Evening star., 1947-03-30
Harry K. Thaw Will
Bequeaths $4,000
To Evelyn Nesbit
BY fhe Assoeioted Pre.s

GLEN FALLS N. Y, Mar. 10
Harry K. Thaw, multimillionaire
playboy who died at his Miami
Beach home February "a at the
age of rs, bequeathed $4,000 to
the wife for when he shot STAN
ford White.
Thaw's will, filed for porbate to-
day, directed that the executors and
trustee pay 10000 to Evelyn Mes
bit, Montani or her son, to whom
she gave the name Of Russell
Thaw," II the will is not contested
within two years and If the execut-
ors and trustee "are satisfied" after
investigating. Thaw gave his legal
residence in the will as Bolton, a
Lake George community near here,
where he owned a stucco mansion
known as villa Marie Antionette."
His name was given as Henry Ken
dali Thaw."
When Thaw died his wife, for
mer showgirl, and the son whose
parentage he contested, were not
named in the list of survivors.
Address Listed As New York.
The value OF Thaw's estate was
placed only at "over $40, 600" in
real property and lover $4,000" in
personal property.
His former wife's address was
listed as New York. At the time of
Thaw's death, she was reported In
seclusion in Atlantic City.
Forty-one years ago, Thaw burst
onto the roof garden Of the old
Madison Square Garden on its
opening night and fired three shots
that killed Mr.. White, who had de-
signed the landmark. Thaw al
legged he had acted as a result of
Whites relations with Evelyn Mes
bit before her marriage to Thaw.
Thaw was acquitted Of murder
but was ordered to an asylum, from
which he escaped a year later. A
jury later declared him sane. He
divorced Evelyn Nesbit a few years
after the shooting.
VIII Executed In 1945.
Thaw left the Bolton mansion,
another house at Saratoga Springs
and all other property in the resi-
duary estate to be divided between
a sister, Mrs. Alice Thaw Whitney of
Milton, Mass, and Lawrence Cop
ley Thaw, Of New York, a nephew.
The 19-page will, executed July
IA, 1945. named several dozen bene-
f1ciaries, including six Bolton neigh
bors.
Walter Winchell OF New York was
left $50.
Specific sums totaling approx
mately $175,000 were listed for 80
oeneficiaries. The largest was $40.-
900 in trust for Ethel Moody Gins
berg of Philadelphia.
He left $4,000 to his attorney,
Sidney E. Werner.
A bequest of 500 is to be divided
among the children of william A.
Stone, former Governor Of Penn
sylvania.
S5OV Tor Doctor.
Thaw listed $500 for DR.. Samuel
M. Lindsay of Cleveland, because,
he said:
my mother often told me that my
father and John D. Rockefeller, ST.,
knew each other, but it was not un-
til the newspapers published state
ment by said DR.. Lindsay to the
effect that my father was the only
person which the said John D.
Rockefeller, sr., asked to become his
partner that I knew such an inter-
esting fact existed"
Thaw said ut is my intention to
sell all or most of my paintings"
and "a. valuable book which I own,
entitled Book Of Hours printed
about 1425."
His lawyer gets his private letters
and papers.
Other benef1ciaries included:
Mrs. Bell Emery, Baltimore, $20,-
900 in trust; J. Turner Greene,
Charlottesville, Va, $4,000 In trust,
and Mrs. Gladys M. Williams, Rich
mond, Va, $1,000.
Each servant who had been en-
ployed by Thaw less than a year
was left $100 and each of the others,
$3.50.
May 18th was set as the probate
date