Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-11-26
SECOND TRIAL OF
 THAW NEXT MONDAY
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 Delmas as chief counsel will be Martin w. Littleton of Brooklyn. Mir. Little ton is known as capable lawyer and brilliant orator. At the democratic ma tional convention of 1904 it was he who nominated Alton B. Parker for the presidency. Mir. Littleton is a south ern man, having been born in Tennes- see just thirty-five years ago. He is what is generally termed lf.made man, having educated himself. He be gan the practice of law in 1891 and, moving to Dallas, Tew.s, served there for term as assistalt prosecuting at torney. Later he rCmoved to Brooklyn and at once becaae a prominent figure in politics and at the bar. For four years he was Assistant district attorney of Kings county and under the first Mcclellan administration in Greater New York, vas president of Brooklyn Borough. Just who will be associated with Mir. LitSleton may not be def nitely known until the day the trial begins. At pres,nt Daniel o Reilly and A. Russell Peabody are the only mem bers of the former array of counsel credited with being in Thaw's service. Because of Thaw's impetuosity it was not always kilown dllrng the former trial just who his attorneys might be the next day. The opening day of the coming trial undoubtedly will settle whatever misunderstanding may exist among counsel. It is the hope of the prisoners friends that his cause may not be hampered this time by the wran- gles among counsel which were frequent last winter.
 There is much speculation as to whether or not Evelyn Nesbtt Thaw, the schoolgirl.like figure about which the storm and'tempest of the first trial beat its fury, will again take the stand in her husband s defense. A report has been current for some time that she will not, but the Thaw case has always been surrounded by every class of ru- nor and suggestion that human ingenu- ity can invent. A definite decision as to the matter of placing the girl again upon the stand may not be arrived at until the trial is we'll under way. With out her testimony there would be diff culty in making out sace of emotional
 nsanity--a defense which would have to be relied upon to gain Thaw abso- lute freedom. If medical or hereditary insanity be the plan of the defense, the best Thaw can hope Tor is an in definite commitment to the state hos pital for the criminal insane at Mas teawan.
 Neither Thaw nor his wife relishes the idea of placing the girl at the mercy of another cross examination by Mir. Jerome, who, unmoved by her tears or her burning cheeks of shame, forced her to admit the long-eontinued rela- tions which admitted between her and Stanford White, and to tell the jury in plain words of the two European tours she made with Thaw before be- coming his wife. IL was on one of these tours, the girl declared, that Thaw de- manded to know of her the reason why she would not consent to become his wife. Then she told him her life story and of the alleged wrong which was claimed to have ruined her career. Told for second time the wonderful story might lose much of the dramatic effect of it's first offering, and it is not gen orally believed that young Mrs. Thaw, in the knowledge of the cross examin- ation that would come, could hold her self together as we'll as she did at the first trial, when Jerome freely pro claimed her as one of the best witnesses he had ever heard anywhere.
 The second trial may not last more than few weeks. Its length will de- | pend almost entirely upon the time re- quired in securing jury. This is ex- pected to be tedious work, as there are few persons in New York county who did not read the details of the former trial and who have not some prejudice or bias in the question of Thaw's guilt. Once the jury box is filled, however, the attorneys expect to move forward rap idly and with few interruptions.