The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-12
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TESTIMONY I'M
THE THAW CASE


NEW 1OltNs FEBRUARY e. mere was
a delay i'm resuming the Thaw trial
owing to the formalites attending the
postponing of the February term Of
court, which was scheduled to begin
this morning.
When the February jurors had been
dismissed Assistant District Attorney
Garvan rose quietly and in a very low
tone began the opening address for the
prosecution, and the famous case was
on.
Caravan spoke only ten minutes
1t was the claim of the people. he
said, that upon the night of June %,
1906, the defendant "shot and killed
with generalization and intent to kill
one Stanford White. He briefly out
lined the movements of White, begin
ming with the Saturday preceding the
tragedy and ending with the scene of
the shooting on the Madison-square
Roof Garden
Caravan told how Stanford White had
on June 25th last taken his son Law
renee and a schoolmate of the latter
to dinner at the Cafe Martin. The boys
had bought tickets to the New York
Theater Roof Garden and declined an
invitation of Stanford White to ac-
company him to the Madison-square
Roof Garden.
TELLS STORY OF SHOOTING.
stanford White went to the Madi-
son-square Roof Garden and sat alone
at one of the small tables there, watch
ing the first production of a play call
ed 'Mamsen Champagne. The de-
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two friends Truxtum Beale and Thomas
McCaleb. The defendant walked con-
stantly about the place. In the middle
of the second act the defendants party
started to leave the roof. The defend
ant let his party go ahead and he
Jagged behind. Passing the table
where White was sitting, the defend
ant faced MI White and deliberately
shot him through the brain, the bullet
entering the eye. Mr. 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 cheek. Still, to
make sure, he fired a third time. Mr..
White, or rather the body of Mr. White,
tumbled to the floor.
"The defendant turned and, facing
the audience, held his revolver aloft
with the barrel upside down to indi-
cate that he had completed what he
intended to do. The big audience un-
derstood. There was no panic" Car
van concluded by giving the details of
Thaw's arrest and indictment
ALL WITNESSES EXCLUDED.
| As Caravan took his seat, District At
/ torney jerome sprung a surprise by
asking the Court 10 exclude all wit
nesses in the case except the experts.
| By doing this Jerome disclosed the fact
| that Mrs. William Thaw and Mrs. Har-
ry Thaw are both to take the stand for
the defense. On advice of Thaws cOun-
sci they left the court room with all
| the other witnesses. May Mackenzie
was included in the list and accom-
| panied Mrs. Harry Thaw into the Court
| Clerks office. Mrs. William Thaw, who
did not expect to take the stand for
several days. returned to the hotel.
! The prisoner seemed greatly downcast
at the exclusion of his mother and wife.
! His only relatives left in the room
were his brothers and his sister Mrs.
| Carnegie.
The prosecution gave the courtroom
another surprise when Lawrence
White, son of the dead architect, was
called as the first witness. Thaw
again fastened his eyes upon the table
before him and did not once look at
the witness.
Young White said he was 10 years
| old and a student at Harvard. His
mother, he said, now resides at Cam
| bridge, Mass. White was on the
stand but a few minutes He told of
accompanying his father to the Cafe
Martin for dinner, and said that when
he left him to go, with his chum,
| boy named King, to the New York
Roof Garden it was the last time he
saw his father alive.
Thaw's attorneys did not desire to
cross-examine the witness and he was
allowed to 60
The second witness was Warner
Paxton the engineer of the Madison
Square Roof Garden. He was an eye-
witness of the shooting and the ar
rest of Thaw. He said that when
he reached Thaws side he had
been detained by a fireman and
an employe of the garden, who asked
him to hold Thaw while they went
for a policeman. They were then in
front of an elevator and Thaw said
to him. We've got to go down in the
elevator, Why can't we go now?"
THAW TALKED OF HIS CRIME.
Paxton replied that it was a good
idea, and they started down I'VE
went into the elevator" the witness
continued and Thaw admitted that he
did it, saying: He ruined my wife ="
A woman who he though was Thaw's
wife replied to this: But look at the
fix you are in now" and Thaw replied
to her: "Well. dearie, have probably
saved your life"
on reaching the ground floor Thaw
requested some one to telephone
George Carnegie, his brother-in-law,
that he was in trouble The witness
was not cToss-eXamined.
Meyer Cohen, a song writer and