A MURDERER'S PLEA
NEW YORK HIGH SOCIETY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, July 16. Harry Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire, who, on June 25, killed Mr Stanford White, a New York millionaire architect, in the Madison Square Garden Theatre, has dismissed his lawyers, refusing their advice to pleaded insanity. He declares that he will plead justifiable homicide. [Thaw is a brother of the Countess of Yarmouth. After a not very dignified, career on the stage, the Earl of Yarmouth (who used to dress in short skirts and danne before the public) married Miss Thaw. Another brother, William, was recently charged with having lost, whilst crossing the Atlantic on the Kaiserm. Augusta Victoria, £40,000 at cards to a confidence man known as "Doc Owen." He, however, denied the report, saying that he himself had won 1,400d0l at bridtre from one of Owen's friends. Harry Thaw shot Whit? bemuse the latter had talked too freely of the past of Mrs Thaw.]
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Evening Star, Issue 12867, 17 July 1906, Page 6
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158A MURDERER'S PLEA Evening Star, Issue 12867, 17 July 1906, Page 6
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