On this day, June 25, in 1906, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shot and killed prominent architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden. Thaw, the ne’er-do-well son of a Pittsburgh coal and railroad baron, had competed with White for the affection of a raven-haired New York chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbit. After years of courtship, Thaw married her.
On that fateful night 103 years ago, Thaw and Evelyn bumped into White and learned that they were attending the same premiere.
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