This story would be tragic if it creeps include two men who were without a doubt. Illustrious creeps, but it creeps in every case. One was a world-renowned architect, and the other a wealthy scion of a family even more wealthy. There are no good guys here, and the girl at the center, although the most beautiful woman of her time, and one of the most famous artist Charles Dana "Gibson Girl" Mel Gibson was not in pristine white Lassie.
Why do we care? Simply because it was thethe most deliciously decadent tale of murder in the early 20 century.
On June 25, 1906, there was high social night. It 'was the opening of the new music mamzelle champagne on the terrace of the Madison Square Garden, which was limited to the time of Fifth Avenue and Madison Street and 26 and 27. The structure, which includes an amphitheater on the ground floor was designed by world famous architect Stanford White. In fact, white was the table where she sat front rowis not for the show was over too well with the public, because people were milling about kibitz from table to table, instead of enjoying the attention on the show.
Suddenly, the audience heard three loud shots. At first he thought it was part of the show. But when they saw white fall to the ground, his head submerged in a pool of blood, they knew the theater scene was real.
Harry Kendall Thaw, a rich spoiled punks, had accidentally walked in White,pulled out a gun under his long white coat and black connected three times: twice in the shoulder and once through the head. Having fired his last shot, thaw in black screaming: "You deserve it You ruined my wife!"
Apparently they have no particular hurry, thaw between the other taught the weapon above his head and walked toward the elevator. Thaw took the elevator down and met his wife, the beautiful actress Evelyn Nesbit, the elevator in the lobby. Champagne is the Mamzellthawed and horrible spectacle that Nesbit had to leave with a few more moments before the shooting. Nesbit was not clear that the husband does not fall into the elevator with her. Nesbit heard the shots, and seconds later, when her husband walked to the elevator with a smoking gun, shouted: "Good God, Harry, what have you done"
Back on the roof garden, the stage manager was trying to clarify what exactly happened. He jumped on a table and called theOrchestra to "play! And bring the chorus!"
'S, musicians, actors and actresses puzzled over a real life murder committed before their eyes, sit or stand without words. A doctor who was present, hastened to white body. White face was disfigured by burns in the dust. Still, the doctor announced with certainty that the white was actually dead.
Downstairs in the lobby, the elderly, fire a gun in the presence of the thaw, which does not offer anyResistance. Moments later a policeman arrived and arrested immediately thaw. The policeman brought a thaw to the nearest police station in the Tenderloin district, an area for its gambling, prostitution and various other crimes that was both violent and nonviolent known. Thaw when he arrived at the police station, identified himself as John Smith, a student at 18 Lafayette Square in Philadelphia.
The sergeant said Thaw, "Why did you do?"
Thaw seemeddisinterested. "I can not say why," he said.
At this time, had several journalists who were with thaw, followed him to the police station and identified the police under his real name. Thaw immediately clammed and refused to say another word, if he was represented by a lawyer.
The following day, Sanford was the killing of white on the front page of every newspaper in New York City. The New York Times, usually serious and correct, it was loudTitle.
DEFROST SANFORD WHITE BLOOD!
Shoots him in Madison Square Garden roof
About Evelyn Nesbit
"You ruined my wife," who calls and shoots.
Public PANIC
Tables and chairs knocked over in a wild ride for the outputs
Stanford White, who was born in 1853, was the most famous architect of the time. White was a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, for whom he designed houses and villas for the rich and famous. White alsoSeagate has designed the luxury residential complex in Brooklyn. In addition to developing Madison Square Garden, White designed the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the New York Herald Building, the first Bowery Savings Bank (the Bowery and Grand Street), and the Washington Square Arch, the last two shows are white up day.
But White, despite his elevated status, was an eccentric man who had fetishes, some on the edge of illegality. Even though he was married,White was a man of the world, many young women, some of whom are young enough to be courted his daughter. It was his encounter with a 16-year-old Evelyn Nesbit, who was the cause of his death.
Florence Evelyn Nesbit Evelyn Nesbit was born on Christmas Day 1884, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a lawyer who died fighting in 1893, leaving his wife and daughter of serious debt. Even at a young age Nesbit was breathtakingly beautiful. She began modeling in Pittsburgh, butand his mother decided it was best he moved to New York to improve their career. Nesbit was almost instantly hot new model of New York. She has modeled for famous photographers such as Frederick S. Church, Herbert Morgan, Gertrude Kasebier, Carl and Rudolf Eickemeyer Blenner.
Nesbit was so beautiful to describe a journalist Irvin S. Cobb Nesbit that with "The lean, quick grace of a deer, a head that sat on the neck impeccable as a lily on its stem, eyes were the colorblue-brown pansies and the size of a dollar and a half, a mouth made of rose petals found. "
In 1901 Nesbit White met for the first time. Nesbit and a girl who was accompanied by another man, were invited to have lunch in the White House on 24 W. Street. Shortly after finishing their meal, leaving her friend's male partner. White then invited the two girls in a room upstairs, where he held a red velvet swing. As a father doted on her two small children, were both whitegirls playing on his swing, his hard happily back and forth, until the legs almost touched the ceiling.
"He had a huge Japanese umbrella from the ceiling," said Nesbit. ". So, when He gives us a lot in the air, swung past our feet through the roof"
White was very impressed with Nesbit. With his mother as a companion, the white Nesbit quite often. At that time, white was the perfect gentleman, and tried to ensure that Nesbit had all the advantages, as they pursuedCareer in modeling and acting.
However, everything changed when the mother Nesbit decided to visit friends in Pittsburgh. White has been so generous, he also paid for the mother Nesbit trip. At this point, Nesbit was given a small part in a play called Flori Dora. The second night that his mother was gone, White sent a note Nesbit in the theater, invited to a party at his apartment on 24th Street. When White arrived home in Nesbit, was surprised no other state,there.
"The others have refused," White said Nesbit.
"Then I poured a glass of champagne," said Nesbit Thaw the study. "I do not know if it is after a minute or two minutes later, but started pounding in my ears. Then go into the room everything seemed to be."
Nesbit lost consciousness and when she awoke she was in bed, naked. The space that housed the bed was completely overturned, even on the ceilings.
"I started screaming," said Nesbit."Mr. White has tried to calm down. I do not remember how I got on my clothes, or how I went home, but he took me home. Then he went away and left me. I sat all night ".
The following day they visited White Nesbit in his apartment. He found her there in an almost hypnotic state, just look out the window.
"Why do not you look at me, kid," White said.
"Since I can not," he said.
White Nesbit said do not worry. "Anyone who does these things," he told her. White also said Nesbither fellow starlets Floradoa all were involved in sexual escapades with different women. White Nesbit said the most important thing was not. Nesbit has made promises, nothing to tell his mother about what happened in his apartment the night before.
Harry Thaw was born in Pittsburgh in February of 1871, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw. As a child, shuttling in and thawing of different schools. He was a naughty child, as this does not teachvery bright, and a troublemaker. But because he was the son of William Thaw, Harry Thaw was admitted to the University of Pittsburgh, ostensibly to study law. However, do not thaw much of a college student, his father used his influence to transfer to Harvard University. Thaw at Harvard little more drinking, carousing with the ladies night long and play poker.
Thaw left Harvard without a degree, and was advised to be an expert in difficulty. It 'wasDuring this period, which began its systematic use of drugs Thaw. Thaw consumes large quantities of cocaine and heroin, and it was rumored that heavy Thaw "speed balling", which was the process of injection of a combination of cocaine and heroin into a vein. High as a kite, when Thaw rode a horse in a nightclub in New York, which was banned. In addition to its reputation as a madman out of control, Thaw also drove a car through a window of a department store lost $ 40,000in a single game of poker, drank a whole bottle of laudanum drugs, and has hosted a decadent party in Paris, where most of the guests were the whores in the city. The details of this party was told, more than $ 50,000.
When Thaw's father died, he was dismayed to discover that thaw, while remaining $ 5000000 $ 40000000 owned by his father, the thaw in the elderly was determined that her son would be only a check for $ 200 per month. The smallCompensation continues to thaw showed he was responsible enough to handle such a sum inheritance.
In 1905 Nesbit Thaw was beaten with. Nesbit Thaw courted with great enthusiasm, and when White learned Nesbit Thaw, and warned to stay away from Nesbit Thaw, who tells her that Thaw was a people unpredictable and dangerous. White knew that Thaw held in New York City apartment into a brothel. White also knew that Thaw would lure young girls into his apartment,Then in a bizarre sexual routines that the girls in conditions that sometimes require hospitalization, the left stick.
However thaw could not be deterred from pursuing Nesbit. Nesbit asked repeatedly, to marry him, and she always denied. While they were cruising along, Nesbit Thaw was outraged when they again refused to marry him. In an act of a madman, whipped cream Nesbit Thaw, like other young girls he has in his New York apartment. During this beating,Nesbit Thaw admitted that the manner in which he lost his virginity White. Thaw, still loved, and said he wanted to marry her anyway. Despite the fact that Thaw had beaten and certainly was not of sound mind, Nesbit Thaw married on 4 April 1905.
After getting married, Thaw received an extreme hatred of Sanford White. So contemptuous of White because of what White had done Nesbit, Thaw's wife banned once mentioned the name "Sanford White." Thaw the pastNesbit referring to White as "The Bastard" or "The Beast". But Nesbit, most of the time, only to White as "B"
Thaw while he was in prison awaiting their trial for the murder of White, mother Thaw, thaw in the newspapers of the parents' ", as noted, was in England visiting her daughter, the Countess of Yarmouth. After learning of the situation his son, has announced that Thaw's mother returned to the U.S. to help her son. "I am willing to pay a million dollars to save myThe life of the child "Thaw, mother to the press.
Thaw mother was part of the strategy to use their considerable wealth to orchestrate a campaign to discredit the press Sanford White. Suddenly, some newspapers began to write complaints on white, describe him as an author of young girls bullying. Thaw mother arrived to commission a publicist, newspaper advertising harmful to white, and inexpensive to generate their son.
For a particular story, the mother Thaw paid print media, wasextremely damaging to the credibility of White, decency and honor (if it were to begin with). It seemed, White fell in love with a 15-year-old girl named Susie Johnson. White had met Johnson at a party wild Johnson was taken by a large cake, almost completely naked. That night, Johnson powered white enough to make her drunk enough champagne. When Johnson was so drunk he was barely conscious, White Johnson in his apartment, and he did do whatEvelyn Nesbit. Banned soon after, Johnson white of his apartment, and threw them on the street, completely broken. As White moved Johnson from his front door, Johnson said, "Girls, if you are poor, to remain in the safe operation or in the kitchen."
Johnson has taken eight years to the hectic streets before he died at the age of 23 and was buried in a mass grave of.
To influence potential jurors, the New York City, Mother Thaw turned playwright, to write a piecealmost identical to the circumstances of Harry Thaw, Sanford White and Evelyn Nesbit. The game featured three characters named Harold Daw, Daw and Emeline Stanford White. In the final scene of the game, Harold Daw announced from his cell in the Tombs prison, "No jury on Earth is to send me the chair, no matter what I did and what I have, for killing the man who slandered my wife. This is the unwritten rule of the people is done in house, and her power I share myLife. "
Mother even managed to unfreeze the money in the hands of the Rev. Charles A. Eaton, who was John D. Rockefeller as one of his parishioners. Rev. Eaton delivered a passionate speech to his congregation to defend actions Thaw. Rev. Eaton, said: "It would be a good thing if it is a bit 'more registrations in cases like this."
Thaw while he was in prison, his mother spread enough money around so that they can enjoy the antics Thaw other prisoners were not allowed in the tombs. Instead of eatingthe jail standards have been excavated, thawed all her meals at Delmonico's, a restaurant in the city, came as the best restaurant of its time. While other prisoners dressed in prison standards, has been allowed to thaw, the best clothes, including silk shirts and ties, wearing of silk.
Thaw first trial for the murder of Sanford White began January 21, 1907. Thaw's mother has asked the famous California trial lawyers Delpin Delmas, to represent the child. District Attorney WilliamTravers Jerome, the uncle of Winston Churchill in order to strengthen the case for the state.
Jerome told the jury in his opening speech: "With all the millions of people, you thaw a devil in carrying out this study, I want to show that no matter how you're rich, it can not slip away with murder in New York County. "
The sensationalism of the trial was so extreme, were scalped tickets for the study of $ 100. More than 80 world-renowned artists and writers packed the courtroom, when they could seemight benefit from a writing a book or a film about sordid affair.
It was time for the defense, as Evelyn Nesbit took to defend her husband. Voices had a parent Nesbit Thaw, Nesbit testified the promise that her son was attracted agree with a divorce. Nesbit Thaw mother also promised one million dollars after the trial, but Nesbit never received a dime of that money.
On the stand, Nesbit said the bizarre sexual behavior of Sanford White.Nesbit said he made the girls wear white clothes when they came to his house. Nesbit also told the jury how he lost his virginity to black, and white with champagne IMPLIED he had to make them unconscious, so his way with her.
The prosecution countered by the words Nesbit to elicit testimony of a toxicologist leader, Dr. Rudolph Witthaus. Dr. Witt House Nesbit said that the story of how White became drunkTake advantage of it, is irrelevant, because no drug known to science would work faster Nesbitt said he did Champagne, to make them unconscious.
Even if a group of psychiatrists said Thaw completely healthy during the thawing process acted irregularly, always crying like a child, and fly into rages when his eyes from, and his face was almost purple.
In his final summation, Delmas told the jury that his client when he turned Sanford Whitewas "American dementia, a form of madness that makes every home sacred, makes a man believes his wife is sacred. tribe About the virtual life has been forfeited the protection of human laws, uses, and must be on internal justice and mercy view of God. "
Delmas lawyer had done a remarkable job to get the jury was not able to a unanimous verdict. It 'was then that seven jurors wanted to thaw on a first-degree murder has revealed lead, while five jurorsopted for an acquittal by reason of insanity. But when the snow melts, the second study, in January of 1908, the jury unanimously Thaw not guilty due to insanity.
Yet, the acquittal was not thaw released from prison. Thaw was declared criminally insane and imprisoned for life on Matteawan, New York. On August 17, 1913, fled to thaw and were waiting with a limo for him outside the prison, fled to Canada where they thaw refuge.
Thaw while he was onrun, Nesbit, apparently irritated by the fact that she is not the million dollars they were promised paid by Mother Thaw, made an announcement to the press.
He said: "Harry Thaw has proved a degenerate criminal was hiding behind my skirt from two attempts, and I will not stand again I do not allow lawyers to throw more mud on me ..."
Shortly after Nesbit signed a contract in a variety show to appear, with a salary of $ 3500 per week.
In September 1913, the United StatesStates government forced the Canadian Justice Minister of thaw in the United States to return. Thaw was facing a third trial in 1915. Fortified by an army of the best lawyers money can buy, thaw had found that healthy, and the jury found him not guilty of all charges.
Back on the road, Thaw returned to his old evil way. Eighteen months after his release from prison for the kidnapping was thawed and whipped cream Frederick Gump arrested. At his trial, Thaw was again declared insane. But beforeThaw is back in the hospital, Nesbit had promised her divorce. Nesbit spent the next ten years, appearing in vaudeville, movies, and occasionally as a dancer in nightclubs in New York City.
In 1924, after seven years in prison thaw has finally been declared healthy and was released from prison. Thaw spent the rest of his life in and out of clarity. Thaw died February 22, 1947, aged 76, from a heart attack in Miami, Florida. Thaw left only $ 10 thousand of his large fortuneEvelyn Nesbit.
Nesbitt, plagued by alcoholism, morphine addiction and attempted suicide more, somehow lasted until January 17, 1967, when he died at the age of 82 years. Nesbit served as technical consultant on the film 1955 "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing," which is loosely based on the story of his life.
Marilyn Monroe was originally scheduled to play Evelyn Nesbit, but eventually refused to play the part that went to Joan Collins. Ray Milland plays Sanford White, andFarley Granger played Henry Thaw.
