Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-26
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the court room there is no evidence lacking
of the GOODNESS between the mother and
sisters of the defendant and his young wife.
The small but potent shadow of Miss May
Mackenzie is undoubtedly contributing
element to the existing uncongeniality, but
the small white face q Evelyn at her
side was convincing proof of the result The
girl of twenty-one, with heavy underlined
eyes and pinched features, might have
passed for a woman of thirty. Only once
for the first time since the trial began
did her husband glance in her direction,
and then 1t was the look one might give
to a stranger.
When Thaw entered with the deputy
sheriff yesterday he leaned over for a
second in passing and pressed his mothers
hand. He included his wife in his bow
nothing more. 80
During the recess at noon the younger
Mrs. Thaw, obedient- to her lawyers sug-
gestion. crossed over to the Tombs with
the faithful May Mackenzie, from whom
she seems to dread to be parted. for an
instant, to visit the prisoner But the
luncheon eaten by the four women in the
court room-since the locked-in jurors were
being served in the jury room--was an af-
and Mrs. Carnegie kept together and left
Evelyn and her chum to close communion.
The elder Mrs. Thaw's brief greeting had
been their only intercourse throughout the
morning session.
The absence of the Countess of Yarmouth
for two days from her brothers side has
caused no little remark. Reports of her
illness, consequent upon her deep grief and
the long suspense Of the voyage, have been
offered in explanation, but the titled sisters
empty place at the murder trial is conspic-
uous. Josiah and Edward Thaw were there
throughout the day, and George Carnegie
looked in during the morning, seating him
self beside Miss Mackenzie, whose Mephis-
tophelean plume is still fragrant buoyancy
in the general gravity.
Only once did Evelyn smile. Behind her
h Ina vail cEo oh U riuhf nod
and depressed, but when the district attor-
ney examining possible juror, who had
admitted that he was commercial travel
er, asked sternly. Have you ever been to
Pittsburgh" her wan face frightened. Il
have been there, but not to stay" replied
the drummer hastily. "Only to pass
through" And young Mrs. Thaw laughed
involuntarily.
quaintance with Stanford White is remark
able This fact insured the discarding of
several out of the fifty-one who were
weighed in the balance yesterday before
two could be found who filled the require
ments of prosecution and defense.
Mrs. Thaw Searches Jurors Faces.
There was a futter of interest in the
ranks of the defense when Robert H.
Johnson one of the editors of the Century,
was under examination. But Mr.. Johnson
prejudices in the matter were sounded in a
sentence or two, and he was quickly dis
posed of. -.-r
After the two new jurors. Fraser and
Faire, had been sworn, and Justice Fitz-
gerald had instructed the seven now in the
jury box, they filed out after the prisoner
and his guard to their weary walt. AS they
passed Mrs. Thaw, the elder, she looked
into every mans face with a searching in
quiry, as if she .would read his Utmost
thoughts There was no movement, no
word, but If ever a mothers message was
silently conveyed, hers must have found
its way then.
AS before Howard Nesbit was in at
tendance with Charles Harnett, Whites