The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-04-19
HUNG JURY
IN THAW CASE.
Prisoner on Verge of Collapse
Result of Disappointment.
Dramatic Scene In Madison Square
Roof Garden When Thaw
Killed Stanford White.


between the attorneys for the Com
monwealth and defense. 1t will go
down in history as the most celebrat-
ed criminal case ever tried in this
country up to this time.
The defendant had confidently ex-
pected a favorable verdict, and had
gone so far as to pack his clothes pre-
paratory to leaving the tombs, and
again joining his young wife, who
made such a desperate sacrifice on
the witness stand to save him from
the electric chair. 1t is said Thaw is
now on the verge of complete col
lapse and may end his days in a mad
house.
STORY OF THE MURDER.
Harry Kendall Thaw, gilded youth
scion of a wealthy Pittsburg family
with high social connections, was on
trial for the murder of Stanford White,
the noted architect, at the Madison
Square Roof Garden, Monday night,
June %, 1906.
The shooting of White was sensa-
tionally dramatic. Thaw had been sit
ting with his wife, Evelyn Nesbit-
Thaw, former artists model and chorus
girl, listening to the clever musical
skit of 'Mamselle Champagne" Stan
ford White was sitting on the opposite
side OF the hall watching the stage.
Evelyn Thaw had gone back of the
scenes to visit some of her stage
friends. Thaw, greatly agitated,paced
up and down the floor. Suddenly he
turned and started across the hall.
Without looking to left or right, ne
threaded his way among the tables,
brushing into several men and women.
He reached the table and leaned over
it's edge, gazed steadily at White,w
started to rise. With a muttered inn
precation, Thaw drew an automatic re-
volver from his pocket and began fir
ing. Three shots were fired,two TAX
ing effect. White died instantly. Thaw
coolly broke" the revolver and walked
to the rear of the hall, where he was
placed under arrest. The shooting oc-
Cured just as one of the, characters on
the stage was singing, And Now Let
the Duel Go On"
Thaw claimed that White had ruined
the life of Evelyn Nesbit prior to the
marriage of the beautiful young Model
to Thaw, and subsequent to the
marriage, White had annoyed her with
his tentions. Thaw had entertained
the most bitter feeling against White
for several years, dating back to the
time the young man first fell in love
with the beautiful model.
Thaw had noticed his wife's agita-
tion upon the entrance of White into
the Cafe Martin at the dinner hour be-
fore the roof garden performance. He
had asked his wife the cause and she
sent him a note around the table, say
ing: That dirty BLACKBOARD is here"
Thaw's smoldering rage burst into
flame few hours later, when he saw
White enter the roof garden,and the
shooting followed.
White was one of the most promi-
nent and gifted architects in the coun
try. He had designed the very build
ing in which he met his death and his
own apartments and studio were in the
same structure. He was the son of
Richard Stanford White, well-known
critic, journalist and essayist. White
though a husband and father, was
known for his association with women
of doubtful reputation,a and it was gen.
orally understood that his attentions
to Thaw's wife were the cause of the
murder. Following the shooting many
lurid stories were told of the alleged
debauchery in which young girls
figured.
Evelyn Nesbit, a beautiful young
girl, went to New York from her home
in Philadelphia and became an artists
model. She met Stanford White
through the artists for whom she posed
and often visited White in his studio
in the Madison Square Garden. She
was a mere child,b White was capti-
waited by her girlish charms. He pro-
posed stage career for her and she
appeared in THE Wild Rose" and
1.-The Girl from Dixie" 1t was at
this time she met Thaw, who pressed
his attentions upon the young actress
against the angry protests of MEM
bers of the Thaw family. Evelyn
Nesbit went to Europe and entered
seminary in England. Harry Thaw
went TO England and visited Evelyn
Nesbit. They returned to America
and it was reported that they had been
married in Europe, Thaw introducing
Miss Nesbit as his bride. This Eu-
ropean marriage was supposed to have
taken place two years before the we'd
ding at Pittsburg Thaw's mother
and his sister, the Countess of Var
mouth. opposed the match, but later
become reconciled on condition that