Show awe a 1 aa 0 I 1 I 1 AS domm I 1 ro I 1 N 40 1 1 A A nm mr r W I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 M mm SIZ I 1 ae WT KI HITE I 1 aft 0 n AY r WW W if HARK a W I 1 n V I 1 THAW DID N U T I 1 ow I 1 oil M I 1 N L U 1101 mitter film i D wh n alp U 10 NG evelyn nesbit when asked to become thaws wife confessed an 1 4 VE experience X peri ence with stanford white that I 1 debarred debarres De I 1 barred carriage I 1 son of slain man on the witness stand I 1 I 1 new york feb 4 there was a delay in resuming the thaw trial owing I 1 to to the formalities attending the opening of the february term of court I 1 which was scheduled to begin this morning the regular panel for the february jurors added to the list of the special jurors in the thaw case some in number crowded the acourt court room to overflowing thaw thaws 0 trial having been begun in the january term that term will hold until the case Is disposed of during the wait rumors continued to circulate as to the possibility of two mere more jurors being removed before district attorney jerome would bs be willing to have the case proceed I 1 when the february jurors had been dismissed and justice justic e fitzgerald taken the bench there ther at once began a i conference of attorneys I 1 the detectives of district attorney geromes Je romes office were busy sunday raking the pasts of several of the jurors showing the anxiety of mr jerome to begin the trial of thaw with a jury in every way fit for the task the tho story in a morning newspaper that juror harney harny h N the father of a chorus girl who has some interest in tha tho trial of thaw was investigated along with othor other reports it was found that the father of the chorus girl bore the name of charney OH arney and is living peacefully in a massachusetts town the report that juror steele atone at ony time rhad had been interested with mr N fr I 1 thaws thalys father was under consideration yesterday there was still another I 1 report affecting a juror and tho the 1 three rumors kept the investigators busy all day assistant district attorney marshall reported yeat yesterday erda as to the result of his visit to pittsburg mr marshall reached town yesterday but left in pittsburg a capable lawyer who is ls watching that end of the battle over the life of thaw t mr marshall it Is understood searched the court records and found that thaw had already received his share of his fat fathers pers fortune the will of william thaw gave him an equal share with the rest in tha the I 1 Pitts fortune but a codi ciAl gave him an annual income of 2400 the principal of 0 his inheritance being withheld tail such time as he should show a settled character and capability for the receipt and care and expenditure of his hib inheritance A majority of the executors was then to say whether he should have his portion A search of the pittsburg records showed ad that through formal court peon pro ce edings thaws share had been to him there was no written record of the passing of a majority of the executors on his afi fitness as provided but ther there was a record of a formal court proceeding in which harry thaw was relieved of the restrictions of the codicil and obtained more than of ready money the tact fact that a majority of the executors settled with harry thaw in fa the belief that he was capable to handle the money and fettled in character may be used by the prosecution in meeting 5 an insanity plea mr marshall was ivas in conference cn ference with assistant district attorney garvan yesterday and these things were caro care fully studied announcement was made today that i belchin michael delmas of counsel for thaw will take full charge in the I 1 cross examination of witnesses the opening address it 11 IB planned wll will bp be made by clifford A hartridge but mr delmas will make the final sum ming up plea plea of f generally agreed will bo be insanity it will be contended that harry thaw was mentally irresponsible at the time he lie fired three bullets into the body of stanford this lawyers say in 6 the only legal defense that can be presented thaw ap appeared a trifle flushed as he took his place at the end of tho the tab tabo 0 o assigned his counsel bade back of him sat his mother mrs birs lV william illiam thaw hie hir sister mrs carnegie ovelyn thaw may mackenze Mac Kenle edward and josiah thaw the only family absentee being the tile countess of yarmouth all the witnesses tor for the prosecution were in court they comprised only the eyewitnesses eye witnesses of the tragedy upon the madison root roof garden some witness eA said to have been summoned by the def defense enle also vere were in court although the most of those who are to testify for thaw have not ai feared I 1 What whatever eyer pressure I 1 the district attorney brought to bear on thaws attorneys for the release of addition nI jurors it wae war in vain at t the end of the last conference upon the subject assistant district attorney gareau arose quietly and in a very low tone began the opening address for the prosecution and the famous case wan was on mr garvan spoke only ten minutes 11 hf congi congratulated the jurors upon their body apdy haying been completed band and then outlined od the purpose of the tho baw law wylah wa was not seeking for vengeance go ance b but ut to uphold the security of 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 N I 1 I 1 I 1 t I 1 if S 1 0 0 0 0 new york feb 4 rt the case 0 I 1 0 of the people against harry 0 0 thaw charged with the mur 0 0 der of stanford white was 0 0 presented to the jury today in 0 0 less than two hours and this 0 0 afternoon attorney john B 0 0 gleason made the opening ad 0 0 dress for the defense in which 0 0 he declared that the tha defense 0 0 would rely upon the tile claim that 0 0 thaw when the murder was 0 0 committed was irresponsible 0 0 because he was the victim of 0 0 emotional insanity 0 0 assistant district attorney 0 0 garvan occupied less loss than ten 0 0 minutes in narrating in a con 0 0 al the events on 0 0 the night of the tragedy he 0 0 did not go beyond the occur 0 0 bences immediately preceding 0 0 the shooting 0 0 mr garvan decided declared that 0 0 thaws act was deliberate 0 0 premeditated I 1 intentional mur 0 0 der 1 J 0 0 district attorney jerome se 0 0 cured an order that all wu wit 0 0 nesses except experts should 0 0 excluded from the room it 0 0 became known for the first 0 0 time that mrs william thaw 0 0 the prisoners mother will take 0 0 the stand in his behalf and 0 0 will probably tell 9 ce of the 0 0 escapade his wi ai 0 0 0 the woman hec hee abed tor for a 0 0 moment then arose and left 0 0 followed by mrs harry thaw 0 0 and may mckenzie 0 0 thaw flushed a at vivid red as 0 0 mr garvan in a loud voice 0 0 called the name of the first 0 0 witness the 19 year old son of 0 0 the dead architect AJ the 0 0 youth stepped to the witness 0 0 chair thaw cast his eyes upon 0 0 the table and did not lift them 0 0 during the brief examination of 0 0 the young man 0 0 the other witnesses for the 0 0 prosecution were eye witnesses 0 0 0 to the tragedy and added little 0 0 to what Is already familiar to 0 0 the public 0 0 attorney gleason for the de 0 0 tense asserted that E evelyn volyn 0 0 11 when asked by 0 0 harry thaw to be his wife ro re 0 0 fused because of an experience 0 0 in her life connected with stan 0 0 ford white 0 0 0 0 0 the state he urged the im importance important cc of the case and a strict observance of the law in order that a verdict fair clr to all might be reached it was the claim of the people bs lie said that upon the night of june h 1906 the defendant shot and killea with premeditation and intent to kill one stanford white he briefly ons ou lined the movements of 0 mr white beginning with the saturday preceding the tragedy and ending with the scene of the shooting on the madison adison 11 square root roof garden mr garvan told how stanford whit s had on june last taken his son lawrence and a schoolmate of tho the latter to dinner at the cafe martir the boys boy S had bought tickets to tho I 1 new york theatre roof gar garden den and declined an invitation of stanford white to accompany him to the madl son square root roof garden stanford I 1 white went to the madison square roof garden and sat alone at one of the small tables there watching the first production of a play called Al Mam amselle selle champagne 1 the tho defendant was there with his wife and two friends truxton beale and thomas mccaleb McCa Iob the defendant walker constantly about the place in jhb middle of the second act the defendants lan tr party started to leave the roof mot the defendant let his party go ahead and he lagged behind passing the table where stanford white was sli sh ting the defendant faced mr white and deliberately shot him through the brain the bullet entering the eye mr white was dead the defendant did not know this he feared be he had not completed his work and he lie fired again the bullet penetrating whites check cheek still to make sure he lit fired a third time mr air white or rather the body ol 01 mr air white tumbled to the floor tho defendant turned and facing the audience held ills its revolver aloof with the barrel upside down to indicate that ho he had completed what he lie intended to do the big audience understood there wa was no panic mr air garvan took his seat scat district attorney jerome sprung a surprise by asking the court to exclude all witnesses nesses in the case except the experts by doing this mr jerome disclosed the fact that mrs william thaw and mrs harry thaw are both to take talce the stand for the defense on advice of thaws counsel they left the court room with all theother wh nesses may alay mackenzie was included in the list and accompanied mrs harry I 1 thaw into the court clerks omar I 1 mrs william tha thaw W who I 1 does botex not ex I 1 I 1 I 1 0 1 I 1 pe hect et to take the stand for several day daye returned to the hotel the prisoner seemed greatly downcast at the exclusion of his mother ana wife hig his only relatives left in the room were his brothers and his sister mrs carnegie the prosecution gave the cour room another surprise when lawrence white the son of the dead architect was called as the first witness thaw again fastened his eyes upon the table before him and did not once look at the witness lawrence white said he was 19 years old and a student at t harvard his mother he said now resides at cambridge mass white wag was on an the stand but a few minutes 11 he e told of accompanying his father to the cafe martin tor for dinner and fiali sali that when he left him to go with his chum a boy named king to the new york roof garden it was the last tima timo he saw his father alive thaws attorneys did not desire to ti cross examine the witness and he was allowed to go the second witness was warner paxton the engineer of the madison square garden he was an eye witness of the shooting and the arrest ot thaw he ile said that when he reached thaws side he be had been detained by a fireman and an employed of the garden who w 0 asked him to hold thaw while they went for a policeman they were then in fro front nt of an elevator va tor and thaw eald paid to him weve tto to in the elevator why cant cint we go now paxton replied that it was a good idea and they stait i ed down we ve went into the eleva elevator toor the tho witness continued and thaw admitted that he did it saying he ruined my wife A woman whom he thought wa was s thaws wife replied to this but loo look at the fix you are in now and thaw replied to her well dearie I 1 have probably saved your life on reaching the ground floor thaw requested some one to telephone to george carnegie his brother in law that h he P wag was in trouble the witness was not cross exam elamin 1 L ed david N carvalho the handwriting expert was a new figure in the case no statement as to what will be shown by sir mr carvalho would be made by thaws counsel biyer iyer Co cofenas Coh henas enaa song writer and manager of the house which published the music of Al Mam amselle selle champagne wa wai i called as the third witness tor for the state sir mr cohen was upon the roof garden gardell of was there for the first time during the initial act of the musical comedy cohen described on a diagram the poe 1 61 ti on of th the table at which white I 1 sat when asked by mr garvan to I 1 i I 1 indicate thaws manner of approach ing the architect that evening the j witness left the stand and walking i up and down before the jury box he illustrated the slow pace which he declared characterize character izet thaws deliberation in approaching his victim he Ile walked up to mr whites table like this bald eald the witness indicating ill he made maale a slight detour and coming up lip to mr white from behind suddenly faced him and fired three i times the witness did not take part in the events which immediately fol followell follo lowel wei the shooting delphin at delmas of counsel for the defense made his first entrance into the activities of the trial by cross examining coben cohen briefly as to the position he occupied reference to the principals in the tragedy these were the only questions put to the witness by the defense dof ense during the examina examination dOn of the witnesses who followed st stanford anford whites son upon the stand the defendant took ook a lively interest in all that t took ook place mr delmas participation in the case was productive of a 0 new interest in the proceedings his questions wore were clear cut and comprehensive when he lie secured an answer he lie wanted to a question he would cut his examination short right there without blunting the effect on the jury by cumulative testimony henry 8 blaese pacae superintendent of the publishing company which owned the rights of the Ajam gambelle Ma gelle champagne was the next witness he lie saw the de defendant the night of the tile killing in the rear of the roof garden mr blaese wap wais standing with mr cohen colion thaw stood before him some InI looking to the right and left after the first act he next saw thaw previous to the ther shooting there w was ts no conversation when thaw approach ed white and the former for me r immediately I 1 mn edl ably began firing the witness then described abo thorest reat of what he saw raw by mr dolmas as to tl tho 10 acts following the tragedy especially especial lly as to the tile movement Ment of thaws arms a particular effort being made to bring out the point that tho barrel of the pistol was pointed upward the witness wit lieh affirmed the statement made in the direct examination unit that tho the larrel of tho the gun gan was pointed upward I I 1 f I 1 and when asked by mr delmas if thaw did not wave both arms wildly replied that he did not the pistol with which white w was killed was brought into the case during the testimony of paul brudi the fireman who disarmed thaw after the fatal shots were fired bradl identified the pistol 1 I remember only two shots said bradli when I 1 rushed up and grabbed uplifted the prisoner who had his arms I 1 did yo you u hear the defendant say anything after the shooting I 1 asked air lar garvan vall yes the witness replied he said he ile ruined my wife I 1 did he say anything else A no 1 did you hear aarone any one say anything 1 to him 1 4 his wife what dl did ohe be bayh say look at the fix you are in I 1 did he reply 1 I did not hear him say anything else mr delmas took up the cross tross exam how tar far were you from thaw when you heard the first of the shots you say you heard twenty feet how fast did you move toward mr thaw not inot very fast I 1 go behind him as he be was holding the gun aloft in his lits right hand the second shot followed almost immediately thaw had turned away from white when I 1 took hold of him what did thaw do as he left whites side he ile looked back over his left shoulder it was a staring look A staring look you say yes sir was he pale paie I 1 he looked like |