Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04
The ThaW Murder Case Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past
 50 Quickly is It Moving
STATE HAS CLOSED
All the Evidence For the Prosecution Was Taken ia a Very Few Min- utes and the Defense Began
 10 Show Its Hand.

New York, Feb 4.-There was a delay in resuming the trial of Harry K. Thaw before Justice Fitzgerald to-day owing to the formalities at tending the postponing of the Feb ruary term of court. which was scheduled to begin this morning. The regular panel of 100 February jurors added to the last of the special jurors in the Thaw case. some 125 in num- Der, crowded the court room to over- flowing and kept even the newspaper men from their assigned places. Thaw's trial having been begun in the January term that term will hold }until the case Is disposed of. During the wait for Thaw's trial to go on rumors continued to fly thick and fast as to the possibility of the two more jurors being removed be- fore District Attorney Jerome would be content to have the case proceed. No confirmation of the reports was possible and it was said that If de- cision had been reached no announce ment would be made until court had convened.
 When the February jurors had been dismissed and Justice Fitzgerald had taken the bench there at once began a conference of attorneys at the judges desk.
 Thaw apepared a trifle flushed as ne took his place at the end of the table assigned to his counsel.
 Back of him sat his mother, Mrs William Thaw; his sister, Mrs Car negie; Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and May Mackenzie. Edward and Josiah Thaw were also present. the only family absentee being the Countess of Yarmouth.
 All the witnesses for. the. prosecu- tion were In court this morning. They were only the eye witnesses of the tragedy on the Madison Square roof garden. Some witnesses said to have been summoned by the defense also were in court, although the list of those who are to appear for Thaw has not been made public.
 Whatever the pressure District At- torney Jerome brought to bear on Thaw's attorneys fer the release of additional jurors 1t was in vain. At the end of the last conference on the subject held at Justice Fitzgeralds desk, Assistant District Attorney Gar van arose quietly and in a voice so low that his first sentence could hardly be heard, began the opening address for the prosecution and the actual hearing of the famous case was on. MT Garvan congratulated the jurors on their body having been completed and then outlined the pur- port of the law. which was not seek ing for vengeance. but to uphold the security of the state.
 He urged the importance of the case and a strict observance of the law in order that fair verdict might be reached.
 Now the claim of the people, he said, that on the night of June 25, 1906, the defendant "shot and killed with reconciliation and intent to kill' one Stanford White.
 He then briefly outlined the move- ments of Mir White. beginning with the Saturday preceding the tragedy, and ending with the actual scene of the shooting on the Madison Square roof garden.
 Mir Garvan told how Stanford White had on June 25 last taken his son, Lawrence. and a schoolmate of the latter to dinner at the Cafe Mar tin. The boys had bought tickets to the New York theater roof garden and declined an invitation of Stan- ford White to accompany him to the Madison Square roof garden.
 Stanford white," said Mir Gar van. went to the Madison Square roof garden and sat alone at one of the small tables there, watching the first production of a play called 'Mam'zelle Champagne
 The defendant was there with his wife and two friends. Truxton Beale and Thomas McCaleb. The defen- dant let his party go ahead and he Jagged behind. Passing the table 1 where Stanford White was sitting. this defendant wheeled suddenly. faced Mir White and deliberately shot him through the brain. the bullet entering the eye.
 MT White was dead.
 "The defendant did not know this. He feared he had not completed his work and he fired again, the bullet penetrating Whites chest. Still, to make sure. he fired a third time.
 "Mr White. or rather the body of Mir White. tumbied to the floor.
 The defendant turned and facing the audience he held his revolver sloft with the barrel upside down to indicate that he had completed what he had intended to do. The big audience understood. There vas no panic"
 Mr Garvan concluded by giving the details Of Thavis arrest and iu- dictmeut by the prosecution
 Nr Garvan spoke les than ten fn a conversational tone Thav sat with head downeasf and lace 1ushed-
 As Mr 0arvan took his eat. pb- lB5a AttprDsy Jerune sDranr . sur-