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Harry K. Thaw  

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  • The son of a Pittsburgh coal and railroad baron, Harry Thaw is best known as the man who murdered famed New York City architect Stanford White. On a summer evening in 1906, Thaw shot White at Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Thaw, Harry K.]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-LZH5XQPZ-D

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