The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-26
RUINED MY WIFE

lie where he had been sitting, Harry
Thaw, in evening dress. stood with 4
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 arrested. He made no
attempt to escape.
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 a studio. 1t was 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 Investigations prior
TO the Roof Garden tragedy
1t has been brought out since the
shooting that White befriended Evelyn
Eesbit and her mother when the young
woman first was brought to this city
to enter the studios as 4 model. Let
tiers which passed between White and
the mother of the girl have been pub
lished and may 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 important witnesses.
Thaw has sought his justification in
the words he uttered to his victim on
the night of the tragedy. He has
claimed that under the "unwritten
law" no jury could convict him OF hav-
ing taken the life of the man who had
traduced his wife in her innocent girl
hood" To these accusations by Thaw
the friends of Stanford White. many
of them Influential men of the conf
munity. have declared that the arch
itect's interest in the girl vas pure
ly of a fatherly character. They said
! he had assisted many young women
f! to make place for themselves in the
{; world and that he was no more deeply
! interested in Miss Sesbit than he had
| been in number of others about
/; whom no breath of scandal has been
| uttered.
(: 1t has constantly been stated that
! the Thaw case would never come to
trial and that the mysteries of its
many intricate phases would never be
exposed to the light Of the public's
gaze. this conjecture being based on
the report that a plea of insanity
might be entered and accepted
! This probability, however, It is now
/: said. is past. Harry Thaw has HIM
self stood in the way Of any such plan.
1t is asserted that in his refusal to
give assent to the insanity plea he has
been steadfastly supported by his wife
who, it Is generally reported, has con-
stantly urged her husband to take
some action against White. Mrs.
Thaw, who was recalled from Europe
when the tragedy occurred has also
been a frequent caller. There have
been many family conferences and
many stormy interviews in the young
mans cell, his resentment being
shown every time the suggestion of
insanity has been offered.
II prefer death in the electric chair
to life in an insane asylum" the
prisoner is credited with exclaiming.
Lewis Dalafield, of counsel to the
Thaw family uas fret called into tho
case. He engaged Judge w. NJ. X. o.
colt, of the firm of which former
Governor Frank s. Black, Is mem
Der They had hardly been in the case
a month when young Thaw after an
interview in the Tombs dismissed