The Spokane Press, Washington, February 18, 1903

George Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth, later 7th Marquess of Hertford, married Alice Thaw later in 1903 but the couple separated in 1908. The marriage was annulled due to “non-consummation”. Alice remarried in 1913, while George remained unwed until his death in 1940.

Three years after their wedding, in 1906, Alice’s brother Harry would gain worldwide notoriety for his murder for architect Stanford White, the former lover of his wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit. At a rooftop performance of Mam'zelle Champagne at Madison Square Garden (which Stanford had designed, and where he kept a personal apartment) Thaw, there with friends and his wife, came up to White’s table and shot him in the face, killing him instantly and rendering him unrecognizable.

In 1908, after two trials, Thaw was judged to be not guilty by reason of insanity and placed in Matteawan, a State hospital for the criminally insane. He escaped in 1913, walking out of the asylum, being then picked up by a driver, believed to be sent by his mother, and taken to Quebec. Thaw fought extradition back to the States and in 1915 he was granted a new trial, where the jury found him not guilty and not insane, and he was able to walk free. He and Nesbit divorced the same year.