Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-02-05
TRIAL or THAW
HAS ACTUALLY BEGUN
Assistant District Attorney
Makes Opening Speech.
COURT ROOM WAS CROWDED
Lawrence White Called as the First
Withess-Great Interest Centers In
the Fight To Be .Waged by the
Prosecution

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New, York, Feb, 4.-The Thaw
trial is on Assistant District Attor-
ney Garvan opened for the prosecu-
ton.
There was some delay in resuming
the rial owing to the formalities at
tending the postponing of the Feb
uled to begin Monday morning. The
regular panel of 100 February jurors
added to the last of the special jul
rors in the Thaw case, some 250 in
number, crowded the court room to
overflowing. Thaws trial having
been begun in the January term
that term will hold until the case is
disposed of.
Mr.. Garran spoke less than ten
minutes. All witnesses except eX-
perts have been excluded from the
room. May Mckenzie, Mrs Harry
Thaw and Mrs. William Thaw were
included in this order.
When the February jurors had been
dismissed and Justice Fitzgerald had
taken the bench there at once be-
gan a conference of attorneys at the
judge desk.
Thaw areared a trife flushed as
he took his place at the end Of the
table assigned to his counsel.
Back of him sat his mother, Mrs
William Thaw, his sister, Mrs Car
negie, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and May
Mckenzie, Edward and Josiah Thaw
also were present, the only family
absentee being the Countess of Var
mouth.
All the Witnesses for the prosecu-
tion were in court They were only
the eyewitnesses of the tragedy on
Madison Square Roof Garden. Some
witnesses said to have been summon
ed by the defense were also in court
although the most Of those who are
to appear for Thaw have not ap-
peared
Whatever pressure the District At
torney may bring to bear on Thaw's
attorneys for the release of addition
al jurors it was in vain. At the end
OF the last conference on the subject
held at Justice Fitzgerald's desk, as
sistant Dis rict Attorney Garvan
arose quietly and in a very low tone
began the opening address for the
prosecution and the actual hearing of
the famous case was on.
Mr.. Garvan congratulated the Jurors
on their body having been completed
and then outlined the purpose of the
Law which was not seeking for VEN
geance, but to uphold the security of
the state. He. urged the Importance
the case and a strict observance of
the law in order that a verdict, fair
to all, might be reached.
1t was the claim Of the people, he
said, that on the night of June 25
1906, the defendant shot and killed
with generalization and intent to kill"
one, Stanford White He then brief
ly outlined the movements of Mr..
White, beginning with the Saturday
preceding the tragedy.
Lawrence White, a son of the late
Stanford White, was called as the
first witness for the prosecution in
the Thaw case.
White was on the stand bu% a few
minutes. He told of accompanying
his father to the Cafe Martin for din
ner and said that when he left him
to go with his chum, a boy named
King, to the New York Roof Garden
it was the last time he saw his father
alive.
Thaw's attorneys did not desire to
cross examine the witness and he
was allowed to leave the stand
The second witness was Warner
Paxton, the engineer of Madison
Square Garden. He was an eye-wit-
ness of the shooting and the arrest of
Thaw.
David N. Carvalho, the hand
writing expert was a new figure in the
case Monday. He sat Just beside
Harry Thaw, and evidently has been
summoned to testify for the defense
No statement as to what will be
shown by Mr.. Carvalho would be
made by Thaw's counsel.
Myer Cohen, a song writer, was
called as che third witness for the
state.
Cohen described on a diagram the
position of the table at which White
sat, and illustrated the slow pace
which he declared characterized Mr..
Thaw's deliberation in approaching his
victim. -
Engineer Dropped Dead.
Pittsburg, Feb. AUST as he was