Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — BREAKS HER SILENCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BREAKS HER SILENCE

Mr*. Charles J. Holman, Mrs. Harry Thaw's Mother, Makes a Statement. JEBOME HAD NAUGHT FROM HER She Supplied Him with Nothing Uted in the Trial Girl Did Not Confide in Her MotherHad She the Mother Herself Would Have Killed White. New York, April 13. Hopelessly divided—seven for a verdict of guilty of murder In the flrat degree and five for acquittal on the ground of Insanity—the jury which since the 23d of lass January had been trying Harry K. Thaw has reported after fortyseven hour* and eight minutes of delib eration that it could not possibly agree upon a verdict The twelve men were promptly discharged. Pittsburg, April 17. [Copyright, 1807, by the Pittsburg Leader Publishing company.] The Pittsburg Leader prints a six-column statement from Mrs. Charles J. Holman, mother' of Mrs. Harry Thaw, in which she defends herself against the accusations expressed and implied against her during the Thaw trial. The statement opens by sayfng that two nights after the night upon which Harry

Thaw shot Stanford White she received this telegram from her daughter: “It is most important for yoUi to say absolutely nothing." Until now she has remained silent, and has been forced to take the defensive because of the attack made upon her by Delmas in his closing address to the Thaw jury. Florence in Love with the Stage. She denies that she aided the district attorney in any way, and that she had been seen by Jerome, Garvan or Hartridge. Mrs. Holman then details her struggle following the death of her first husband In her efforts to, properly raise her two children, andsays her daughter first posed for an ; artist named Storm, of Philadelphia, who met Evelyn at Cresson, Pa., a summer resort, when a little girl. “Florence,” she says, “was. in love with the stage." She did everything to discourage her, but it was useless.

MBS. CHARLES J. HOLMAN.