The Great Harry Thaw Case; Or, A Woman's Sacrifice

DELMAS IN FINAL BURST OF ELOQUENCE CONCLUDES STORY OF EVELYN THAW’S SAD FATE--DECLARES STANFORD WHITE A MONSTER WHOM THAW WAS JUSTIFIED IN PUTTING OUT OF THE WAY--CRAZED BY WRON...

DECLARES HE BASES DEFENSE ON LAW--EXPRESSES SYMPATHY FOR WHITE’S WIDOW--“SADDEST STORY EVER HEARD IN A COURT OF JUSTICE”--“BETTER FOR STANFORD WHITE HAD HE NEVER BEEN BORN”--SCO...

PROSECUTOR IN TERRIFIC DENUNCIATION OF HARRY THAW AS A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER--ATTACKS CHARACTER OF EVELYN, THE “ANGEL CHILD WHO WAS ALWAYS READY TO GO TO THE HUMAN OGRE” WHOM TH...

EVELYN TELLS HOW WHITE PLOTTED WITH FALSEHOODS AND MONEY AS HIS INSTRUMENTS, TO BLAST HER LIFE BY FORCING HER TO LEAVE HARRY THAW--SOUGHT TO WRECK HER LOVE--HUSBAND GHASTLY IN C...

DOCUMENT, INTRODUCED IN EVIDENCE AFTER A BITTER LEGAL FIGHT, PROVIDED $50,000 OR MORE AS A FUND FOR THE HUNTING DOWN AND PUNISHMENT OF ANY PERSON WHO MIGHT ASSASSINATE HIM--$75,...

PHYSICIANS ASSERT YOUNG MILLIONAIRE TO BE DEMENTED--ANGRY PROTEST BY DELMAS--SENSATIONAL ARGUMENT BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY--BAD FAITH CHARGED TO COUNSEL--LUNACY COMMISSION IS DEMAND...

AGED WOMAN WITH ALL HER WEALTH AND SOCIAL POSITION, A PATHETIC FIGURE--BENT WITH GRIEF AND SHAKEN WITH SOBS--TELLS HOW SON WEPT VIOLENTLY AT NIGHT--FIRST HEARD EVELYN NESBIT’S N...

STAGGERING BLOW TO PROSECUTION--MOB OF WOMEN FIGHTS TO ENTER COURT--PATHETIC SCENE--HAND OF MAGICIAN SUGGESTED IN DOORS THAT OPEN WITHOUT HUMAN AID--AT AGE OF 16, BEAUTY FELL IN...

DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAKES ATTACK ON LIFE OF HARRY THAW--ATTRIBUTES WILD ORGIES TO THE DEFENDENT--THE ETHEL THOMAS TRAGEDY--ATTEMPT MADE TO PROVE EVELYN THAW A PERJURER--NEW LIGHT...

OPPOSING COUNSEL HESITATE TO SHOW THEIR HANDS IN DESPERATE GAME OF LIFE OR DEATH--ATTORNEY GARVAN’S BRIEF OPENING ARGUMENT FOR PROSECUTION FOLLOWED BY PRESENTATION OF STATE’S CA...

MRS. CAINE TELLS HOW HARRY THAW OFFERED EVELYN’S MOTHER A VAST AMOUNT OF CASH FOR HER HAND--EVELYN RECALLED TO THE STAND--TELLS OF POSING IN STUDIOS--ANOTHER DAY OF TORTURE--THE...

LIFE OF HARRY K. THAW’S VICTIM--HIS DEATH REFLECTED HIS STRANGE LIFE--A MENTAL GIANT WHO TURNED FROM LOFTY ENTERPRISES TO VICIOUS REVELS--BUILT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN--THE STUDIO...

STANFORD WHITE ASSASSINATED BY CRAZED HUSBAND WHILE ATTENDING THE PLAY--ON ROOF GARDEN OF MADISON SQUARE--THAW WALKED RAPIDLY TO TABLE WHILE GIRLS WERE DANCING--AT LAST NOTE OF...

DOCUMENT DECLARED TO HAVE BEEN SIGNED BY EVELYN THAW INTRODUCED IN EVIDENCE--CHARGES THAW CHOKED HER, AND BEAT HER WITH A RAWHIDE WHIP--ANOTHER ATTACK THE NEXT DAY--FAINTED IN A...

EVELYN NESBIT THAW BEGINS STORY OF TRAGIC FATE AT HANDS OF STANFORD WHITE--TELLS OF SHOOTING--“I WILL BE BRAVE,” HER WORDS TO HUSBAND--COLLAPSES ON STAND--RELATES HOW HER BETRAY...

JUSTICE FITZGERALD DEALS BLOW WHEN HE TELLS THE TWELVE “GOOD MEN AND TRUE” THEY MUST IGNORE THE “UNWRITTEN LAW”--READS THE STATUTE GOVERNING INSANITY AS A DEFENSE--BURDEN OF PRO...

TWELVE MEN UNABLE TO REST OR SLEEP, HAVE HARD TIME--ANY ONE OF SIX VERDICTS COULD BE GIVEN, SAID LAWYERS--THAW GLOOMY--VISITED BY WIFE--MOTHER WORN OUT BY ANXIETY--JURORS HAVE P...

YOUNG MILLIONAIRE’S ROMANCE STARTLED THE WORLD--MET EVELYN NESBIT AFTER A PLAY WHEN SHE WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD--FRIENDSHIP RIPENED INTO LOVE--THE YOUTH’S STRANGE CAREER--WENT TO...

To the surprise of every one connected with the case, Justice Fitzgerald on March 26, suddenly called District Attorney Jerome and the lawyers for the defense into a conference...

FAMED FOR BEAUTY EVEN AS A LITTLE CHILD--BORN IN LITTLE PENNSYLVANIA TOWN--WHEN ONLY 13 YEARS OLD SHE BEGAN AS AN ARTIST’S MODEL--SOUGHT OUT BY FAMOUS PAINTERS--ENGAGED AS A CHO...

EVELYN THAW FORCED INTO FURTHER REVELATIONS--PROVED THAT WHITE PAID HER BILLS--ARCHITECT’S LETTERS AND RECEIPTS FOR MONEY PAID HER, READ--THAW CALLED WHITE’S CASH “POISON”--AMER...

DEFENSE BEGINS TERRIFIC FIGHT TO PROVE YOUNG MILLIONAIRE WAS CRAZED BY WHITE’S ACTS--DR. WILEY, THAW’S FAMILY PHYSICIAN, DECLARES HARRY DID NOT REALIZE WHAT HE WAS DOING--THEATE...

AFTER HAVING DELIBERATED MORE THAN FORTY-SEVEN HOURS, THE TWELVE JURORS ARE FAR APART IN THEIR OPINIONS--LAST BALLOT SHOWED SEVEN FOR CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE,...

REV. ANTHONY COMSTOCK, THE FAMOUS REFORMER, TOLD HOW HARRY THAW HAD HIRED HIM TO GATHER EVIDENCE AGAINST ARCHITECT--PROOF OF ORGIES IN MIRRORED DEN FOUND BY DETECTIVES--HARRY WA...

The supreme moment for the defense came on April 8, when Delphin M. Delmas, the master orator of the Pacific coast bar, arose to address the jury in what proved to be the greate...

One of the most dramatic phases of the great trial was at hand. The defense suddenly announced it had closed its case before the lunacy commission, and after a private examinati...