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Show EVELYN'S I ;0T1IER STILL LOVES HER "Heart Deats cs Strong for Her as When She Held Her In Her Anns," She ( Declares. PITTSBU.BO, April 16. (Copyright, 1907, by the Pittsburg Leader publishing publish-ing Company.) , ( j The Leader this af tternoon prints a six-column statement from Mrs. C. J. Ho'.man, mother of . Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in which she defends herself! against the accusations, expressed and implied, against her during the Thaw trial. She says that two nights after the night upon which Harry Thaw shot Stanford White she received this telegram tele-gram from her daughter: "It is most important for you to say nothing." Mrs. Holman details her struggle following fol-lowing the death of her first husband in her efforts to properly rear her two children, and says ner daughter firat posed for an artist named Storm of Philadelphia, who met Evelyn atN ft summer resort when a little girl. "Florence," she says, "was in love with the stage." j She did everything to discourage her, but it was useless. The story of Florence's first meeting with Stanford White, she says, is substantially as told by her on the witness stand. When Florence returned she told her mother she had met "the grandest man," and later when White sent for her, she went to his office. I White, she says, warned her specifically specifi-cally against several young men with whom Florence had become acquainted, but did not refer to Thaw. White's words and actions were the personification personifica-tion of whole-hearted, disinterested generosity, Mrs. Holman says, and if. ever a woman reposed implicit confidence confi-dence in a man, she says, she did it him. . Mrs. Holman then asserts that if Florence underwent the experience that is said to have befallen her, she did not take her into her confidence. Continuing, Continu-ing, she says: "Had she told me what she told the Thaw jury, it would not have been necessary for Harry Thaw to kill Stanford Stan-ford White. I would have done it myself." my-self." - I In closing, Mrs. Holman says: "I solemnly affirm that my love for my daughter la as deep and Intense af it waa when I first held her In my arms a helpless babe. Regardless of all that has transpired, my affection Is unaltered. un-altered. The door of my home Is open to her, and will open wide to her lightest tap today, tomorrow, and all-ways all-ways while I live." j |