Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-11-26
THAW TRIAL PUT on
JANUARY CALENDER
Was 10 Have Been Begun o. De.
cembsF 2, Bit Counsel Counsel Agree
to Pos|pDnemsnt.
coulO NOT GET JURY HOLIDAY.
Lawyers Ready and Thaw is Eager
to Get Back in the Court Room,
But Great Hardship Would be I'm.
p'scd Upon Jurymen a, This Season
Il the Year. 4sa s,
lBy Associated prcssl

NcW AOhk, NOV. 2J.-Onc week
from today Harry Kendall Thaw
WAS to have been placed on trial for the
second time, charged with the muir.
der of Stanford White. but today it
WAS decided to postpone the trial be.
cause of the difficulty in securing a
jury in the holiday season.
T:aw. in his cell In the famous old
Tombs prison. which he has occupied
since the night of the tragedy on
Madison Square Roof Garden June %,
1906. is planning FOR his second trial
with the same confidence of acQuittal
That he prepared for the first ordeal.
He daily ADVISES with his counsel,
chafes at the delays already encoun.
tered in getting his story before n
second jury and is impatient for his
days in court TO begin.
1t Is nearly year since the first
trial was begun. II covered a period
OF twelve weeks and after two days
and two nights of elaboration tho
Jury could not agree. Seven of the
twelve men who heard the dramatic
recital of Evelyn Ncstdt Thaw-a
story of alleged wrongful treatment!
at the hands Of the noted architect:
a story that was flashed BY telegraph
and cable to every part of the civil
lied world and read as one of the
most remarkable utterances ever
heard In court room-failed to be-
lieyc that her confession to her hus.
band justified him three years later
In 70 Of -
with the ruin of his ehorus.girl wife.
They voted fo:. guilty of murder in
the first degree. Five of the Jurors.
on the other hand. werc ready TO ac.
n,lit. most of them believing that
Thaw's mind had been so upset over
tic story OF the girls downfall that
he was hercft of reason and was en-
titlel-.to-- that provision of the law
which excuses person so insane as
not TO know the nature or quality of
his act and not to know that the ac.
is wrong. At the police station the
night of the tragedy and afterward in
tho city prison, Harry Thaw contend.
I'd he was acting as an agent of
Providence in sending Stanford White
TO his grave.
Great Interest In Defense.
Great interest centcrs In the course
OF the defense at the coming trial.
It is generally believed that despite
any ideas of justification which Thaw
NAV entertain. his present lawyers
will coniine themselves to making
out n case OF legal insanity. This
may be emotional" or hereditary.
both of these phases of the matter
having been gone into ut the first tri.
nj. Six or seven alienists took the
stand nj that hearing and testified
that Thaw had been driven insane
hv the story told him when he and
the girl who was to become his wife
we're stopping together in Paris. Dr.
Triton D. Evans. superintendent Of
tho New Jersey State Hospital for
The Insane. made q Worldwide sti
Ivy expressing Thaw's condition Of
mind tho hight Of the tragedy as a
"hrainstorm." The dark clouds had
been gathering for year or more.
he declared, aud when Thaw saw
White "glOwering" at him on the roof
garden. at the first night of SIM.
'ner cxtravag anza known as Mile.
Champagne the storm broke nnI
Thaw fred
District Attorney jerome conihattcd
this plea with the testimony OF seven
experts. all Of whom declared that
Tliaws insanity was not such rs to
deprive him OF knowledge as to the
wrongful nature of his act Notwith-
standing this. however. they agreed
with District Attorney Jerome that
TEaw was medically insane not only
at the timn of the shooting. Int
throughout tho trial dnr!ng which