The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-30
HARRY THAW TRIAL
HIS CASE WILL BE CALLED NEXT
 MONDAY.
The Noted Prisoner Confidently Ex- pects to He Acquitted An Ar- ray of Legal Talent And
 Alieuiats.

New York, Dec. 2e-one week from tomorrow Harry K. Thaw will be call ed a second time before jury to make his defense to the charge of having murdered Stanford White.
 There have been several postpone ments of the date Of the second hear ing of this noted case, but 1t IS said now there will be no further delay.
 1t Is announced that Mrs William Thaw, mother of the defendant, is ex- pected in the city by next Saturday. Other members of the family inciud- ing Mrs. George Carnegie. Harry >Thaws sister and Josiah and Edward Thaw, his brothers, are also expected to reach the city during the week. The Countess of Yarmouth, the defen- dant's sister, is at present in England and is not expected to attend the second trial Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who has been daily visitor at the Tombs ever since the first Thaw jury disagreed, will. of course. be one of the first arrivals in the court room OH Monday next.
 There have been many rumors as to the plans of the defense for the second hearing of the case and 1t has been predicted that an entirely new line or action might be followed. It can be authoritat.vely stated, however. that the defense will again be the same, that is Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will again relate her story to the jury and that an imposing array of expert alienists will again undertake to establish the theory that Thaw was insane at the time he killed Stanford White in the Madison Square roof garden, but has so far recovered his mental balance since that time as to be no longer a menace to the community and therefore Is en- titled to freedom.
 This theory was expounded at length during the first trial, but after the taking of much expert testimony and after lunacy commission had de- clared Thaw sane at the present time the plea of temporary insanity was practically abandoned in the summing up speech of D. M. Delmas, the Cali fornia attorney, who made the direct appeal to the so-called "Unwritten Law"
 In the coming trial. 1t Is declared there will be no mention made of a higher or unwritten law, but the de- fense will adhere strictly to plea of legal insanity at the time the act was committed. There were mistakes made at the first trial which it will be the attempt of Thaw's attorneys studious- ly to avoid du@ing his second hearing. Tn the expert testimony, for instance, they have been able to separate the wheat from the chaff and will only of- fer that which proved most effective before and having once felt the sting of District Attorney Jerome's skillful chaos of examination on all phases of diseases affecting the brain. several of the Thaw experts will be in much more secure position than they were at the first trial whe nthe prosecuting officers wonderful knowledge of medi- cine fairly amazed, and in one case, completely dumfounded a witness.
 Thaw is looking forward 'anxiously to the beginning of his new fight. He feels that all chance of further delay is passed and will enter the court room with the same confidence of acquittal which has marked his attituoe from the first. It has been definitely decided that the jury will be locked up throughout the trial.