The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1906-11-29
The Slayer Of Stanford White, the Noted New
York Architect, to Stand Trial For His
Life, Week Of December 1St
HISTORY OF The NOTED crime
Social Standing Of ThaSS Family and Prominence Of the
Murdered Man Creates Great Interest in the Coming
Trial the Country Over,

there appeared In one OF the local
papers story to the effect that
Thaw and Miss Nesbitt had been Sc
cretly married while abroad. The
fact OF the wedding had not been
disclosed, Il was declared, because
of the fear that a displeased mother
might cut off the support OF her ia
vorlte son. The story of the we'd
ding was taken up everywhere and
the young people were kept busy
with deniais. Their affairs attracted
so much attention that they we're
requested to move from the fashion
ablo hotel where they respectively
had been occupying expensive suites.
This calls forth more notoriety. The
affairs Of the young people were
kept constantly before the pub
lie until 1t was finally announced
that Mrs. William Thaw had consent
cd to her sons marriage to Miss
Nesbltt Thereupon they were call
ed to Pittsburg and In the mothers
home marriage ceremony was per-
formed.
For a long time following the we'd
ding tho Thaw's affairs were prac-
sicily lost sight Of. They spent
o8 OF their time in New York,
a.r often seen together at the thea
aud the cafes and apparently
,hsr lives ran happily together.
1t was late in the evening Of June
25 last that the city and soon the
entire country was ringing with the
tragic news that Harry Thaw had
slain Stanford White, The setting
for the fatal attack had been the
Madison Square Roof Garden where
the first night performance Of a
summer musical show known as
mile. Champagne" was being given.
The place was as say in flowers and
mult-colored electric lights and was
thronged with fashionably dressed
audience. On the stage man was
singing ~ could love a thousand
girls" when suddenly above the
music the pistol shots rang out. The
music ceased, the chorus girls and
actors upon the stage were terror
stricken, men and women in the au-
dience dropped their glasses upon
the tables before them. In the still
ness man was heard to say
you ruined my wife, d. you,
and now I've got you"
Stanford White lay dead at the
table where he had been sitting,
Harry ThaY, in evening dress, stood
with a smoking pistol in his hand.
His wife who had seen him fire the
fatal shot was led screaming away
from the spot and Thaw was ar
rested lie made no attempt to es-
cape.
White was vice president of the
Madison Square Garden company
and was the architect of that famous
structure in whose tower he had al
ways maintained studio. 1t ives
in this tower that Thaw had charged
time and time again since his arrest
that White entertained young women
at the gayest Of parties. Thaw said
he had frequently complained Of
these studio parties to the Society
for the Prevention Of Vice and It
has been stated on authority that
this society had made several inves-
legations prior to the roof garden
tragedy.
II has been brought out since the
shooting that White befriended Ey-
elyn Neabitt and her mother when
the young woman first was brought
to this city to enter the studio as
model. Letters which passed be-
tween White and the mother Of the
girl have been published and play
an important part in the trial There
have been reports that White sought
the girls society after her marriage
to Thaw, but this has been admitted
by neither side and so far as they
could do SO, counsel for both sides
have closed the mouths of the most