Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-15
DEATH TEMPORARILY
STOPS THAW TRIAL
Wife Of Juror Soften Succumbs
! to an Attack Of Pneumonia
! AMI Court Adj0urns.
ALL The JURORS GIVEN FREEDOM
Step Was Taken With tho Consent
Of Both sidcs-Justiee Fitzgerald
Expresses "Hopc" That the Trial
Will Be Resumed Next Monday,
But It is Doubtful.
(By Associated Press.)

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NEW YORK, Feb. li.-Anothcr
,iasac shapter IN the history of the
iliaw-W@,te episode was written
today. when grim death s,cnnnd 'I IN
70 malt the famous tnal in ITS
fourth week. The wife of iuro,. No
IL. Mrs. Joseph b. Motion, passed
away this afternoon anu soon after
her husband hid readied her bed.
S:de, He had been summoned from
She court room, where the trial
mad been On progress for less than
10 minutes. The formal announce
nnent OF Mrs. Bottoms death was
maze IN court Shortly after 9. D. m.
TIE hout set for the afternoon sess.
ION and Justice Fitzgerald inme.
nlateiy ordered an adjournment of
the case unal next Monday morn.
ing.
The court also ordered, with tho
consent of counsel that the other
eleven hrymen be given their ,ib.
erty AMI no longer be hcld together
tie admonishod tile jurors TO he
guided by their honor aud their
oa.hs ana not to read the newspap.
ers or discuss the Thaw case with
anybody.
The death OF Juror Bottoms wife
catt gloom over the Criminal
Court building and had delGe ss!c,g
erect upon everyone connected with
the trial.
me prisoner seemed to feel the
matter quite keenly when he wa;
Drought into court I.is afternoon
TO hear tie f1rma! announcements at
me order Tor pos;ponemcw of his
further bearing
Tho fin .I,,t
been kept in close confinement since
hey were selected lor trial sery &c
ana that Mr.. Bolton Ind been al.
lowed 10 visit his hyme ONLY Three
times during his wifc's fatal iii.
ness. lent "A pathetic ospeu. 10 nc.
case and the greatest sympathy fol,
the afflicted man} was, cXpnsssGI 5gn
all! sides. During Axe. erGmcTntng
Hassicni wEan Lar Bolton hal .inken
: his place m the box. .arhaw 1lxed
tile Juror with! his |. gaze ,is neS eli.
tered. lt@waS not a la;;irG ofs,curics.
i'y or :capcsfn, itss 70. hisTown S;wail-
iare! that THE, Observation-Disclosures Imp3,
the ,turyiuan. bit S. Yii;hre seemed
,lsdhci' 70 be; a Z hsuB III /, Ky h,sayliy
gaze nt TIE su d n nc ei,sstia c,E
sth4 murdetiSpf Sta1fnfdf Awhlta.F':, y,
d. Mrs Roiton5 suffered IRON tdSubiS
ipnsumonia. 5HRr Gihd!tion !sbteamn
/ serious yCe';Grdoy3whcn ihe iinorriJla
seSs,3n.s ri, the, final sw;l:, ,gDgnt!fsal.d
jtokal!owN tie, jtrorSto visit .his ilc4iie.
which lis far zip In ,tMs Bronx tEBol;
Itonl! was :acc0n,panlel.s BIZ t&o, ,othEI
Jurymtp AMI by two court officials:
/ The law whscil was invoked aIsthc
I cf-rhc ,;trial:t keep tho
1uryS together provides tAnt mo 0nC
juror shall be ut any time be sep
aratrd from the othcna
Mrs. Bolton rallied yesterday AT
ternoon. her husband returned 10
Ihis place and the trial went on.
When court convened AT 1886
c'cl0cli this morning MIR. Bolton was
again in seat No. II. but it was
stated that HIS wifc's condition was
cr!t'acl and he might be called
away at any moment.
Or. Evans on the Stand.
Or. Britain Evans, superintendent
of the New Jersey Hospital for the
Insane was recalled as an alienist
to take his examination. The wit
ness was asked to detail The CONVEX
satiCnS he had Mad on various
occasions TO be an essential feature
i'll his conclusion that Thaw was
of unsounl mind at the time of
tho doctors first three visits to
him, the last being on September
%.
Mr.. Jeicmc lhad wittllrawn his
objections to the statement by Thaw
going into the evidence and Di
Evans was about to detail the
events OF his first visit on August
Attn when the summons for Juror
Bolton came.
Captain Ricketts, of tac cour
police squad. was seen to whisper
to Justice Fitzgerald Bolton seem
cd 10 divine his nhssJG and moved
uneasily In his seat.
A recess was taken uatil p IN.
ana the juror was still accompanie5
by two of this associates ans
two court officials when he returned
to the little home in the Bronx
w!tarc Mrs. Bolton, was bong k2r.
alive only by The use of oxygen
She died soon after her HUSBAND
arrived. Juror Bolton is 81 years
of age and clerk. When court
again convened at 2:25 p. m. tAere
had been conference of the at
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