Murder of Stanford White



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Y/M/D Description Place
1906/06/25 Stanford White, his son Lawrence and James Clinch Smith enjoy diner at the Cafe Martin near Madison Square Garden. Harry Thaw and his wife Evelyn Nesbit also dine at the same restaurant.
1906/06/25 As an actor sings 'I Could Love a Million Girls', Harry Thaw shouts "He Ruined My Wife" and shoots Stanford White dead on the Madison Square Garden Roof (razed). People overturn chairs and tables in a wild scramble for the exits.
1907/02/16 Counsel for the defense, will fight in every way possible any attempt that the District Attorney may make to have a commission in lunacy appointed to pass on the insanity of Harry K Thaw. - A Russell Peabody, Thaw lawyer
1913/08/17 Harry Thaw escapes from Matteawan State Hospital (today's Fishkill Correctional Facility), Beacon, NY, and flees to Canada. Beacon, NY, New York

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