Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-11
After Celebrating Eighteen Hours
Jury Asks Permission to Ex-
anime Various Exhibits.
CAUSES MANY coNJEcTUREs.
Believed Serious Differences Have
Arisen and That Any Verdict
Is Still Remote.
Jurors Action Did Not INSPIRE Any
New Hope Isl AttorncSs--Defemd-
ant Seems Very Confident

am Seems Very Confident
New York April t1.--After deliberat-
ing for more than is hours without be
Ing able 10 reach an agreement, the
I,l,-v into whose hands the fate Of Harry
Il rbaw was given at 5:17 O'Clock yes
teraay afternoon. reported before JUS
lice Fitzgerald at II a. m. today and
asked permission TO examine large
number of the exhibits introduced dur
ing the trial and also asked to have
yead TO them the testimony of several
OF the eye witnesses to the tragedy
JURY WANTS EXHIBITS.
Among the exhibits called for were
the letters which Harry Thaw wrote to
Atty. Lon gfeIlow shortly after as all
legged, Evelyn Nesbit told him in Paris
the story OF her relations With Stanford
white, and the will and codicl which
Thaw executed the night of his mar
riage' in Pittsburg. April 1, 1903, The
letters and win were introduced by the
defense 10 show the mental storm
which, II is claimed. was brought upon
me defendant by this story which the
girl rcla ted.
The Jury also asked for the diagram
OF Madison Square Roof Garden as 1t
was the night Thaw killed White This
diagram was held up before them as
the court stenogrhpher read from the
official record of the testimony the evil
dence given by James clinch Smith,
the brother-in-law of White, 10 whom
Harry Thaw talked for more than half
an hour the night OF the tragedy; the
avsdauHp pf NieNnr COben. he l1ul sic
publisher, whom Nh. Delmes had quot
ed in his summing up address as say
ing that Thaw after he had sent White
10 his death, held out his arms in the
shape of cross as priest might do
at some sacrthcial ceremony; the tes-
tiulOny of Harry s. Plaise. OF Paul
Erudle the fireman who disarmed
Thaw; OF Warren Paxton. the engineer
Of the roof garden, and other witnesses.
The action OF The jury in asking FOR
the particular exhibits and the testi-
rnony indicated, led 40 much speculation
as to what the trend OF their long dis
cusslon had been.
DETERRENT THEORIES.
One OF the widely discussed theories
was that the jurors either wanted to
refresh their mem cries as to teStt-
Inony tending 10 Thaw or else they
wanted to have the story OF Thaws
actions the night OF the tragedy re-
hearsed once more in order that they
might judge as to his nationality The
suggestion OF the latter purpose SEEM
ed 10 be given weight by the fact that
they desired to examine the letters
the VIII and the cOdicil brought Tor
ward by the defense in support OF Its
claim OF insanity.
Ii was generally conceded that seri-
Gus differences Of opinion had de-
veoped among she jurors as to the
evidence. and that a verdict OF amy
sort was sim remote.
TIIAw VERY CONFIDENT.
Thaw faced his judges today with
every Indication Of confidence, He of
all the members of his counsel and
his family, is still hopeful of favor
able outcome. The best that his
counsel expect Is disagreement OF
time the jurors retired that there
might be a compromise among them
on some lesser degree of guilt than
murder in the first degree,
The action OF the jury today in
calling for the testimony did not in
splre the attorneys to any new hope
Following the testimony OF MI
Smith, that OF Officer John Barry, the
doorrnan of the Min eteenth precinct
station. where I'haw was taken upon
the night of the killing was read
After being locked in their consult
iation room at 1 o'clock last nlBht
with nothing but hard chairs and a
table 10 rest upon, the jurors argued
INCREASINGLY among themselves me
few ballots taken indicated, II Is saiu.
that there was a wide divergence "i
views.
Meyer Cohens testimony had been
largely n personal demonstration by
himself OF Thaw's attitude after tile
shooting and his manner OF approach
Ing White,
The testimony OF James Clipch Smith
was relative to- the conversation he had
with Thaw Just prior to the shooting.
Finally the Jury asked TO hear again
the testimony OF the doormen on dlty
AT the tenderlon precinct police station
the night of Thaws arrest and who
gave testimony as to the defendant
claiming 70 hear the voices OF young
girls.
When the jurors requests had pro-
gressed this far. Il seemed that there
could be no longer any doubt but that
the rational or irrational conduct OF
Thaw the night OF The homicide was
playing q leading part In the delibera-
tion OF the jurors.
The jury finally asked 10 have cer-
lain portions Of Evelyn Thaw's testi-
mony as 70 the shooting read 10 them.
Juror Pink. who evidently was In very
bad shape, delayed the reading OF tes-
timony for few INITIATES by asking
permission 10 retire for a moment He
tottered From The room accompanied by
an officer and seemed near Il collapse.
After an absence OF Ave minutes he re.
sumed his place Ia the Jury box, look.
Ing very pale and tired,
While he was In the courtroom ThaW
handed slip Of paper to tho reporters
table, Yesterday ono of the local pa
peTs published a letter alleged to have
been written by Stanford White to
May Mackenziey Thaw's note. which
was ON the subject. read;
u wish they had o. rare original let
tiers OF the deceased"
Their confinement continued until z
O'Clock this morning VIXEN, two by two
the IL men We're marched 10 the isroad-
way Central hotel Tor breakfast They
Hooked pale and worn as they iiled out
nf the criminal court building. but upon
helr return two hours later their droop.
Ing spirits had somewhat revived and
they exchanged smiles and words on
hSmpathy with number OF newspaper
lneI who have been In attendance upon
the trial since Jan. 20.
JUDGE FITZGERALD ARRIVES,
Justlpe III xRarald arrived al fha on,,t