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human life. After proving that fact
to you, we will ask you to find the
defendant guilty of the crime of muir
der in the first degree"
Neither Harry Thaw nor any of his
people showed by any outward sign
that they heard Jerome's assistant.
After Mr.. Garvan took his seat,
District Attorney Jerome sprang a
surprise by asking the court to ex-
clude all witnesses in the case except
experts. BY doing this Mr.. Jerome
disclosed the fact that Mrs. William
Thaw, the prisoners mother, and
Mrs. Harry Thaw, his wife, were both
to take the stand for the defence.
On advice of Thaw's counsel they left
the courtroom with all the other wit
nesses. May Mckenzie, Evelyn Mes
bits chorus girl chum, was included
in the list and accompanied Mrs.
Harry Thaw into the court clerks
office. Mrs. William Thaw is expect
ed to testify to the prisoners eccen-
tricities as a youth. The prisoner
seemed greatly downcast at the ex-
clusion of his mother and wife. His
only relatives left in the room were
his brothers and his sister, Mrs. Car
negie.
The first witness was then called.
He was Lawrence White, a Harvard
student, nineteen years old, and a
son of the dead architect. 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
companion, a 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 leave the stand.
Warren Paxton, the engineer Of
the Madison Square Garden, followed
young White on the stand. He had
known Stanford White for sixteen
years. On the night of the shooting
he was on the roof garden. Paxton
sent for a policeman after the muir
der. There "a some delay in get
ting the policemen and Thaw re-
marked:
Cant I go down the elevator
now? 1 do not want to disturb these
people here" Thaw, Paxton said,
was referring to the audience.
Paxton continued:
81 saw Mrs. Thaw and two men
near the elevator. Thaw here re-
marked: 4 shot him because he
ruined my wife
"Then Mrs. Thaw threw her arms
around the defendants neck and
said: Yes, but look at the fix you
are in now
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naracter Creates Atmosphere.

1t is a marvellous thing to see how
a pure and innocent heart purihes all
that it approaches. The most Zero
cious natures are soothed and tanned
by innocence, and so with human be-
ings; there is a delicaey so pure that
vicious men in its presence become,
almost pure; all of purity which is
in them is brought out; like attaches
itself to like.
The pure heart becomes a centre
of attraction, round which similar
atoms gather, and from which dis
similar ones are repealed. A corrupt
heart ELECTS in an hour all that is
bad in us; a spiritual n brings out
and draws to itself all that is best
and purest.
Such was Christ. He stood in the
world, the Light of the world, to
which all sparks of light gradually
gathered. He stood in the presence
of impurity and men became pure
T. w. Robertson.
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After Jersey Corporations.

Vice-Chancellor Bergen fined the
J. A. Van Wrinkle Company SIS and
costs for contempt OF court, at Tren-
ton. The contempt consisted in the
fact that the company continued to
carry on business after it's charter
powers had been revoked by the court
of %chancery for failure to pay it's
taxes. The proceedings were in the
nature of a test case brought by the
Attorney-Genera to enforce the
States claims against delinquent cor
porations, many of which have been
ignoring the courts DEGREES. Gov
ernor Stokes will Don issue a procla-
nation revoking the charters of about
1900 New Jersey corporations for
non-payment of taxes.
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THAW DEFENCE HEREDITARY
INSANITY AND EPILEPSY
Prosecution Completes Its Case
Against Whites Slayer.
SPEED IN FAMOUS MURDER TRIAL
Peoples Side Begun and Finished in
Two Hours - Opening Address
Made by Assistant District At
torney Caravan.

New York City.-Two hours to the
minute "a the time taken by the
prosecution in presenting to the jury
the case against Harry K. Thaw, who
is on trial in the criminal branch of
the Supreme Court for the murder of
Stanford White on the Madison
Square Roof Garden on June rs last.
Orders were given to exclude every
n from the courtroom with the ex-
ception of the talesmen and those
who had immediate business there,
so the police had their hands full, as
with the coming of the first day of
the real trial they were assaulted by a
horde of men and women vainly seek
ing admittance.
1t was 1915 o'clock when Assist
ant District Attorney Caravan began
the opening address for the State. At
12.45 O'Clock, after calling nine wit
nesses, Mr.. Jerome announced that
the prosecution rested. He had
made good his promise of presenting
his case at the first session. With
his closing, and after the notice he
had given, the defence was prepared
to open for Thaw when court con-
vened again in the afternoon.
All of Harry Thaw's own people,
except his sister, the Countess of
Yarmouth, and his brother-in-law,
George L. Carnegie, heard the young,
~clean-cut Garvan arraign him for the
death of Stanford White.
Mr.. Garvan told how Stanford
White had on June 20 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 Theatre roof garden
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In All Parts of the State.

Rev. DR.. Riddle, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Of Wildwood, has re-
signed and removed to Philadelphia.
While returning from a funeral
Mrs. Armenius Alba, of Fieldsbor-
ough fell on a slippery plank and
fractured two ribs.
A. l.. Williams, one of Vineland's
mail carriers, has resigned, after
thirteen years and eight months of
service, to enter the foundry business
with his father and brother.
According to records of the Salem
city water plant, at Trenton, 205,-
e34,606 gallons of water were
pumped three miles during the first
year.
After several years service as SUI
pervising principal of Beverly's pub
lie schools, Professor William P. Cur
tbs has resigned to accept a similar
position at Wharton, his home.
Many friends of Charles Mace, a
pioneer Anglesea hotel proprietor,
were his guests at a celebration of
the sixty-second anniversary of his
birth.
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"Thaw said \to her: It's all right,
dearie. I have\probably saved your

"Thaw said Nto her: It's all right,
dearie. I have probably saved your
life.'"
A big drawing showing the Madi-
son Square Roof Garden was then
shown to the jury and Mr.. Caravan
explained to the jurors the relative
positions of Thaw and White at the
time of the shooting.
Meyer Cohen, a singer, and Henry
F. Blease, in the music publishing
business, both tof whom witnessed the
shooting, were examined. The first
move by the defence toward cross
| examination vas made when Dolphin
M. Delmas, the noted California law,
| yer, put a fewEquestions to Cohen.
Paul Brudi, the fireman who seized
/ and disarmed Thaw, was the fifth
witness. His story corroborated
those told by the preceding wit
nesses. All the evidence submitted
by the prosecution was straightfor-
ward; merely simple account of how
Thaw went to the Madison Square
| Garden roof and shot down the man
he hated.
Patrolman Patrick L. Debs, who
arrested .Thaw, was called. He iden-
titled the pistol, the bullets and empty
shells.
did you have any conversation
with Thaw?" asked Mr.. Caravan.
81 did," he replied. 81 asked the
prisoner if he had shot Stanford
White, and he said, 4 did, 1 then
asked him why he shot him, and he
said, Because he ruined my WIFE
or life"
Timothy Leblanc, coroner's physi-
clan, who performed the autopsy on
Stanford Whites body, described the
wounds made by the three bullets.
DR.. Sylvester Pechner, who was
with a party on the Madison Square
Roof Garden the might of the tragedy,
followed. DR.. Pechner examined
White soon after he fell, and pro-
nounced him dead. The architects
death must have been instantaneous,
he declared. He then saw the de-
PENDANT break his gum or put it
out of firing condition, and hold it
aloft. Just after this, Fireman Brudi
took the nan in charge.
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Artesian Water in Jersey.

Delawanna and East Nutley have a
new kind of water to drink, the Yam
tacaw Water Company, which has the
franchise for supplying these towns
with artesian water, having put their
plant into operation. The plant has
a capacity of over 100000 gallons a
day, and the householders will be
supplied at the fiat rate of $25 a year
for each house regardless of quantity
of water used. The water company
has the franchise for Clifton, Rich
field, Athena, Atwood and a few
other places and these towns and Dor
oughs will be supplied as fast rs
mains can be laid.
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nearly all the time were glued to the
witnesses in the chair. Only once
did he betray any sign of emotion,
and that was when the coroner's
physician was telling the story of the
autopsy. Then Thaw, who had let
his head slip forWard. into his hands,
looked as though he might be brood
ing, but at a nudge from Mr.. Pea
body he sat up again and a stolid
look came into his face as if he were
prepared for the worst. Only once
or twice did he whisper to his coun-
sel-the proceedings in front of him
were going on at too rapid a rate to
allow any side remarks. When the
prisoner entered the courtroom there
had been a slight flush in his face,
| which was attempting to Danish the
prison pallor. The flush grew for a
time and then faded as the last wit
nesses came.
After a brief recess John B. Glea-
son, who opened for Thaw, spoke for
an hour and a quarter. He stated
that the defense would rely on every
plea it could uphold, not excluding a
belief in the need of self-defence, but
his main argument came to this:
Thaw comes from a family with in
| sanity on both sides. He is of a high
| strung temperament, easily losing
! control of himself. For years he
| courted Evelyn Nesbit with the con-
| sent of her mother. For a time she
| refused him for some reason con-
T nected with White, which she herself
| will take the stand to explain. This
| aroused in him an insane hatred OF
| White, which his marriage, with the
| approval of all his relatives, did not
| remove. When he came upon the ar
| chitect in Madison Square Garden he
| believed he was there by the direct
| interposition of Providence, and as
! the direct agent of Providence he shot
/ and killed him. Stress and the in
/ fluences of heredity had turned his
| brain, and as an insane man he can
| not be held responsible for the acts
| committed under the influence of in
| sanity.
I'VE will show you,'' said Mr..
Gleason, that the defendant on the
| night of the shooting first saw White
| glowering at him and then became
| convinced that it would be an act of
| Providence for him to kill the archi-
| tect. Acting on that prompting, he
walked yer as coolly as he might go
to speak to a friend and shot that
nan He did not regard the act as
wrong. He considered that it was
| Gods providence and was not wrong.
| We say that upon the evidence it will
be impossible for you to say that at
the time Thaw shot White he was
sane beyond a reasonable doubt"
One sentence of Gleason's threw
wide open the closet, and the horror
Of it all burst upon the view. 1t was
as if the founder of the Thaw family
he who reared that monument of
| forty millions of dollars-had stalked
| upon the scene like the spectre King
| of Denmark, and cried:
1.-THE sins OF the father are visited
upon the children. Blame not my
| son-blame me-"
Mr.. EGleason said: 1--WE will show
| you, gentlemen of the jury, that in
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Women to Make an Ideal CITY.

The Civic League, composed prin-
cipally of the leading women of
Woodbury., has formulated a plan
which, if carried out, will do away
with corner loaing, abolish %expector-
ating Oh the streets, keep children off
the streets after dark, and introduce
sewing into the public schools. Miss
Elizabeth Matlack, president of the
League, is devoting much time to
these improvements.
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The Field of Sports.

Boxing clubs are doing very we'll
in New York just now.
1t is seldom that boxmen, once
they lose their grip, are able to re-
gain it.
Jack Dunn is working hard to get
a team of pennant winners for Balti-
more, for he gets a $1,000 bonus if
he turns the trick.
John J. McGrath, prominent as a
manager of semi-professional teams
In and around New York, has been
appointed manager of the Savannah
team OF the South Atlantic League
for 1907.
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and declined an invitation of Stan
ford White to accompany him to the
Madison Square roof garden.
stanford White" said Mr.. Gar
van, went to the Madison Square
root garden and sat alone at one of
the small tables there watching the
first production of a play called
'Mamzelle Champagne
THE defendant was there with his
wife and two friends, Truxton Beale
and Thomas McCaleb. The defend
ant walked constantly about the
place. In the middle of the second
act the defendants party started to
leave the roof. The defendant let his
party go ahead and he Jagged behind.
Passing the table where Stanford
White was sitting, this defendant
suddenly faced Mr. White and DELHI
erately shot him through the brain,
the bullet entering the eye.
"Mr. White was dead!
1.-THE defendant did not know this.
He feared he had not completed his
work and fired again, the bullet PEN
etrating Whites chest.
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, he held his revolver
aloft, with the barrel upside down,
to indicate that he had completed
what he had intended to do. The
big audience understood. There was
no panic"
Mr.. Garvan concluded by giving
the details of Thaw's arrest and in
dictment by the prosecution.
Thaw sat with head downcast and
face flushed.
Not once did Mr.. Garvan mention,
save casually and in order to make
the narrative complete, any name
save the names of the two principals
White and Thaw. In plain, but
impressive, manner, without waste
of a~djectives, Caravan sketched the
main lines of the big tragedy. These
were the last words:
Gentlemen of the jury, we expect
to show you this crime was the cruel,
malicious, p~remeditated taking of a
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The Field of Labor.

Unions in the Netherlands comprise
1921 members.
Davis, 7. IT,, reports the importa-
ton of 5000 Bohemians for railroad
construction work.
All Great Northern sections
throughout The Northwest will be
manned by negroes.
Horseshoers have obtained the
nine-hour day without reduction OF
pay in Toronto, Canada.
The inside electrical workers OF
San Francisco are on strike for an
increase Of wages from So to SO per
day
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Giant Granite RJoct-

The largest and heaviest single
block of granite ever sen into Can.
ada from the United States has Just
been shipped from g Barre CVt.)
quarry to Cote des Neiges, P. O., a
suburb of Montreal. The huge stone
is three and a quarter feet square
and thirty-two feet long and weighs
thirty-two tons. 1t was consigned
to J. Brunei. the sculptor.
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May it please Your Honor, the
State now rests its case, said Mr..
Jerome in almost an undertone. 1t
was 12.45 O'Clock. 1t had taken the
District-Attorney a little less than
two hours to offer his evidence in
chief in New York County's greatest
murder case.
Thaw listened to the recital of the
shooting for the most part in a mat
ter-of-fact way, although his eyes
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Matrimonial Lottery.

Gyer-"I know a man who paid 50
for a lottery ticket last month that
o $50O,O0O."
Myer-"You don't say!"
Fact. The ticket was a marriage
license and he drew an heiress." -
Chicago News.
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Force of Habit.

The manager of the fourteen-head-
ed magazine Topped off ten of the
heads.
Couldn't help it," he explained,
this thing of fighting the octopus
gets into che Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
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New Possibilities of the Auto.

Bones-"Why are you crawling
under the machine? There's nothing
the matter with it."
Jones-"I know it, but there comes
Brown. If he sees me with this auto
he'll expect me to pay him the money
I owe him."-Detroit Free Press.
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MY trust is o that I am holy. hut
that, being unholy. Christ died for
me. My rest is here, not in what l
am OF shall be, or feel or know, hut
in what Christ is and must be-in
what Christ did and is still doing as
He stands before yonder throne OF
glory.-C. II. SpuFgeon. !,
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Suicide Nipple Was DeepIv in Debt

A Coroner's jury of Philadelphia
brought IN a verdict that he had
committed suicide while insane in the
case OF Edward P. Nipple, brother of
the self-slain president of the Real
Estate Trust Company. Nipple was
heavily in debt. One Judgment en-
tered was for ~S120,414.66. 1t is
said that there are many other debts.
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Last Resorts.

why do you speak of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Daytro as social ct c~eteras?"
Because" answered Miss Cayenne,
"if you are getting up an invitation
list you write them down when you
can't think OF anything else. Wash
ington Star.
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His Symptoms.

81 think he weakened his heart
playing football"
"What were his symptoms?"
why, he married the girl vino at
tended every game in which he
played."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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h Worst of II.

"Och! don't be so lazy" said Fin
negan; "shure, the best way to find
out wat We can do is to try"
"Aye!" replied the indolent Flan-
agan, but that's the worst way to
find out what We can't do. "-Catholic
Standard and Times.
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Precipitate.

Baby Camel-"Mamma, can I have
a drink"
Mamma Canel-"Shut up! Why,
it was only five weeks ago that I gave
YOU one."-Princeton Tiger.
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West Pointers at jamestown.

Secretary Taft has ordered that the
West Point cadets be taken in a body
to the jamestown (Va.) Exposition.
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Railway Lease Threatened.

A bill has been introduced in the
Massachusetts, Legislature canceIling
the lease of the Boston and Albany
to the Central on the ground that
the lessee is not giving the citizens
the service to which they are en-
titled"
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UnfathomabIe.

Il cannot be your wife," she re-
piled, and added: This is final.''
He paced swiftly to and fro, several
times, then halted abruptly in front
of her.
Pray be candid with me-" he said,
not without til Apte of masculine inn
patience. AMI how inal?"
This was too much. She burst
into tears.
How a ! Aaowss she s0bssa'--
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Enough For Him.

Dandy-"So you were snowbound
out West. How horrible"
Jim-"Not much. The buffet car
and two pretty girls were attached to
the train."-Detroit Free Press.
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Current Cookery.

Waiter-"Yes, sir; we're very hup
to date ere. We cook heverythink
by helectricity."
Customer-"Oh, do you? Then
just give this steak another shock"
Punch.
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Leo Pard-"What the matter with
our friend Fox? He hasn't been play
ing the market lately"
c. Lyon-"Oh! He traded in Boa
Constructor preferred and got a ter
rible squeeze."-Philadelphia Record.
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Why She Worried.

What makes Mabel look so wor-
ried these days?"
"She doesn't know whether to
make her figure like those in the
fashion plates or the physical culture
books. cleveland Press.
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Some Hope.

Mrs. Flubdub-'tThe baby talks
incessantly. I think he will grow up
to be a Congressman"
Mr.. Flubdub-"Perhaps it won't
be as bad as that. Maybe he'll be a
barber. philadelphia Press.
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Hurt in Wreck, Sues For $40, 900.

Miss Anna Meley, a Trenton school
teacher, brought suit in the United
States court at Trenton for $4,000
damages against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company for injuries she
alleges she received in a wreck at
Eddington.
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Up Too Late.

Dullard-"When did you buy those
awful tan shoes?"
Sharp-"One morning when l had
acquired a dark-brown TASTE
Princeton Tiger.
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Oklahoma Forbids Intermarriagc.
The Oklahoma constitutional con-
vention adopted a clause prohibiting
the intermarriage of negroes and
whites and negroes and Indians.
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Grip Feared in New York.

According to the Health Depart
ment New York City is in the grip of
pneumonia, and an epidemic of the
disease in the next three months
is feared.
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$4,000 Fire in Trenton.

Fire OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the plant
of the Imperial Porcelain Works at
Trenton. The loss was $685. 900,
partly covered by insurance. The
flames were caused by a defective
kiln.
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Limited Scope.

SHe imagines he's quite an ire
sistible lady-killer, you know"
well, very old ladies, perhaps.
His car is only ten horsepower, 1 am
told."-Puck.
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Rain May Save Cuban Tobacco Crop.
The tobacco crop in Pinar del Rio
Province, Cuba, probably has been
saved by the recent rains. This crop
had been given up as almost a total
loss because of the extreme dryness.
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The Ronal Read

1t is not be who reads most, but
he wno m~sditates most on divine
trusn, that will prove the choicest.
wisest, strongest Christian.-Rishep
Hall, -
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McKinley's Memory Honored.

Carnation Day, in memory of Pres
ident Mckinley, was widely cele-
| brated.
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Postal League Election.

The annual meeting of the Postal
Progress League was held in Boston;
Frederick c; Beach. OF Boston, was
electel president.
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Railway Fare Reduced.

A reduction of fare went into effect
on the Boston and Maine and Maine
Central Railroads.
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Biz Lobster Onfnnt.

Just ~S,579,S12 Holsters caught in
Maine last year, according to Com
missioner Nickerson.
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this mans family, to a marked ex-
tent, there were insanity and epilep-
.sy."
And yet once more he shouted:
ION both sides of this defendants
family, both as to his father and
mother, we will produce to you direct
evidence that there was insanity"
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800 49, ~
With the Fanny
Arctic Exploration,

1t is a most uncertain art,
And it's rewards are small;
You're either back before you start,
Or don't get back at all.
Washington Star.