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Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw—whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets in his head—whereupon Evelyn went to her husband's defense, helped get him acquitted on grounds of insanity. Thaw spent 15 years in and out of asylums and eventually divorced Evelyn. When he died in 1947, he left her $10,000. A Philadelphia chorus girl whom he had met only once got $40,000.