NEW YORK SENSATION.
SHAW-WHITE SOCIEXYJ MURDER.
AN UNUSUAL DEFENCfi,
Received 16, 9.20 p.m. New Yobk, July 16. Harry Shaw dismissed his lawyers, refusing their advice to plead insauity. He declares he will plead justifiable homicide.
I During a performance at Madison Square Garden Theatre, Harry Shaw, ol Pittisburg, a millionaire, and brother to the Countess of Yarmouth, (hot Stanford White, a famous millionaire »nd New York architeot, thrioe, killing him, and then calmly rejoined his wife, remarking: "He rumed you.and now I have fixed him," Hi* wife waj a beautiful actress know as Evelyn Nesbit. His original defence was in« suiity. Ho states that White insisted on hauutiag him with his wife's past.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 17 July 1906, Page 2
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113NEW YORK SENSATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 17 July 1906, Page 2
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