HARRY THAW AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

HARRY THAW AGAIN.

MOUNTAINEERING TOUR.

BAN ON VISITING BRITAIN.

" NO DESIRE TO LAND." ITarry K. Thaw. the American millionaire who served many years of n life sentence ui a criminal asylum for the murder in 1906 of Stanford White, a New York architect, who, Thaw alleged, was paying undue attention to his wife, the beauti ful Evelyn Nesbit, passed through Plymouth recently from New York to Europe. Owing to cabled messages from Now York, it was confidently expected that Thaw would attempt to land at Plymouth by tender. Ho had been credited with the assurance that tho ban placed on him two years ago would be lifted when a Labour Government was in office. " Sakcs, do you think I am going to land ?" was his greeting when, after searching the liner He de France, a Daily Express interviewer found him in a secluded part of the deck. Knowing that officers of tho Special Branch of Scotland Yard were watching at the top of the tender's gangway in case Thaw should attempt to get ashore,

the writer assured him he did not think so, and put the direct question: "Are you trying to come to England again 2"

For a moment Thaw's face clouded, and then lie laughed. " Of course not," he said. "I cannot land, can I? And if I could, I have no desire to. I wanted to land Inst time, but they would not let me; and that order of the Home Office still holds good, although that man Jis has gone."

The interviewer produced a copy of Thaw's book, " The Traitor," which the author describes as " being the untampered, unrevised account of the trial and all that led up to it." When lie saw the book in his visitor's hand ho snatched it from him, opened the first page, and pointed to a paragraph which ended:

" . . . a wretch who led us into the perils which overwhelmed Her." Pointing to the word " wretch," he said: " He is still lying about me. They all are, and they arc blackmailing me, but 1 will get them all yet. " I am off to Paris now to have a look round, and then I am going mountainclimbing in Switzerland. I am going to Berlin and Budapest as well."