Evening journal., 1907-01-24
AS DAVENPORT
SEES HARRY THAW
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Homer Davenport. Of the New York
Evening Mail, says Of the trial.
l have never seen a person just like
Harry Thaw d.
have seen several people charged
with a similar crime. but none like
Thaw. There is "A blanlness In his face
coupled with a bad shaped head which
forms a dangerous combination
Theodore Durant. a degenerate Of san
Francisco, killed girls and hid them in
a church steeple, where the bell as q
tolled almost scraped their nude bodies
Looking at Durant, with his hair as
long as a football players. aside from
small pinched ear and peculiar brow.
you saw no traces Of the monster he
was shown to be. But when his hair
was cut, an operation which he fought
to prevent, an was revealed.
Holmes the Philadelphia murderer.
who killed men, women and children for
insurance policies, showed his criminal
instincts in his weak face and childlike
back head. His murders were accom-
lplished by locking people in rooms and
starving them to death
Harry Thaw is different from either
Of these men. His attorneys may be
able to show that his motive for killing
White was perfectly justihable.
would however, just like to see the
shape OF his back head under his loose
hair.
Harry Thaw is tall and slightly
stopped. His head even with long hair
is curiously shaped. 10 is very high at
the peak OF the crown where there is
"cowlick' that makes IL hard to brush
1t down.
His head drops rapidly to the top of
the forehead, where the hair is pias.
tered TO his short, blunt brow. The
forehead shows lack Of use other than
to plaster hair against It's the foro-
head of the face Of an idler
} Thaw's eyes. naturally big, have n
{ wild. excited look. The most express
2 sion comes from the whites on the outer
: side, and to offset that glare there is
, a blank hollowness between the eve
E and the nose on +he inside
/, His nose is meaningless affair.
p straight and square cornered with the
under edge beveled. The lips suggest
] the cigarette smoker, and his chin
looks weak enough to cry easily.
It is the cheek bones that are Harry
Thaw's most striking features and add
wild. weak expression TO his face.
. They are so high and sharp that they
, suggest those Of an Indian. Peculiar
in this respect they are unlike those Of
- his brother or sisters.
B don't know what Harry Thaw's
2 mental strength is under normal con-
a ditions. But / ann certain that he ap-
a lpreciates his present position. When
! ha ~ Tr "a 81 ha IA
2 men:
r. "Have you any conscientious scruplei
!. against the death penalty" he looked
{, down with a slight shudder at his idle
E. hands on the table before him. He ap-
T. preciates that the life he has led on
Z the Great White Way" has brought
r HIM into peril Of his life.
8. Crouching between a typical chorus
r. gin in purple and stern Mrs. William
- Thaw huddles Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. az
s. pathetic a sight as one ever saw. look
T. ing. as she does like frail little rab
bit that realizes the flames from thI
a prairie fire have completely encircled Il
y She almost weDt when her tall frail
i pale husband nodded at her AS shi
IT leaned forward with glaring eyes an,
l. lips half open no one could identify
s.. ueE as the OEAutlIll artist - NlNAtA N
s. the girl that could appeal to the trains,
,s eye OF Stanford White
Shrunken from fright heavily yeiled
b, she was really pitiful She had appar
emily been crying all night. Her nos
IS was red and her eyes and lips infianed
The artistic pose was gone. she dranl
$. in every word of inquiry put to th'
talismen, and when the first one wa
n accepted she leaned back and locke,
at him i'm wonderment Then she gaze.
l- at the il-shaned head of her husband
r. Then she turned with the sam
frightened expression TO the juror WHIT
b. would be foreman. and as juror an'
prisoner stood TO 'look upon eacl
r, other" the picture she made was a sal
one.
Mrs. William Thaw, mother Of tn
defendant, is genuine. You see at ono
that II has been violation OF her teach
g. ings that has brought her boy to hi
r. present trouble Her face shows IN
n care she has had thrown upon he
,e shoulders, and though it is still there
she has character and courage to 90 o.
to the end.
Her daughters. Mrs. Carnegie and III
Countess Of Yarmouth, are just plail
o7 women and look like all women do IL
st court simply serious.