The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-26
.Pftsburg Man Creates Panic
 in New York Playhouse by Shooting Enemy
CHORUS GIRLS FAINT AND
 W|LDEST CONFUSION RE|GNS
Stanford White Was One of the. Ma tion's Most Prominent Architects
 and His Slayer Is of
 Prominent Family.

New York June 25.-Stanford White, the eminent architect of McKim. Mead & White, was shot tonight and almost instantly killed by Harry Thaw, a prom inent member of the Pittsburg family. during the performance of the musical extravaganza, "NTammselle Champagne" on the roof of the Madison Square Gar den. MT. White died before an ambulance could be summoned and Thaw was ar rested immediately after the shooting.
 The Madison Square Roof Garden which has been closed for several years. was crowded tonight with fashionable dience While Harry Short, who fills the principal comedy role in the piece. was singing comic song, and the garden was echoing with the laughter and ap- plause, d series of shots rattled 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 a party of friends. The man who had fired the shots fled, pistol in hand, towards the nearest exit, where he was seized and disarmed by the police.
 Audience Thrown Into Panic.
 Instantly the great audience was thrown into a panic, and wild stampede oc- cured, 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 MT. White, but his assai- ant not positively known to be Thaw until after he had been taken to the sta tion house. Persons in front of the audi torium where the tragedy occurred, say they saw a man sitting ll the rear sud denly walk toward table in front
 The assalant was taken to the West Thirtieth street police station. where he described himself as John Smith. a stu dent of No 1S0 Lafayette Place, Wash ington, but the police searching him found cards and letters addressed to liar ry Thaw of Pittsburg and later his iden- tlty was fully established.
 Evelyn Nesbit's marriage with Thaw for a time estranged the latter from his family.
 ThaW Seemed Nervous.
 D. II. while Harry Short was singing "I Could Love a. Million Girls" Thaw had been at the performance all the evening, and had been noticed to be very nervous and excited. White had been previously at the Manhattan club, and only had been at the garden few minutes when Thaw confronted him. Fireman Bruden took the revolver away from Thaw and handed him over to Po- liceman Dobbs, who placed him under rest. Thaw handed the policeman $1O and asked him to notify Andrew Carnegie that he was in trouble. Thaw, 1t Is acknowledged, said to the fireman:
 He deserved what he got He ruined my life and deserted the girl"
 While Thaw was being held by the po- liceman, the young woman, who is short, slender, dark and very pretty. put her arms about his neck Thaw told her to keep quiet and not get excited, all would come out all right Immediately after the shooting the cur tain rung down the play.
 The audience for a few minutes believed the firing of the shots was a hoax and applauded. but developments came so fast and 1t was suddenly made known that they had been witnessing a tragedy, that a panic followed
 The performance was drawing to close, and Spices big six, a sort of up-to-date Floroda sextette, came on when MT. White entered the place He came from the Manhattan club, where he had spent the earlier part of the evening.
 He took seat in the fifth row, and on the left side of table, and leaning over engaged in conversation with Harry Stew ems the caterer of the garden.
 Thaw had been present during the en- tire performance. With a woman said to be Mrs. Thaw he had taken seat at a rear table. He was in evening dress and h nt. f1fsNtx Ia ha,l of his chair He got up every few min utes and walked about and the specta- tors later recalled that he had acted very nervously.
 Thought Firing Was Hoax
 The six women on the stage had begun their song when Thaw left his wife, and walking rapidly down the aisle stood few moments right behind MT. White, looking at him hard. White apparently was utterly unaware of his peril. Then Thaw quickly pulled a. pistol from his trousers pocket and in quick succession fired three shots. Two took effect; either wound being mortal Mir. White without sound slipped down to the foor the chair and table falling on top of him. The audience broke into ripple of applause. Two women seeing what had happened and the blood flowing from the mans wounds, screamed. Two girls on the stage lied screaming into the wings.
 Girls Faint on Stage.
 "Get back into your line,' roared the stage manager so that all heard him. One of the girls started back, but again fled to the wings, while two of the re- maining four, seeing the cause of the trouble, fell over in faint. The curtain was rung down quickly.
 Several men in the audience rushed to MT Whites assistance but the physicians said he had died instantly. His body was taken after it became possible in the ex- citement which followed to his home, 121 East Twenty first street.
 Immediately after the shooting Thaw placed the revolver in the direction of the stage and then sweeping it around towards the audience as if attempting to cover his retreat, started for the exit. He was quickly dsarmed by Fireman Frank Bruden. who rushed at him regardless of any peril. He said later that Thaw ap- peared to be dazed and offered little re-