Chronology Famous Trials

 Harry Thaw Trials
 (Stanford White Murder)

1907 & 1908
  Images
Murder at Stanny's
Garden
Maps
Newspaper
Accounts
The rooftop theater at New York City's Madison Square Garden,
 scene of the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White
Trial
Transcript Excerpts
Thaw's
Story
Evelyn's
Story
Harry's
 "Brainstorm"
Harry Thaw Trials (1907-08)
by Douglas O. Linder (2009)
"You see, it had in it wealth, degeneracy, rich old wasters, delectable young chorus girls and adolescent artists' models; the behind-the-scenes of Theatredom and the Underworld, and the Great White Way.... the abnormal pastimes and weird orgies of overly aesthetic artists and jaded debauchees. In the cast of the motley show were Bowery toughs, Harlem gangsters, Tenderloin panderers, Broadway leading men, Fifth Avenue clubmen, Wall Street manipulators, uptown voluptuaries and downtown thugs."
          [Irvin S. Cobb, a reporter in 1907, explaining why the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford
White was "the trial of the century."]
Famous Trials Homepage
The Velvet
 Swing
Bibliography
Links