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It sounds like today's day Life time movie: two talented, popular and prosperous men both semester deeply in love with the same beautiful but somewhat tarnished gal. One had an extended record of mental health problems, the other was considered an architectural genius. The inevitable showdown, filled with a very open public murder, took place in one of the most fashionable restaurants in the world. Although it sounds like a movie or cleaning soap opera, it was an all too true history that culminated with the 1907 "trial of the century", when railroad tycoon Harry Thaw, the partner of famous model Evelyn Nesbit, was prosecuted for eliminating renowned architect Stanford White, his wife's previous enthusiast. Some say that it was such a shocking event that it actually helped rate the end of the Gilded Age. In the past due 19th hundred years, Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt sold his stake in Madison Square Garden to J.P. Morgan, who subsequently hired Stanford White to create a new industry in its place. At that time he was commissioned to draw up programs for the new Garden, White was a partner with McKim, Mead & White, a firm that acquired designed some of New York's most beautiful mansions, like the Fifth Avenue homes of the Vanderbilts and the Astors. However, in addition to creating your garden and other similar places, he also designed a magic formula hideaway in his own house where an aspiring young dancer, 16 season old Evelyn Nesbit, would amuse him during sexually unacceptable conferences. This and other dalliances would later lead to 1 of the very most notorious incidents in the Garden's record. On a warm night time in past due June 1906, millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who acquired by this time around married Nesbit, approached White while he watched the show Mam'zelle Champagne in the rooftop garden theater together with Madison Square Garden. Taking out a pistol, he shot White three times in the head at point blank range. Initially, those in the theater thought it was a prank, but when the smoke cigars cleared and White's wound became visible, they knew that they had just observed something horrific. From the beginning, the crime acquired everything, including lurid gender, a shocking murder, and an insanity plea, and for that reason, both Thaw and White were placed on trial in the documents and the courtroom. White's boy would later complain, "On the night of June 25th, 1906, while joining a performance at Madison Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind [by] a crazed profligate whose great prosperity was used to besmirch his victim's storage area during the group of notorious studies that ensued." Eventually, Thaw was declared innocent by reason of insanity and sentenced to time in a mental medical center, and in the meantime, White's reputation was carefully disgraced, leading Collier's Richard Harding Davis to counter, "Since his death White has been referred to as a satyr. To answer this by expressing that he was a great architect is never to answer by any means...what is more important is the fact he was a most kindhearted, most considerate, delicate and manly man, who could forget about have done the items related to him than he would have roasted an infant on a spit. Big at heart and in body, he was incapable of little meanness. He admired a beautiful woman as he admired almost every other beautiful thing God has given us; and his delight over one was as eager, as boyish, as pleased over any others." Despite the murder of White and one of the 20th century's first situations to be billed as the "Trial of the Century", the new Madison Square Garden extended to play sponsor to just about every kind of event, and right now Madison Square Garden remains known as "The World's MOST WELL-KNOWN Arena". The Trial of the Hundred years: Evelyn Nesbit and the Murder of Stanford White chronicles the infamous criminal offense and the notorious trial that implemented.
