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Harry Thaw, the Young Millionaire Murderer,
in a Cell in the Tenderloin Police Station
Just After the Murder Was Committed Thaw's
Wife Rushed Up to Him and Kissed Him.
Murderer Claimed That White Had Ruined His
Home and Was Glad He Was Dead.
New York despatch: Perfectly calm, friends of both men, was not altogether
Harry Kendall Tema-, who last night
shot and killed Stanford White, a pro-
minent architect, faced a coroner and
a number of police officials early this
morning ,absolutely refusing to make
any extended statement, to the motive
which led up to the tragedy on the roof
of Madison Square Garden as the first
night's performance of Mameolla Cliam-
pagne was being sung to a close.
While Thaw, in immaculate evening
dress, sat in the cell in the tenderloin po-
lice station, detectives were scouring the
city for his wife, formerly Evyleve Flea
ence Nesbit, before ber marriage a
chorus girl and artist model.
Mrs. Thaw disappeared as her husband
'wae being hurried from the play -house
by a policeman and after throwing her
arms around his neck and crying: "Oh,
Harry! Harry! Why did you do it,
Harry ?" She is said to have entered
sin automobile and been whirled away
before the crowd or police recovered
from the excitement caused by one of
the most sensational tragedies in New•
York's criminal history.
It was early this morning when Cor-
oner,Dooley ,after viewing White's body,
ordered it removed to an undertaking
establishment, and then gave permission
to have it taken to the palatial white
residence in Gramercy Square.
Thaw Wouldn't Talk.
The coroner then went to the police
station and questioned Thaw. He asked
the young man if he had any statement
to make.
"No," replied Thaw, "I don't care to
say anything, coroner; but I wish you
would notify my lawyers, Mr. Delafield
and Mr. Longfellow."
"They've been notified. They're out
of town." the coroner replied„ •
"Then 'I wish yon wouic. notify Joseph
Choate, or or Judge Hornblower,".. said entrauce,s, then began to thr,
9 foraNI..'
1l tb'r. time Thaw was pacing tip end
The Murder.
Slim rn his Bell. Ile had put on his
long gray overcoat and tags wearing
]tis Without looking to the right or left
straw hat, as if expecting to secure his brushing into several men and women,
release when bis counsel should came. he walker] slowly toward the table,' un -
Captain Hodgins said he had talked til he leaned forward over its edge op-
-with Thaw and the latter actedin a posite to .his victim. As he did this White
dazed manner. recognized him and made a move as if to
"I thought he seemed out of his head," arise, but there was no time. With some
said the captain. muttered imprecation the young men
No further statement was secured. drawing a large automatic revolv,er, be -
Thaw was unable to reach Inc counsel gen firing. Three shots rang out, two
early to -day. and finally consented to tools effect, and White was dead. Turn -
rept Daniel O'Reilly, who will represent
mien in court this morning.
Policeman Harry Debes, who arrested
Thane, gave this aesount of the shooting:
`I found the ps pie almost crazy, try-
ing to get out cf the ,place. I jumped
into the mob and saw a woman lying
clown. She had fainted, and then I saw
White.
"I said to Thaw, `Did you do it?' and
he replied, 'Yes, I did. it. That man
ruined my life, or wife,' I don't know
which he said., but it sounded like that.
Then he went n, saying, 'That man ruin-
ed my home. I guess he won't ruin any
store homes. Is he dead?' I told him
he was dead, and he said he was `damn
glut of it,' and he was glad he made a
• good job of it."
:w "It's All Right."
a surprise to them. They knew, and
have known for several years, that
against the architect Thaw bad the most
bitter feeling. It dated. back to the time
when he first fell in love with the young
woman who is now his wife: He made
.no secret of this feeling. It had cn-,^e to
the ears of White, and his friends had
often discussed with him; some had
every warned him to be careful, but, de-
claring that there was no reason for the
feeling, the architect went about his
business as usual. Mr. and Mrs. Thaw
lived in Pittsburg, and the incident was
fast being forgotten until early this
spring, when the young couple came to
this city and took apartments. The
warnings were renewed then on the part
of some, but at all these the architect
laughed.
The beginning of the tragedy last
night was in the cafe Martin, at the din-
ner hour. Its end was on the roof a
few minutes after 11 o'clock. In the
first scene, htr. and Mrs. Thaw, her father
and another man were dining together,
when White and two other men entered
and took places nearby. According to
Thaw's own words to a reporter, he did
not know of the presence of the architect
until the agitatoin of his wife attracted
his attention.
White left the cafe soon afterward,
visiting his study in the lower end of
Madison Square Garden, which is one
of the many buildings he designed. then
going to his club, finally to the roof gar-
den.
Mr. and Mrs. Thaw were there.
Mrs. Thaw had gone back of the •scenes
to visit some friends, and immediately
her husband began pacing up and down
the floor. It was while Thaw was on
the western side of the building. that
White came in, sat down, chatted a mo-
ment with Harry Steven9, and then, as
Stevens left, looked at the stage. Thaw
watched hire a moment from one Of the
.d liis way'
"When I arrested 'Chane, a woman,
who Manager Lionel Lawrence told me
was Mrs. Thaw, rushed up to Thaw and
kissed him and said,'I did not think you'd
do it in that wav"`It's all right; it's
all right,' Thaw told her. Then she
whispered something into his ear. I
dont know what she said to tan . Down
in the hall and in the street a lot of
women gathered abaut. us and shook
bands with Thasv aril sympathized with
'him. 'Why did you do it? Why did you
do it?' they kept asking."
Capt. Hodgins, Sergt. McCann, Lawyer
Daniel O'Reilly and Burr McIntosh had
a, conference with Thaw shortly after
3 o'clock this morning, but if he told
them anything they declined to divulge
its import.
White's body, covered by a sheet, lay
in the spot where it had fallen until
early this morning . The coroner, after
an examination, said that one bullet had
bit White between the shoulders and
had perforated his lungs. The second
had entered the left eye and had come
out on the right side of the head. This
see.rned to indicate. according to this offi-
cial, that after the first shot in the
back White had. tried to wheel on his
assailant and had turned only half
around, as the ballet literally went
through the earner of his head in a
glancing direction.
Lawrence White, son of the murdered
mien, was informed of the tragedy about
midnight. He went to the Madison
'Square Garden and after arranging for
the care of the body, summoned his fath-
er's partneer, 611r. M'cliim, and drove
away. It is believed they went to a
Mang Island town, where Mrs. White is
ill, to break the news to her.
Tragedy Not Unexpected.
The tragedy, while a shock to the
nig, Thaw faced the audience, "broke"
the weapon, throwing all the cartridges
out, and started away. It was then he
was arrested, and soon afterward Mrs.
Thaw rushed up and, putting her arms
about his neck, kissed hien. A state-
ment credited toThaw immediately af-
ter his arrest is this:
"We were all at a party in Martin's.
You can find out the names of -the oth-
ers there, but I was sitting some dis-
tance from sty wife. Suddenly I saw
her get very pale and begin to shiver,
and I thought she was ill.
made a motion to inquire what was
the matter, and she called a waiter and
wrote a note, which she sent around the
table to me.
"The note sadd, The dirty black -guard
is hers."Then I turned and saw that
fat *counting sitting there, big and
healthy, and then I saw her and how slie
was,"
"Did White make any motion to at-
tar': you?"
"What?" said Thaw. The question
was repeated and Thaw nodded his head
in the affirmative,
From his pocket when he was search-
ed there was taken a leather revolver
shield,, such as policemen carry their
weapons in. He had $153 in cash and
several blank cheques, besides a gold
cigarette case.
Thaw did net display the least anxi-
ety 'about his own welfare or about the
effects of his shots. He never asked a
question about White. He did not ask
any questions of the police at all. He
seemed as unconcerned as if he was out
with a chauffeur instead of facing an
accusation of murder.
That Poor Little Thing.
• As be talked with a reporter he re-
verted, again and again to his wife's at-
tack of shivering when she saw White
in Martin's. "That poor little thing, all
nervous and shaking like a reed," he
said, half to himself. "And there he was,
the big, healthy scoundrel. God!"
There were many dramatic incidents
connected with the shooting. It was
just as one of the characters was sing-
ing- And Now Let the Duel Go On, that
the first shot was heard. Manager Lone-
•ranee, of the theatre, was one of the
first to realize that it ass no stage re-
volver that had cracked, and, jumping
to a table, commanded his chorus to
continue singing, but the girls en the
stage had seen White fall, and several
fainted. Even then the audience was not
fully alive to the situation, and it was
not anti] it was annonnoed that en ac-
cident had happened that the esciternent
began,
E G
Who He Was.
Stanford White was the son of Rich-
ard Grant White and Alexin. B. Meese.
His father was well known as a. critic,
journalist and essayist., and for more
than. twenty years served as chief of
the .United States Revenue Marine Bu-
reau for the district of New Yonk. The
American head of the family was John
White, came who cae to this eountry in
1632 frons England, a passenger on the
ship Lion, and settled at Cambridgge,
Mass.
It was said this morning that when
Miss Nesbit came to New York with her
another from Pittsburg Mr. White was
one of their friends. When Miss Nesbit,
as a girl of 16, showed a desire to go on
the stage, Mi: White aided herin get-
ting a start. She ietd been an artist's
model, and Mr. White interested George
W. Lederer in spietures of her. After she
diad gone on in The Wild Rose and had
made a hit Mr, White was often seen
in her company.
Chas. F. McKim, head of the firni of
McKim•, Mead & White, first learned of
the shooting at midnight. When. told
o€ Thaw's statement he ,said: `I cannot
conceive of any possible ground upon
which. such a statement could be inade."
The search for Mrs. Thaw, who disap-
peared immediately after the shooting
at the garden, was continued throughout
the night. During the forenoon Capt.
Hodgins, of the Tenderloin station, said
that she had been located, but that he
did not intend to do anything but
watch her for the present at least.
Long before the time set for the ar-
raignment of Thaw in the Jefferson
market police court, his valet went to
the Tenderloin station with a change of
clothing for the prisoner, so that he
would not be obliged to appear in court
in the evening clothes which he wore
when taken into custody,.
The scene i the vicinity of Jefferson
market police const was one of great
excitement. Before 8 o'clock crowds as-
sembled in front of the entrance, and
long before 'P ti was timed to arrive
at the court Mentions crowd completely
blocked all the. surrounding streets.
Photographers were there by the score,
and when the crowd grew to such dimen-
sions it became necessary to call
.out a large additional force of police to
maintain order.
Islliaw Insane?
It was reported to -day on the author-
ity of sever it persons interested in the
case that;'ralka i defence will be that
he was diad s'''imians. It is said that
at his trial hewill be represented by
the best and most noted lawyers of the
day, who will ask for the appointment
of a commission in lunacy to examine as
to the state of Thaw's mind.
"There can be no doubt," said one of
these men, "that Thaw was and is hope-
lessly insane, and that the commission
will report him so."
Handcuffed Murderers.
Thaw's trip to headquarters was made
only after the strongest protests on the
part of his friends had been overruled.
Several friends of the prisoner were per-
anittecl to visit him in his cell, however.
When thedetectives, aceoinpanied by
Inspector Schmidtberger, entered the cell
to take Thaw to headquarters, Thaw
enquired whether it was necessary far
him to be handcuffed. `Yew," the inspec-
tor replied, 'it is necessary. We always
handcuff murderers."
Tliaw was then led out of the Tender-
loin station handcuffed to a detective.
He was dressed in a neat gray suit, and
wore a white straw hat. He looked cool
and self-possessed. He was quiekly plac-
ed in the patrol wagon and driven to
pollee headquarters.
At headquarters Time, was taken to
the detective bureau and then to the
top floor, where is located the rogues'
gallery and the rooms of the photogra-
phers and the officers in charge of the
Bertilion measurement system. Thaw's
picture was taken and his measure-
ments recorded. In the detective bureau
he was lined up before a detective seri-
pant, who had charge of the desk, in
a line with fifteeen prisoners, pickpock-
ets, confidence men and other criminals,
who had been picked up daring the night.
First Deputy Commissioner Rhinelander
Waldo, who knows Thaw personally, was
present at the time. Thaw woe given no
precedence over the others.
Thaw was them taken down to the
patrol wagon anis hurried to Jefferson
Market Court. An immense crowd had
fathered around the building and the
police were forced to fight their way to
the waiting wagon. .At the Pollee Court
the patrol wagon had to force its way
through another big crowd to reach the
jail entrance to the building. Thaw was
conducted to. an office, where he was per-
mitted to consult briefly with Lawyer
Daniel O'Reilly, Lawyer Joseph Brew-
ster, and Ms friend, Burr McIntosh.
O'Reilly told. Thaw not to say a word
abmrt his ease to anyone. He said that
if there was any staternent to be made
to the public he (,O'Reilly) would make
it. Thaw assented.
The proceedings before Magistrate
Barlow, when Thaw was arraigned, were
brief. Captain Iledgine, appearing as
the complainant, asked that Thaw be
remanded to the eustody of the coroner.
`I direct that to be done," said Magis-
trate Barlow. Thaw was then taken
back to the patrol wagon and started
for the coroner's office.
At the conclusion of the hearing be
-
fere the coroner, 'Thaw was committed
to the Tombs without bail,
HALE TO POLICE COURT,
Women Suffragists Demand Summons
for Premier Campbell -Bannerman.
London, July 1.—The womn suffrag-
ists are tiyiaig to drag Premier Camp-
bell -Bannerman, President of the Board
of Trade Lloyd -George, and Chancellor of
the Exchequer Asquith to a Police Court
on June, 27 in order to testify in their
behalf when the adjourned hearing comes
up of the ease against Miss Billington,
Miss Kenney and three other leaders of
the militant woman suffragists, who
were arrested in Cavendish Square on
June 21 for creating a disturbance out-
side of kir. Asquith's house.
Mrs. Parkhurst, another ruffs gist, to-
day :applied to a magistrate for earns
menses against the officials mentioned,
stating that Mr. Asquith would be in a
position to explain to the court why the
suffragists invaded Cavendish Square,
while the Premier and Mr. Lloyd -George
could testify in regard to the speeches
in which they advised the women to take
the course they had adopted.
The magistrate declined to compel
the attendance of Mr. Asquith, but
promised to grant summonses for
Premier Campbell -Bannerman and Mr.
Lloyd -George if the applicant produced
of idence that the women had acted at
their instigation.
SENT TO' WORKHOUSE
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE
ICEMAN? .
Five Leave Their Happy Homes—Also
Fined Five Trousand Dollars Each
for Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade.
Toledo, Ohio, July 1.—In Common
Pleas Court to -day Judge Kinkade im-
posed the maximum sentence of $5,000
fine and one year in the Workhouse on
five icemen guilty of conspiracy in re-
straint of trade. The men sentenced
are: Joseph A. Miller, who was con-
victed; R. A. Beard, R. C. Lemmon,
H. P. Breining and Peter H: Waters,
who pleaded guilty. The Judge said the
sentences might be mitigated in the
event the men made restitution.
The five men, all of them prominent
in business and social circles, were tak-
en to the county jail to await the mak-
ing out of the necessary papers to com-
mit them to the Workhouse unless in
the meantime they meet Judge Kinkade's
requirements of restitution. These men
were indicted under the Valentine anti-
trust law for combining to restrain
trade.
Under the pretext that the ice supply
was much smaller than in recent years,
theseedealers combined and advanced the
price from 50 to 100 per cent. The sen-
tence is the riraximun;, under the law. If
the men go to' the Workhouse they will
be put at hard labor.
ANARCHIST OUTRAGE.
NIPPED IN THE BUD AT CASTEL-
FERRETTI.
Clear That the Plan Was to Wreck the
Royal Train on Which Were Travel-
ling the King and Queen of Italy—
Three Bombs Were Found.
London, July 1.—A special cable re-
ceived from Rome through the London
Daily Mail, says: "Just. before the ar-
rival of the Ring and Queen of Italy, at
Ancona Saturday night, three bombs
ready for use, were found in the house
of an Anarchist named Aurelio Landi,
at the village of Castalferretti. The
house is close to the railway line and it
is clear that the plan was to wreak the
Royal train.
The train was sidetracked and closely
guarded for some hours when the first
news of the plot was received. Landi
and two other Anarchists have been ar-
rested. The bombs were similar to those
found at Ancona, in the early part of the
month and discovery is thought to point
to a wide conspiracy"
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A BRAVE WOMAN.
MRS. BOND'S STRUGGLE TO RESCUE
A COMPANION.
The Tragedy of Little Red Deer River—
Woman Floating Down in a Wagon
Box Exerts Herself and Risks Her
Life to Save Mrs. Lamarche.
Calgary, July 1. -An effor is to be
made to have the heroic work of Mrs.
Bond, of Solheima, recognized. Further
details of the tragedy occurring in Red
Deer River indicate most heroic con-
duct on her part. Two women and a
little girl were fording Little Red Deer
River. The water swept the wagon
box away. Mrs. Bond clung to the
wagon box, and, though herself in ex-
treme peril, started to rescue the other
woman.
She got her in the wagon box and the
two floated down stream two miles be-
fore Mrs. Bond, could wade to shore.
When she did, it was to find that Mrs.
Lamarche, the rescued woman, was dead.
LITTLE GIRL SCALPED.
Hair Catches in Cream Separator and
Result is Horrifying.
St. Stephen N. B., July '1,—The nine-
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Gregory, of Ask Bay, three .miles from
St. Stehen, met with an accident while
working a cream •separator with her bro-
ther Friday evening.
The little one caught her hair in the
separator, ahieh store her seals) almost
completely eff.
CRISTBAN SCIENTISTS.
PERFECTING PLANS FOR LARGE
PARR IN ONTARIO,
Option Secured on Buell Property, Which
Gives a Frontage of Three Thousand
Feet on Lake Erie—Buildings That
Are in Contemplation.
Buffalo, July 1. --Christian Scientists
from various parts of Canada and the '``s
'United States are perfecting plans for
the establishment of an international as-
sembly park on the Canadian shore of
Lake Erie, between Rose Hill, Ont., and
Windmill Point. An option has been se-
cured upon 120 acres of land nt this
point, owned by Franklin S. Buell, and
to property will undoubtedly be pur-
chased, as plans are already being drawn,
for the laying out of the Assembly Park.
Summer cottages, a hotel and ampi-
theatre or lecture hall are to be erected
according to the plans of the promoters,
who hope to have for Christian Scientists
what the Chautauqua assembly grounds
are for the Methodists. The site of the
proposed .Assembly Park le but a. few
miles west of. Fort Erie, and is within
sight of Buffalo. The site has a front-
age of 3,000 feet on the beach.
TWENTY-THREE FOR HIS.
Originator of Expression Runs Up
Against Number Hard.
Clevela.nd, July L—The pian who
invented 23, the founder of "skidoo,"
captured by the local sleuths Sunday,
met his deserts in police court to -day,
when Judge Whelan gave him 123 costs
and three times 23 days in the work-
house.
Patsy Morrison, one-time jockey at
Sheepshead Bay race track, imbibed too
much, and was arrested in front of the
Colonial Hotel, on Prospect avenue.
Patsy's number on the docket happened
to be 23.
"No. 23" called the judge.
"That's me," said Patsy. "It sound*
familiar. I started that expression."
"Ha, hal" cried Whelan. "We have
been looking for you. How did it hap-
pen 7"
"You see, there is room for just 22
horses on the Sheepshead track. When
one more is entered it has to go behind
all the others, and gets a handicap
that way. They generally figure to put
the horse behind that hasn't any chance,
anyway. I started things by yelling
out '23 for yours!' every time an old
shin and bones got out onthe track.
The other jockeys took it up, and it
wasn't long till everybody was on."
ODD DEALINGS.
The Continental General Manager as a
Broker.
Toronto despatch : Further light was.
thrown yesterday afternoon at the Insur-
ance Commission on the dealings of the
Continental Life in Atlas Loan bonds,
and, after the failure of the loan com-
pany, of the method employed to tempor-
adily conceal the loss to the Continental
Life by a "sale" to a director of the se-
surities. The dealings of the Continent-
al Life with the Ontario Securities Com-
pany, which may be termed a "subsidi-
ary" company to it, were aired also, and-
this
ndthis was the feature of the afternoon evi-
dence. G. B. Woods, who is managing
director of the Continental Life, ansa at
the carne time Vice -President of the On-
tario Securities. on several occasions pur-
chased securities for the latter company,
which in due time sold the same to the.
Continental Life at a profit Mr. Woods
defended this on the ground that the twos
companies wer.' in no sense of the term
identical.
Another point that is new was the
theory advanced by ldr. Woods as to
the reason for the prevalence of rebates..
He stated that general agents why have•
a large renewal interest like to add to•
this permanent income by g etting a great
deal of new business. Naturally the cost.
of this new business is a small considera-
tion, and it is sometimes seen that re-
bates are given covering the entire first
premi urn.
CERTIFICATES CANCELLED.
The Result of Inquiries Into Examina–
tions at Strathroy.
Toronto despatch: The decision of the
Education Department into the charges
against pupils of Strathroy, for alleged
wrongful practices in the departmental'
examinations of June, 1905,,is that seven..
of the candidates lose their teachers' or
matriculation certificates as the case
may be, and in addition one candidates
is debarred front writing again until
1908. The Forest Standard, commenting
on the decision. says the candidates may
seek redre,a in the courts.
The investigation, which extended for
several months, was carried on both at.
Strathroy and Toronto.
CLERGY ARE APATHETIC.
Few Replies to British Appeal on, ffun..-
day Observance.
Landon, Eng., July 1.—Nast Sunday
has been fixe upon as Sunday Obsexv-
ance Sunday, and special effort is being
inade to induce the ministers in every
pulpit throughout the kingdom to snake•
an appeal forthe proper observance of
the day of rest. In answer to 14,000 eir-•
cigars sent out asking the co-operation,
of all clergymen, leas than 1,000 respone-
es have been received, and a fair perceeks
tage of these are unfavorable. Inc addi-
tion, 5,000 reply postcards were sent to,
the clergy and only a squall proportion
have been received,