Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-28
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with her husbands lawyers.
Story Of the Shooting.
In the midst of the performance at
the Madison Square roof garden last
night Harry Thaw, the young Pitts
burg millionaire, shot and killed Stan
ford White of the firm of McKim, Mead
& White, architects.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw the beau
tiful actress and artists model for
marrying whom young Thaw became
estranged from his family, is reported
to have been in the company of White
when her husband killed him.
The roof garden which has been
closed for several years, was crowded
last night with fashionable audience.
While Harry Short, who fills the prin-
cipal comedy role in the musical com
edy, Mile. Champagne" was singing
comic song and the garden was
echoing with the laughter and APP
plause of the audience, a series of
shots ratified in the rear of the auditor
ium, and 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
fed. pistol in hand, toward the nearest
exit, where he was seized and disarm-
ed by police.
Instantly the great audience was
thrown into panic, and wild STAN
pede occurred, during which chairs
and tables were overturned and men
and women fought with desperation to
escape from the roof.
Thaw Known For Escapades.
Harry Thaw has been, since his ear
~ youth, the black sheep of the fam
lily. When the elder Thaw came to
dispose OF his millions previous to his
death he cut Harry off with $4,000 a
year because of his waywardness. Mrs.
Thaw later remedied the discrepancy
In the young mans financial expecta-
tons by making him an equal sharer
with the other heirs in the estate, thus
insuring him an annual income of $780,
900.
Thaw World Renowned Spender,
After he came into his patrimony
through his mothers generosity Harry
IhaW cut wide swath in certain So
ciety circles of Pittsburg. New York,
London, and Paris. He was known as
spender before he left Pittsburg for
New York. When he arrived at New
York he sat himself to the task of
maintaining his reputation and sue
ceeded belonk even his expectations.
Here are few things he is accredited
with doing after his arrival in New
York:
He raced cab down Broadway in
the middle of the day when Broadway
was crowded from curb to curb.
He threw theatrical performance
into panic by throwing bottles at a
soubrette who didn't sing to please
him.
He caused the proprietor to close up
famous night restaurant an hour ear
lier because he stood on a table and
threw SIS to all the walters.
| He went to the Waldorf one night
sat by himself at magnificent table
and ordered $50 dinner. When ii
was finished he sent for the chef and
gave him SIS.
One night after the theater, when he
found his cabman asleep, he got astrid
OF the horse and drove the cab and
the sleeping cabman through the most
brilliantly lighted thoroughfares OF
New York
When woman's eyes pleased him
ne would send a pair of rubies tc
match them, or emeralds, or sapphires
as the case might be.
Springs Into Fame in Paris.
Thaw couldn't spend his money fast
enough in New York, and so sought a
more expensive field for spectacular
extravaganza in Paris. He succeeded
SO well in the gay French capital that
IN a single night he sprang into fame
He gave dinner in midsummer tc
about twenty-five women 1t cost $50,
600. 1t made Paris sit up and gasp. II
was such dinner as the favorite OF
the Caesars gave, and, like the ones in
the time OF Catherine of Russia, when
great prince distinguished the most
famous beauty in Russia by giving her
dinner after his greatest victory
This prince served liquor glasses OF
jewels to every woman guest after the
dinner. Harry Thaw hung his Jewels
on midsummer Christmas tree in
the center of the table.
On this tree he hung a miniature OF
every woman present. The guests
chose their own pictures and found
the miniature to be the lid of small
box, which contained a set jewel. He
had found out the favorite jewel OF
each woman
He gave the dinner at the famous
Restaurant Cabat, which is in the pal
ace of the countess re Pava built for
her by Napoleon Ill, on the Champs
Elysees.
The roses that were used were flaw.
less. Hundreds had been discarded
because of some imperfection. One OF
the small items of expense was the