Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-04
THAw's CHANCES TO WIN.
His Imposing Array Of Counsel-Six
Against Two.

NEW YORK, February Aft numerical
strength of counsel amounts to anything
Harry Thaw has a three-to-one chance of
winning his fight for life. He has six
| lawyers arrayed against District Attorney
Jerome and Assistant District Attorney
Caravan, who alone are handling the case
for the prosecution. OF course, Mr.. Jerome
has had the assistance of every member of
his tremendous force in preparing the case,
but he and Garvan are the only ones
known in the court room. Thaws sextet
of legal luminaries sit either side of
long table which is pointed directly at the
witness stand. Thaw occupies the far end
of the table SO he can both see and be
seen by the person testifying. Seven or
eight feet away from the prisoner sits his
diminutive guard. In catch-as-catch-can
wrestling bout between Thaw and the
guard the prisoner would be 10 to l
favorite. After all, however. the guard
quirements-Harry Thaw wouldn't run
away If he could. Nothing can convince
him that he was not legally and morally
justified in taking Stanford Whites life,
The Court Room.
The court room in which Thaw Is being
tried is rallied off into three main sections.
The first of the cross-wise ratings leaves
a compartment occupied by the bench, the
witness stand, the clerks desk, the raised
jury box and space for opposing counsel.
The district attorney and his assistant in
the Thaw case have the exclusive occu-
pancy Of this space, although ThawS coun-
sci are entitled to enter it as often and
whenever they please, and John B. Glea-
son, who may open for the defense, is ex
pected to speak from within this first COM
partment which brings him into immediate
touch with the jury
Between the first and second barriers are
- <oLl lob,
reporters work, and near the first Of these
Is Thaws counsel table. The attorneys on
one side of this table and the prisoner him
self "a are in such close proximity to some 1
tinguished with difficulty by strangers first
entering the room. Just back of Thaw
areNtwo rows of four chairs each. These
are occupied by the Thaw family. In the
first row the Countess of Yarmouth, who is
much respected and admired, usually occu-
pies the aisle chair. Next to her sits Ed
| George Lauder Carnegie, the prisoners
brother-in-law. In the second row Mrs.
William Thaw, the prisoners aged mother,
| has the chair on the aisle. Mrs. George
| usually at her right. Mrs. Harry Thaw
| is next in the row, and May Mackenzie sits
a tiny speck of purple at the far end, the
| most inconspicuous place assigned to the
| family party. The second compartment
also contains about thirty chairs, which
are reserved ordinarily for witnesses and
members or the bar.
The Court Environs.
The third and last compartment of the
room contains five rows of chairs extend
| ing the width of the room, which is about
| forty-ive feet. These benches are gen.
orally set over to the use of the public,
but in the Thaw case the public Is rep
resented only by the newspaper brigade and
q few scattering friends Of the court off,
GERS who possess pull of unusual draw
ing power. The difficulty Thaw would find
| in getting out Of the court room In a mad
break for liberty is not much greater than
even the newspaper men who are in daily
attendance find in effecting an entrance
The first guard of blue-coated policemen,
adorned in their new bell-top military caps
in lieu of the long familiar helmets is
ing to the main floor of the criminal courts
building. After satisfying these sentinels
that one has legitimate business in the
court house 1t Is necessary to pass through
tails of the court room are reached. Once
through with the policemen-and the New
York specimen Is surly person to deal
with IL you are not a friend or a friend
of friend of his-the bailins remain to
be dealt with, and no matter how oftenaone
goes in and out they are always ready
with challenge. In New York every re-
porter must carry police card which
bears his name, the name of his paper
and the signature of Gen. Thomas A. Bing-
ham, the commissioner of police. These
cards are issued anew and taken up the
nrst OF every month. On Friday last some
Of the reporters, who had become lost to q
sense of time through the duh sameness
forgot that 1t was February and showed
their January cards to the coppers. The
opportunity~to be cross-patches was too
good for the blue coats to miss: and they
r,oA uv>ov< all a<>akr Of