Daily British Whig (1850), 9 Oct 1924, p. 4

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+ 3 ewest Freak Twist in the . - Ha Thaw, ons Photo Eh , School Codex. To-Day with e Sort of met He Will Wi Fire Company in Winchester, Va. ORN to the purple, suckled on champagne and stimu- Iated by the hot breath of cities, the world's. most' notor- fous multi ~-millionaire -- Harry : . J Thaw, slayer of Stanford White--seems des: _tined to end his career in the drowsy, conserva. tive hamlet 'of Winchester, Va, where he took | himselt when a Pennsylvania jury granted his Sanity and gave nim nls freedom. fo, Winches ions is 'rib s y boardwalk at Atlantic d am he razzle- dazzle Dear Brohdwey where: The uxae. reigned, is the woman whose name and fortunes 'Were onge so irretrievably linked to his--Evelyn 'Nesbit, for. whose honor Thaw said he fired that arith shot - on Madison Square Roof Garden eigh years ago. Thaw, arch-type of city rounder in his youth, to live out hig years in a small town. fresh from just such a small town as when Thaw first was fascinated by , Says a will. pever leave thé white ligh Fate have d & more ironic finish 'this for the § Have flashed ~ ages of America again and for he nat two decades? : 3 0 greater contrast to Harry's Thaw's young manhood in Pittsburgh, New York, Rome and "could than his find a social life based upon the aristo- Wes! both hands an atmosphe . a Math + of the Virginia gentleman: on a religious and oral lite nurtured. otorious Thaw ase Harry (Once Broadway's Own) Is a Volunteer Fireman on fied that Thaw was in the habit of throwihg rabbits against the wall, biting their ears and otherwise practising cruel- ties upon them. i He found, therefore, when he arrived in Winchester that the first element in the community which he had to win over was the Society for the Prevention of Crueity fo Animals. This organi zationi-Nfty strong in this town heard reports that Thaw intended to stock hid farm at Kenilworth with pigs, rabbits," chickens and other animals and took immediate alarm, Scouts were sent out and the good ladies took an oath that no indignities should be practised upon innocent rabbits as long as thay were alive and well. one day, shortly after Thaw had ar gis oh n First Came - Main Street, While Evelyn (Born in a Small Town) Vows She'll Never Leave the Bright Lights. i an She Ap peared in the Full Bloom of Her . Remarkable Beauty. -- mined in his effort to become a "leading citizen" and began to divide up into Thew and anti Thaw factions. : charged that persons who had béen friendly to Thaw were influenced by his money: the former accused their detractors of attitude. Feeling ran high. The Ku Klux Klan held a meeting in the hills. At this juncture, Dr. J. #. Ward, the Mayor elect of Winchester, in an effort to bridge the gap among his seven thousand fellow townsmen, served notice that Thaw must.be given a square deal, At the same time he declared that much familiarity was perhaps not a wise thing until Thaw proved himself to be "worthy." There the matter ted. The The ws--Harry and his mother and personal' attendant-- went ahead with their plans and Kenflworth be- gan to blossom. The old-timers, it is said, never take ihe Thaws to hair bosom, Joat. Xo younger generation is expected to meet lHonaire's efforts to content himself with the Hee the Jaw sors than half way. eanwhile, unforgettable in the Thaw case has announced her in of taking up her life. direct contrast to the

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