Harry k thaw biography

American playboy (1871–1947)

Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947)^[1][2] 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 June 25, 1906.

Harry k thaw biography

Thaw had harbored an obsessive hatred of White, believing he had blocked Thaw's access to the social elite of New York. White also had a previous relationship with Thaw's wife, the model and chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit, when she was 16 or 17.

This affair began with White allegedly plying Nesbit with alcohol (and possibly with drugs) and then raping her while she was unconscious. In Thaw's mind, this relationship had "ruined" her.

Thaw's trial for murder was heavily publicized and called the "trial of the century".

After one hung jury, a second jury found