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Show H The newspaper correspondents, H particularly the special corrcspond- U cuts, arc indulging in much of what U for want of a better name may be B called maudlin sentiment, which they BJ mistake for chivalry, over Mrs. Harry HJ Thaw. Some of the editorial writers HJ have caught the same spirit. The rc- HJ ports of the trial published by the H Inter-Mountain Republican read more like special pleading for the murderer H Thaw, than a fair report of the case. H The Republican is not alone in that fl regard. Many papers in other parts H of the country publish similar plcad- H ings. We fail to sec what Mrs. Thaw M the wife of the defendant, has done M to raise her to the lofty heights of H the heroine. The principal point B urged in the effort to make her a B, heroine is that, to save her husband Hi I Ui , from the electric chair, she got on the witness stand and told of the life of shame she led before slu' became Thaw's wife. For a woman who had enjoyed an unblemished reputation, who had moved in decent, respectable society, and who was respected by those she came in contact with and received as an. equal, to have testified to the world, falsely or truly, as Mrs. Thaw has done to save another would he almost heroic, hut for woman who had the reputation of a common prostitute and lived that kind of life, and was known by her associates to have done so, to assume the role that Mrs. Thaw has done is not a martyr-like act, especially when her financial interests strongly urged her to that course. Wc fail to discover anything of the heroine about, Mrs. 'I haw. Few people with common sense will believe much more, than a tithe of the testimony of Mrs. Thaw., Stanford Wihitc, Thaw's victim, is dead. His lips arc scaled. He cannot can-not deny the accusations Mrs Thaw has brought against him. The 1110-1 tive for 1 .tinting White as an incarnate incar-nate devil is easily understood. The blacker he is mndc to apnear the more, it is supposed, Thaw will he benefited. The Tlnw familv is not at all hampered for money and it looks as if they were not using checscpairing methods in manufacturing manufact-uring public sentiment in favor of this scion of the noble, but not very ancient an-cient house of Thaw. Wc don't suppose that Stanford Wihitc was an angel, but he was at least morally as good as Thaw, and intellectually he was a giant, a man of culture and refinement who enjoyed en-joyed national fame in his profession and who by his own abilities reached the position he occupied, while the best that can be said of young Thaw is that he was a chucklchcad, spending spend-ing the millions lavished on him by an over indulgent old mother. White and Thaw both sought the society of chorus girls and prostitutes. The quarreled over a lady of "tsy virtue and young Thaw, full of strong drink, saturated with cigarette fumes and other abominations, in a mos cowardly coward-ly manner and without warning shot and killed White. Wc fail to sec any justification for the act. Thaw it is admitted was not possessed of much brain power at any time, but this insanity in-sanity plea as justification for m,urdcr is greatly overworked. We sec nothing noth-ing Iit. 'c and little to admire in either eith-er j 0 Thaw or'' the 'woman' he made hiswifc. , |