The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-01-24
CROWDS RUSH TO
HEAR THAW CASE
TWO HUNDRED NEWSPAPER MEN
IN ATTENDANCE.
PRELIMINARIEs RELD TODAY.
Two Weeks Viii Probably EIapse
Before Jury Is Secured In
ternational Interest in Muir
der of Stanford White.

der of Stanford White.
New York, Jan. 23.--Great crowds
throlged the streets early in an en-.
deavor to see Harry Thaw enter
courC. Thousands of applications for
places in the court room were reject
ed Two hundred newspaper men
from this country and Europe were
admitted. These, with the officials of
the court and those direccly connect
ed with the trial will cause the ex-
clusion of the general public. The
Molfleaux and Patrick trials are be-
ing surpassed in public show of in.
terest.
The Prisoner Is Arraigned.
The prisoner remained in the jury
room during the roll call of the tails
men. When this was concluded At
torney Jerome moved that Thaw be
arraigned for trial on the charge of
murder. Judge Fitzgerald cautioned
the spectators against any outburst
of noise. The clerk then called "Har-
ry X. Thaw to bar" Thaw, pale and
nervous, walked quickly to his seat
in the witness box. He nodded smil-
ingly to his relatives. He wore a
dark blue suit and great brown ul-
ster which he threw over his shoul-
ders. After being seated a few min
utes he exerted great effort to main
tain his self control.
Deming L. Smith, a retired manu-
facturer, and Frank b. HILL paint
er, We're selected as jurors before ad.
iournment until two this afternoon.
Relatives Given Seats.
Just before Lne prisoner was ar
raigned Mrs. William Thaw, Evelyn
Nesbitt Thaw, the Countess Var
mouth. Mrs. George Carnegie and
May Mckenzie, escorted by Edward
Thaw and George Carnegie, went to
their designated seats. These mem
bers of che highest circles of interna-
tlonal society have made s.of them.
selves a buttress and a guard about
the accused-and each will take the
witness stand, if necessary, and sub
init TO probing of the most sacred
details of their lives if they thereby
may save the imperiled man from the
horrors of felon's death
They have waited long for this op-
ening scene. The stage is now set
and ready, the actors prepared-all
await the lifting of the curtain on the
drama which began in the long ago,
but dawned upon the world in all its
vividness Ior the first time on the
night of June % last, when Harry
Thaw, amid the music-laden atmos-
phere of the Madison Square roof gar
den, fired in quick succession the
three shots under which Stanford
White rolled TO the floor dead, smile
on mis- face, for death reached HIM as
he nodded his approval of a scene
upon the stage.
High and Low Involved.
Never before has a court of justice
been called upon to deal with a case
in which the wealth and standing OF
the persons involved, the issues at
stake, and the incidental circumstanc.
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mosphere which hitherto lovers of the
dramatic and the unusual have per-
force sought in the pages of fiction
alone.
1t is case of international note,
which reaches into the palaces of the
mobiles and the mansions of the rich
est in the land. Its tangled threads
lead back and forth across the ocean,
into the highways and byways of half
dozen lands, into the circles of mu-
sic and of art, across the field of lit
erature, into the studios and the
green rooms, the merry whirl of high
society, ald the mad revels of the u1-
der world. Every phase of life is rep
resented, and before the trial shall
have reached an end there will have
been presented on the stage dramatic
personae rivalling even that which
Balzac gave to the world in the amaz.
ing sequence of his Human Comedy"