Henry Kendall Thaw

Henry (Harry) Kendall Thaw, son of William and Mary Copley Thaw, married actress, Evelyn Nesbit in 1905. The relationship between Harry K. Thaw and the actress was a tumultuous one and the Thaw family, in particular Mary Copley Thaw, questioned his bride's social standing due to her reputation for leading a promiscuous lifestyle. Harry K. Thaw committed murder in June, 1906, when he fatally shot Evelyn Nesbit's former companion, architect, Stanford White, at New York's Madison Square Garden. Thaw was determined insane by the courts and sentenced to a mental institution. With support from his mother he spent the next several years in and out of jail and mental institutions appealing his case and attempting to prove his sanity. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit divorced in 1913 and Harry K. Thaw was finally released from confinement in 1924. Thaw spent the remainder of his life travelling and died in Miami Beach, Fl., in 1946.