The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-26
Of Real Life That
d Country Soon Up
in Court.
DC SCENE OF
'RAGEDY is RECALLED
as Dismissed Eastern
IS; Relies Upon Noted
estern Attorney.

FORK, Nov. 25.-The trial Of
e .. adall Thaw, slayer of Stan
siFa, the noted architect, which
Cbly be held in December, or
is looked forward to as one
| 4 st famous cases in the Grim
gs.y of New York State. The
e of the Thaw family social
saith of his parents. the cir
rs surrounding the young
.rriage to Evelyn Nesbit, the
odel and chorus girl and the
Il scene in the midst of which
he bullets into the breast OF
who he claimed had betrayed
ali tend to attract an interest
'al extending from one end of
| ry to the other.
long time an effort has been
lave young Thaw rely upon
pf emotional insanity but
lastly has declined to give his
any such plan, and in his
Ation not to agree to hide be-
cloak Of insanity the cause
impatiently asserts TO be just,
one time and another since
comment dismissed several Of
ers engaged to help in his de-
long them n former Governor
late of New York.
ayers in this extraordinary
e real life are each of them
g. Harry Thaw, the ever
son Of rich and indulgent par
ia become widely known
the country prior to the
IL Stanford White by reason
Iblicity given to many of his
| Y by the newspapers. His
~ late William Thaw, was one
|Irg's richest men, He had
DE that J prry was not to be
TSwitb large income lest he
IL over TO life of luxurious
I'D liberty. SO when the elder
he provided that Harry
nd hnve only $500 n year.
| he Of the estate went to Mrs.
bi,haw, whose indplgent love +!
ssldren was soon made appar-
bdr manner in which she Law |
hdry upon them. Harry Thaw !
/ ask whatever sum he chose
Other gave 1T to him. IT is
0jhe young mans expenditures
haged as high as $4,000 to
Dc year.
cling Was Dramatic.
s.te in the evening of June 25 |
he city and soon the entire
rs ringing with the tragic |
rHarrv Thaw had slain Stan
e. The setting for the fatal
FL been the Madison Square
/ en-, where the first night per-
sof summer musical show
sf Mile. Champagne" was be-
The place was gay in flow"
Lllti-colorcd electric lights and
nged with a fashionably
dience. On the stage a man
e 81 Could Love Thousand
Zen suddenly above the music
shots rang out, The music
Fa chorus girls and actors up.
&c were terror-stricken. Iu
ais n man was heard to say:
riincd my wife, d you, and
Is,got you. 5"
" White lay dead at the Ia.
he had bean sitting; Harry
evening dress, stood with |
~istol in his hand. His wife,
seen him fire the fatal shot,
|Srean,ing away from the spot
= was arrested. He made no
escape.
as vice-president of the Mad
re Garden company and was
pct of that famous structure
! tower he had always main
/ tndio. 1t was in this tower
has charged time and time
/ his arrest that White enter
ing women at the gayest of
'haw said he had frequently
of these studio parties to
~ for the Prevention of Vice,
been stated on authority
5ociety had made several in
rs prior to the roof garden
Had Many Attorneys.
elafield, OF counsel 20 the
~, was first called into the
/pngaged Judge w. NJ. X. Ol.
e hrm OF which former Gov
k S. Black is II member.
hardly been in tho case a
IN young Thaw, after an in
W the Tombs, dismissed them.
TO his aid Clifford W. Hart.
| |IFyer who had been his friend
Now that the trial ls ap-
iho has called into tho case
ichael Dclmas, one of the
criminal lawyers Of the
has come on from San Fran.
~ York to take direction Of
}Mr. Dclmas has been quoted
|,9g that the ''unwrjtten law
e defense finally decided
Attorney Jerome will have
arge Of the prosecution. He
Will Introduce only such
ps arc necessary to prove
had made threats against
II the eye-witncsscs of the
III will be for the defense.
to introduce any evidence
"a tho past lives Of the prin-
this is gone into, however,
IT Attorney will offer evil
-lbuttal. While the prcsenta-
III prosecution 8 case will re.
Etmo or three days, it is cx.
e will be great difficulty in
jury and thut the trial NAV
er u period o. four or five