HARRY THAW AGAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1930, Page 6

HARRY THAW AGAIN

EUROPEAN TOUR. BAN ON VISITING BRITAIN. Harry IC. Thaw, the American millionaire who served many years of a life sentence in a criminal asylum for the murder in 1906 of Stanford White a New York architect, who Thaw alleged was paying undue attention to his wife, the beautiful Evelyn Nesbit, passed through Plymouth recently from New York to Europe., Owing to cabled messages from New York, it was confidently expected that Thaw would attempt to land at Ply- , mouth by tender. He had been credited with the assurance that the ban placed on him two years ago would be lifted when a Labour, Government was in office. “Sakes, do you think I am going to land?” was his greeting when, after searching the liner, lie de France, a “Daily Express!’ interviewer found him in a secluded part of the deck. Knowing .that officers of the Special Branch of Scotland Yard were watching at the top of the tender’s gangway in case Thaw should attempt to get ashore, the writer assured him he did not think so, and.put the direct question; “Are you trying to come to England again?”

For a moment Thaw’s face clouded and then lie laughed. “01 course, not,” he said. “I cannot land, cap 1 ? And if I could, I have no desire to. I wanted to land last time, but they would not let me; and that order of the Home Office still holds goods, although that man Jix has gone.” The interviewer produced a copy of Thaw’s book, “The Traitor,” which the author describes as “being the untampered, unfevised account of the trial and all that led tip to it.” When he saw the book in the -visitor’s- hand he snatched it from him, opened the. first page, and pointed to h paragraph which ended: “ a wretch who led us into the perils which ed Her.’ ' " Pointing to the word “wretch” lie said: “He is still lying about me'.' They all are, and they are blackmailing me, but I will get them all yet.' “I. am off to Paris now to have a look round, and then I aril going mountain-climbing in Switzerland. T am going to Berlin and Budapest as well.’’