Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-25
Today's Telegraphic News
The fhaw Trial.

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New York, Jan. 25.-.Great care Is
being taken to guard the ThaH jury six
of whom hsve been selected) In order to
preclude mistrial or a miscarriage OF
Justice. Never in the annals Of criminal
trials in this city has jury been kept
under such close watch. In order to
prevent possible illness the food of the
Jurors is inspected. The jury is living
at the Broadway Central Hotel where a
suite of rooms has been engaged
Before the opening of the trial today
Il was predicted that the attorneys for
the defense would Immediately seek to
have Harry @. Harvey, the fifth juror
selected late last evening, withdrawn
from the panel. II was learned over
night that Harvey has served on jury
which sentenced man TO the electric
chair despite an insanity plea for killing
his boarding house mistress. Later
Governor Higgins COMMITTED the SEN
ience. Dan O. Reilly one of Thaw's at
torneys, today upset the superstition that
the defense would object to Harvey.
ave went on the assumption that
man who has voted TO put man 10
death on one occasion, will never vote
for an execution second time" declsr
ed O'Rellly. ave want Harvey on the
jury" It is now predicted that Harvey
will be challenged by the State.
Mrs. Charles J. Holman, mother Of
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. positively will t
lift her finger to aid the state in the
prosecution OF her son-iu.lsw, Harry X.
Thaw, for the murder of Stanford White,
If statement published in the Evening
Journal today is correct, In this state
ment, published under Pittsburg date,
and over the signature Of Mrs Holman,
the latter Is quoted as saying: 1.-The
stories that | an seeking vengeance are
absolutely false There is no truth in
any of them and am going 10 state
right here lin Pittsburgh that under no
confederation will be present st the
Thaw trial. either as witness or az
spectator, There ia nothing that could
tempt me 10 cIy for vengeance against
any one, let alone my own flesh and
blood. am going to let them fight it
out alone. and II there ia anythiny l
know they will never learn 1t from me,
Under no circumstances could l be in.
duced TO take the stand for the prosecu-
ton in this case"
Three days Of the trial have suffoed
to prove that the bullets which snuiied
out the life of the architect on Madison
Square Garden resulted in double
tragedy. They have served to prove
that j1st as certainly as those shots
checked the career of White, just so Ger.
tainly did they bring down the curtain
on the butterfly life Of Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, the ex- princess of the chorus, the
beautiful and petite goddess of New
York's gilded Bohemia former toast of
Broad wy. A trembling little wisp Of
femininity, q mere shadow Of the sweet
faced girl set the faded heart of the
blsse Stanford White 8 beating, but q
suggestion OF the Evelyn Nesbit 10 pursuit
of whom the Pittsburg multi-millionaire
went flashing to Europe, sits in the court
room the focus OF hundreds Of eyes. She
answers to the name Of Evelyn, yet she is no
more the Evelyn to whom Broadway dram
ed its glasses tlIsn is that piece of crumbling
clay in the little Long Island cemetery, tie
White who Tired for years in the glare Of
the great white wsy. Artists used to rave
oTer Evelyn Neabit. Today they would
weep. Fairas lily, she has faded as sud
denly A sensitive plant that would have
dropped at touch, she mas withered in the
relentless grasp Of fate. No one could l)ok at
this child Of adventure. land despite her
stormy life, she is still a child, with
ont feeling a touch Of pity for her. Evelyn
is today FIR from being the beautiful
subject Of Charles Dana Gibson's Eternal
Question" The rose has left her cheeks and
the beautiful contour has given way to sunken
places The once glorious eyes are nov red
and tear.Btained, while the figure. always
delicate and finely chiselled, now seems bit
shrunken and TO Re giving waE under the
great load the small shoulders have been
called on to bear. The hair, no longer dressed
with care and painstlking. Is anything but
Growing beauty as she sits in the crowded
conrt oblivious 10 all save the incidents af'
fecting him in whom all her thoughts are
centred