Harry Thaw's mother spent the family fortune to free him after he shot Stanford White, and his will left Evelyn Nesbit $10,000

Harry Kendall Thaw was heir to his father William Thaw's coal and railroad fortune. The father limited his allowance; after the father died, his mother raised it. On 25 June 1906 Thaw shot the architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden. His mother vowed to spend the family fortune, estimated at $40 million, to free him. The first trial ended on 12 April 1907 with a hung jury, seven for murder and five for insanity. On 1 February 1908 a second jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity, and he was sent to the Matteawan asylum. On 19 August 1913 he was driven out of Matteawan and across the Canadian border, arrested in Sherbrooke and returned^†. On 16 July 1915 a jury found him sane. His wife, Evelyn Nesbit, the centre of his defence, had been promised $1 million and a divorce; she got the divorce in 1915 but not the money^†. In 1917 he was arrested for kidnapping and whipping a 19-year-old man, Frederick Gump. His mother had him sent to a Pennsylvania asylum, where he stayed until 1924. He died of a heart attack in Miami on 22 February 1947, aged 76. His will left Nesbit $10,000 of an estate estimated at $1 million^†. He is buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh.