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Show RESL TRHGEDY Of TRIRt IS IN HEART Of THAW'S SILVER-HAIRED MOTHER (BY WINIFRED BLACK) NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Did yon over happen lnt5 the anteroom of a great hospital some nerve-racking, wretched morning and see there a woman waiting wait-ing for the doctors to come and tell how her little helpless, forward, unmanageable unman-ageable child, the child who had kept her awake night after night, the child who had been a never ending source of anxiety to her for months or suspense and biting anguish had come through with the operation? I saw such a woman once and the memory of her face sunk so deep into my heart that I would know her today if I should pass her in the most crowded street of this great crowded city. Harrv Thaw's mother looked like that woman as she sat in the courtroom todav. ffer decent dress of quiet and seemly black was carelessly nut on Her "black veil hung in loose folds from her bonnet. And she leaned forward in her chair with a face of such agonized and agonizing doublt and suspense that it made mv heart ache to see her. . Tn front of "her sat her voting daughters, the Countess of 1 armouth. in a smart Knglish tailored black frock, with white relieving it at the throat, and Mrs. Carnegie, all in brown. In front of them sat Harry Thaw's young wife and the friend who sits always with her. HER GIRLISH APPEARANCE IS EVER STRIKING. Mrs. Harrv Thaw did not look one dav over 17 in the courtroom todav. She wore a simple dreFS of dark blue with a turned down linen collar, such as the girls in the convent ueed to wear when they wanted to smarten up on Sundays. Sun-days. Her dark hair was fastened in a low knot in the back and it fell in soft shadows around her delicate, pale face. 1 She looked like a little girl left somehow forlorn, in a school full of scornful strangers, and I could not find it amusing when some one joked about the difference dif-ference between the front row in the chorus and the front row in the courtroom I don't think she minds the staring eves or the whispered comments all around her. She looks as she sits there like one so heartbroken, so crushed with the weight of misery, so dazed with the terror of what she rrsv have to face that she doesn't care what happens to her now. JEROME 18 INCONSISTENT IN HIS CONTENTIONS. District Attorney Jerome iibed through the morning with his sardonic smile never for one moment absent from his satirical New England face. About thirtv talesmen went to the witness stand and were sent away again, in dis grace of some kind or other. The State challenge,! two rather interesting fooking men for no apparent reason except that both of them were born in the kouth the country where a man who trifles with a woman s K1' wear a suit of chain armor if he wants to live the allotted er of human klDdnd then, lust to show the consistency of the law, accepted another who hous ed of the same heritage. The talesmen quibbled and ?pl't ". J 11" and qualified and backed and filled, to Mr .Tt-rome s evidently keen rehsh. and were challenged and sent awav. 11 e Tn old scholar with a bloodless face and the h.gh. passionless brow of student looked promising to the State, but the defense would have none of him. young fefinw with the cruel arrogance of youth told the courtroom what he thought 'of murder in the first degree, and showed very plain v that there was no such thing as anv sort of doubt in his mind on anv subject whatrxrr Teasonable or unreasonable. The crowd of talesmen and newspaper men and pol.Ve and court officials shifted restlessly in their seats and vawned awav the """differ the no-n recess the District Attorney announced that two ,.f the jurvmer, would be excused, and the whole courtroom cast its eye, to heaven and suzhed with an attempt at patient resignation. ONE DRAMATIC INCIDENT OF THE TEIAL. The onlv dramatic inc.dent of the morning was fh- clash of eves between Harrv Thaw and a man who refund to serve on the jurv because, he said, he was a dear friend . f Stanford White. When he walked down from the w-,t Trss stand through the courtroom he slowed his steps in front of Harrv Thaw and Tnaw lea'neback in th chair and gave back to th sneering cn-itv ,n ?he other's eve a look full of untamed defiance as anv caged Hon ever st thr0UB!, 'ttoS al.8nh:tnr-"n,red,ous.dav the ,ook on the face f Harrv Thaw's mother never changed bv the blinking of an evelash It was so exactly the Counterpart of the look I saw , nee on the face of that other ormente, n other that I could almost smell the ether and chloroform in haunted air. and oimot ee the keen blade of the surgeon s knite. She' will live through the trial, this mother M thers alwavs manage to live- through, somehow, till they are needed no longer. Put f forwards--af'er all. life isV't alwavs quite merciful, it is? |