When Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K. Thaw shot the architect Stanford White on the roof of Madison Square Garden in 1906, the trial that followed gripped the country. Written while the case was news, this account covers Evelyn Nesbit’s past and marriage, the killing, White’s career, the insanity defence and the courtroom duel with District Attorney Jerome.
A vivid contemporary document of the first trial of the century, told in the breathless style of the yellow press. Download the free EPUB.