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  1. Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) [2] [3] was the son of American coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr. Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, he is most notable for murdering the renowned architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of New York City 's Madison Square Garden on ...

  2. Thaw was nothing if not persistent in his courtship of his dream girl, and in due time revealed himself, with great flourish, to be the very rich "Harry Kendall Thaw, of Pittsburgh!" Evelyn later wrote, "A disguised Napoleon revealing himself to a near-sighted veteran on Elba could not have made the revelation with greater aplomb."

  3. Evelyn Nesbit (born Florence Evelyn Nesbit; December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 25, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress.She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as the obsessive and abusive fixation of her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.

  4. Harry Thaw, a wealthy Pittsburgh heir, shot and killed architect Stanford White, who had a sexual affair with his fiancée Evelyn Nesbit. Read the full account of this sensational case, involving high society, jealousy, cocaine, and a famous tower.

  5. Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 - February 22, 1947), son of Pittsburgh coal and railroad baron William Thaw, brother of South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club member Benjamin Thaw. He is known for the murder of architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906. Violent and paranoid almost since birth (his mother claimed his problems ...

  6. Defense To Be Insanity. Harry K. Thaw. fter going through the legal preliminaries prescribed for prisoners accused of murder, Harry Kendall Thaw, the young Pittsburg man who shot and killed Stanford White, the architect, on the Madison Square Roof Garden on Monday night, was locked up yesterday, without the privilege of bail, in Cell 220 ...

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  8. Jan 8, 2019 · Among them were Harry Kendall Thaw — 35-year-old heir to the Pennsylvania Railroad fortune — and his 21-year-old wife, Evelyn Nesbit, a model and chorus girl, visiting New York from their ...