1. “Mrs. Harry Thaw Tells Jury of Her Relations with Stanford White,” New York World, February 8, 1907; Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934), 2–3.
2. “Woman Coaxed Evelyn Nesbit to Meet Stanford White,” New York World, June 29, 1906.
3. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 1–2.
4. “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907.
5. “Mrs. Harry Thaw Tells Jury,” New York World, February 8, 1907; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 2–3, 25–26; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand Says She Was Wronged at 16,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907.
6. “Mrs. Harry Thaw Tells Jury,” New York World, February 8, 1907; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 2.
7. “With the Clubmen,” New York Times, September 21, 1902; “Mrs. Reginald Ronalds Hints Paris Divorce,” New York Times, May 3, 1924.
8. “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to Save Husband, Says Stanford White Caused Her Downfall When She Was Sixteen by Drugged Wine,” New York Herald, February 8, 1907; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 27; “Evelyn Thaw Collapses on Witness Stand,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907.
9. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 8–10.
10. Ibid., 12–14.
11. Ibid., 15–16; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to Save Husband,” New York Herald, February 8, 1907; Barbara J. Mitnick and Thomas Folk, “The Artist and His Model: J. Carroll Beckwith and Evelyn Nesbit,” Arts & Crafts Quarterly 5 (1992): 12–15.
12. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 15–16, 18.
13. “Evelyn Florence Nesbit, a Beautiful Sixteen-Year-Old Model of the New York Studios,” Broadway Magazine, March 1901.
14. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 19–21; “Evelyn Thaw Tells Her Story,” New York Times, February 8, 1907.
15. “‘Floradora’ a Success,” New York Times, November 10, 1900; “Casino—Florodora,” New York Dramatic Mirror, November 17, 1900.
16. “‘Floradora’ a Success,” New York Times, November 10, 1900.
17. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 1, 21–22.
18. Ibid., 28–29.
19. [Margaret Chanler], Roman Spring: Memoirs (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1935), 256; Elsie de Wolfe, After All (London: Heineman, 1935), 51–52; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 29; Leland M. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, Architects (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 62.
20. Edward Simmons, From Seven to Seventy: Memories of a Painter and a Yankee (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1922), 238–40.
21. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 29–30.
22. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, 29–32.
23. Mosette Broderick, Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 199–201.
24. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, 53–54, 56.
25. Ibid., 65–66, 83–88, 94–95.
26. Ibid., 115.
27. “Amended Plans for a Great Building,” New-York Tribune, August 17, 1889; M. G. Van Rensselaer, “The Madison Square Garden,” Century Magazine 47 (March 1894): 742–43; Roth, McKim, Mead & White, 161.
28. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, 159.
29. “Madison Square Garden,” New York Times, January 21, 1893; Van Rensselaer, “The Madison Square Garden,” 745.
30. “Among the Audience,” New York Press, June 17, 1890; Editorial, “The Madison Square Garden,” New York Press, June 17, 1890.
31. “A Brilliant Audience,” New York Times, June 17, 1890.
32. “The Big Garden Opened,” New-York Tribune, June 17, 1890.
33. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, 171–72; “Settled in Its New Home,” New-York Tribune, August 21, 1893.
34. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 37.
35. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907.
36. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 44–45; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907.
1. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand Says She Was Wronged at 16,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw Collapses on Witness Stand,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907.
2. “Mrs. Harry Thaw Tells Jury of Her Relations with Stanford White,” New York World, February 8, 1907.
3. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to Save Husband, Says Stanford White Caused Her Downfall When She Was Sixteen by Drugged Wine,” New York Herald, February 8, 1907.
4. Charles Somerville, “Young Wife’s Awful Story Stuns Jurors,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw Collapses,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907; Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934), 41.
5. Somerville, “Young Wife’s Awful Story,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907.
6. “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907.
7. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 33–34.
8. Ibid., 33–35; Ethel Barrymore, Memories: An Autobiography (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955), 116–20; Isaac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, Charles Frohman: Manager and Man (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916), 216–17; Parker Morell, Diamond Jim: The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934), 126–27.
9. Harry B. Smith, First Nights and First Editions (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931), 212–13, 217–18; “Theatrical Gossip,” New York Times, February 23, 1898; “George Lederer, Producer, Is Dead,” New York Times, October 9, 1938.
10. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 35; Mary Panzer, In My Studio: Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., and the Art of the Camera, 1885–1930 (Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum, 1986), 72–75.
11. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 34.
12. Miriam Berman, Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks (New York: Gibbs Smith, 2001), 130.
13. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 47.
14. Ibid., 55–56, 77–78.
15. Ibid., 78; “Heads of Van Alen—Collier Houses Fail to Meet as Their Children Wed,” New York American Journal, July 27, 1902; Caroline Seebohm, The Man Who Was Vogue: The Life and Times of Condé Nast (New York: Viking Press, 1982), 54.
16. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 56–57, 59, 62.
17. John Kobler, Damned in Paradise, The Life of John Barrymore (New York: Atheneum, 1977), 41–42, 58–60.
18. “White Pursued Her after Marriage, Says Evelyn,” New York Evening Telegram, February 8, 1907.
19. Kobler, Damned in Paradise, 69; Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore (Philadelphia: Blakiston Co., 1943), 91.
20. Kobler, Damned in Paradise, 79–80; Lionel Barrymore, We Barrymores (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951), 69–70, 88–90.
21. Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Mrs. Thaw Says White, Aided by Abe Hummel, Plotted against Harry,” New York World, February 9, 1907.
22. Scott Eyman, Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), 30–33.
23. Jean L. De Forest, “School Life of Evelyn Nesbit Told by Teacher,” New York World, February 11, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw’s Life in School Described,” New York Evening Journal, February 11, 1907; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 68–71.
24. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 73–74.
25. Ibid., 73–74.
26. Harry K. Thaw, The Traitor (Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1926), 102–4.
27. “William Thaw Dead,” Pittsburg Dispatch, August 18, 1889; “His Noble Charities,” Pittsburg Dispatch, August 18, 1889; “Coke Trust Is Very Rich Part of Thaw Estate,” Pittsburg Dispatch, April 30, 1903.
28. “Mrs. William Thaw Now Says There Is Insanity in Her Family,” New York Herald, January 23, 1908.
29. Thaw, The Traitor, 23–30.
30. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 75.
31. Ibid., 79–81.
32. Ibid., 80.
1. Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934), 80–81.
2. Ibid., 82.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., 115.
6. Ibid., 82, 117.
7. Elisabeth Marbury, My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923), 69–70, 111–15, 156; Alfred Allan Lewis, Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women: Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt, and Their Times (New York: Penguin, 2001), 134–35.
8. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 86–87.
9. “Evelyn Thaw Collapses on Witness Stand,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907; “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 85–90.
10. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to Save Husband, Says Stanford White Caused Her Downfall When She Was Sixteen by Drugged Wine,” New York Herald, February 8, 1907; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand Says She Was Wronged at 16,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907.
11. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 93.
12. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907.
13. Harry K. Thaw, The Traitor (Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1926), 108–9.
14. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 101–2.
15. Thaw, The Traitor, 110.
16. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 96.
17. Ibid., 119–20.
18. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under Lash of Mr. Jerome’s Cross-Examination, Becomes a Stammering, Frightened, Faltering Witness,” New York Herald, February 20, 1907.
19. “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw, to Save Husband,” New York Herald, February 8, 1907.
20. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 123–24.
21. “White Pursued Her after Marriage,” New York Evening Telegram, February 8, 1907; Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Mrs. Thaw Says White, Aided by Abe Hummel, Plotted against Harry,” New York World, February 9, 1907.
22. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907; “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907.
23. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907; “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907.
24. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 186–87.
25. “The ‘Girl in the Pie’ at the Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollar Dinner in Artist Breese’s New York Studio,” New York World, October 13, 1895.
26. Thaw, The Traitor, 129–31.
27. “Mrs. William Thaw Now Says There Is Insanity in Her Family,” New York Herald, January 23, 1908; “Thaw’s Mother Kills Defense of Hereditary Taint,” New York World, January 23, 1908.
28. “Mrs. William Thaw,” New York Herald, January 23, 1908; “Thaw’s Mother,” New York World, January 23, 1908.
29. “Football Echoes,” New York World, November 18, 1889; “Football at Princeton,” New York Times, November 5, 1891.
30. “The Marquess of Hertford,” The Times (London), February 17, 1940.
31. “Ultimatum to Harry Thaw,” New York Times, November 6, 1904; “Harry Thaw Is Hurrying Home to Be Spanked,” New York Morning Telegraph, October 31, 1904.
32. “Millionaire Weds Actress,” Pittsburg Press, April 5, 1905.
33. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 153–57; “Thaw and Bride Talk Right Out,” New York Morning Telegraph, April 7, 1905.
34. “Pittsburgh Balks at Evelyn Nesbit,” New York Morning Telegraph, October 10, 1905; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 163–64.
35. “Thaw’s Artist-Model Bride to Leave Him, Friends Say,” New York World, December 6, 1905; “Wife Who Posed May Quit Thaw,” New York Evening Journal, December 6, 1905.
36. “Evelyn Nesbit as Sausage Ad,” New York Morning Telegraph, December 26, 1905; “Picture on Sausage ‘Ad,’ Mrs. Harry Thaw Angry,” New York Evening Telegram, December 26, 1905.
37. “Evelyn Nesbit Again on View,” New York Morning Telegraph, January 13, 1906; “The Thaws Annoyed Again,” New York Times, January 13, 1906.
1. “White Wanted to Meet a Show Girl,” New York World, June 29, 1906.
2. “Roof Garden Attractions—Seaside Amusements—Vaudeville,” New York Herald, June 24, 1906; “Another Roof Garden,” New-York Daily Tribune, June 24, 1906; “New Musical Play Opens Roof Garden,” New York Herald, June 26, 1906.
3. “White Wanted to Meet a Show Girl,” New York World, June 29, 1906; “The Wages of Sin Paid in the Death of White,” New York American, June 27, 1906; “Harry Thaw Is Indicted for the Murder of White; Scandal Stories Loosed,” New York Herald, June 29, 1906.
4. “White Borrowed Big Sum, but Left Little,” New York American, June 30, 1906; Mosette Broderick, Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 489–90.
5. “May Not Sell the Garden,” New York Times, May 12, 1897; “Madison Square Garden for Sale,” New York Times, November 12, 1908; Leland M. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, Architects (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 164.
6. “Stanford White Loses Art Objects in Fire,” New York Times, February 14, 1905; “Fire Darkened Broadway,” New York Sun, February 14, 1905; “A Bad Tenderloin Blaze,” New-York Tribune, February 14, 1905; “Pictures a Total Loss,” New York Sun, February 15, 1905.
7. “White Was Dying Slowly, When Shot,” New York American, June 29, 1906.
8. “White Knew That Thaw Had Threatened Him,” New York World, June 27, 1906; “White Tracked by Thaw’s Sleuths for a Whole Year, Says Victim’s Bodyguard,” New York World, July 1, 1906.
9. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand Says She Was Wronged at 16,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw Collapses on Witness Stand,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907.
10. “Truxtun Beale Went to War,” New York Sun, July 1, 1906.
11. “Saw Thaw, Lucid, Scan the Garden for His Victim,” New York Herald, March 13, 1907; Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Portrays Thaw Cool, Watchful and Calculating,” New York World, March 13, 1907.
12. “Saw Thaw,” New York Herald, March 13, 1907; Adams, “Portrays Thaw Cool,” New York World, March 13, 1907.
13. “Autopsy Shows One Bullet Was Fatal,” New York World, June 27, 1906; “Three Bullets Found,” New-York Tribune, June 27, 1906; “Autopsy on White Shows Where the 3 Bullets Hit Him,” New York American, June 27, 1906.
14. “Thaw Kills Stanford White,” New-York Tribune, June 26, 1906.
15. “Harry Thaw Kills Stanford White on Roof Garden!” New York American, June 26, 1906; “Stanford White Murdered,” New York Sun, June 26, 1906.
16. “Harry Thaw Kills Stanford White on Roof Garden!” New York American, June 26, 1906.
17. Samuel Hopkins Adams, “State Quickly Puts in Its Case against Thaw: Defense Has Many Forms,” New York World, February 5, 1907.
18. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw on Stand Says She Was Wronged at 16,” New York Evening Telegram, February 7, 1907; “Thaw Murders Stanford White,” New York Times, June 26, 1906; “Harry Thaw Kills Stanford White on Roof Garden!” New York American, June 26, 1906.
19. “Stanford White Murdered,” New York Sun, June 26, 1906; “Murderers’ Row Gets Harry Thaw,” New York Times, June 27, 1906.
20. “Thaw Lodged in Tombs,” New-York Tribune, June 27, 1906.
21. “Insults Goaded Thaw to Kill; Millions Ready for Defence,” New York American, June 27, 1906.
22. Bertram Reinitz, “The Old Tombs Prison under Criticism Again,” New York Times, June 30, 1929.
23. “Thaw Declared Sane,” New-York Tribune, June 28, 1906; “Thaw May Plead He Was Justified,” New York Times, June 28, 1906.
24. “Thaw Indictment In,” New-York Tribune, June 29, 1906; “Insane When He Shot White but Sane Now, Will Be Thaw’s Plea,” New York World, June 29, 1906; “Harry Thaw Is Indicted for the Murder of White; Scandal Stories Loosed,” New York Herald, June 29, 1906.
25. “Emotional Insanity,” New York Sun, June 29, 1906.
26. “Pleads Not Guilty,” New-York Tribune, June 30, 1906; “Wife Comes to Thaw’s Aid,” New York Sun, June 30, 1906.
27. “Mrs. White Calm at News of Death,” New York American, June 27, 1906; “Stanford White Stretched at the Feet of Venus,” New York World, June 27, 1906.
28. “Thaw’s Victim, Stanford White, Is in His Grave,” New York World, June 29, 1906; “Stanford White Buried,” New York Sun, June 29, 1906; “Harry Thaw Is Indicted,” New York Herald, June 29, 1906.
29. “No Funeral Service Here,” New York Times, June 28, 1906; “White’s Aged Mother Not at His Funeral,” New York American, June 29, 1906.
30. “White’s Alleged Victims Come to Thaw’s Defense,” New York World, June 30, 1906.
31. “‘The Rich Moral Pervert Must Go,’ Says Anthony Comstock,” New York American, June 28, 1906.
32. “Comstock Starts Crusade on White’s Companions,” New York American, July 1, 1906.
33. “‘White Tragedy a Warning to the Nation,’” New York American, July 2, 1906.
34. “Evangelist R. A. Torrey Sees Good in Tragedy,” New York American, July 2, 1906; “‘Thaw Fulfilled a Law as Old as the World,’ Says Dr. Gregory,” New York American, July 3, 1906.
35. “Thaw Put Comstock on White’s Trail,” New York World, June 29, 1906; “Charges Untrue, Says a Friend,” New York World, June 30, 1906.
36. “Stanford White Stretched at the Feet of Venus,” New York World, June 27, 1906.
37. “Pays Tribute to White,” New-York Tribune, June 29, 1906; “Mr. White as an Architect,” New York Times, June 27, 1906.
38. “School Girls Alleged to Be His Victims,” New York World, July 2, 1906; “Rich Clubman Arrested on Little Girls’ Charges,” New York American, July 2, 1906; “Henry Short Held, Accused by Girls,” New York Herald, July 2, 1906.
39. “‘Transients Taken’: A ‘Red-Light’ Guide,” New York American, July 4, 1906.
40. “The Herald Summoned to Court,” New York American, July 8, 1906.
41. “Say White Drugged Thaw’s Wife,” New York American, June 29, 1906.
42. “Harry Thaw in Anger Turns Off His Counsel,” New York Times, July 15, 1906.
43. “Was Thaw Justified?” New York Evening Journal, July 27, 1906.
44. “Asylum or Trial; Mrs. Thaw to Say!” New York American, July 10, 1906.
45. “Thaw Changes Lawyers on Short Notice,” New York World, July 15, 1906; “Thaw Bars Great Law Firm Out of Case,” New York American, July 15, 1906.
46. “Thaw Changes His Lawyers,” New York Sun, July 15, 1906; “Long Wireless Quest for Thaw’s Mother,” New York American, June 27, 1906.
47. “Mrs. Thaw Sticks to Olcott,” New York Sun, July 17, 1906; “Cell’s Gate Flies Open for Thaw’s Mother,” New York American, July 17, 1906; “Thaw’s Mother to Decide on Son’s Defense,” New York World, July 17, 1906.
48. “Mother Yields to Thaw!” New York Evening Journal, July 21, 1906.
1. Charles Somerville, “Thaw’s Face Softens with Pity as White’s Young Son Testifies,” New York Evening Journal, February 4, 1907; “Hereditary Insanity, with Epilepsy, Is the Defence Set Up for Harry Thaw,” New York Herald, February 5, 1907.
2. Samuel Hopkins Adams, “State Quickly Puts in Its Case against Thaw; Defense Has Many Forms,” New York World, February 5, 1907.
3. Emma H. de Zouche, “Prosecution Play Young White as a Trump Card,” New York World, February 5, 1907; “Thaw’s Defence Is Insanity,” New York Sun, February 5, 1907.
4. “State Rests!” New York Evening Journal, February 4, 1907; Adams, “State Quickly Puts in Its Case,” New York World, February 5, 1907.
5. “Hereditary Insanity,” New York Herald, February 5, 1907.
6. Adams, “State Quickly Puts in Its Case,” New York World, February 5, 1907.
7. Charles Somerville, “Young Wife’s Awful Story Stuns Jurors,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw Tells Her Story,” New York Times, February 8, 1907.
8. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, to Save Husband, Says Stanford White Caused Her Downfall When She Was Sixteen by Drugged Wine,” New York Herald, February 8, 1907.
9. Irwin Cobb, Exit Laughing (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941), 233–34.
10. Somerville, “Young Wife’s Awful Story Stuns Jurors,” New York Evening Journal, February 7, 1907; “Mrs. Harry Thaw Tells Jury of Her Relations with Stanford White,” New York World, February 8, 1907; “The Story of Thaw’s Wife,” New York Sun, February 8, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw Tells Her Story,” New York Times, February 8, 1907.
11. “White Pursued Her after Marriage, Says Evelyn,” New York Evening Telegram, February 8, 1907.
12. Ibid.
13. “City Plans to Keep Thaw Testimony Out of Print,” New York Evening Telegram, February 9, 1907; “Would Keep Thaw Case from Public,” New York World, February 11, 1907; “Chicago Opinion Divided upon It,” New York World, February 12, 1907; “Pittsburgh W.C.T.U. Opposes Printing Details of Thaw Trial,” New York World, February 14, 1907.
14. “Thaw Indictments for Four Editors,” New York Evening Telegram, February 14, 1907; “Asks House to Keep Thaw Trial Out of the Mails,” New York Evening Telegram, February 14, 1907.
15. “Roosevelt Aims at Censorship of Newspapers,” New York World, February 12, 1907; “President Would Bar Some Newspapers,” New York Herald, February 12, 1907.
16. “Canada’s Mails Bar Thaw Revelations,” New York Evening Telegram, February 9, 1907; “Roosevelt Plans Thaw Censorship,” New York Times, February 12, 1907.
17. “Attorney-General on the Thaw Case,” New York World, February 14, 1907.
18. “Says Thaw Was Insane When He Shot Mr. White,” New York Herald, February 13, 1907.
19. “Say Harry Thaw Was Insane on Wedding Day,” New York Herald, February 19, 1907.
20. “Says Thaw Was Insane When He Shot Mr. White,” New York Herald, February 13, 1907; “Thaw Paranoiac Expert Swears,” New York Evening Journal, February 12, 1907.
21. “Says Thaw Was Insane When He Shot Mr. White,” New York Herald, February 13, 1907.
22. “Thaw’s Wife Ends Her Story,” New York Sun, February 20, 1907; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under Lash of Mr. Jerome’s Cross-Examination, Becomes a Stammering, Frightened, Shrinking, Faltering Witness,” New York Herald, February 20, 1907.
23. Richard O’Connor, Courtroom Warrior: The Combative Career of William Travers Jerome (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963), 46–48, 60, 74–82.
24. Ibid., 55–56; Cobb, Exit Laughing, 234.
25. “Mr. White Not in Studio on Night Evelyn Charges,” New York Herald, February 27, 1907; “Evelyn Thaw Lied on Stand, Jerome Believes,” New York World, April 14, 1907.
26. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under Lash of Mr. Jerome’s Cross-Examination,” New York Herald, February 20, 1907; “Evelyn Nesbit Admits Accepting $25 a Week from Stanford White Long after Time She Told Husband That Her Life Was Wrecked,” New York Herald, February 21, 1907.
27. “Evelyn Nesbit Admits Accepting $25 a Week,” New York Herald, February 21, 1907.
28. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, under Lash of Mr. Jerome’s Cross-Examination,” New York Herald, February 20, 1907.
29. “Evelyn Nesbit Admits Accepting $25 a Week,” New York Herald, February 21, 1907.
30. “Love Secrets,” New York Evening Journal, February 25, 1907.
31. “Mrs. Thaw All Day under Fire,” New York Sun, February 21, 1907; “Evelyn Nesbit Admits Accepting $25 a Week,” New York Herald, February 21, 1907.
32. Charles Somerville, “Days of Rest Do Much for All Principals,” New York Evening Journal, February 25, 1907.
33. “Evelyn Thaw Sheds Tears as Mr. Jerome’s Questions Bare Her Life’s Secrets,” New York Herald, February 22, 1907.
34. “Mrs. Holman Puts the Blame on Thaw for Girl’s Sacrifice,” New York Evening Journal, February 25, 1907.
35. Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Mrs. Thaw Paints Her Own Picture in Darker Tints,” New York World, February 22, 1907; Samuel Hopkins Adams, “Crisis To-Day in Wife’s Story and Thaw’s Defense,” New York World, February 26, 1907.
36. “Evelyn Thaw Sheds Tears,” New York Herald, February 22, 1907; “Her Life with White and Thaw,” New York Sun, February 22, 1907; Charles Somerville, “Prisoner’s Wife Sobs on Stand as Jerome Drags Out Her Heart Secrets,” New York Evening Journal, February 21, 1907.
37. Arthur Train, True Stories of Crime: From the District Attorney’s Office (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), 283–313; Richard H. Rovere, Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985), 134–62; Cait Murphy, Scoundrels in Law: The Trials of Howe & Hummel (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 244–48.
38. Somerville, “Days of Rest,” New York Evening Journal, February 25, 1907.
39. “Says Thaw Beat, Throttled and Cowhided Her,” New York Herald, February 26, 1907.
40. Adams, “Crisis To-Day in Wife’s Story,” New York World, February 26, 1907.
41. “Says Thaw Beat, Throttled and Cowhided Her,” New York Herald, February 26, 1907.
42. “Saw Thaw, Lucid, Scan the Garden for His Victim,” New York Herald, March 13, 1907.
43. “Hummel, Whom Jerome Punished, Testifies for Him,” New York World, March 16, 1907.
44. “In Beginning His Pleas for the Life of Harry K. Thaw, Mr. Delmas Eloquently Asks Belief in Evelyn’s Story,” New York Herald, April 9, 1907; “Delmas at Last Gives a Name to Thaw’s Insanity,” New York World, April 10, 1907.
45. “Thaw Jury Is Locked Up for the Night after Hearing Mr. Jerome Demand Death in the Electric Chair for Slayer of Stanford White,” New York Herald, April 11, 1907.
46. Instructions of the Judge to the Jury, Box 131.1 (Thaw Murder Trial), fol. 4705, New York State Historical Association.
47. Instructions of the Judge to the Jury, Box 131.1 (Thaw Murder Trial), fols. 4708, 4711, New York State Historical Association.
48. “Thaw to Be Tried Again; Jury Disagrees, Seven Voting for Conviction,” New York World, April 13, 1907.
49. “Thaw Jury, Unable to Reach Verdict, Again Locked Up for the Night,” New York Herald, April 12, 1907.
50. “Jurors Did Their Best, They Say, to Reach an Agreement,” New York World, April 13, 1907.
51. “Thaw to Be Tried Again,” New York World, April 13, 1907; “Standing Seven for Murder in First Degree and Five for Acquittal,” New York Herald, April 13, 1907.
1. “One Crushed by Grief and Illness, the Other Radiant, Thaw’s Mother and His Wife Seek to Save His Life,” New York Herald, January 18, 1908.
2. “Mrs. William Thaw Now Says There Is Insanity in Her Family,” New York Herald, January 23, 1908.
3. “Martin Littleton Dies at 62; Noted Orator, Lawyer,” New York Herald Tribune, December 20, 1934; “M. W. Littleton Sr., Lawyer, Dies at 62,” New York Times, December 20, 1934; “Martin W. Littleton Sr. Dies,” New York Sun, December 24, 1934.
4. “Martin Littleton Dies at 62,” New York Herald Tribune, December 20, 1934; “M. W. Littleton Sr.,” New York Times, December 20, 1934.
5. “Mrs. William Thaw Now Says,” New York Herald, January 23, 1908; “Thaw’s Mother Kills Defense of Hereditary Taint,” New York World, January 23, 1908.
6. “Mrs. William Thaw Now Says,” New York Herald, January 23, 1908.
7. Ibid.
8. “Tell of Thaw’s Odd Behavior,” New York World, January 18, 1908; “Evelyn Thaw on the Stand,” New York Evening Journal, January 17, 1908.
9. “White Threatened Thaw’s Life,” New York Evening Journal, January 16, 1908; “Jerome May Admit Insanity of Thaw,” New York Times, January 17, 1908.
10. “Thaw Insane at School,” New York Evening Journal, January 14, 1908; “Insanity Secrets of Thaw Family Held Inviolate,” New York Herald, January 15, 1908.
11. “Insanity Secrets,” New York Herald, January 15, 1908.
12. “Harry Thaw Ordered 20 Tons of Ice,” New York Evening Journal, January 27, 1908; “Defence Says Thaw Has ‘Manic-Depressive’ Insanity and Rests Its Case,” New York Herald, January 28, 1908.
13. “Harry Thaw Ordered 20 Tons of Ice,” New York Evening Journal, January 27, 1908; “Defence Says Thaw Has ‘Manic-Depressive’ Insanity,” New York Herald, January 28, 1908.
14. “Thaw’s Wife Says Husband Planned Death in Waldorf,” New York Herald, January 21, 1908.
15. “Thaw Twice Was Bent on Suicide, His Wife Swears,” New York World, January 21, 1908.
16. “Evelyn Thaw Tells Life Story Again,” New York Times, January 21, 1908.
17. “Thaw’s Wife Says Husband Planned Death in Waldorf,” New York Herald, January 21, 1908.
18. “Defence Says Thaw Has ‘Manic-Depressive’ Insanity,” New York Herald, January 28, 1908.
19. “Thaw’s Defense In: Alienists Have Bad Hour,” New York World, January 28, 1908; “Defence Says Thaw Has ‘Manic-Depressive’ Insanity,” New York Herald, January 28, 1908.
20. “Calling Thaw a Maniac, Pleads for His Life,” New York Herald, January 30, 1908; “Littleton Begs for Thaw’s Life,” New York Evening Journal, January 29, 1908.
21. “Littleton in Plea for Thaw Assails Jerome,” New York World, January 30, 1908; “Calling Thaw a Maniac,” New York Herald, January 30, 1908; “Littleton Begs for Thaw’s Life,” New York Evening Journal, January 29, 1908.
22. “Jerome, in Summing Up, Acts Thaw Tragedy!” New York Evening Journal, January 30, 1908; “Calling Him Sane, Mr. Jerome Demands Death for Harry Thaw, but Emphasizes Second Degree,” New York Herald, January 31, 1908.
23. “Two Girls Tell of Thaw’s Insanity,” New York Evening Journal, January 15, 1908; “Thaw a Coward First and Last, Says Jerome,” New York World, January 31, 1908.
24. “Jerome, in Summing Up, Acts Thaw Tragedy!” New York Evening Journal, January 30, 1908.
25. Ibid.
26. “Calling Him Sane, Mr. Jerome Demands Death,” New York Herald, January 31, 1908.
27. Charles Somerville, “Thaw Jury Foreman a Fine American Type,” New York Evening Journal, January 8, 1908; “Thaw Jury Ready, First Witnesses Called Monday,” New York Herald, January 11, 1908.
28. “Harry Thaw, Not Guilty on Ground of Insanity, Locked Up in Matteawan,” New York Herald, February 2, 1908.
29. Charles Somerville, “‘Jury Will Acquit Me,’ Says Thaw,” New York Evening Journal, February 1, 1908.
30. “For 25 Hours Jurors Disputed before Reaching Their Verdict,” New York World, February 2, 1908.
31. Ibid.
32. “Harry Thaw, Not Guilty on Ground of Insanity,” New York Herald, February 2, 1908.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.; “Thaw Acquitted Because Insane, Sent to Asylum,” New York World, February 2, 1908.
35. “Harry Thaw, Not Guilty,” New York Herald, February 2, 1908; “Thaw Acquitted Because Insane,” New York World, February 2, 1908.
1. Henry M. Hurd, ed., The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada, 4 vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1916), 3:243.
2. Fifty-First Annual Report of the Medical Superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital (Matteawan, N.Y., 1910), 8, 14–16.
3. “Harry Thaw, Not Guilty on Ground of Insanity, Locked Up in Matteawan,” New York Herald, February 2, 1908.
4. “What Thaw’s New Prison Is Like,” New York World, February 2, 1908; “He’s No. 719 at the Asylum,” New York Times, February 2, 1908.
5. “Thaw Sulks in His Asylum Uniform,” New York Times, February 3, 1908; “Say Maniacs Are Menace to Thaw,” New York Herald, February 4, 1908; “Matteawan Askew in Thaw’s Opinion,” New York Times, February 4, 1908; “Thaw Predicts He Will Go Free in Week,” New York Herald, February 3, 1908.
6. “Myles M’Donnell Shot Dead in Albany,” New York Times, June 8, 1904; “Preusser Verdict Insanity,” New York Times, June 24, 1906; “McDonnell’s Slayer Now Sane,” New York Times, August 2, 1906.
7. “Setback for Thaw,” New York Evening Journal, February 5, 1908.
8. Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934), 213.
9. Ibid., 213–14.
10. “Matteawan Askew in Thaw’s Opinion,” New York Times, February 4, 1908; Charles Somerville, “Will Invoke Law to a Sensational Degree for Thaw,” New York Evening Journal, February 4, 1908.
11. “Setback for Thaw,” New York Evening Journal, February 5, 1908.
12. “Robert Brockway Lamb, M.D.,” New York State Journal of Medicine 52 (1952): 1685–86; Fifty-Second Annual Report of the Medical Superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital (Matteawan, N.Y., 1911), 7–8.
13. “First Step to Free Thaw,” New York Sun, April 21, 1908; “Thaw Lawyers Attack Law,” New York Sun, May 14, 1908.
14. “Thaw’s Fate Is Now in Hands of Dutchess Judge,” New York World, May 5, 1908.
15. “Thaw Declared to Be Insane,” New York Sun, May 26, 1908; Editorial, “The Insanity of Thaw,” New York Times, May 26, 1908.
16. “Thaw Attacks Wife after Learning of Detectives’ Report,” New York World, March 9, 1908.
17. “Thaw’s Wife Testifies She Began Action to Annul Her Marriage,” New York Herald, August 27, 1913; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 216; “$1,000 a Month to Mrs. Thaw,” New York Sun, May 27, 1908.
18. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 208–10, 216–17, 218, 230.
19. “Law Seals Lips of Mrs. Thaw on Threat to Kill,” New York World, July 14, 1909.
20. Ibid.
21. “Thaw’s Threat to Kill Her Wrung from His Wife,” New York World, July 16, 1909; “Mrs. Thaw Tells of Threat,” New York Sun, July 16, 1909; “Thaw Threat Let In; Said He’d Kill Wife,” New York Times, July 16, 1909.
22. “‘I Threaten Evelyn? Absurd,’ Says Thaw,” New York World, July 16, 1909.
23. “Thaw Evidence to Show Him Insane,” New York World, August 3, 1909; “Thaw Insane and Menace If Free, Assert Alienists at Sanity Hearing,” New York Herald, August 4, 1909.
24. “Thaw with Whip Beat Many Girls, Woman Testifies,” New York World, July 28, 1909; “Thaw, Shown His Foolish Writings, Loses His Bravado,” New York World, July 30, 1909.
25. “Thaw with Whip Beat Many Girls,” New York World, July 28, 1909.
26. “Pistol with Which Thaw Slew Mr. White Stolen,” New York Herald, August 3, 1909; “Thaw Evidence to Show Him Insane,” New York World, August 3, 1909.
27. “Thaw, Free, Would Menace Public, Says Dr. Baker,” New York World, August 4, 1909; “Thaw Insane and Menace If Free,” New York Herald, August 4, 1909.
28. “Thaw a Lunatic; Liberty Is Denied; He Will Try Again,” New York Herald, August 13, 1909.
29. “Lees Accuses Himself of Being Incendiary,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 23, 1910.
30. “Once in Asylum Now Fighting to Have Girl Freed,” New York World, January 17, 1911.
31. “Girl of 17 among Convicts,” New York Sun, February 19, 1911.
32. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, “Dora Schram Tells of the Torture She Suffered While in Matteawan,” New York World, February 28, 1911.
33. “Another Woman Seeks Liberty in Thaw’s Campaign,” New York World, February 28, 1911; “Woman Convict Charges Cruelty in Matteawan,” New York Evening Telegram, March 17, 1911.
34. “To Leave Matteawan,” New-York Tribune, February 19, 1911.
35. “Calls Matteawan Worse Than State Prison,” New York World, February 18, 1911.
36. “Say Insane Man Died of Beating,” New York American, February 9, 1911; “Brutality in Matteawan to Be Revealed,” New York American, February 10, 1911.
37. “Asylum Inmate Fell in Attempt to Make Escape,” New York World, February 8, 1911.
38. “Differ on Nugent’s Death,” New-York Tribune, February 24, 1911; “Galbraith Now Accused,” New-York Tribune, February 28, 1911.
39. “Matteawan Investigation,” New-York Tribune, February 11, 1911; “Gov. Dix Orders Probe of Abuses at Matteawan,” New York World, March 4, 1911.
40. “Saxe Bill Unopposed,” New-York Tribune, April 19, 1911; “The Legislature at Work,” New York Sun, April 20, 1911.
41. “Matteawan Asylum Inquiry,” New York Sun, February 19, 1911; “Supt. Collins, Head of Prisons, Resigns Office,” New York World, April 26, 1911.
42. “Made a Bogus Court Order,” New York Sun, June 4, 1911; “Dr. Lamb Explains,” New York Sun, June 18, 1911.
43. “Dr. Lamb Out,” New York Sun, July 8, 1911; “Dr. R. B. Lamb Resigns,” New-York Tribune, July 8, 1911.
44. “Dr. Amos Baker Resigns,” New-York Tribune, August 15, 1911; “Glad That Dr. Lamb Resigned,” New York Sun, August 20, 1911.
45. “Mrs. Edward R. Thomas Sues for Divorce,” New-York Tribune, March 20, 1912.
46. “Mrs. Evelyn Thaw in New Fight for Her Baby’s Sake,” New York Herald, May 13, 1912; Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 239–44.
47. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 244–47.
48. “Evelyn Thaw Says Husband Is Father of Her Young Son,” New York Evening Journal, May 9, 1913.
49. “Thaw Letter Fake, Says C. J. Shearn,” New York Sun, May 17, 1912.
50. “Wife Who Saved Him on Stand against Thaw in Fight for Liberty,” New York World, June 19, 1912; “Thaw’s ‘Silence Money’ Paid to Over 200 Girls, Swears Susan Merrill,” New York World, June 20, 1912.
51. “Thaw’s Wife as Witness Tells of His Crazy Acts,” New York World, June 20, 1912; “Evelyn Thaw Again on Witness Stand,” New York Sun, June 20, 1912.
52. “Mrs. Thaw in Rage Shouts She Won’t Tell of Her Ruin,” New York World, June 22, 1912.
53. Ibid.
54. “Thaw Still Mad, Release a Peril, Justice Decides,” New York World, July 27, 1912.
55. “Anhut’s Denial of Thaw-Russell Deal His Defense,” New York Morning Telegraph, May 17, 1913.
56. Matthew L. Lifflander, The Impeachment of Governor Sulzer: A Story of American Politics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012), 123–27, 183–88.
57. “Sulzer Drops Mills from Prison Employ,” New York Times, March 1, 1913; “Sulzer Dismisses Col. Scott, Senate Rejects Gibbs,” New York Morning Telegraph, March 14, 1913.
58. “Anhut to Prison in Bribe Case,” New York Evening Journal, May 23, 1913.
59. “Thaw Rejected Plan to Escape, Alienist Says,” New York Evening Journal, March 14, 1913.
1. “Harry Thaw Flees Matteawan,” New York World, August 18, 1913; “H. K. Thaw Escapes from Asylum,” New York Herald, August 18, 1913; “Thaw Escapes in Auto from Matteawan,” New York Times, August 18, 1913.
2. “Harry Thaw Flees Matteawan,” New York World, August 18, 1913; “H. K. Thaw Escapes,” New York Herald, August 18, 1913; “Thaw Escapes,” New York Times, August 18, 1913; Richard J. Butler, Dock Walloper: The Story of “Big Dick” Butler (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1933), 159–61.
3. “Butler Is a Chum of Bill Devery,” New York World, August 19, 1913.
4. “$25,000 Paid Band Men Who Aided Thaw’s Escape, Police Are Informed,” New York Herald, August 20, 1913.
5. “Thaw, Caught in Canada, Begins Fight against Return,” New York Herald, August 20, 1913; “He Engages Counsel and Will Seek to Raise Extradition Issue,” New York Times, August 20, 1913; “Thaw Arrested in Canada, May Be Sent Back,” New York World, August 20, 1913.
6. “Thaw’s Mother Glad He Escaped,” New York Times, August 18, 1913; “Asylum Fugitive Believed to Be Seeking Safety on Water,” New York Herald, August 18, 1913.
7. “Evelyn Thaw Fears Death for Herself and Baby Boy,” New York Herald, August 18, 1913.
8. “Thaw Dangerous Says Dr. Flint,” New York Times, August 18, 1913; “Will Revert to Old Habits,” New York Times, August 18, 1913.
9. “Harry Thaw Flees Matteawan,” New York World, August 18, 1913.
10. “Thaw Escapes in Auto,” New York Times, August 18, 1913; “Thought Thaw Was in Lenox,” New York Times, August 19, 1913; “Two Automobiles Are Reported Speeding for Canadian Border,” New York Herald, August 19, 1913.
11. “Thaw Declared Safe from Extradition by Legal Experts Here and Elsewhere,” New York Herald, August 19, 1913; “Thaw Cannot Be Extradited, Legal Authorities Agree,” New York Herald, August 19, 1913.
12. “Thaw Declared Safe,” New York Herald, August 19, 1913.
13. “Harry Thaw Flees Matteawan,” New York World, August 18, 1913.
14. Ibid.
15. “Mr. Glynn Asks Details of Harry Thaw’s Escape,” New York Herald, August 18, 1913.
16. “He Engages Counsel,” New York Times, August 20, 1913; “Thaw, Caught in Canada,” New York Herald, August 20, 1913.
17. Mabel F. Timlin, “Canada’s Immigration Policy, 1896–1910,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 26 (1960): 517–32.
18. “Inspectors Sent Ready to Deport,” New York World, August 20, 1913; “Dominion Law Provides for the Exclusion of Thaw,” New York Herald, August 20, 1913.
19. “Mr. Conger Goes to Coaticook to Demand Thaw’s Deportation,” New York Herald, August 20, 1913.
20. “Evelyn Returned to ‘Old Life,’ So He Fled, Says Thaw,” New York World, August 21, 1913.
21. “Thaw Wins Point; Cheers in Court, Ovation Outside,” New York Herald, August 28, 1913.
22. “Thaw Wins First Skirmish; Crowds Wildly Cheer Him,” New York World, August 28, 1913.
23. “Thaw Will Be Deported Today; New Judge to Act,” New York World, August 30, 1913; “New Move To-Day to Deport Thaw; Driver Gets Bail,” New York Herald, August 30, 1913.
24. “New Writ Issued to Deport Thaw; Decision Tuesday,” New York Herald, August 31, 1913; “Coup Puts Thaw in Jerome’s Reach,” New York Times, August 31, 1913.
25. “Thaw’s Hearing Will Be Held in Judge’s Chambers,” New York Herald, September 2, 1913; “Court to Exclude Mr. Jerome To-Day,” New York Herald, September 2, 1913.
26. “Premier Rules That Thaw Cannot Hide in Jail,” New York Herald, September 3, 1913.
27. “Jerome Said to Plan Auto Dash Back with Thaw,” New York World, September 3, 1913.
28. “Thaw, a Nervous Wreck, Freed, Seized Again and Faces Deportation To-Day,” New York Herald, September 4, 1913; “Thaw at Border on His Way Back,” New York Times, September 4, 1913.
29. “Thaw, a Nervous Wreck, Freed,” New York Herald, September 4, 1913; “Thaw at Border,” New York Times, September 4, 1913; “I’ll Never Go Back to Asylum! Sobs Thaw, Losing Fight,” New York World, September 4, 1913.
30. “Will Rush Thaw into U.S. To-Day, It Seems Sure,” New York World, September 5, 1913; “Thaw to Be Sent to Vermont To-Day,” New York Times, September 5, 1913.
31. “Will Rush Thaw into U.S.,” New York World, September 5, 1913
32. “Thaw Is Saved for Time; Jerome Put under Arrest,” New York World, September 6, 1913.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. “Thaw, Serenaded by Village Band, Starts a Speech,” New York World, September 7, 1913.
36. “Show Girls Cheer Thaw in Prison,” New York Herald, September 10, 1913; “Weary of Roses, Thaw Picks Wild Flowers in Field,” New York World, September 10, 1913.
37. “Ask High Court to Let Jerome Address It in Person,” New York World, September 9, 1913.
38. “Thaw Deported in Spite of Writ,” New York Times, September 11, 1913; “Canada Throws Out Thaw, Despite High Court Order,” New York Herald, September 11, 1913; “Thaw, Flung Back into U.S., Is Now a Hotel Prisoner,” New York World, September 11, 1913.
39. “Thaw, Flung Back into U.S.,” New York World, September 11, 1913; “Canada Throws Out Thaw,” New York Herald, September 11, 1913.
1. “Thaw Deported in Spite of Writ,” New York Times, September 11, 1913; “Canada Throws Out Thaw, Despite High Court Order,” New York Herald, September 11, 1913; “Thaw, Flung Back into U.S., Is Now a Hotel Prisoner,” New York World, September 11, 1913.
2. “Warrant for Thaw Charges Conspiracy,” New York World, September 12, 1913; “New Warrant for Thaw,” New York Times, September 12, 1913.
3. “New Hampshire Doesn’t Want Thaw,” New York World, August 21, 1913; “‘Human Hyena’ Is Name Mrs. Thaw Gives to Jerome,” New York World, September 25, 1913.
4. “Grand Jury Fails to Indict Thaw,” New York Times, September 20, 1913; “Seesaw on Thaw by a Grand Jury,” New York World, September 25, 1913.
5. “Thaw Enthusiasts in Fight on Jerome,” New York Times, October 5, 1913.
6. “Thaw Like Hero to Crowds along His Day’s Route,” New York World, September 18, 1913; “Mayor Begs Thaw for Brief Speech, Also Autograph,” New York World, September 19, 1913.
7. “Jerome Departs to Ask Instant Return of Thaw,” New York World, October 24, 1913; “Thaw Is Indicted in Rapid Transit Fashion,” New-York Tribune, October 24, 1913; “Jerome on His Way to Get Harry Thaw,” New York Times, October 25, 1913.
8. “Thaw Requisition Signed by Felker,” New York Sun, November 9, 1913.
9. “Thaw’s Sanity Up to U.S. Court,” New-York Tribune, December 10, 1913.
10. “Thaw Wins Writ, but Not Freedom,” New-York Tribune, April 15, 1914.
11. “Thaw Wins Writ of Habeas Corpus but Is Still Held,” New York World, April 14, 1914.
12. Sheldon M. Novick, Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989), 310.
13. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Charlotte Moncheur, December 19, 1914, Mark DeWolfe Howe Research Materials Relating to Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard Law School Library.
14. Holman A. Drew v. Harry K. Thaw, 235 U.S. 432 (1914).
15. “Thaw Cheerful as Sheriff Puts Him on Train for Trip Back to New York Prison,” New York World, January 23, 1915.
16. “Thaw Back in Tombs To-Day; ‘Shame!’ Cry Mobs on Way,” New York Sun, January 24, 1915.
17. “Thaw on Last Lap to Tombs; Due at 8 A.M.,” New-York Tribune, January 24, 1915.
18. “Back in Tombs, Thaw Says ‘Out Soon,’” New York Evening Telegram, January 24, 1915.
19. Ibid.
20. “Thaw as Witness Testifies He Paid $7,025 for Escape,” New York World, March 12, 1915.
21. “Thaw Jury Fails to Agree; Locked Up for the Night,” New York World, March 13, 1915.
22. “Thaw Acquitted; Fight to Set Him at Liberty Is On,” New York World, March 14, 1915.
23. “Thaw Defeated, Gets a New Writ,” New York Times, March 17, 1915.
24. “Thaw Gets a Jury Trial, but Verdict Will Not Be Final,” New York World, April 24, 1915.
25. “Thaw Is Sanest Fisherman That Undertaker Met,” New York World, June 25, 1915; “Looks for Evelyn Thaw to Appear and Fight Harry,” New York World, June 26, 1915.
26. “Evelyn Thaw May Flee into Canada to Escape Court,” New York World, July 8, 1915.
27. “To Seize Thaw’s Wife and Make Her Testify,” New York Evening Telegram, July 7, 1915.
28. “Mrs. Thaw’s Testimony Read to Jury,” New York Evening Telegram, July 9, 1915; “Harry Thaw Has Dinner at Biltmore,” New York Morning Telegraph, July 10, 1915; “Thaw Mistrial Is Refused to State; Wife Out of Case,” New York World, July 10, 1915.
29. “Harry Thaw Has Dinner at Biltmore,” New York Morning Telegraph, July 10, 1915; “Mrs. Thaw’s Testimony Read to Jury,” New York Evening Telegram, July 9, 1915.
30. “Thaw Mistrial Is Refused,” New York World, July 10, 1915; “Thaw Finishes His Story, Then Dines in Luxury,” New York Sun, July 10, 1915; “Harry Thaw Has Dinner at Biltmore,” New York Morning Telegraph, July 10, 1915.
31. “Thaw Six Hours under Fire of State’s Lawyer,” New York Morning Telegraph, July 9, 1915; “Wife’s Story of White Meeting,” New York Evening Telegram, July 8, 1915.
32. “Wife’s Story of White Meeting,” New York Evening Telegram, July 8, 1915; “Mrs. Thaw’s Testimony Read to Jury,” New York Evening Telegram, July 9, 1915.
33. “State Will Appeal as Court Reserves Thaw Sanity Ruling,” New York Evening Telegram, July 14, 1915; “Thaw Sane, Jury Finds; Thousands Cheer Slayer Who Now Asks Freedom,” New York World, July 15, 1915.
34. “Harry K. Thaw Now Sane, Jury’s Verdict on Second Ballot,” New York Morning Telegraph, July 15, 1915.
35. Ibid.
36. “State Will Appeal,” New York Evening Telegram, July 14, 1915.
37. “Thaw, Freed, Starts Home,” New York Evening Telegram, July 16, 1915; “Judge Scorns Alienists as He Frees Thaw on Bail,” New-York Tribune, July 17, 1915.
38. “Thaw’s Nine-Year Legal Fight Cost Him More Than $1,000,000,” New-York Tribune, July 15, 1915.
39. Editorial, “The Thaw Verdict Will Meet with General Approval, We Believe,” New York Morning Telegraph, July 15, 1915.
40. Editorial, “Thaw Sane and Insane,” New York World, July 17, 1915.
41. Editorial, “Thaw Sane,” New York Press, July 17, 1915.
42. “‘Thaw Still Cad,’ Wife’s Comment,” New-York Tribune, July 17, 1915.
1. “Thaw Indicted on Boy’s Charge He Was Lashed,” New York World, January 10, 1917.
2. “Gump’s Story of the Way He Was Lashed by Thaw,” New York World, January 12, 1917.
3. “Thaw Fails to End Life,” New-York Tribune, January 12, 1917.
4. “Thaw a Lunatic, Mother Concedes,” Philadelphia Evening Ledger, February 26, 1917; “Insanity Hearing Sought for Thaw,” New York Sun, January 16, 1917.
5. “New York’s Request for Thaw Denied,” New-York Tribune, May 10, 1917.
6. “Thaw Found Sane; Is Not Yet Free; Retrial Is Asked,” New York World, April 23, 1924.
7. Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934), 264, 276–78, 280.
8. “Thaw Riches May Go to Evelyn’s Boy,” New York Sun, April 23, 1916.
9. “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Weds Dancing Partner,” New-York Tribune, May 25, 1916; “Didn’t Know It Was Evelyn,” New York Sun, May 26, 1916.
10. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 280–81; “Evelyn Nesbit at the Palace,” New-York Tribune, November 6, 1917; “Film Girls Named by Evelyn Nesbit,” Sun and New York Herald, June 18, 1920.
11. “On the Screen,” New-York Tribune, May 22, 1917.
12. “New Era Finds Film Stars Leaning on Playwrights as Never Before,” New York Sun, April 6, 1919; “William Fox to Film Novels with All-Star Casts,” New-York Tribune, June 8, 1919.
13. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 281–83, 290–91; “Evelyn Nesbit Tells How She Won Over Drug Habit,” Washington Times, December 18, 1922.
14. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 264; “Evelyn Nesbit Tells,” Washington Times, December 18, 1922.
15. “Evelyn Nesbit Tells,” Washington Times, December 18, 1922.
16. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 286–88; “Evelyn Nesbit Wins Bout with the Law,” New York Herald, September 21, 1921.
17. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 292–93, 296–97; “Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Faces Jail Sentence,” New York Herald, November 10, 1922.
18. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 301–2.
19. “Thaw Might Get $5,000,000,” New York Times, April 14, 1924; “Harry Thaw Income Is $60,000 Yearly,” Chicago Herald and Examiner, July 10, 1924; “$152,645 for Harry Thaw,” New York Times, October 13, 1927.
20. “Harry K. Thaw, 76, Is Dead in Florida,” New York Times, February 23, 1947; “Funeral Held for Thaw,” New York Times, February 27, 1947.
21. “Thaw Left $10,000 to Evelyn Nesbit,” New York Times, March 30, 1947; “Harry K. Thaw Left Estate of $1,211,094,” New York Times, July 23, 1948.
22. Jack Gould, “News and Gossip of Night Clubs,” New York Times, March 27, 1938.
23. Seymour Korman, “The Girl in the Scandal of the Century!” Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine, September 5, 1954.
24. Bosley Crowther, “Screen: Musty Scandal,” New York Times, October 20, 1955; “Evelyn Nesbit, 82, Dies in California,” New York Times, January 19, 1967; “Evelyn Nesbit Buried,” New York Times, January 21, 1967.
1. “Brief Whirl of Gayety Is Ended by Pistol Shots,” New York World, June 26, 1906.
2. Ruthie Dennis, seventeen when she met White, had a similar experience. White introduced her to the photographer James Breese, who persuaded Dennis to pose nude. Breese later gave White a set of the photographs. See M. H. Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 157.
3. “Mr. White Not in Studio on Night Evelyn Charges,” New York Herald, February 27, 1907.
4. Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934), 41–42.
5. James C. Mohr, Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800–1900 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 136, 215–19.
6. Nesbit, Prodigal Days, 236, 242–43, 246; “Thaw’s Riches May Go to Evelyn’s Boy,” New York Sun, April 23, 1916.
1. Editorial, “How Long, O Lord?” New York World, July 29, 1909; Editorial, “Thaw,” New York World, June 18, 1912.
2. David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000), 96–101, 104; James McGrath Morris, Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 321.
3. Nasaw, The Chief, 156–58.
4. Harry Thaw, The Traitor (Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1926); Evelyn Nesbit, Prodigal Days: The Untold Story (New York: Julian Messner, 1934).
5. Leland M. Roth, McKim, Mead & White, Architects (New York: Harper & Row, 1983); Mosette Broderick, Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010); Paula Uruburu, American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and the Crime of the Century (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008); David Garrard Lowe, Stanford White’s New York (New York: Doubleday, 1992); Wayne Craven, Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009); Samuel G. White and Elizabeth White, Stanford White, Architect (New York: Rizzoli, 2008).