The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-06-26
WHITE fATaNY.S SHOT
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PROM inept Architect kAlldt It Q
Eopf t,lraen Tneaier.
HUSBANDS REVENGE
aTeu'se Deserved fhis;Nau've Ruined
ny Heme!" Exclaimed Harry
fhaw As Death Dealing
Bullets Mere Fired.

New YORK, June sG.--S Sanford White
TIC eminent architect o. the firm Of
f. NeKim d White. was shot Monday
! t.Eht and almos, instantly killed by
II Try T Thaw. "A prominent member
Of Pi;.sbnrg fsHsty, during the per
Torrance Of the musical extravaganza.
"Mamsell Champagne" on the roof OF
the Madison SaIare Garden Mr..
White died before an ambulance could
be Summoned, and Thaw was arrested
+, Immediately after the shooting White
+ was accompanied by Mrs. Tbaw at the
, time OF the shooting
I The Madison Square Roof Garden.
( which has been closed for several
! years. was crowded with fashionable
audience. While Harry Short, who fills
( the principal comedy role In the peice,
| was singing a song and the garden
was echoing with laughter and ap-
I piause, series OF shots rattled in
/ the rear OF the audience, and a man
In evening dress was seen to fall across
table, at which he was sitting with
party OF friends The man who had
fired the shots fled, pistol in hand to-
wards the nearest exit, where he was
seized and disarmed by police.
Instantly the great audience was
| thrown into panic and a wild STAN.
pede occurred in which chairs and Ia
bles were overturned, and men and
women fought with desperation to es-
cape from the roof.
The man who was shot was quickly
/ identified as Mr. White, but his as
sailant was not positively known to
be Thaw until after he had been TAX
en- to the station house. Persons in
front of the auditorium where the
tragedy occurred say that they saw a
man. sitting in the rear suddenly, walk
toward table In front. f3
The first intimation Of trouble came
when, walking in front of his seated
victim, the man exclaimed: You've
deserved this; you've ruined my
home and. drawing an automatic pts
toll fired three shots. The first two
took effect, but as the third discharg
ed the pistol was struck up by a fire
bullet went skyward. ,-f
i The woman who had been sitting
with White sprang to her feet and
rushing up to his assailant, who wa
struggling with the fireman, threw he
arms about his neck, exclaiming TT
stand by YOU ass - y'
I At the West Thirtieth street polio
station, Thaw- described himself q
John Smith. a student of 1S0 Lafayett
J Place, Washington, D. c.. but the pc
I Lice, on searching him, found cards an
letters addressed to Harry Thaw
Pittsburg and later his identity wa
fully established ~
The shooting occurred at 1890 p
m while Harry Short was singing :"
Could Love a Million Girls 81. ..
Thaw had been present during the
entire performance He and WON
an said to be Mrs. Thaw were sitting
( at a rear table While waiting for a
car to come after Thaw had beer
arrested, matter Of few seconds
Thaw's wife, who was Evelyn Nesbitt
a member of the original Florodors
sextette rushed to him, threw hel
arms around Thaw and declared I'll
stand by you, Harry
Thaw had been at the performance
all the eevnlng. and had been noticed
to be very nervous and excited. White
had been previously at the Manhattan
club. and had only been at the garden
a few minutes when Thaw confronted
him.
Fireman Brudoff took the revolver
away from Thaw and handed him ovar
TO Policeman Bodds. who placed him
under arrest Thaw handed the po
liceman $40 and asked him to notify
Andrew Carnegie that he was in trou
bic
Thaw. II was acknowledged, said to
the fireman. He deserved what he
got He ruined my life and deserted
the girl
While Thaw was being held by the
policeman the Young woman. who Il
short. slender dark and very pretty
again pat her arms about his neck
Tha~ told her 20 keep qnirt and not
set excited. ss-all SouId come out Al
right
7 Immediately after nc shooting 'hs
curtain Mas ruag down ou The play
Somrthlna Of ThA~
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