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Show resort t bribery of witnesses it would' reqaire their entire fort an a to- eatiafy; the cranks who would string up. As it is ostensible witnesses are aires ai-res dr haunting the ' Criminal Courts building, openly , offering their services to District Attorney Jerome or to the lawyers of Thaw, as they, may feel inclined, in-clined, - v " ' . Bribe-Seekers All Spurned.- '. - It speaks well for the honest manner in which the trial U being conducted that in every iaiUnco those money seekers hare been turned down. Several Sev-eral of them hare intimated their willingness wil-lingness to testify to almost anything. Taken in its entirety the Thaw trial will cost in the neighborhood of $323.-.,000. $323.-.,000. This may be divided, approximated approxim-ated as follows: Lawyers $200,000 Out of town detectives 50,000 Loral detectives 23,000 Preparation of ease incidentals, 7te ..: 50,000 Total $325,000 Of course this amounts to only a fraction of the annuel income of the-Thaw the-Thaw family, hnt Is enough to fill the mind with wonder. The Carlvle Harris case cost the State about "$123,000; the Dr. Buchanan case a similar amount. The two trials of Dr. Kennedy coat about STS.OO. It eost the State about $150,000 to find out that Roland Molineux did not kill Mrs. Adams. But all these expensive expen-sive rases shrink into insignineance beside be-side the huge expense list of the Thaw trial. there are the services of Roger O'Mara, the former t hief of Police of I'itts-burp, I'itts-burp, whose expenses will be reckoned in the thousands, as well ss heavy outlays out-lays for witnesses whoso time and expenses ex-penses must be paid by the Thaws. There are at least a dozen local detectives de-tectives constantly on the go on behalf of Thaw. They look up the records of talesmen from the time they enter the courtroom until they are accepted or excused. ex-cused. If the Thaw familv were disrosod to EXPENSE OF THAW TRIAL W0U1D KEEP 12 FAMILIES FOR LIFE NEW YORK, Feb. 7. When the Thaw trial is ended, and the smoke clears away from the field of battle, how will the Thaw fortunes fare! What will the expense bet More than that of any other murder trial that has ever taken place in New York. Enough to appeal to the souls of poverty-stricken murderers, to whom the plea of the so-called "unwritten law" is unavailable. Enough to keep a dozes poor families in comfort for a lifetime. Never before in the court annals of this city has such an expensive array of legal talent been gathered together in a criminal case. It is expensive not only on account of ability, but because of the disposition of the Thaw family to throw open the doors of their money vaults and "go the limit" for the defense de-fense of the man on trial. 140,000,000 Behind Thaw. The Thaw fortune, according to Pittsburg Pitts-burg estimates, is about $40,000,000. All the tremendous strength of this fortune for-tune has been thrown into the battle to save Harry K. Thaw from the death chair. The array of lawyers, counselors and what not, consisting of Hessrs. Hart-ridge, Hart-ridge, Peabody, Delmas, O'Beillv, Glea-soa Glea-soa and others, will cost the Thaw estate es-tate before the trial is over at least 1200,000. Apportion it as you may, you cannot go much below this figure. Scores of deteotives working in divers div-ers parts of the world for msny months will cost $20,000 more. Then |