The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-11
Fitzgerald Refuses To
Read Part of DelmaS'
Speech AS Requested
BY the Jurors, Who Bat
tie Over ThaW'S Fate.
THAW MAKES
A STATEMENT
(BulIetin)

view IOrk, Aprl lI-Judge
Fitzgerald announces he will
expect the jury to bring, in
some kind of report by six
o'clock. He will insist on this.
At 500 the jury asked to
be read a part OF OeImas's
speech which Fitzgerald re-
fused, saying it was not evil
dence.
New York. April 11-A verdict ~
expected any moment in the Thaw
case. The jury has asked for addi-
tional information and 1t is said thes
are nearly of one mind One rumar
floating about the court room. says
the jury stands 10 to for acquittal
and another that only one man wants
Thaw convicted.
Thaw Was in Hurry.
All through the long night a vIgli
was kept by court attaches. The ju-
rors kept at their argument and at
times their raised voices could be
heard in the room adjoining the -
rors room. Before he had any
breakfast Tbaw asked to be hurried
over to the prisoners pen in the court
building, SO he could get the first
word OF the verdict He was not Ia
ken over. however. until the jurors re-
turned from breakfast. At S:a0 the
Jurors filed out for breakfast. aud -
turned less than an hour later They
wore a haggard look and seemed sol
emn
Asked for Exhibits.
After returning TO the room IL w-ns
cot long until they asked to send
word to Justice Fitzgerald. Immedi-
ately it was rumored that a verdict
was about to be returned. However.
they asked for practically additional
instructions in request for exhibits in
the trial. The jurors filed into the
court room. District Attorney Jer-
ONE was there. as was also Justice
Fitzgerald. Thaw's lawyers were
sent for and soon arrived The ex-
Madison Square roof garden. the
Longfellow letters. Thaw's will AMI
codicil. the Comstock letters and .Jer-
ONES and Delmas's hypothetical ques-
ton.
Feverish Mob Gathers.
Outside the court house feverfsn
mob gathered. swelling momentarily.
Saloons in the neighborhood did 4
land office business. Mrs William
Thaw, Countess of Yarmouth, Mrs.
George Carnegie and Edward Thaw
arrived at the court house at half-payt
nine and waited for the jury's action
in Justice Fitzgerald's private office.
The jury then asked before returning
to deliberate, that the testimony Il
Meyer Cohen. witness for the state,
who testified to seeing the shooting.
be read to them. Judge Fitzgerald
so ordered Cohen told how Thaw
changed his course while leaving the
roof garden, SO as TO walk past Stan
ford White The testimony of Paul
Brady. fireman at the roof garden.
was also read to the jury. Brady
took the revolver away from Thaw.
Meanwhile Thaw had written a
statement to the newspaper men, re-
questing that each man sign his pame
on the back of it and return it to the
warden to be preserved.
Packed, Ready to Leave.
Thaw's note read: Il am told it ~
to tell beforehand jus.
what jury will do, SO | am attending
10 my ordinary affairs and preparing
for the best as it is simpler TO unpack
IL necessary than it would be TO re-
turn here for my things if the verdict
is favorable l am packing my be-
longings. ] had a good cold bath this
and good breakfast. De-
tails of this trial have proven of great
interest To the public at large and nat
urally we are hopeful for a speedy
verdict"
While some OF Thaw's letters were
being read to the jury. Thaw wrote
another note to the newspaper men,
saying: Il wish they had sixty-four