MRS THAW’S SECRET.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9139, 7 May 1908, Page 6

MRS THAW’S SECRET.

HER REASON FOR SEEKING A DIVORCE. New York, March 9. Mrs Harry Thaw is changeable as a chameleon. She looked radiantly happy to-day as, sitting in theoffices of her lawyer, Mr O’Reilly, she explained to an audience of Press representatives that never, as long as she lived, would she disclose the real reason of her determination to have her marriage with Mr Thaw annulled. “I stood by Harry,” she observed,, “as long as he needed me. But now I can tolerate the situation no longer. ’N “What is it makes the situation, intolerable?” she was asked.

“That,” she replied, “is a secret which I shall carry to the grave. ’ ’ “Yes,” she added, “the sum mentioned in the despatches to the Daily Mail as niy allowance —£10,000in cash and £3OOO a year—is sufficiently near the mark. Isn’t it splendid?” Mr Thaw apparently does not find anything “splendid” in the affair. He is still under the delusion that he will be free in a week. “Everyone is against me,” he complained. “My mother never wished me to marry Evelyn, but as soon as I am out of this place I will win her back again. ” . What Mrs Thaw’s lawyers hint, but' do not state definitely, is that Mrs Thaw made a discovery during the first trial which determined her never to live with her husband, even if he were liberated. The breach occurred at the time that Mr James Clinton Smith, brother-in-law of Mr Stanford White, gave evidence showing that Mr Thaw in posing as, the guardian of outraged innocence was guilty of hypocrisy. Yet despite this proof of his inconsistency, he insisted with a singular lack of chivalry on his wife going -into the witness-box and baring her shame to the whole world. She obeyed, but never forgave him. Now she desires to be free, and her views coincide with those of Mrs William Thaw, her mother-in-law, who. while offering a formal defence to the suit, is said to have informed her son that she will make no effort to have '.him removed from the Matteawan Asylum until the marriage is annulled and his wife safely out of his reach, so Mr Thaw is placed between the devil and the deep sea.