the wall of the elder) jovemaking are neeied to At the Inve- he older‘a nobil-!jorn populat he younger’s mistor-] fmony, asco {zo with fenderson, n for mat: Trot cares Th ba ar of a gown, Model No, 312. for the tal Modei No.3 14, for the sho: Model No. 516, for the tall Model No. 518, Model No. 515, with Bust Kops Bros., Manufacture ee FLOPERS THINK [inte—envelopes -nddreastd to the-mtore=| i nu ppane RK we to {nald relatives. Mer aporationa-were | Nashville to see her-peopie, nat she whi clonely watched by two targe gray-|find all these elippiis: * nticad of hounds. p better support: oume tn the mor lets hin was ni the ni ning and Miss Gatling the na y husband around and bricks. Hr ne aide of iia ’There both aldes expect my | broke, pyr TMi All they hav of tte Holl: any, which tw in name; but } hing MWke that wouldn't atop tim f Aisposing of It How He Got a Clean Sisirt & Mluer Mr Holand: s my himse n, eke rom came. y went it up ¢ | walter, Mr. Holland didn't have a cent and I wouldn't give him any mon’ he hud to hinve @ shirt package of laundry A ohirt, carefully wrapped the packages up again-anit a it down to the bay in the bis word that’ Mr, Holland was home. 2 “Miss Gatling lett the De U. Her rant waa up am told that th fre two rugs missing. ‘After leaving the De Pu Gatling went to the One Rundred. and Broadway, where she lived w husband ‘aa Mrs, Holland until } Both then went" tou they lived at the Palmer }ious: they camo back to. New York arid came here and got his had the nerve to take one tures, ‘for old acquaintan The An: are probably down th thinking Ure other has Se Mins Gat reshound: {tis shameft ° eb ha ¥e—hadknvebe- tith come to the conclust Holland wae form Sok a ‘ company ed with Lewis yrocket promoter, In running the Gil sey House. They ran it into the hands of a ree MEASLES AND ALSO | MUMPS IN CONVENT. | Br | w it Institution Isolated with Special Nurses. ‘Thirteen children are 11! to-day at tho Convent of the Bacred Heart, Convent avenue ana One Hundred and Thirty third street. elght with German measles and fiye with mumps. There are 130 lit: tle ones In the convent, Mother Supertor Moore said to-day the | | | afficted ones are.carcfully Isolated and |. [ghe does-not-peiteve-any-more- cases iit} levelop. 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