The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-07-03
A new YORK TRAGEDY
MRS. THAW PRAISES HER
HUSBAND FOR KILLING
STANFORD WHITE,
HER BETRAYER.

Startling Stories of Whites Career
Are Developing Which Turn
Public Sympathy in Favor
of Prisoner.
New York. June 26.-His nerves
unstrung, a nervous wreck, Harry
Kendall Thaw, multi-millionaire,
member of q leading family of
Pittsburg, brother of the countess
of Yarmouth. still wearing his be.
draggled evening clothes, was ar
raigned this morning for the mur-
der Of Stanford White, a promi.
cent architect, whom he shot to
death last night during the per-
formance of the musical extrava-
ganza "Ma'm'selle Champagne" at
the Madison Square roof garden.
Thaw was remanded to appear be-
fore the coroner. Whites attention
to Mrs. Thaw, formerly Evelyn Mes
bit, celebrated stage beauty and
artists model, are believed to be
the cause of the tragedy.
The proceedings before the coro-
ner were brief. On the affidavit of
Patrolman Debs that Thaw said to
him Il shot him." Thaw was held
without bail and sent to the Tombs.
Assistant District Attorneys Knott
and Turnbull are conducting the
prosecution. At the Tombs Thaw
found that the police had procured
him business suit from his apart
ments. He quickly changed and
was taken to his cell where he con.
ferred with his counsel.
New York, June 27.-Wby Thaw
should have lived for over a year
in apparent happin ess with his
chorous girl brids and then eud-
denly within less than a month dis
cover that Stanford White had ru-
ined his home, is probably explain
ed by Mrs. Thaw's statement to
Harry Bradere, a close personal
friend of her husband. She said:
"Harry did just right. He did
q noble act. The world should be
rid of such men as White. I tried
to get away from White and per-
suade him TO cease prosecuting me.
For time I thought I had succsed-
ed, but whenever came within his
reach I was sure to be annoyed by
him. I loved Harry and wished to
get entirely away from everything
that reminded me Of my stage life.
1t was cruel of White to continue
his efforts to see me-"
Some interesting disclosures of
Whites private life have followed
his murder. OLe development of
today may have a particularly close
bearing on the tragedy. The police
have learned that White was ss-
saulted and beaten last Wednesday
night in front of New York thea
tre by young woman who used an
um brella over his head The young
woman was accompanied by a man
who held Whites arms while she
belabored him. When a crowd be.
gan to gather the man let go Of
Whites arms and the latter made
| off. The woman was hustled into
a waiting hanson. She was said
to be in the theatrical profession
No attempt SO far has been made te
identify Whites assailant as Mrs
Thaw..
| White was 81 years oil au emf
nent in his profession, but found
plenty of time for the gay life O
the tenderloin. In the tower O
Madison Square garden he had
bachelor apartments and # wa:
there that he and his actress friends
held high revels. He perhaps was
one of the best known and prodiga
examples of New York's men abou
town.
In connection with Harry Thaw'
direct charge that White ruined
Evelyn Nesbit while she was {
young girl and then deserted her
a few extracts from the Sun are o
interest. The sun says:
'It is rumored, and generally be
lieved, that on several occasion
when complaint was made agains
Stanford White the Society for tn
Prevention of Cruelty to Childrel
attempted to gather evidence tt
warrant the asking of his arrest up
on charges Of debauching 13 ant
4 14-year-old girls, but the society al
ways maintained it could not &c
enough evidence to warrant action.
The Morning Telegraph tells {
a significant incident in the CAT
Marin which apparently precipi