The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-11-26
NOTED HARRY
ThAW MURDER TRIAL

Harry Kendall Thaw, slayer of STAN
ford White, the noted architect, which
has been set for the first week in
December, is looked forward to as
one of the most famous cases-in the
criminal history of New York State.
The prominence of the Thaw family
socially, the wealth of his parents,
the circumstances surroun Gag the
young mans marriage to Evelyn Mes
bit, the artists model and chorus girl
and the spectacular scene in the
midst of which he fred the bullets
into the breast of the man VINO he
claimed had betrayed his wife, all
tend to attract an interest to the
trial extending from one end of the
country to the other.
For a long time an effort has been
made to have young Thaw rely upon
a defense of educational insanity"
but he %steadfastly has declined to
give mis- assent to any such plan, and
in his determination not to agree to
hide behind a loak of insanity the
cause which he impatiently asserts to
be just, he has at one time and an
other since his Imprisonment dis
missed several of the lawyers engas
ed to help in his defense, among
them a former governor of the state
of New York.
The players in this extraordinary
tragedy of real life are each of them
interesting. Harry Thaw, the ever
hayward son of rich and fndulgent
parents, had become widely known
throughout the country prior to the
killing of Stanford White by reason
of the publicity given to many of his
by the newspapers. His ia
ther, the late William Thaw, was one
of ~Pittsburg's richest men. He had
early seen hat Harry was not to be
entrusted with a large income lest
he give himself over to a life of luv-
urious idleness and liberty. So when
the elder Thaw died ne provided that
Harry Thaw should ave only $4,000
a year. The bulk of the estate went to
Mrs. William Thaw, whose indulgent
love for her children was 500 made
apparent in the manner in which she
lavished money upon them. Harry
Thaw had but to asked whatever sum
ne chose and the mother gave it to
him. He abandoned his $4,000 a year
income from the estate to his valet.
1t is said that the young mans ex-
penditures often averaged as high as
$4,000 and 100000 a year.
Four Or five years ago the Thaw
family came into unusual prominence
through the announcement of the en-
gagement of Harry Thaw's sister to
the Earl of Yarmouth. This young En-
glish nobleman had cen in Ameri-
ca for two years or more at that
time. He was entertained at Newport
and at the end of a successful season
there, during which he had lead the
gay set in many amateur theaterical
productions, he decided to go upon
the professional stage to earn a live
lihood in this country. His efforts
along this line were indifferently sue
cessful and then came the engage
ment and marriage to Miss Thaw.
Since that time the Earl and
Countess of Yarmouth have lived
abroad.
Following the wedding of his sis
ter, Harry Thaw also vent abroad.
When he returned to this country two
years ago he remained in New York
instead of going to his mothers nome
in P~ittsburg. 1t was not long before
he was seen always in company with
a beautiful young girl, Evelyn Mes
bit. who a graduated from the stu
do to the stage. Young Thaw and
Miss Nesbit were central figures of
many theatre and supper parties
along Broadway, and there appeared
in one of the local papers a story to-
the effect thai Thaw and Miss Nesbit
had been secretly married while
abroad. The fact of the wedding had
not been disclosed it was declared,
because of the fear that a d~ispleas-
ed mother might cut off the support
of her fayorite son. The story of the
wedding was taken up everywhere
and the young people were kept bu-
sy with denials. Their affairs attract
ed so much attention that they were
requested to move from the fashion
able hotel where they respectively
had been occupying expensive suites.
This called forth more notoriety.
The affairs of the young people were
kept constantly before the public,un.
til it was finally announced that
Mrs. William Thaw had consented to