MRS. THAW'S SECRET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 124, 16 May 1908, Page 4

MRS. THAW'S SECRET.

HEli HBASON VOll SEEKING A DIVORCE. New York, March !). .Mrs. Harry Thaw is changeable as a chameleon. She looked radiantly happy to-day as, pitting in the offices 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 annulled.

" I stood by lJarl'y," she observed, "as long as lie needed me. But now I ear, tolerate the situation 110 longer." "What is it makes the situation intolerable?'' she was asked. "That," she replied, "is a secret which 1 shall carry to the grave." " Yes," she added, " the sum mentioned in the despatches to the Daily Mail as my allowance—,■ClO,(loo in cash and £B,OOO 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 i» against me," lie 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. I Thaw made a discovery during the lirst I trial which determined her never to live with her husband, even if he were liberated. The breach occurred at the tiin that Mr. .lames Clinton Smith, brother-in-law of Mr. Stanford White, gave evidence showing that Mr. Thaw in posing as thi' guardian of outraged inuocenc» was guilty of hypocrisy. Yet despite this proof of his inconsistency, he insisted with a singular lack of chivalry oil his wife going into the witness-box and bearing 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. Win. Thaw, her mother-in-law. who. while oil'ering a formal defence to the suit, is said tu have informed her sou that she will make no effort to have him removed from the Mattawan Asylum until the marriage is annulled :uid his wife safely out of his reach, so Mr. Thaw is placed lieUvecn the devil and the deep sea.