Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — NAME EDNA GOODRICH [ARTICLE]

NAME EDNA GOODRICH

She Once Sued Harry Thaw for Breach of Promise. Fact Is Brought Out During Testimony of White’s Slayer’s Wife—Doesn’t -. Want Husband Released. New York, June 25.—That Edna Goodrich, the actress who recently divorced Nat Goodwin, once sued Harry Thaw for breach of promise, was the surprise sprung at the hearing in the supreme .court at White plains to determine whether or not Thaw is sane enough to be released from Matteawan. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was being eross-examiiibd by Clarence J. Shearn, counsel for Thaw. Suddenly Mr. Shearn asked the witness: What about the breach of promise suit which Edna Goodrich brought igainst Harry Thaw?’’ “Better go slow on that,” said Mrs. lhaw. “It was withdrawn.” Mr. Shearn did not refer to the matter again. The proceedings were favorable to Thaw. He seemed to enjoy the discomfiture of Special Deputy Attorney Jeneral Jerome on several occasions. Jerome’s principal witness, Hartig who had been an assistant spirtual adviser in the Tombs prison, adnitted on cross-examination that he lad once served a jail sentence for perjury. Mrs. Thaw’s testimony dealt mainly tvith the story leading*up to the killng of Stanford White. She made it plain that she does not want to have Thaw liberated, saying: /‘I don’t want him to get out and kill me next.”