Show ASSISTANT TO JEROME FRANK QARVAN IS MAN WHO PREPARES CASES Weeks and Months of Work Are Often Necessary to Prepare for Trial That Lasts but a few Days New York There was a trial In tho trlmlnnl couitH building a short time ago In which It took two days to present pre-sent tho evidence to Ue jury It was a trial of somo importance to the community com-munity and for that reason there was some comment on the speed with which it was disposed of Nothing wasSail was-Sail about the time that had been taken In preparing the case from the standpoint of tho prosecution As a matter of fact two members of the district dis-trict attorneys stnrr had been engaged for two months In examining witnesses wit-nesses and getting tho evidence In shape When the public hears of a trial that lasts two weeks or perhaps six weeks little attention Is paid to the days and weeks there are put In whipping the case Into shapn There Is a young man In the district attorneys olllco today who has had practically solo charge of pieparlng live of the most Important criminal cases In lecent years He Is Francis p Garvan an assistant dlstilct attorney attor-ney It Is i no exuggeiatlon to say that ho hasi had a wider knowledge of Uio Inside history of the Nan Patterson murder trial the second Roland H Mollneux trial Albert T Patricks fight for life the DodgeMorse marriage mar-riage null divorce tangle and the Thaw case than any other one man It has been his job to get these cases ready for presentation to the jury and while that was being done ho has had charge of the homicide bureau In tho district attorneys olllco In addition to prosecuting makers of fraudulent claims against Ire Insurance companies com-panies and taking the routine court work which every member of Mr JeromoH staff has to do In his turn Mr Onrvan Is a young man a few years past the 30 mark He looks younger almost boyish An observer of tho Thaw trial pictured him as the man behind the gun Ho was prompting prompt-ing Dlstilct Attorney Jerome In Rome Important technical piece of evidence In the case More than once Mr Jerome has spoken of the careful and painstaking manner In which this young man who was an athlete at Yale and got his early legal training In the office of Col James got In shape all the evidence concerning the killing of Stanford White by Harry K Thaw I never knew of a case better pre pined was one remark made by Mr Jerome In every criminal case especially tho ones that are taken up by the newspapers an enormous amount of anonjmous Information is sent to the district attorneys office If the cssp is properly prepared nil this Information bt unless It Is absurd on Its face must Investigated It has often been tnt case that Information furnished anonymously anony-mously has been very valuable Scores of witnesses who think the hove something to tell arc examined only to show that they know nothing of value but are seeking notoriety and II being a witness of some feel 1 that by kind they will ho able to get Into the court every day and hear the trial Then there are cranks who look sant enough but have only theories which they expound as facts In every so called big case these persons have to bo disposed of before any real work 1 rt K r r J t X 1 I I FRANCIS P GARVAN Assistant District Attorney of New York City Is done and all through the preparation prepara-tion of the case they have to be eliminated elim-inated I It requires cntluiKlasm tenacity cleverness a knowledge of the law and human nature and common sense to prepare a difficult case It is all done In the office where the limelight I Is shut off One of tho essential things Is to keep from the public and therefore there-fore the lawyers for the defendant what Is going onunless It helps the prosecutions side of It Mr Garvan possesses all these qualities qual-ities He has a great capacity for wink work that means many sleepless sleep-less nights To his friends he Is Known as Pete Mike or Pat Garvan as fancy dictates Through It all he remains re-mains young so young that a district attoiney from a western city a veteran vet-eran ol many cases remarked when Mr Garvan was pointed out to him atone at-one of the trials So that is Garvan who has been mentioned in our home papers so often He Is a mere boy |