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THAW TRIAL SET
FOR OCTOBER
It Is Likely That Distri0s
Attorney Jerome VIII
Personally Take Charge {
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PAPERS NEARLY REAM)

! MRS. SCH NARN III 1ELl3 dEfSj
STORY TO-DAY MRS. THAqM
SEES HER. HUSBAND ANB
LOOKS PLEASED. e|~S~Ss'ssE 4
NEW YORK, July IS, 1908.-WitR
the case of the prosecution against Hart
ry X. Thaw for the killing of Stanford
White prepared. except for the loose
ends that may be gathered up at any
time, it has been decided to bring tho
young man TO trial in the first week in
October. District Attorney Jerome. it il
said, win conduct the prosecution peri
sonally. with the assistance of Assistant
District Attorney Garvan, who has been
| taking all the evidence from the Witness
es summoned. The first subpoena to q
| witness to appear in the Court Of Gent
eral Sessions as witness in the case Of
the People against Harry K. Thaw was
served yesterday on May MacKenzie
who is the close friend of Mrs. Thaw. II
was to May MacKenzie's apartments
that Mrs. Thaw went after Thawl shot
White in the Madison Square Roof Gar
den.
All the witnesses in the case will b{
summoned to appear in Part /. of GenA
eral Sessions. Judge Rosalsky will pre1
side in that part during October, but.u
is not settled that the trial should TAXI
place there. AS the Grand Jury report{
to this part, and as pleas and motion4
are made there as far as possible trialS
likely to take long time are sent ID
other parts of the court. The reasontfo1
having subpoenas returned there is probs
ably so that the witnesses can be col
lected and receive subpoenas for soml
other court, probably in the Criminal
Branch of the Supreme Court.
If Mrs Mayme I. Schwarz has recon
cred sufficiently she will probably be al
the District Attorneys office today to tel
what she knows of the Thaws. Accord
ing to report it was at dinner giyea
by Mrs. Schwarz that Thaw fourished {
revolver and declared that he would xii
White with IT, Mrs. Schwarz was tot
i'll to appear Tuesday. In her first state
ment she said that she would only ami
swer such proper questions as might bs
put to her by the Grand Jury. 1t is now
reported that she has changed her min{
about this and she is willing to tell het
story to Mr. Garvan without undergoing
the formality of being sworn before tk4
Grand Jury.
Detective Perry BeeFys who is att
tached to the District Attorneys ofice
went to the Pierpont this morning and
had long talk with Mrs. Schwarz. He
returned then to tie Criminal CourtS
building and reported to Mr.. Garyan. |
Soon after that Alexander c. Young
Mrs. Schwarz's counsel, appeared at tho
District Attorneys office.
Mrs. Thaw called on her husband in
the Tombs at the usual hour this morn9
ing. She was asked if it were true that
a wireless message had been received
from the elder Mrs Thaw, now on her
way from Europe, and she said that she
had heard of none.
William Sturgis, the friend of Thawl
who made known his whereabouts from
Berlin, Conn.,, two days ago, will probs
ably not have his offer to meet a repre1
sentative of the District Attorney in
Hartford accepted. Mr.. Garvan says
that there is no need of sending any on(
to see Sturgis, as he already has state
ment from him.
just what the good news" was thai
was so pleasing to Thaw and his wife
yesterday has not been made public. o.
the occasion of Mrs. Thaw's second visi
to the Tombs yesterday she seemed d
higher spirits than she has evinced al
any time since the shooting. Thaw. too
seemed much pleased after the visit.
The experts retained in the interest
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