MRS THAW'S FATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 1 June 1907, Page 3

MRS THAW'S FATHER.

i)i-:si-:i!Ti-:i) i!Y ins win-: and FAMILY. 'file Dublin Warder recently published the following telegram, from Edinburgh:

It bus just been discovered that .Mrs Thaw is a native of Midlothian, and has a number of relatives in ihe neighborhood of Edinburgh. Her father is resident in Sterlingsliiro, and is a railway platelayer. Evelyn Nesbitl's mother left fof America ten years ago, leavin" the father behind. Evelyn attended Davidson's Main village school, and the schoolmaster remembers her perfcctlv as a ltonnie. fair-haired lassie, with beautiful features. A large number of villagers remember the girl and her family. .They were very rcsepeetable people.

Mr David Nesbit. father of Mrs Thaw, who is employed as a platelayer on the railway at Cartleeary. near Falkirk. Stirlingshire, on being interviewed tells graphically of the severance of domestic ties which took place when his wife an 1 family, including his daughter Evelyn. Went to America, lie speaks of Kvclvn

as a pretty girl and his favorite daughter. Among Ihe three others, two were named Ethel and Blanche. The last time.he saw was about twelve years ago. when she took part a> a scholar in Maypole dances at Dean's Bridge School, Edinborough. (hi the occasion -he was dressed in white, and looked bonnv.

]lc says she was a very quiet girl, and she wrote to him from America about ten years ago, and he replied rather sharply, and since then he has had no communication from the family except from his youngest sou Willie, who some years ago wrote telling him that the giris, including Evelyn, had been sick for several weeks?

lie treasured a photo of Evelyn, and some needlework which she did at school. Mr Nesbitt. who is ;i line-looking man, something under o() years of age. lives by himself in a one-roomed house, and gets a woman to clean up and cook his me.tk lie has a number of interesting letters from hi,, wife, in which the latter denies (he statement that her sister from San Francisco was the cause of her leaving with her family surreptitiously iu lSi).) for Canada. The letters betoken no love for her husband. One begins "David Nesbit." and concludes "your wife. Mary Nesbit." In the letter she says she does not wish him to come to New York. 'This,'' she says, "is a Christian city; there is no drink, nor filthy talk, out here. You will have plenty of time now to think of your wickedness."

She upbraids him for questioning her sister's character. As to returning home, she scorns (he idea. "I know when I am well off," she says. "I never was as fat nal never has as much money in my pockets. I never had such a happy, jolly life as this is."

He says they were married at West Calder. Midlothian, on Ist dune. 1880, and that his wife is 53 year.} r>£ age.

Some letters which his wife sent him could hardlv be publbished in regard to did they would do very fairly.