Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since that time the press has not improved. The facts of the case today are that Harry K. Thaw has begun proceedings to establish his sanity. The story is complicated by a petition for intervention on the part of Evelyn Nesbit, divorced wife of Thaw, declaring that "Harry Kendall Thaw has not fully recovered his normal mental condition and that he is still a lunatic, and that if he should be freed from restraint at the present time and his estate restored to him, he would dissipate and probably wholly destroy the interests which . . . Russell William Thaw...
Evidence at the trial brought out the fact that Thaw was in 1918 on intimate terms with rabbits at the Pennsylvania Hospital for Nervous Diseases, whence he was removed during the War. He kissed them often and called them "tweedledums" and "tootsies," then threw them 40 feet into the snow, exclaiming: "It didn't hurt them!" Despite this evidence alienists were of the opinion that Thaw is sane...
Additional factors are that Thaw is worth about $5,000,000; Evelyn Nesbit owns the Café El Prinkipo on the boardwalk of Atlantic City and is moderately wealthy...
...Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw's former wife, rose from the bed on which she had been sitting in her ill-furnished hotel room; shook off the four griffons and the Albino Pekinese which had scrambled about her lap while she spoke; dashed to the mirror, seized a large comb and ran it through her black hair, which hangs to her shoulders in a long straight...
...Harry Thaw is still a man of wealth-only that. To be free to come and go, to admire and to behold the many commonplace beauties of life, to watch the meeting of lovers as they pause in the crowded streets at this sweet time of year, to drop into a picture house at his will, to wander here and wander there, lingering at dusty book stalls or staring into shop windows, to have a little job and the capacity to get away with it, he would without doubt, be glad to start life all over at fifty without...