MRS THAW'S SECRET.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 100, 29 April 1908, Page 6

MRS THAW'S SECRET.

HER REASON FOR SEEKING A

DIVORCE

NEW YORK, March 9. Mrs Harry Thaw is changeable as a chameleon. She looked radiantly happy to-day as, sitting 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 rea-

•on of her determination to have her narriage with Mr Thaw annulled. "I stood by Harry," she observed, 'as long as he needed me. But now . can tolerate the situation no long;r." "What is it makes the situation intolerable?" she was asked. "That," she replied, "is a secret vhich I shall carry to the grave." "Yes," she added, "the sum mentioned in the despatches to the Daily jlail as my allowance —£10,000 in cash md £3000 a year—is sufficiently near ;he mark. Isn't it splendid?" Mr Thaw apparently does not find my thing "splendid" in the affair. He s still under the delusion that he will ac free in a week. "Everyone is igainst me," he 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 [Jo not state definitely, is that Mrs rhaw made a discovery during the first trial which determined her never to live with her husband, even if he were liberated. The breach occurred at the time that Mr James Clinton Smith, brother-in-law of Mr Stanford White, gave evidence showing that MiThaw in posing as the guardian of outraged innocence was guilty of hypocrisy. Yet despite this proof of his inconsistency, he insisted with a singular lack of chivalry on 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 William Thaw, her mother-in-law ■, who, while offering a formal defence to the suit, is said to have informed her son tliat she will make no effort to have him removed from the Matteawan Asylum until the marriage is annulled and his wife safely out of his reach, so Mr Thaw is placed between the devil and the deep sea.