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Stanford White, famed architect slain by insane Harry K. Thaw, planned it. The fortune that paid for it was derived from the Chicago Tribune. It was built in 1904, the home of Editor Robert W. Patterson, who, like many of the Chicago Tribune family (Medill-McCormick-Patterson), included Washington as well as Chicago in his affairs. Editor Patterson died, his wife returned to Chicago, his daughter (Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger) took the house. Address: No. 15 Dupont Circle...
...THAW BREAKS LOOSE!" screamed the Bernarr Macfadden pornoGraphic tabloid last week, even as the Browning-Peaches story guttered. For this there was not even the excuse that the public does not know all there is to know about Harry K. Thaw. The Graphic pretended that its story would be a "warning" to "young girls" not to go out with Mr. Thaw. What maid, wife or widow needs further warning against Harry Thaw...
There was not even the excuse that Mr. Thaw is a type, like Mr. Browning. Mr. Thaw is not a type, but a special case. The acts of which he has been accused for so many years are to be described exactly only in the language of alienists?in words armed to the teeth...
...Graphic splashed a composite photograph, representing Harry Thaw trying to strangle a young woman, across its cover; and printed a picture of an apartment house with the caption: "Where Harry Got Rough...
...impulse that had made Mr. Thaw bring a gun along that night must always remain a little vague. It was a regulation Colt six-shooter and he had his hand on it as he threaded his way among the tables toward the place where Stanford White was sitting. That he had a certain amount of justification for what, at that moment, he was about to do, the jury admitted when they handed in their decision, but the allegations he made against the dead architect at the trial, and which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There...