HARRY K. THAW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20432, 12 June 1928, Page 9

HARRY K. THAW

NOT ALLOWED IN ENGLAND. ECHO OP FAMOUS CASE. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Tfelegrapn—Copyright.) RUGBY, June 9. Harry Thaw, the American millionaire who killed Stanford White in New York in 1906, will return to New York to-day on the Cunard liner Aquitania. He remained on the vessel while it was berthed at Southampton on Wednesday in consequence of the refusal of the Home Office to allow him to land. Thaw r had tried to obtain a reversal of the Home Secretary’s action, but failed. 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 compromised Thaw’’s wife. The subsequent trial of Thaw w r as the first occasion on which the “unwritten law” theory was seriously propounded and advanced as a defence. The case created a worldwide sensation by reason of its revelations of life amojig a certain class in New r York, while the Thaw millions sustained a long legal fight to save the murderer’s life, it being argued that he had been insane at the time of the crime. Released in July, 1910, when he was supposed to have recovered his sanity, Thaw' was rearrested in 1911 and confined in a mental hospital for some time. Thaw’s wife for some years went on the stage, and in the moving picture world after the tragedy. Thaw and his wife were later reconciled.