The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04

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denly. faced Mr.. White and deliberate
/ ly shot him through the brain. the
| bullet entering the eye. Mr.. White
was dead.
Fired Three Shots.
'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.
1.-THE defendant turned and, facing
the audience. held his revolver aloof
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"
Mr.. Garvan concluded by giving the
details of Thaw's arrest and indict-
ment by the prosecution.
Mr.. Garvan spoke less than 10 min
utes. always in converse t1onal tone.
Thaw sat with head downcast and face
flushed.
AS Mr.. Garvan took his seat. District
Attorney Jerome sprung a surprise by
asking the court to exclude all wit
nesseS in the case except the experts.
BY doing this, Mr.. Jerome at one blow,
disclosed the fact that Mrs. William
Thaw and Mrs. Harry Thaw are both
to take the stand for the defense. On
advice of Thaw's counsel they left the
room with all the other witnesses. May
Mckenzie was included in the list and
accompanied Mrs. Harry Thaw into
the court clerks office. Mrs. William
Thaw, who does not expect to take the
stand for several days. returned to her
hotel. Thaw's mother is expected to
testify to the prisoners eccentricitfes
as a youth.
The prisoner seemed greatly down.
cast at the exclusion of his mother
and wife. His only relatives left in
the room were his brothers and his
sister, Mrs. Carnegie.
First Witness Called.
The prosecution gave the court
room another surprise when Lawrence
White. the son of the dead architect.
was called as the first witness. Thaw
again fastened his eyes on 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 uniVer-
sity. His mother. he said now re-
sides at Cambridge, 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,
a boy named King, to the New York
theater. it was the last time he saw
his father alive.
Thaw's attorneys did not desire to
crossexamine the witness and he was
allowed to leave the stand.
The second witness was Warner Pax
ton. the engineer of Madison Square
garden. He was an eye witness of the
shooting and the arrest of ThaW. He
said that when he reached Thaw's side
he had been detained by a fireman and
an empIoye of the garden. who asked
him TO hold Thaw while they searched
for a policeman.
They were then in front of an eleva-
tor and Thaw said to him:
We've got to go down in the eleva-
tor. Why can't we go now?"
Paxton said he replied that it was
good idea and they started down.
I'VE went into the elevator" the wit
ness continued. land Thaw admitted
that he did it, saying he ruined my
wife,
A woman whom he thought was
Thaw's wife replied to this: But look
at the fix you are in now" and Thaw
replied to her: We'll, dearie, 1 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 identified a plan of the
roof garden and pointed out the posi-
ton of the actors in the tragedy.
He was not cross examined
Handwriting Expert Appears.
David n. Carvalho, the handwriting
expert, was a new figure in the case to-
day.
He sat just beside Harry Thaw and
evidently has been summoned to testi-
fy for the defense. No statement as to
what will be shown by Mr.. Carvalho
would be made by Thaw's counsel
Myer Cohen, a song writer and man
ager of the house which published the
music of ''Mam'selle Champagne" was
called as the third witness for the state.
Mr.. Cohen was on the Madison
Square roof garden the night of the
tragedy. He saw Thaw there for the
first time during the initial act of the
musical comedy. Cohen described on
diagram the position of the table at
which White sat. When asked by Mr..
Garvan to indicate Thaw's manner of
approaching the architect that evening,
the witness left the stand and walking
illustrated the slow pace which he de-
clared characterized Thaw's delibera-
ton in approaching his victim.
He walked up to Mr.. Whites table
like this said the witness, indicating.
He made a slight detour, and coming
up to Mr.. White from behind, suddenly
faced him and fired three times"
The witness did not take part in the
events which Immediately followed the
shooting.
Dolphin NJ. Delmas. of counsel for the
defense, made his first entrance into the
acuVltles OF the trial by cross-examln-
ing Cohen briefly as to the position he
occupied with reference to the principals
in the tragedy. These were the only
questions put to the witness by the de-
fenSe.
During the examination of the wit
nesses who followed Stanford Whites
son on the stand, the defendant took
a lively interest in all that was said.
He looked at the witnesses intently and
from time to time made notes of their
testimony.
Mr.. Delmas' participation in the case
was productive of a new interest in the
examination were clear cut and COM
nrsheEsiNe When he Secuced the an