HARRY K. THAW.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5000, 14 July 1926, Page 1

HARRY K. THAW.

RECONCILED TO EX«WR The cables recently told us that Harry K. Tha.w and his wife, Evelyn Nesbit, are to remarry. On return to her home in Vermont Avenue after a five-hour automobile ride with Harry K. Thaw, hei former husband, and Frank K. Johnston, his attorney, Evelyn Nesbit announced that she. and Thaw had become reconciled (says the New York Times), Thaw divorced her some years ago. A few minutes after she had stepped from the Thaw automobile and had watched it take her former husband and’his attorney towards a railroad station, jvhere they boarded a train for Philadelphia, Miss Nesbit met newspaper men and said: — “Well, it’s all. fixed. Harry and I are going to live together in the suburbs here as soon as I can sell my own house.” “Then do you and Mr Thaw intend to she was asked. “I won't say that now,” she replied. “I am happy to-night. The future 'will take care of itself. Harry will say anything more there is to say.” She seemed very happy, and in reply to a. question about the-way the reconciliation would be accepted said — ( “I think . most people, especially women, have pity bn me' deep down in their hearts. They know what a hard .tipie I have had.” . ' Miss Nesbit said that she was somewhat in doubt as fb the, present status of . the' Clifford divorce, suit, ,in other words, that she was not sure whether she was divorced. ' She added that she was going .to have her lawyer find out. Her young'son, Russell, was present whe,n she made , the statement about the reconciliation. He, said nothing; smiling as he watched his mother. Thaw had already left when Miss Nesbit made her announcement, but during the day, when denying reports that public announcement of a reconciliation was to be made, Thaw repeated that he and 'Miss Nesbit were “more friendly than ever.”' . During the day Miss Nesbit sent two telegrams to Chicago regarding the charge made there against her son beaming an hotel bill. The publicity given this charge is' said to have paved the. way for reconciliar tidn. ■ . » The first telegram, .addressed to Frank Florentine, of the Congress Hotel, read as follows: —“Lt is criminal of you to so libel a 15-year-old schoolboy. Russell has. not left Atlantic City since last January. Wa Will .take, immediate. steps in this matter.”

The other telegram was to Barney Franklin, manager of the Moulin Rouge Cabaret, where Miss Nesbit was employed about a year ago. It read: Russell positivelyhas not been in Chicago since, last January 10. Assure you I will ta.ke immediate steps against the Congress Hotel.' Mr Thaw will help me in this regard.”

Miss Nesbit and her former husband posed for photographs -a.t her home before their departure on the automobile ride, and she and Russell dined with Thaw and Johnston at -the Ambassador Hotel.

Thaw had just a.rriv©d at hisi hotel 'from Atlantic City when he was informed of the reports. He. first expressed surprise that stories were being circulated concerning a. rumoured remarriage, and then declared emphatically that reports were hot true. | “Why, what’s all wrong,” he said when asked if he and Miss Nesbit had remarried. , “Nothing like that w’as intended. I don’t know why they should send out a story like that. Remarriage is not contemplated.”

y Thaw said that he had dined with Nessbit and Russell Thaw in ■Atlantic City.

4 Miss. Nesbit married Harry Thaw in Pittsburg in April, 1905. Fourteen ■ months, later Thaw shot and killed Stanford White at the Old Madison Square Garden,roof because of White’s relations with Evelyn before the marriage. Alfter Thaw’s incarceration Evelyn went into retirement and Tha,w eventually divorced her. She went to Europe after the divorce,' and returned,in 1912 with a boy whom she called Russell K. Thaw-. She began a fight for recognition of the child. Thaw was successful in opposing her claim. Jn Mny, 1916, she married Jack Clifford, her dancing partner. He divorced her in 1924.

The divorce decree was entered by default, and in October of tha t t year Miss Nesbit got permission from Supreme Court Justice O’Malley to reopen the case and re-en'te'r her counter plea’for divorce- Justice O’Malley made the condition that the case was to be tried the following month or as soon thereafter at possible. ’Records failed to show that Miss Nesbit ever took further steps, and the present status of the proceedings wa.s somewhat clouded.