The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-07

woman flung her arms about Thaw'.
neck and said:
I'm stand by you! TIL stick to you
Harry"
Fireman Paul Pruden. stationed a
the garden, sprang to Thaw's side ana
gripped the slayer's arm. Patrolmar
Debs. from the rear of the floor. ran
| to the spot, and took hold of Thaw
from whom the pistol had been wrench
ed
Henry Rogers of % Henry street was
nearby, and mingled with the throng
He brushed against Thaw, and made
some remark. The prisoner said:
"I shot him and he deserved it. I
can prove it. He ruined my life"
WANTS TO TELL CARNEGIE,
Thaw went quietly with the police
man and was taken to the West Thir-
tieth-street station. He offered to give
patrolman so to send the following
telegram to Andrew Carnegie:
, 81 am in serious trouble"
Thaw gave evidence of mental ex-
element although he preserved an out
ward calm, for he had forgotten that
Carnegie was in Europe
When those three shots sounded over
the roof garden a strange thing oc-
Cured. One-half the audience was in
panic. The other half was applauding
the girls who We're singing. Few knew
that the shots We're things apart from
the performance. Startling noises had
occurred before from the stage and the
table where the shooting occurred stood
near the footlights.
LawrenceS frenzied gestures when
he called on the sextet to keep them
in line meant nothing to the audience
The people thought his conduct was
part of the play. When Lawrence
leaped to the floor and disappeared in
the arbor-like spot where Whites table
stood, that, too, seemed in consonance
with the entire proceedings.
But one minute later the manager
got to the stage, and the exhausted
girls trooped off. wan and quivering.
DISCONTINUES PERFORMANCE.
"a most unfortunate accident has
IdpptIIcu. Lawrence CTl0u out. Inc
mana gement regrets to ask that the
audience leave at once, in an orderly
manner. There is no danger-onIy an
accident that will prevent a continu-
ance of the performance
The great crowd got to its feet, while |
policemen threw a sheet over the body
of the man who in life erected monu-
ments of stone that testified to him as |
an artist.
Men, women and children walked |
slowely by, some knowing what oc-
CURED, others merely wondering what |
was the nature of the accident which |
had cut the thread of their evenings
pleasure. 1t was a solemn procession
when the news was flung from one
end of the hall to the other. But not
one of the audience, excepting those di-
rectly involved, knew that the slim
man was Stanford White
In the White home, on Gramercy
Park tonight, it was said that Mrs.
White was visiting through the West,
though her exact location could not
be ascertained. She was expected to
return to this city next Saturday, to
go to the White country seat in James,
l.. I.
White dined tonight with his son
who had returned earlier in
the day from Harvard University, to
pass the summer vacation at home. He
seemed in a jovial mood and laughed
and joked with the young man, whose
future career was one of the chief con-
Germs Of the man who had climbed to
fame and wealth unaided.
Lawyer Daniel O'Reilly has been re-
tanned by friends of Harry Thaw.
fal
arrest Mrs. Thaw, presumably as a
witness