Evelyn Nesbit was born 49 years ago in Tarentum, Pa. She got a chorus job in Floradora, became the mistress of Architect Stanford White. In 1905 she married rich, lecherous Harry Kendall Thaw, who already had a grudge against White. On June 25, 1906 Thaw and his wife attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed...
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