The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-26
STANFORD WHITE
MURDERED.
Harry ThaW Kills Him on
Madison Square Roof.
z BULLETS STRUCK MIN.
You Ruined NY Lie, Thaw Cries
10 the Dying Architect.

Arrest Of Evelyn Nrsbit. Former NOdri anu
"F1oro,iora'' siIrl. Now Mrs. tina is
Ordered AZ . ~ 4. M.-Panie In the
Theatre Follows the Shooting
Walks Cooily Away IL Arrested and
Taken 10 the Tsrdsrloln station
STORY OF q Woman Nho Was Dragged
Away Aner Shooting Works OF the
Architect Life Of the Pittsburg IdIer.
Harry X. Thaw Of Pittsburg. who married
Evelyn Nesbit, an artists model and Floro-
dora girl, once in London, and again in
P%ittsburg. shot and killed Stanford White,
the architect, of the firm Of McKim, Mead
A White, on the roof Of Madison Square
Garden last night just as "Mamzelle Cham
payne the roof garden show. was drawing
TO a close Of is first performance. 1t was
Stanford White who designed Madison
Square Garden.
There was a big crowd on the roof OF
the Garden. a crowd which pretty we'll
filled the floor. Many people saw a slightly
built young man walking backward and
forward in front of the stage, among the
tables set here and there in an open space
in front Of the seats. He was plainly
nervous and very pale. He kept watching
the entrance on the Twenty-sixth street
side. A few people knew it was Harry
X. Thaw and remarked on his peculiar
behavior. They thought 1t queer also that
he wore a long, thin coat.
About HOS o'clock several persons saw
Stanford White come in and take a seat near
the left hand side Of the stage, pretty well
up to the front, dropping into a chair at a
table four rows from the stage. Young
Thaw who had been watching apparently
for White, jumped at the sight Of him and
made for the table.
Few persons saw what happened imme-
diately afterward. In the first place the
show was jingling to its close dancers pirou-
citing and skipping about the sta &c and the
orchestra was jingling and changing in gay
dance music. Besides, all about the open
enclosure in front Of the sta &c where the
tables were set there were pa Inns and potted
plants which largely cut of the view OF the
table at which Mr.. White was sitting.
Some persons were sure that a young
woman was at the table when White lounged
in and took a seat, They went 80 far as to
describe her, saying she was young, slim,
dark haired and dressed all in white, with
a big white hat from which a flmy veil fell
over her shoulders. Others who insisted
that they had observed White when he
took a seat there said no woman was there.
They were positive on that point. After
ward the police got both stories,
THE MURDR
Harry Thaw made for the table rapidly,
pulling a revolver from his pocket as he
slipped by the tables. When he got to
Whites table the architect was leaning for
ward watching the six girls turning and
twisting in THE Big Six Dance" his right
elbow on the table and his chin resting in
the palm Of his hand. Undoubtedly he did
not. nee Thaw until the young man got to
his lelt slue dlu pulcicu mn iouBuiy III tHe
face with the muzzle Of the revolver.
At that very moment one Of the dancers
sang lightly a line from 'MamDelle Cham
IA gne," a careless, tuneful line which ran:
Il challenge you, l cha lien ge you to a duel,
a du-u-el." With the last note from the
sin ger on the sta &c, Thaw backed away
from White about two feet and levelled the
revolver.
White hadn't a second to defend himself
or even spring from his chair at the table.
Persons who were by said that he merely
stared at Thaw for the two or three seconds
that followed.
1t seemed that Thaw was not furiously
angry, because he did not raise his voice
high when he spoke to White. His face was
white az a sheet and he wa biting his lips.
A few persons in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of the table heard him say this rather
coolly and deliberately:
YOU. You have ruined my life.
You ought to die and you are going to-"
He backed of another step or two and
pulled the trigger. The first bullet went
wild! burying itself in the wall of the roof
garden. Thaw shot twice more rapidly.
Both bullets entered Whites body, one in
the stomach and one in the left eye, killing
him instantly. He hardly moved from his
position at the table. His body sagged a
little to the left, his arm f1attcned out on the
table top and his head sank heavily on the
ARM
rANIC AFTER THE SHOOTING.
Above the swing and drumming OF the
orchestra and the gay chorus OF the dancers
the three shots sounded sharply, startling
everybody, causing the men to jump to
their feet and rush toward the left side
Of the stage where blue smoke from the
revolver was drifting up and over the foot
lights The employees of the roof garden