The National tribune., 1907-04-18
PEOPLE.

Charles F. W. Nicely. who was arrest
ed for shortage of $13a,424 in the
Cuban postal funds and who escaped
criminal prosecution thru the amnesty
provision of the Cuban-Spanish-Am
can treaty, is to be sued again by the
United States Government, which is
making an attempt to recover the
amount of the stolen money for the
Cuban Government, and which lost its
first suit
Mr.. Jones, as Special Assistant Attor-
ney-General, has succeeded in tying up
the 100000 cash bail that Nicely de-
posted with Commissioner Shields when
arrested, together with a 100000 bond
he gave the Cuban authorities. and ST.
600 which Nicely deposited with the now
defunct Seventh National Bank, and
which is in the hands of a receiver. |
There is also a fund of $4,000 that the |
postal authorities seized that has been
held up by Mr.. Jones.
The long trial of Harry X. Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White the dis
tinguished architect, came to an end
on Friday, April II, when The jury an
nounced their inability TO agree on a
verdict, seven being for conviction of
murder in the first degree and five in
favor of acquittal on the ground of in
sanity. The prisoners family were all |
present, his aged mother looking very |
pale and i'll under the fearful strain of |
the past II weeks, and his youthful |
wife also showing the effects of the |
racking ordeal thru which she has been |
passing. The little group received the |
report of the jury without demonstra- |
ton. smiling feebly at the prisoner as |
he was led away again to the Tombs |
Thaw will have a new trial, but not be- |
fore the Autumn, and it can well be |
imagined that the prospect of another
long Summer in prison will be extreme |
ly depressing to him and his devoted |
family. His lawyers will make an APP |
plication for bail, but Mr.. Jerome will
strenuously oppose this. The report of |
the jury was bitter disappointment to |
the prisoner and his family, who hoped |
for acquittal. or, the jury failing to |
agree, that the case would be dismissed |
from any further consideration. In |
their efforts to agree upon a verdict, |
the jurors wasted no time whatever on |
brain storms,' the unwrtten law" or |
"Dementia Americana but confined |
themselves TO a consideration of the |
case from a purely legal standpoint,
discussing at great length the question
as to whether Thaw was sane or insane
at the time he shot White. Lawyer Del
mas, in his summing up, was extremely |
melodramatic, his speech plentifully
larded with quotations from the Bible,
representing Evelyn Thaw as much
more sinned against than SHINING, and
Thaw as sort of modern st. George.
Jerome, in his summing up, was very
sarcastic in his references 70 what Del
mas had said, specially rdiculing the
term ''Dcmentia Americana which
Delmas had used to express Thaw's
mental condition. The District Attor-
ney INDUCED in no flights of oratory
whatever, but simply by his biting sar-
casm sought to show the utter weakness
of Delmas's appeal. Justice Fitzgerald
in his address of instruction to the jury
was felt to have added nothing to the
strength of Thaw's case. The public will
be greatly relieved to have a rest from
this notorious case which would have
no attention whatever had it
not been for the wealth of the Thaws
and the prominence of the gifted archi-
tect, White. A second trial will I'M
occupy very little space in
the papers, and receive little or no at
tention from anybody. 1t is not known
what the next step of Thaw's lawyers
will be.
1t seems altogether inconsistent and
to think of America, which
stands at the head of the Christian ma
tons of the world, furnishing idols to
a so-cal.ed heather nation. A man by
the name of Kavanaugh, whom the
Emperor of Japan had employed to
manage big coal mine in Korea, thot
he saw an opportunity to make money
by furnishing to the natives a certain
popular small god which they carried
about with them to keep off bad luck.
He came to this country in search of
a certain mineral called tiff" a glis-
tening, shiny stuff just suited for his
purpose. Curiously enough, before
leaving Korea he ran into woman
who had been laboring with
the Koreans for some time, trying to
induce them to abandon idol worship
and become good Christians and who,
without knowing for what purpose he
using the tiff directed him
% the lead and zinc district of Missouri
where this mineral is found in Target
quantities. The missionary gave him
A letter of Introduction to her brOther,l
who lives in Kansas City, and without =
4 single prick of the conscience he i'm
nediately sailed for America to obtain :,
he desired material for his idols. In
LII probability the ministers will get
after him before he is allowed to carry 3
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