EVELYN THAW POISONED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 7

EVELYN THAW POISONED.

CABARET DANCER. CHICAGO, January 12. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has again come into prominence, this time by drinking eight ounces of violent disinfectant. Her maid said that her mistress had been drinking heavily since a New Year's Eve party she attended, and had taken the poison as an antidote for alcohol. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw is a professional dancer at a Chicago cabaret. Eussell Thaw, her son, who was in the flat when his mother was poisoned, haa been detained in gaol because he refuses to answer questions. Although the dancer is nearly dead, she is expected to recover.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw gained worldwide notoriety in 1906 as the result of a visit she made to the studio of the famous Xew York architect, Stanford White. Harry Thaw, husband of the 18-year-old girl, became madly jealous and shot White in the Madison Square Eoof Garden, which he had designed. Thaw pleaded the unwritten law and insanity at his trial, and was subsequently confined in a mental hospital. The trial was the longest and most costly which had ever been held in the United States up to that time, and Thaw's influential friends made many subsequent'efforts s to have him released from the asylum. Five medical experts declared him sane on April 9, 1924, and he was released.