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The Great Harry Thaw Case

The Great Harry Thaw Case

by Benjamin H. Atwell

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Author
Atwell, Benjamin H.
Title
The Great Harry Thaw Case; Or, A Woman's Sacrifice
Credits
Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
KF: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United States
Subject
Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- New York
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 66056
Release Date
August 13, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE GREAT HARRY THAW CASE OR A Woman’s Sacrifice
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CHAPTER I. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the “Woman in the Case.”
  5. 5.CHAPTER II. Harry Thaw’s Sensational Courtship and Marriage.
  6. 6.CHAPTER III. Story of the Killing That Startled the World.
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV. Stanford White, Creator and Destroyer.
  8. 8.CHAPTER V. Greatest Legal Battle of Age Opens.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI. “I Swear Harry K. Thaw Was Insane.”
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII. A Human Sacrifice on the Altar of Love.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. Evelyn Reveals White as a Fearful Monster.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX. Intrigue Like Those in Days of Nero.
  13. 13.CHAPTER X. White on Verge of Arrest When Shot.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI. Harry Thaw’s Startling Will Disclosed Fear of Assassination.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII. The Hidden Witness to the Proposal.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII. Lived on Bounty of Stanford White.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV. Thaw’s Mother on the Stand.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV. Scathing Denunciation By Jerome.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI. Shocking Disclosures in Famous Affidavit.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII. Jerome Calls Thaw Madman.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII. Lunacy Commission is Appointed.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX. Commission Finds Thaw Sane.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX. Delmas, Nestor of Western Bar.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI. Delmas Moves Jurors.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII. “The Unwritten Law”—The Defense Ends.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII. “Thou Shalt Not Kill”—Jerome.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV. The Judge’s Charge to the Jury—Thaw in Collapse.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV. Deliberations of the Jury.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI. Ending of the Trial—Jury Disagrees.
  30. 30.Chronological Story of the Thaw Trial.

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