Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 8, Hammond, Lake County, 26 June 1906 — Page 3

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T FROM BEHIND BY HARRY K.THAW Eminent New York Architect Killed by His Bitter Enemy. THERE'S A WOMAN IN THE CASE She Seems To Be No Other Than the Florodora Girl He Married.. Wages of Sin Have To Be Paid and a Year-Old Scandal Has Its Sequel in a Bloody Sen sation. New York, June 26.-Standford White, the eminent architect, of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, was shot and almost instantly killed by Harry Thaw, a member of the promiPittsburg family, during the perof the musical extravaganza THAW. Mamzelle Champagne on the roof of the Madison Square Garden. White died before an ambulance could be sum mmediately after the shooting. Death in the Midst of Laughter. The Madison Square roof garden, which had been closed for several years, was crowded with a fashionable audience. While a Florodora sextette was singing a song, and the garden

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was echoing with the laughter and apof the audience, a series of shots rattled in the rear of the auditorand a man in evening dress was seen to fall across a table at which he was sitting with a party of friends. The man who had fired the shots fled, pistol in hand, towards the nearest exit, where he was seized and disarmed by the police. Audience Thrown Into Panic. Instantly the great audience was thrown into a panic and a wild stamoccurred, during which chairs and tables were overturned and men and women fought with desperation to esfrom the roof. The first intimaof trouble came when walking behis seated victim, and drawing an automatic pistol he fired three shots. Thaw Had Been Watching, Evidently. White had been previously to the Manhattan club and had only been at the garden a few minutes when Thaw attacked him. Thaw had been presduring the entire performance. With a woman, said to be Mrs. Thaw, he had taken seats at a rear table. He was in evening dress, and his overcoat was thrown over the back of his chair. He got up every few minutes and walked about, and the spectators later rethat he had acted very nervousDEED WAS COWARDLY DONE Shoots from Behind Without a Word to Warn His Victim. The sextette of women on the stage had begun a song when Thaw left his wife, and walking rapidly down the aisle stood for a few minutes right behind White, looking at him hard. White apparently was utterly ignorant of his peril. Then Thaw quickly pulled a pistol from his trousers pocket, and in quick succession fired three shots. Two took effect, either wound being mortal. White without a sound slipped down to the floor, the chair and table falling on top of him. The curtain was rung down quickly. Several men in the audience rushed to ly after the shooting Thaw pointed the revolver in the direction of the stage, and then sweeping it around towards the audience as if attempting to cover his retreat started for the exit. He was quickly disarmed by Fireman Frank Bruden, who arrested him and rushed him to the elevator. While waiting for the car to come, wife, who was Evelyn Nesbit, a member of the original Florodora sextette, rushed up to him, threw her arms around him and declared: "I'll stand by you, Harry." There were several stories of what Thaw did after firing the shots, but a number of men agreed that he had aid: "That --- will never go with

that woman again." To Policeman Debes at the garden he said: "Well, damn him, he deserved it." One in the police station he had apparently recovered himself and had become the least excited man in it. Standing before the sergeant's desk in easy pose, his overcoat hanging over his left arm, he first calmly took out a cigarette and lighted it. Answering the usual questions as to name, adetc., he said he was "J. Smith, 33 years old, a student, of 33 Lafayette place, Washington, D. C." When searched his real identity was discovered. In his card case were cards engraved with his name "Henry Kendall Thaw." He had about $250 in cash. Refusing to say a word about the crime, and asking that his lawyers Lewis A. Delafield and Frederick Longfellow-be notified, he puffed his cigarette and was taken back and locked in a cell. The charge against him is murder. His victim was marHis grown son Lawrence, a Harstudent, is at home on his sumvacation. Mrs. White is in the west, visiting friends. It is known that for years bitter enhad existed between White and Thaw on account of the former's attentions to Mrs. Thaw which had be gun prior to her marriage. Mrs. Thaw disappeared in the excitement while her husband was being: taken to the station house, and up to a late hour could not be found. On the way to the police station Policeman Debes said Thaw expressed great gratification over the killing. "I'm glad I shot him," he said; "I'm glad I did a good job of it. That man has ruined my ___," then dropping his voice, Debes said that something that sounded "wife" or "life." Thaw said like either ABOUT THE PRINCIPALS Seems Another Case of the Payment of the Wages of Sin. Evelyn Nesbit who became Thaw's wife on April 4, 1905, was a flower girl in the "Toreador" company. They were married at Pittsburg by Rev. Dr. William E. McEwan, of the Third Presbyterian church. Thaw's mother, Mrs. William Thaw, in spite of earlier opposition, was present. Miss Nesbit is the daughter of C. J. Holman of Oakland, a suburb of Pittsburg, and she and young Thaw had been requested to leave several New York where they tried to put up when they arrived together on a steamer from Europe. There was lots of trouble in the Thaw family until finally Mrs. Thaw, the mother, softened and the two were married.

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also of Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, of Cumberland Fla. He is also a halfof Benjamin Thaw. Mrs. WilThaw, mother Harry, sailed for Europe Saturday on one of the slow steamers. She is on her way to visit her daughter, the Countess of Yarmouth. Harry and his bride were booked to sail on Wednesday of this week. White was a native of New York city, having been born here in 1853. He was a member of the Municipal Art society, New York Botanical Garsociety, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Zoological society, University club, the American Institute of Architects, nine clubs and the American Fine Art society. "Discrepancies" of $50,000. Poynette, Wis., June 26.-Discrepan-s covering a period of several years, and amounting to at least $50,000, are said to have been revealed as a result of the arrest of Fred C. Price, until recently a slerk in the Bank of Poynette, on a charge of embezzlement. Most of the discrepancy is said to have been adjusted by Price and his relatives. Germans Honor Victoria's Memory. London, June 26.-The visiting Gereditors were shown over Windsor castle. They deposited a wreath on Queen Victoria's tomb, lunched in the orangery of the castle and sent a teleto King Edward thanking him for his invitation to visit the castle. Ice Company Employes Strike. Toledo, O., June 26.-Thirty ice drivand handlers, employes of the Schuller Ice company, have been on strike because the company refused to pay union wages. The other compawill stand by the Schullers and a general strike is anticipated. Commander Booth-Tucker Married. London, June 26.-Commander Booth-Tucker and Miss Minnie Reid were married at the Salvation Army's citadel, South Tottenham. General Booth officiated. Only relatives and high officers of the army were present. There are more McCall Patterns sold in the United States than of any other make of patterns. This is on account of their style, accuracy and simplicity. McCall's Magazine (The Queen of Fashion) has

Indiana No Time For Surgery. The average woman thinks the sun and stars would cease to shine sooner than that she could interfere with the regular routine of household duties. A Sabetha woman was recently informed by her physician that she would have to have an operation performed. She said she didn't see how she could; that Monday was washing day, Tues day ironing day, Wednesday the missociety met, Thursday was the day to clean up, Friday to bake, Sat urday to give the children their baths and mend. If he could get it in Sun day after dinner and before evening services perhaps she would try itKansas City Journal. The Sardinians. Sardinia was a wild place in the midof the last century. A traveler says: "The men are clothed in goat skins, one before and another behind, without breeches, shoes or stockings, and a woolen or skin cap on the head. The women have no other habiliments than a long woolen gown and a woolen cap. The peasants always go armed to defend themselves from one another, so that traveling in the interior is ex tremely unsafe without an escort, and it is even dangerous for ships to send their people on shore for water unless they are well armed. In short, the Sardes are the Malays of the Mediter ranean." Nature's Methods. When one is sick there is usually something in the stomach that nature wants to throw up. When one has diar rhea nature is striving to remove of fending material from the system When one perspires profusely nature is getting rid of blood poisons through the skin. One should never attempt to check any such effort without being sure that its arrest will be beneficial. The Alexandrian Era. The Alexandrian era is by some aubegun with the death and by others with the birth of Alexander the Great. For a long time after the death of Alexander this era was in common use in Egypt and many of the counwhich had been under his rule. It began Nov. 12, 324 B. C. It is Queer. "It's queer!" "What?" "The man who pays as he goes is most welcome to stay."-American Spectator. Love when true, faithful and well fixed is eminently the sanctifying eleof human life. Without it the soul cannot reach its fullest height or holiness.-Ruskin. Comfort and independence abide with those who can postpone their desires. Success Magazine.

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