MRS THAW’S “AFFIDAVIT.”

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8815, 17 May 1907, Page 4

MRS THAW’S “AFFIDAVIT.”

Wlinn the Thaw trial entresfi upon itSath Veok, the controversy between tiie prosecution and the ae fence still tinned npo ll ./f 'fhaw as^-sff 1%! Hating that Miss Nesbit’s age at the time las 18, the document gave au, amount of her going to Europe her mother at Thaw s_ rocpi j t describes how they p ar ; g for a time, thou w , n (- Boulogne, where Evelyn anc i j ier mo ther remained, while Thaw went to 1 London. He returned and took them 1 to Loudon.

Then Thaw and Evelyn took a trip together to Holland, Germany, and the Austrian Tyrol, travelling together as man and wife under the name of Dellis. Thaw, the, paper continued, leased a castle m the Austrian mountains, where he and Evelyn stayed together. While they, were at the castle Thaw one day tore her bath robe from her, and then attacked her with a cow hide whip. < I saw,” the document was represented to have said, ‘ ‘ that he was terrorised. His eyes were "lariug. He throw me down, and when I started to scream he put his Angers down my throat and tried to choke me. Then upon my hare skin ho struck me several severe and violent blows with the cow hide whip. So '.brutally was I beaten that my skin was 'left bruised and cut. After the first beating he attacked me again, and for a period of several minutes continued to heat me. He acted like a demented man. I screamed, but we were far away at one end of the castle, and my cries could not be heard by the servants. When Thaw finally left me I was unable to move. Next day he repeated the attack upon me, unmercifully beating mo with the whip unti I was left fainting. I was in bod for throe weeks afterwards. I so nervous and weak that I could not leave my bed, hut all this time I was in fear that he would take my life, T 5 Proceeding with the narrative, the “plaintiff” declared that afterwards, when they were in Switzerland, Thaw boat her when she was in her night dross, lashing her hare legs below the knees and renewing these attacks on the slightest pretext, Later, iu Paris, he beat her at intervals of half an hour for au entire day, each castiagtion leaving her in a swooning condition. Thaw, the “plaintiff” stated, told Miss Simortou lies about her (Evelyn )and threatened to kill her if she did not subscribe to these lies. The statement also accused Thaw of taking several tilings from Evelyn, as well as other jewellery, 400 dollars, hooks, cheques, and a trunkful of clothes and hats, and continued i “When 1 came hack from America I had a letter from Thaw to Mr Lougefollow, telling him to ' have me followed by detectives, hut ’ to see that I had everything I wanted.” The deposition concluded as follows “I have often been told by Thaw that lie was inimical to a certain married man for whom ho said ho would make trouble, and have him put in a penitentiary. Sveoral times ho tried to got me to ! sign papers accusing this man or drugging and ruining mo when I was 15 years old, hut I refused to do so because it was not true, and it was for that reason ho Inflicted on ) mG the punishments heroin described.”