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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1955.

WITNESS

FOR THE

DEFENCE

Reporting the strangest human story of the week: HOW A WIDOW OF 71

AND A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG BRITISH

ACTRESS

TOGETHER RELIVE -

A Murder of the Century

T

• Joan Collins in New York this week on her way home to London

FOR HER: THE GLOSBĪKS

after making the film in which she plays

CHINA'S POSES

population of

HE

China, according tu

оп

Na week when the She met Stanford White, word "witness" is a celebrated architect, who much headlined comes dressed her in lavish kimo- this strange and mov- nos, photographed her ing human situation In New a Polar bear rug, swung her York:

to and fro on a red velvet EVELYN NESBIT swing in his studio, THAW, a woman of 71 who, She also met Harry Thaw 50 years ago, was a witness the spoiled son of a for her husband in one of railway millionaire. the great murder trials of Harry, they called him. the century, has emerged Evelyn went to Europe. from the past to revisit the Mad Harry scene of that half-forgotten crime,

In her purse: fifty thou- sand dollars, given her by

the

Bri.

Mad

followed her.

YOUNG WIFE'S STORY OF HER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE

DRAMATIC SCENE.

THAW CASE HEADLINKE ... DAILY EXPARUS, 1808.

rented

German

FOR HER: The DollarS

table, pulled out a revolver and shot White: once through his left eye, once througli bis mouth, once through his shoulder.

Evelyn turned and saw White tumble to the floor.

THE trial was the censation of

the year;

of the decade. Evelyn Thaw was the sensation of the trial.

Thaw.

Evelyn

Nesbit And this is Mrs. Thaw in New York this week... unwrinkled at TI.

Evelyn slowly tell from fame. She had a sou, she said, by Thaw: but he denied paternity. She worked in dance halls and honky tonks,

a Hollywood company which is now filming her story.

JOAN COLLINS. young and voluptuous tish actress, plays the part of Mrs Thaw in the film.

She met Thaw again in 1920. This week Joan Collins They

castle; stayed at Claridges. also is in New York....

By then she had married a danc dance

but he deserted partner. ACT. She Today GEORGE GALE

twice tried to kill married Mad Harry

herself. But there WRA no and RÖNALD SINGLETON Evelyn: and Mud Harry

reconciliation with Thaw. further telescope time to learned of Stanford White Thaw's family had collected the By the thirties she was tell you the story of Evelyn and the red velvet swing... most persuasive lawyers of the night-club hostess in Chicago, day. The prosecutor was Wil- Then she took up sculpting and On June 25, 1906, "Mam'zelle llam Travors Jerome, hand moved Into obscurlly Champagne"

at some, precise, cousin of Winston California. opening was

Churchill and, GS the Madison Square Roof Gar-

district attorney, a man with a mission poor Pennsylvania girl plushtet, more golden than it is to clean up New York. whose beauty made her the now.

Thaw....

ย

EVELYN NESBIT was den, in Now York-lusher,

architect.

At

now

In the crowder courtroom

in

tho

The defence was insanity. The key witness Evelyn Nesbit NOW Evelyn Thaw has 50,000 model

Dana for Charles

Champagne corks were pop-

Thaw.

dollars for reliving, for the Gibson's most famous draw- ping. Six girls on the stage were dancing. The song was:

She told about the red velvet films, that night in the Garden. She has her granchild, She ing, "The Eternal Ques. "I could love a million girla."

swing. She also told how her tion."

Alone for oncemat a table husband had forced her to tell has alto her wisdom,

him all about her seduction by "Perhaps I learned White, the great Her mother brought her sat Stanford

Stanford White.... table

greatest thing a soul can know," another to New York - the brash millionaire Harry Thaw set with

"Mr. White aslood me to come she said this week as she stood Nesbit and brassy New York of the Evelyn

Evelyn to ace the back room, and he Jooking at the rebuilt Madison

went through BOITUO curtains. Square She danced

his wife. She passed 1900's.

in Thow,

Garden, "Compassion. note:

The back room was a bedroom. Cars, "The dirty

clothes, houses, "Florodora." John Barry Thaw

I sat down at the table, a tiny blackguard is here."

to me," she bald. more sald: "No one can

little table. There was a bottle Thaw's party got up to leave of chamagne, a small bottle,

"I was

sorry hold a candle to the beauty Thaw dawdled behind them,

oor, tormented thing that he poor, glass. Mr

white paused by of that girl."

was even though his murder of picked up the bottio and Stanford White destroyed me." poured Tho glass full of Destroyed her? This trim, champagne....

arch-typical American grand- "I don't know whether it was mother, unwrickled at 717 minute or two or after, but a

Stunford

POPULATION PROBLEMS

By Stephen Garnett

Communist programme,

limit?

the

White's

and

a

one

men for my husband

"Harry Thaw killed tho man pounding began in my car, a I once loved. Men can be beasts, something and pounding, then but Stanford White was a the whole room seemed to go brilliant, kind and fascinating round. Everything got very man.

black.

"I know a lot about sin. Sins "When I awoke I was lying of the flesh are not the great In a room whose wells and ones-the greatest is not to

But the road is far from clear, celling were covered with mang loved to cutest evil

mirrors. As consciousness even to the theorists: and meanwhile the State's require-turned, I screamed repeatedly. why I have no wrinkles."

mission.

motives for

4

White came into the zoom and tried to quieten me. He got down on his knees beside me

"I have no resentment--that's

walked

across. the

avenue,

and picked up the ends of my TVELYN THAW turned from dress and kissed it, I do no: Machisper Square Garden and know how I got home".

This, sald the defence, was Yellow taxis swarmed about her; what had banged on and on in the New York crowd finally ob- Meri Harry's mind until, five scured her. years later, and insane, he shot And the crowd shuffled past White in the Gardens.

the the i

neal TOWS of glossy

the 1953 census, the

monts must be met. of doctrine. At

The truth Is that nearly details of which wore figure for the execution of the chango

what National People's Congress In

everything

with the concerned officially released in Novem- about the two percent increase September 1954. there was 起

and birth of procreation ber 1964, is now more than 12 million a year-by which single and inconspicuous speech child, insofar as it is subject

the 600 million, that is 30 per- the population 14

sprend advancing advocating

of to human agency, is decided by "knowledge of birth factors which have nothing to cent higher than the total and is expected to continue to medical

It among the people.

do with the class war or with which had until then been advance? Is there any desirable control

was made by

73-year-old by the

any centralised planning com- generally accepted. It is

who is not there Shao Li-ta, In Communist theory

Individual reached by including 71⁄2 stems to be none.

Communist and, indeed, had The newest

earlier widespread use of birth con- | The jury could not agree. A magazines on the news stands; edition of million or so for Formosa (1954)

the Large been prominent in the

trol in the West (and it is in- second trial acquitted Thaw, but past the colour picture of Jony

Mrs Thaw A brave man, some have sold, dividual motives that matter) found him insane. He was Collins as and nearly 12 million as the Soviet Encyclopaedia continues Kuomintang administration.

to dismiss Malthusianism, or

cover of the one called..Luc. estimated number of Over the advocacy of restricting po- and Shio Li-tzu may be that are not necessarily sa discre- taken to a State sylum, seas Chinese. By this means

matter But this was not a

of dilable as they have sometimes "reactionary rav-

in fact, a pre- defiance, for Shao Li-tsu him- been made to appear. The idea It Peking asserts her claim to in

"view which Com- self revealed that the Ministry of a better chance for the off- speak in the name of a Malthusian

munists prefer, the view held of Hygiene had since July been spring of a small family oper- quarter of the earth's popu- in Western Europe in the early concerned with the subject. ates more powerfully than the lation.

Not only the cautious ortho- lack of a better time for the cgihteenth century that

bouring

atatements, the doxy of his own Increases mta

parents. wealth of the community.

but other propaganda for knowledge of birth

contro) which has since been appearing,

It would be an even stranger world then it is if the prestige cf nations

or or governments systems were computed by such mathematics. Switzerland, example,

and

for

the

every

and

the

Changed lives

the intimate human decision is the

In

that they

may

of Accor-

Birth control

mnite it clear that it is the What does not operate in, this Faithfully echoing this. the make would come off very People's Dally declares that in principles of Lento

problems poorly, and the Constitution of China, as in the Soviet Union experience of Soviet Russia idea of solving the

and the United Nations would bo

which and the People's Democracies, which count in this field as in left unsolved by Marx

Engels. destroyed.

people are the "most precious others.

whether It may be doubled But no authoritarian

It is noteworthy that Lenin, regime of all the categories of capital."

"class. It operates very strongly even has ever been proof against the At the international confer when he called upon

to in the temptation to triumph

resist under conditions of thought- Ching's ence of population experts, held conscious workern"

"New of Both number of its subjects.

principle population reform. Commun- the in Rome in 1954, the

control as a means Mussolini coupled Hitler and

to better Women" the "correct" approach colonial space ist representatives had nothing fiving standards, also promoted to birth control has been put their claims

to contribute

but the dogma the legalisation of abortion

in forward by a writer who sintes with rewards to prolific mothers that Communist economics

Russia. who showed the way to fill it.

revolutionary

Quito boldly: "All parents hope that could meet

of

this step position

was taken their children will be robust What limit? 15.00

hunger in any sizeabiem

strong builders of 25.00

re- become The Soviet Union also pro hardly justified either by the because of the large number of youngsters, so

Russian or by the short women who already had

in course to abortion by secret Socialism." Do they, even 8.50 moted the institution of "hero. long

China? the Chinese experience. mothers;"

when 25.00

How, then, are we to inter- und often dangerous means..

There may be some truth in Russian campaign for colonis-

Parallel policy .35.00

of pret recent moves in China to ing

virgin the

lands

the assertion that the desire for The history of this and other the knowledge and means- 7.50 1

Central Asia was getting into introduce and publicise scienti-

in fle methods of birth control? methods of birth control in

in spacing childbirth Khrushchev, Alride, 7.50 its

January gave an official One answer that has been sug- Soviet Russia, changeable and dance with

1055,

and often confusing as it has been, "an urgent 5.00 send it to a batch of reclama- gestod is that Mr Attleo

de has always run parallel with masses. words: the British Labour Party tion recruits with the

1954 5.00

during their another hundred million

had some influence State policy of maintaining or that have children; it is men, and

women. in increasing the birthrate,

of them The lives of many Between 1930 and 1944, after even drawing official, attention to the

effect on living standards of a a great deal of discussion in China, phops tapecially tho wchno, aro being In tho

abolished changed. The State cannot put

very women

women into factorice without But Mr Attlen himself wrote legal abortion People's Daily

It that the Chinese Government limited 1954 when

the writer in made discovering,

Women" con- China's declared: "This not only shows resisted all ideas of this kind, divorce

more difficult; and "Now

take that "those who 15.00 that China has powerful that they regarded a largo po generally favoured the pro codes,

whether part Itself duction of children,

production wo feel

would 1.50 force to

from the viewpoint of

dimeuit that she has 'and'

of inside or outside marriage, by it all the more 1.50 also, domnul Socialism, but pulation as desirable in

to look After their maternal health and the power to defend peace in production), and that their at extended State provisions

itude

general was ""'dis» The theory still holds that d' on their work at the same Asia and, the world." -

that de turbing." ithout examinfog

But the State and the future perfection is in sight in tim SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. claration too closely, the quee- In fact, new developments which Soviet marriage" will system may not have the final

tion next arises; if 600 millon were already under way. But be a peculiarly blessed condi® word in what"production

they do not yet amounį to is a sufficient jod appr

ation uneltainable elsewhere? mBROK

(Bernard Wicksteed)

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