| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1916/00/00 | Unemployed Bernard Lewis, son of Wenman Lewis the founder of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Coal Co, is charged with stealing a $1,000 bond from a former stock brokerage client and cut off financially from his family. | |
| 1916/11/00 | Bernard Lewis leaves his wife, Laura, and their daughter, Betty, on a "business trip" back east. | |
| 1916/12/17 | Bernard W Lewis writes a friend back home that he was planning suicide: "I am only a wreck ... See that no harm comes to Laura and Betty. Laura is a wonderful woman, and I'm paying tonight for wrecking her life." | |
| 1916/12/24 | Harry Thaw sexually assaults and beats 19-year-old Fred Gump Jr with a stocky whip in a suite on the 18th Fl of the Hotel McAlpin. Thaw had enticed Gump to New York pretense of underwriting the teenagers enrollment at Carnegie Institute. | Hotel McAlpin, |
| 1916/12/25 | Thaw's bodyguard takes Fred Gump Jr to the Bronx Zoo. | |
| 1916/12/25 | Thaw's bodyguard takes Fred Gump Jr to the Aquarium. | Castle Clinton National Monument, New York City |
| 1916/12/25 | Fred Gump and Thaw's bodyguard return to the Hotel McAlpin where Gump is able to make his escape over to Baltimore and Ohio Ferry at 23rd St and take a train back to Pittsburgh. | |
| 1916/12/30 | Hackney cab driver Elwood Powell takes Bernard Lewis to Maizie Agnes Colbert's apartment house on Poplar St. Working by the name of Grace Roberts, Ms Colbert was a model known as the "Onyx Girl". | |
| 1916/12/30 | Hackney cab driver Powell reports to police that his passenger had run off and stiffed him for the $19.60 fare (about $300 today). | |
| 1916/12/30 | Maizie Colbert is found murdered in her boudoir wearing a pair of blue silk pajamas, a sheet covering her bloody head. She had been beaten with a flatiron and strangled with one of her Onyx stockings. | |
| 1917/01/04 | After discovering that the police are looking for him in the murder of Grace Roberts, Lewis tell a friend: "Isn't this terrible? I've been ruined by this murder. Why, I don't even know Maizie Colbert." | |
| 1917/01/05 | As Police batter the door of Bernard Lewis's cottage at the States Villas in Atlantic City, he takes his own life with a shot from a .22-caliber rifle he bought the day before with $10 he borrowed from a maid. | |
| 1917/01/07 | After a brief visit in New Jersey, Thaw arrives in Philadelphia and stays at the Belgravia Hotel. | Belgravia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1917/01/08 | Harry Thaw attends a court hearing with his mother, Mary Sibbet Thaw, in connection with an automobile incident involving Harry. He seem rational then. Mrs Thaw took a train back home to Pittsburgh in the afternoon from Broad Street Station. | North Philadelphia Station, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1917/01/09 | Harry K Thaw is warned that police are coming to arrest him for whipping 19 year old Fred Gump Jr in New York City. | |
| 1917/01/11 | Thaw tells his land lady, Mrs Elizabeth Tacot, that Bernard Lewis was not guilty and had been hounded into suicide. | Garden Court Historic District, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1917/01/11 | Police find Thaw with self inflicted wounds to his neck and wrist in a boarding house at 5260 Walnut St. Thaw was wanted in New York City and despondent over suicide of Bernard Lewis. | Garden Court Historic District, Philadelphia, PA |
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