HARRY THAW AGAIN.
ATTE^IPTED SUICIDE WH-GN .. WANTED BY THE POLICE. riIII.A_DEX.rHL). Jan. 11. ;, Harry K. Thaw -was taken to hospital to-day, after attempting to commit suicide "by cutting hit. wrists and throat. Tlie police had; heen searching for Jinn some days td arrest him oil New York ; indictments for kidnapping and! flagella- ■ * tion of a 19-year-old youth from CWi- i fornia. When Thaw made the attempt I on -his life the police had surrounded the '■ •' house m West Philadelphia where he and ! the youth were laying. Harry K. Tha"w*'is the millionaire who '" was tried, ten times between 1906 and 1915 for the murder of Stanford White, ? a. noted Afnerican <u*chitect, who; : he de-:. clared., had insulted ZMrs Thaw, formerly - Miss Evelyn Nesbit. *_ Two years after his crime Thaw was 1 found iitsans and sent to the Matteawan y Asylum as a criminal lunatic. > In July, 1915, after a succession of - trials, m which his mother spent a fpr- ' tune m trying to prove his sanity and Uj * obtain his release, Thaw was declared y 1 sane by the jury in' the New York "State '. - Supreme Court. '£
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14237, 3 March 1917, Page 8
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