Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-11-26

figures II many aheaser ana supEse~
parties along BEaadway. and there
l~apl@aFed in One Il the local papers q
stoFy to the effect thai Thaw and
Miss Neshat had been secretly mar
EIea whiie abroad. The fact Of the
wedding had mot been disclosed. 1T
was declared. because sf the fear
that q a~lSpleasea mother might cut
off the support of her fasoFtte ut
The stoFy 90 the wedding Was taken
up everywhere and the young people
weFe kept busy With denials. Their
affairs attracted 10 much attention
that they we're requested 20 move
from the fashionable hotel wheVe
they respectively had been oeeupy'
ing expensive suites. This calls forth
more noaoEiety. The affairs Of the
young people were kept constantly
before the public until 1t was finally
announced that Mrs, William Thav
had consented 10 her sons marriage
10 Miss Sesbit. Thereupon they were
called to PittsbuFg and In the moth
erfs home a marriage ceremony was
performed.
For n long time following the wed
| ding the Thaw's affairs were prae
i tieally lost sight Of. They spent
must N their time In New York
were often seen together at the thea
ters and the cafes and apparently
theig lives ran happily together.
II was late In the evening Of June
Is last that the city and som the en-
tire country was ringing with the ira
gle news that Harry Thaw had slain
Stanford White. The setting for the
fatal attack had been the Madison
Square roof garden. where the first
night performance Of n summer mu
steal show known as Mile. Cham.
payne was being given. The place
was gay In flowers and multi colored
electric light and was thronged with
a fashionably dressed audience. On
the stage a man was singing Il coulu
love a Thousand girls" when sudden
ly above the music the pistol shots
rang out. The music erased. the
chorus girls and actors upon thu
stage were terror stricken. men and
women In the audience dropped their
glasses upon the tables before them
In the stiffness a man vas heard to
say:
You ruined my wife. d-n you
and now rye got you"
Stanford White lay dead at the Ia
bic where he had been sitting. Har
ry Thaw. in evening dress. stood
with a smoking pistol In his hand
His wife. who had seen him fire the
fatal shot, was led screaming ava,
from the spot and Thaw was arrest
ed. He made no attempt to escape
White was vice president Of the
Madison Square Garden company
and was the architect OF that famous
structure In whose tower he had al
ways maintained a studio. II was In
this tower that Thaw had charged
time and time again since his arrest
that White entertained young wome'
at the gayest Of parties. Thaw SAT-
he had frequently complained ot
these studio parties to the Society
for the Prevention Of Vice and 1t has
been stated on authority that this
Society had made several investiga
tions prior to the roof garden trag
edy.
II has been brought out since Tho
shooting that White befriendSd Eve
Ign Nesbit and her mother when Tho
young woman first was brought L
this city to enter the studios as
model, Letters which passed between
White and the mother Of the cir
have been published and may play
an important part In the trial. There
have been reports that White sought
! the girls society after her marriag.'