The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-26

Cor both sides have closed the mouths OF
the most important witnesses.
Thaw has sought his justification in the
words he uttered to his victim on TOE
night of the tragedy He has claimed Tat
under the "unwritten law no jury would
convict him of having taken the hfo OF
"the man who had traduced his wife III
her innocent girlhood." To these accusa-
tions by Thaw the friends of Stanford
White, many of them influential men of
the community, have declared that the
architects interest in the girl was purely
of "A fatherly character. They said he had
assisted many young women TO make
place for themselves in the world, and
that he was no more deeply interested IN
Miss Nesbit than he had been in num-
Der of others about whom no breath OF
scandal has been uttered.
1t has been constantly stated that the
Thaw case would never come to trial. ana
that the mysteries of it's many intricate
phases would never be exposed to the
limit of the publlcs gaze, this conjecture
being based on the report that a plea
of insanity might be entered and ac-
copied
This probability, however, it is now
said. is past. Harry Thaw has himself
stood in the way of any such plan. IL is
asserted that in his refusal to give as
ent to the insanity plea he has been
steadfastly supported by his wife, who,
It Is also generally reported, has con-
stantly urged her husband to take some
action against White.' Mrs. Thaw has
been daily visitor to the Tombs prison,
and Mrs William Thaw. who was re-
called from Europe when the tragedy
occurred has also been frequent caller.
There have been many family conferences
and many stormy interviews In the
Young mans cell, his resentment beng
shown every time the suggestion of in
sanity has been offered.
81 prefer death in the electric chair to
a life In an insane asylum" the prisoner
is credited with exclaiminG.
Lewis Dalafield, of counsel to the ~haw
family, was first called into the case
He engaged Judge w. NJ X. Olcott OF
the firm of which former Governor Frank
S. Black is a member. They had hardly
been in the case month when young
Thaw, after an interview in the Tombs,
dismissed them. He called to his aid Clif-
ford w. Hartrdge, a lawyer who had
been his friend for years. Now that the
trial is approaching, he has called into the
case Dalphin Michael Delmas, one OF
the most noted criminal lawyers of the
west who has come on from San Fran
cisco to New York to take direction of
the trial Mr.. Delmas has been quoted
as admitting that the ''unwritten law
may be the deltllse llnallN ueclueu upon.
District Attorney jerome will have per-
sonal charge of the prosecution. He de-
clared he will introduce only such wit
nesses as are necessary to prove tr..t
Thaw had made threats against White
and the eye witnesses of the shooting. 1t
will be for the defense, he declares, 10
introduce any evidence bearing upon the
past lives of the principles. If this is gone
into, however, the district attorney viii
In W1fla "a
presentation of the prosecutions case
will require only two or three days, Il
is expected there will be great difficulty
in obtaining a jury and that the trial
may continue over period of four or
five weeks.