Edna McClure

[4] In January 1905 she appeared in the short-lived comedy The Money Makers,[5] and two months later as the wife of General Butin in a burlesque production of the C. M. S. McLellan melodrama Leah Kleschna.

[8] At some point during her time in New York, McClure fell into the orbit of friends surrounding the model turned actress Evelyn Nesbit and her millionaire husband, Harry Kendall Thaw.

On the night of June 25, 1906, Thaw shot dead the noted architect Stanford White at the rooftop restaurant atop Madison Square Garden during a performance of the Edgar Allan Woolf musical comedy Mam'zelle Champagne.

McClure reportedly told police investigators that over the two years leading up to White’s murder she had frequently witnessed Thaw fly into a rage over the mention of his wife’s former lover, and that she seemed to encourage these outbursts by urging him to do something.

Amy survived and McClure was later found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon (reduced from attempted murder) and given one year probation with the proviso that she and her daughter have no further contact with each other.