Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-11
Asked for Exhibits.

BY asking that the testimony be read it
jury might be trying to determine with
what degree of elaboration Thaw shot
White
When the jurors took their seats Justice
Fitzgerald said: "A communication from
the ury saying, Kindly let us have the
following for examination: First, the plan of
the roof garden: second, defendants letters,
Exhibits =. to l; third, the Comstock let
ter; fourth. the will and codicil; fifth, the
Delmas Hypothetical question, and sixth,
the jerome hypothetical question:
Il have objection, said MI Jerome
Juror No. / got up to ask if they might
not have the transcript of the letters and
will. 1t was decided to give them both the
transcripts and the originals.
While the clerk was reading the testi-
mony of the district attorneys clerks
held up the diagram on the rail in front
OF the jurors. The jury listened to the
reading with most concentrated attention.
The jurors also wanted to hear the testi-
mony of Paul Brudi, the fireman, who took
Thaw's revolver away from him. 1t was
apparent that the jurors were not quite
clear on what had occurred before the
shooting and wanted light on his (Thaw's)
actions before the killing, for they also
wanted the evidence of Warren Paxton,
who had been another witness to the oc-
curences of the night of June %.
Then a juror asked for the reading of the
evidence of James Clinch Smith, Whites
brother-in-law, who testified to Thaws con-
versation with him before the tragedy.
Police Learn Lesson.
The police had learned their lesson from
yesterdays crowd, and the corridors of the
criminal courts building looked more like
the halls of a court house and less like a
foot ball field than they did yesterday
The corridors We're swept clear of all those
who did not have some valid excuse for
being there Consequently the crowd
which yesterday filled the corridors today
gathered in the streets outside the building
Franklin street was full of a gaping
crowd of men and women who stood at at
tent!on, as if something was likely to leak
out through the cracks of the windows or
under the sills of the doors. Every time
anybody who looked like one whose picture
the crowd had ever went into the
building there was rush to look at him.
Every lawyer who had case in the
building today got more attention than If
he had been a pitcher on a championship
base ball team.
Watched the Bridge.
Over i'll White street there was another
. crowd watching the Bridge of Signs. None
of them knew exactly what he expected to
see, but each one surely anticipated seeing
| something and was on his toes every
minute.
Every time there was shadow cast
on the bridge from the Tombs to the
court building some one would yell.
There he comes! But 'he" did not
come. and the crowd still waited ex-
pectantly.
There were runners of all sorts, and
i il was possible to hear almost any re-
port as TO the way the balloting of the
jury stood One fountainhead of rumor
scattered the report that the jurors had
been voting 10 to in favor of ac-
quittal and that the two disagreeing ones
were holding out for murder in the first
degree. Another rumor had the iury
to q, and still another report had it that