Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-06-28
THAW STAYS, WHITE
ARCHITECT SHOT DOWN IN MAp,.
SON SQUARE ROOF GARDEN,

Wild Stampede of Fashionable Audi.
ence Follows shooting-Enmity Had
Existed Between Them on Account
of Whites Attentions to Mrs. Thaw.
New York, June 26.-Stanford
White, the eminent architect of the
firm of McKim, Mead & White, was
shot and almost instantly killed by
Harry Thaw, member of the prom
inent Pittsburg family, during the per-
formance of the musical extravaganza,
"Mamzelle Champagne" on the roof
of the Madison Square garden. Mr..
White died before an ambulance could
be summoned and Thaw was arrested
Immediately after the shooting.
The roof garden was crowded with
fashionable audience. While Harry
Short, who fills the principal comedy
role in the piece, was singing comic
song, II Could Love Million Girls"
and the garden was echoing with the
laughter and applause of the audience,
series of shots ratified in the rear of
the auditorium and a man in evening
dress was seen to fall across a table,
at which he was sitting with party
of friends. The man who fired the
shots fed, pistol in hand, towards the
nearest exit where he was seized and
disarmed 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. The man who
was shot was quickly identified as Mr..
White, but his assailant was not posi-.
lively known to be Thaw until after
he had been taken to the station
house. Persons in front of
the auditorium, where the tragedy oc.
Cured, say that they saw man str
ting with fashionably dressed WON.
an in the rear suddenly walk down to-.
ward table in front.
The first intimation of trouble came
when, walking in front of his seated
victim, the man exclaimed, you've
deserved this. You've ruined my
home" and drawing an automatic pis.
tol, fired three shots. The first two
took effect, but as the third was dis
charged the pistol was struck up by
fireman on duty in the theater, and
the bullet went skyward. Thaw's wife,
who was Evelyn Nesbitt, a member of
the original Florodora sextette, and
whose marriage with Thaw for time
estranged the latter from his family,
who had been sitting with him,
sprang to her feet and rushed up to
her husband, who was struggling with
the fireman, threw her arms about
his neck, exclaiming: "I'll stand by
YOU
Thaw had been at the performance
to be very nervous and excited.
White had been previously to the Man.
haitian club and had only been at the
garden a few minutes when Thaw con.
fronted him.
Fireman Burden took the revolver
away from Thaw and handed him over
to Policeman Dobbs, who placed him
under arrest. Thaw handed the police.
man $40 and asked him to notify An.
drew Carnegie that he was in trouble
Immediately after the shooting the
curtain was rung down on the play.
Mystery still surrounds the cause of
the tragedy, but its solution may be
found in the words attributed to Thaw
Immediately after the shooting:
We'll, he ruined my wife and got
him.
1t is known that for years bitter
enmity had existed between White
and Thaw on account of the formers
attentions to Mrs. Thaw, which had
begun prior to her marriage.