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	Harry K. Thaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thaw, however, was not to be swayed, and for several weeks continued to press Evelyn for her hand.
		Thaw's mother told Evelyn that if she would testify that Stanford White abused her and that Harry only tried to protect her, she'd receive a divorce from Harry Thaw and one million dollars in compensation.
		Thaw, holding the gun aloft, walked through the crowd and met Evelyn at the elevator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_K._Thaw (1367 words)

	Russell William Thaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thaw was the son of Evelyn Nesbit and, officially, he was also the son of Harry K. Thaw.
		Russel William Thaw had to experience indifference by the man supposed to be his father, as Harry K. Thaw never accepted Russell William as his son.
		Russell William Thaw (1910-2002) was a famous pilot who fought in World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_William_Thaw (147 words)

	SparkNotes: Ragtime: Part I, Chapters 4–6
		Harry K. Thaw, who has a reputation as a violent man, has little chance of effectively persuading a jury that he had become momentarily deranged at the time of Stanford White's murder.
		Harry K. Thaw, despite the extremity of his alleged crime, receives much better treatment than the average prisoner at the Tombs.
		Harry Houdini also happens to be at the Tombs during Thaw's imprisonment.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/ragtime/section2.rhtml (955 words)

	Cambria County mansion rumored to be haunted by ghost of legendary 'Gibson Girl'
		Legend has it that Evelyn Nesbit, the beau-tiful "Gibson Girl" and Tarentum native, who was married to the original owner's son, Harry K. Thaw, still wanders the hallways and occasionally appears in mirror reflections.
		Thaw made national headlines when he shot and killed the famous architect Sanford White on the roof of Madison Square Garden in a jealous rage over his wife, "Gibson Girl" Evelyn Nesbit.
		Nesbit and Harry Thaw, both natives of Western Pennsylvania, entertained lavishly at the mansion when they vacationed there in the early 1900s.
	www.post-gazette.com /homes/20011027hauntedhome8p8.asp (1489 words)

	thaw - OneLook Dictionary Search
		thaw, harry k thaw, russell william thaw, the thaw, more...
		Phrases that include thaw: spring melt thaw, harry k.
		Thaw : Hormel Glossary of Kitchen and Food Terms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=thaw&ls=a (313 words)

	Ragtime (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman also appear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ragtime_(musical) (225 words)

	HARRY K. THAW - ANNOTATED CHECK SIGNED 12/05/1925
		On the night of June 25, 1906, architect Stanford White was shot to death by Pittsburgh railroads and coke heir HARRY K. THAW (1871-1947) over chorus girl, model and wife of Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit.
		HARRY K. Signed a week after the opening of the new Madison Square Garden built to replace the demolished one designed by Stanford White.
		During the opening night of Ma'mzelle Champagne at the rooftop theater of Madison Square Garden, Thaw approached White and fired three shots at point-blank range into White's face.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2002/law/HARRY_K_THAW.htm (404 words)

	Main Index to the White Surname Database
		The husband was Harry K. Thaw, the Pittsburgh millionaire whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, White had seduced when she was 16 and with whom he continued a sick affair until that night in 1906 when Harry caught White on the Rooftop Theater of Madison Square Garden.
		Harry had not seen White but Evelyn leaned over and said "That B's here." Almost on cue Harry Thaw stood up threaded his way through the tables reaching into his pocket.
		Thaw returned to America and settled in New York City where he became a notorious "stage door johnnie." The Floradora girls flocked to him because of his money and then began to abandon him because of his demands.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /white/surnames.htm (2919 words)

	Novel and History
		Harry K. Thaw was the husband of Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty who had once been Stanford White's mistress.
		In New York City the papers were full of the shooting of the famous architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, eccentric scion of a coke and railroad fortune.
		Evelyn Nesbit had caused the death of one man and wrecked the life of another and from that he deduced that there was nothing in life worth having, worth wanting, but the embrace of her thin arms.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/ragtime/rag-novel.html (2050 words)

	Stanford White - Psychology Central
		In 1906 White was murdered by millionaire Harry K. Thaw, leading to a widely-reported trial.
		During the premiere performance of the musical revue Mamzelle Champagne at the Madison Square Roof Garden, a building that he had designed 15 years previously, White was shot and killed by Harry K. Thaw.
		Thaw was the jealous millionaire husband of Evelyn Nesbit, a popular actress and artist's model, whom White had seduced when she was 16.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Stanford_White (900 words)

	Ciara's RENT and RAGTIME Paper
		Harry K. Thaw, another one of NesbitÕs lovers, was the son of a railroad magnate, also known as one of BroadwayÕs famous playboys (Reidel 2).
		He was murdered by NesbitÕs husband, Harry K.Thaw, and was dubbed the Òcrime of the century.Ó This trial and crime offered tabloid New Yorkers a peek at the sordid events among the cityÕs elite.
		Father gets so fed up, that they take a long vacation in Atlantic City, where they can forget all the things that have happened.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Veranda/9679/essay.html (5002 words)

	HARRY K. THAW - ANNOTATED CHECK SIGNED 05/08/1903
		HARRY K. Killer of prominent architect Stanford White.
		In the second trial concluded in 1908, Thaw was found innocent by reason of temporary insanity and was committed to a state hospital for the criminally insane.
		Thaw divorced Nesbit in 1916, attempted suicide in 1917 and spent the next seven years in institutions for the insane in Pennsylvania.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2001/law/HARRY_K__THAW.htm (361 words)

	HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
		The Nesbit-White-Thaw love triangle was the subject of the 1955 film The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, starring Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit, Ray Miland as Stanford White, and Farley Granger as Harry K. Thaw.
		Thaw was a volatile and violent man--and madly jealous.
		Thaw approached him, drew out his pistol, fired three times, and shot White to death.
	historywired.si.edu /object.cfm?ID=467 (215 words)

	Thumbnail biographic sketches
		Pittsburg millionaire Thaw killed Stanford White (1853-1906), America's most famous architect of the time, at the rooftop garden restaurant of the old Madison Square Garden (designed by White in 1889) on 25 Jun 1906, during the opening performance of Mamzelle Champagne, a musical review.
		Thaw charged that White had "ruined" his wife, ne:e Evelyn Nesbit, who was a chorus girl and had been White's mistress before her marriage to Thaw.
		Thaw's trial is one of the sensational trial of the century.
	www.mencken.org /files/text/me1908biographies.htm (6762 words)

	American Experience
		In 1906, the murder of Stanford White, New York architect and man-about-town, by Harry K. Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, was reported "to the ends of the civilized globe;" much of the focus however was on Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful showgirl in the center of the love triangle.
		A sensational murder story that had everything: money, power, class, love, rage, lust and revenge.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/films/amx0801.html (65 words)

	Ragtime - Guide to Musical Theatre
		In a courtroom in Manhattan, Evelyn Nesbit testifies in the scandalous murder trial of her husband, Harry K. Thaw, accused of shooting her lover, the famous architect Stanford White.
		Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Houdini, both performing in a boardwalk side show, meet during an intermission.
		At the Main Street Theatre in New Rochelle, the world famous illusionist Harry Houdini performs his act of great escape, climaxing with an explosion of smoke and fire.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_r/ragtime.htm (1825 words)

	The American Experience Quiz Show Scandal Timeline (1896 - 1934)
		Harry K. Thaw, who murdered Stanford White in 1906, is charged with the physical and sexual assault of nineteen year old Frederick B. Gump.
		In a fit of rage over the alleged rape of his wife, model Evelyn Nesbit, wealthy socialite Harry K. Thaw shoots and kills architect Stanford White.
		Thaw's mother allegedly pays Gump family $500,000 to drop charges.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/quizshow/timeline (479 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon -
		The accused in both trials, Jackson and Harry K. Thaw, are emotionally unstable men trapped in perpetual childhood; both are charged with monstrous crimes; and (spoiler ahead) both use their considerable money and influence to beat their raps.
		Thaw has obstacles of his own to face in the pursuit of Evelyn, including his utter lack of charm and his disapproving mother (Annette Hunt).
		Based on the real-life "crime of the century" drama depicted in the musical Ragtime, My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon is as convoluted as the Michael Jackson case but far less entertaining.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/6210 (689 words)

	kenilworth K Bookmarks
		Harry K. Thaw, New York millionaire, who established a legal residence in Frederick County a few years ago by the purchase of ?Kenilworth,?
		Litton (The Bedford) and M McLean (Westerham) at 21st; B Mitchell and K Grice (S...
		CONTACT: Media, Denise K. Foy, +1-908-298-7616, or Investor, Alex...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Bookmarks/K/kenilworth (301 words)

	Famous Cases and the Women's House of Detention
		The courthouse was briefly the center of national attention in 1906, when Harry K. Thaw was tried here for the murder of architect Stanford White (the infamous Girl in the Red Velvet Swing case).
		Thaw was eventually judged to be "insane" and was sent to an asylum until his release in 1915.
		White's affair with chorus girl/model Evelyn Nesbit before her marriage to Thaw was the motive in this crime of passion.
	wotan.liu.edu /~amatsuuchi/timeline/womensprison.html (488 words)

	Famous Trials
		On June 25, 1906, White paid for taking Evelyn's virginity when her new husband, the wild millionaire Harry K. Thaw, took White's life on the rooftop garden of Madison Square Garden.
		Thaw's two trials gave ample opportunity to savor the exposure of the ``satin-lined sins of the rich.'' The first trial ended in a hung jury.
		Thinking it all part of the show, someone laughed.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/trialsindex.htm (1593 words)

	gillman
		Excerpt from ""Dementia Americana": Mark Twain, "Wapping Alice" and the Harry K. Thaw Trial" by Susan Gillman
		Archiving, redistribution, or reduplication of this text in other terms, in any medium, requires both the consent of the authors and the University of Chicago Press.
		All excerpts appear in Critical Inquiry, Volume 14, Number 2 (Winter 1988).
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v14/v14n2.gillman.html (105 words)

	Definition of Madison Square Garden
		June 25, 1906- Architect Stanford White is assassinated by Harry K. Thaw on the rooftop, allegedly because he seduced the murderer's wife, Evelyn Nesbit.
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	www.wordiq.com /definition/Madison_Square_Garden (682 words)

	Stanford White
		White was shot and killed in Madison Square Roof Garden by Harry K. Thaw because of his love affair with Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
		After his death the firm continued to design buildings in his style that later were erroneously attributed to White himself, e.g., the Harvard Club, New York City.
		These buildings illustrated his characteristic concentration upon rich and graceful effects and especially upon beautifully sculptured Renaissance ornament.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852090.html (407 words)

	Champlain College Summer Reading Program 2002 - E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime Character List
		Thaw, Harry K. Businessman dealing in coal and railroads, married to Evelyn Nesbit
		Famous beauty and artist's model, Stanford White's mistress, married to Harry K. Thaw
		Influential American architect shot by Harry K. Thaw
	www.champlain.edu /summerbook/ragtime/characters.htm (103 words)

	Thaw's 1907 murder trial of Stanford White
		Below are some scans of a unique diner program I found pertaining to Harry K Thaw's murder trial of renowned architect Stanford White.
		The program was printed by the Broadway Central Hotel in 1907 for a dinner held March 3rd, 1907.
	www.lostnewyorkcity.com /buildingphotos/thaw.html (83 words)

	Thaw House
		At 1710 Spruce, next to the church, is the mansion in which Harry K. Thaw — remember his love triangle with Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White ending with a shooting atop Madison Square Garden?
		Today home to a law firm, it has been lovingly restored, and inside are beautiful woodwork, pediments and fine fireplaces — all the accoutrements of a gracious age.
	www.ushistory.org /districts/rittenhouse/thawh.htm (73 words)

	Prodigal Days - The Untold Story of Evelyn Nesbit by Evelyn Nesbit (Book) in Books > True Crime > Murder
		The memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the showgirl, whose husband, Pittsburgh millionaire, Harry K. Thaw murdered New York's most famous architect, Stanford White in June 1906.
		True Crime > Murder : The memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the showgirl, whose husband, Pittsburgh millionaire, Harry K. Thaw murdered New York's most famous architect, Stanford White in June 1906.
		Labeled "The Murder of the Century," the murder trial was covered by newspapers around the world.
	www.lulu.com /content/139444 (226 words)

	History
		One of the last houses Stanford White built before he was assassinated by jealous Harry K. Thaw.
		One of the last houses Stanford White designed before he was assassinated by jealous Harry K. Thaw.
		George L. Williams built his house on the Delaware-North location, the most prestigious corner in the city
	ah.bfn.org /a/del/672/hist (808 words)

	My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon Tickets
		The young and beautiful "girl on the red velvet swing," seduced by famous NY architect (married and 50) Stanford White was also the object of Harry K. Thaw's (of Pittsburgh)obsession that ultimately ended in murder, insanity, marriage, divorce, bribery, and show business.
		The famous tragic love triangle: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Harry K. Thaw.
		The story that RAGTIME has reintroduced to modern audiences, now is told in full at The Hypothetical Theatre Company.
	www.smarttix.com /show.aspx?showCode=MYS0 (192 words)

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