A RECONCILIATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 19 June 1926, Page 8

A RECONCILIATION

HARRY THAW AND WIFE INTENTION TO REMARRY , ; . NEW YORK, June 5. Harry Thaw and his former wife, j Evelyn, have become reconciled and will remarry. .. On the night of June 23, 1906, in New York, Harry K. Thaw, the son of a, Pittsburg millionaire, deliberately shot Stanford White, a leading architect, on the grounds that he had compromised Thaw’s wife. The subsequent trial of Thaw was the .first occasion on which the “unwritten law” theory was seriously propounded and advanced as a defence. hTe case created a world-wide sensation by reason of its. revelations cf life among a certain class in New York, while the Thaw millions sustained a long legal fight to save the murderer s life, it being argued that been insane at the time of.the crime. Released in July, 1915, when he Was '. pposed to have recovered his sanity, Thaw was rearrested in.-1917 and confined in a lunatic asylum for some " time.' Recent American! papers have contained an account of-how Thaw had proposed remarriage to His wife, who for some years made capital on the stage and in the moving picturo world out of her connection with the tragedy.