Show I I I I j j I I j I j i r i EXTENDED OnRi i I ATLANTIC OCEAN I English People at First Greatly Interested in the Trial of I Harry K Thaw BARRISTERS ALSO EXCITED AMERICAN WAYS PROVED TOO MUCH FOR THEM London April 12 Interest in the trial of Harry Barr Thaw for the murder of Stanford Whit White which at first was in intense inI intense tense hue here lagged lag ed during the latter I stages of the proceedings However How ver verI the tho unexpectedly prolonged delibera deliberations deliberations deliberations I of the th Jury and the novelty for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the British public of the circumstances surrounding the final linal scenes raised curiosity here hero to a fever fer point to learn loarn i I what the outcome of or the strange case cac 1 would be b Within thin a few minutes of or the I receipt of the cable dispatch announcing tug ing that tha th jury had been discharged I the streets of London in kite spite of the lateness of the hour echoed with the shouts of the thc newsboys The news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers were bought up eagerly and the people everywhere Eer discussed with un unusual unusual unusual usual avidity the likelihood of a fresh trial trIa I t I IEnglish II English Criticism I The chief criticisms heard haril turned turn d upon the comparative leniency of American opinion toward homicides and what t Englishmen EnI a lack luk lukI lof I of dignity and method m in the th proceed proceedings proceedings proceedings I ings of the tho courts ourt It has been the th boast boat of Englishmen En n that hanging in invariably variably followed killing here lucre but I Home Secretary leniency I toward Horace HoraE G Rayner the young Inan man nan who shot hot and killed William Whiteley last January Januar and the unx unexpected unexpected wave WRye of which demanded it led 11 1 to tl the th discussion as to toI whether the tw swift and stern processes I of British law will not In the future more frequently freQuent bend before public opinion I IOnly Only two Americans are arc practicing at atthe atthe the British bar as barristers h rs In the tho inner temple where the British barristers barris have hac their off Ps where re many of I them take their meals in common and live a sort ort of club life lif the th Thaw trial I has excited ex td more interest and discus discussion I sion slun than any an legal leal event in America ifor I for many years r and than most im important I Ip p trials in England n The Ameri Amert I Ican can ean barristers barrister have 1101 been hen called upon to do much explaining to their British brethren of what whit appeared to the latter to be he the peculiar methods J of Ameri Amer American American can courts Could Not Follow the Case I I I i Crime Crane wino who has been a n mem mm member member ber of the tuner inner temple for many man years ars arsand and who Is president pr of the American Americans society city s said English barristers at first took a keen keN interest in the case par particularly particularly as to the suggested pleas plas of emotional insanity and an the unwritten law but re had almost given g en up the th attempt to understand the pro procedure procedure of the tw court This Ibis was in great reat I contrast to the course followed here hereIn hereIn i In the first place there was the length of time between the arrest and trial In England in a similar case for instance that of Rayner Ra for the murder of Whitely the trial would al almost almost almost most invariably occur within a month or two of the crime and would be for Cor forgotten I gotten before a man would be arraigned I in America The greatest contrast j however as noted by b English lawyers I Iwas Iwas was the selection of oi jurors a work which occupied so much time in Amer America America ica lea and so shot short a time here hero Time The Th Eng lishman could not conceive of a com competent competent competent jury jUr being secured when each I Ital tal man had to undergo such an au e exl exi animation as did the American jurors j I British Procedure I In the court procedure too there I were many maJl Instances that aroused the thee curiosity of or English members of the bar hare One that particularly struck them was the standing aside of a witness to allow a document upon which he was wa to be examined to be proved as was done lone to Mrs Irs Thaw to allow the defense to prove Thaws will Here a judge would take tako the statement of a lawyer law er that he was able to prove pron the document and there would be no further Inter Interruption interruption interruption of the witness evidence This and the fact thata lawyer lawer had rad to in introduce introduce much otherwise unnecessary evidence for use In case of an appeal was blamed by b English lawyers for forthe forthe Ithe the dragging of the case which they believed In England where there was no criminal appeal would have been finished within a week at the most Jury System Criticised J 3 Arthur Garratt also has spent many man half hours since the case opened explaining to his legal friends the meaning of the moves of the prosecution prosecution tion lion and defense He has bas found the chief criticism leveled 1 at the jury jur system system iS tem tern and the apparent lack to English Englishmen men of decorum In the conduct of the case To English lawyers It is to be explained he said that on account of the right of appeal In criminal cases the judge could not as would be done here stop the long ong of witnesses and the introduction of evidence which had no direct bearing tearing on the crime Here Hete the Judges Insist that lawyers shall hold closely dosch to t the tho facts to himself being the duty of o de deciding deciding deciding whether r the evidence Is ma material material material without suggestion from counsel and charging the jury as to the law la According to Mr lIr Barrett the con consensus consensus consensus of legal logal opinion In London Is s that the th jury would have found Thaw guilty of murder with a strong recommendation recommendation recommendation to mercy thich would have meant a long lung or short short term ten of imprisonment c ment at the Discretion of the home department |