New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-18

Stanford White famous New York ar
chiteCt was shot and killed by Harry
Kendall Thaw ON tn roof of the Madison
Square Garden the night Of June %. 1876,
at the opening performance OF Nam
zelle Champagne White died almost
instantly. There We're nearly thousand
persons on the roof at the time and a
I panic followed the shooting.
Harry Thaw and his wife. Evelyn Nes-
hit Thaw. a former chorus girl went "a
the roof carly ir the evening and Stan
ford White went shortly before II o'clock
He sat at a table near the one occupied
by the Thaws and was recognized by
Evelyn Thaw. who told her husband that
White was present. When White was
? a bout TO leave the roof. Thaw approached
I him and fired three bullets from small
revolver that he took from his coat All
of the shots took effect and White fell
10 the floor
Thaw walked toward the elevator, still
holding the revolver. There he was over
powered by a fireman on detail on the
roof who with others detained him until
the police arrived.
The day after the killing OF Whit ii
was announced that the defence of Thaw
would be insanity. Thaw was committed
10 the Tombs. and before he was IN
prison an hour, he was examined by Or.
Austin Flint and Or. Carlos +. Mac
Donald. who We're retained by District
ATTORNEY Jerome. IL was said at the
time that Thaw. while probably unbal-
aucsd mentally. had long planned the
murder OF stanford White TO get re-
venge foi Whites alleged treatment OF
Evelyn Nesbit before her marriage 10
Thaw.
Disagreement at First Trial.
The first trial Of Thaw. when the alien
[ lists reported that he was sane. lasted
from January -. 1857, to April T. 1917
when. after forty-eirht hours Of wrang-
ling that almost resulted in blows be
tween the jurors. there was a disagree
meut Tnaw was first tried I'm the Grim
/ iual Branch OF the Supreme Court be-
fore Justice Fitzgerald. He was prose
cuted by William Travers Jerome, then
District Attorney
+ Tho disagreement. IL was said. was
brought about 10y the insistence Of Del
phinc VI Delmas. chief counsel for Thaw'
upon the "unwrltten law lie main
tanned that Thaw had an attack OF
"Main storm" OF mantia Americana.
Thav. IL was said. would nave been &C
quilted II Dclmas had based his defence
on tire insanity Of the prisoner when
the fury believed was plainly proven.
De!mas was aided in the trial by elf
ford W. Hartridge. Russell Peabody and
Daniel OReilly. P,ab)d is dead. Hart
ridge was sued by Inaw for the return
OF alleged exorbitant fees Daniel oIteilly
vas sentenced in 1912 to serve FIVE months
in the penitentiary for receiving stolen
( goods I'm the case OF Aaron Bancroft VINO
was robbed Of $4,000 worth Of stocks in
p corridor Of the Produce Exchange.
Thaw was brought 10 trial second
time in January. 1905 At this trial there
was no effort TO prove temporary insanity
az the time Thaw killed Stanford White
but that he was insane practically all OF
his life up 70 the time Of the killing. Al
this time Martin W. Littleton was ThaW't
chief counsel Witnesses at that trial who
I told Of Thaw's queer actions were Pro-
/ fessor Charles II. Koehler OF Winona,
/ MINI who was Thaw's Instructor AT
Worcester University in 1856. and Mrs.
| Amy Gossette. a medical nurse. who at
/ tended Thaw at Monte Carlo In 1897.
( Others gave testimony in regard 10 In
| sanity that had existed In the Thaw fam