The National tribune., 1907-01-31

the young prisoner left his cell in th
Tombs for the first time in nearly sevel
months, crost the Bridge of Signs, AM
took his seat, under the fire of hundred
: of curious eyes, in the court room o
the Criminal Courts Building Th
court room was crowded to its utmos
: capacity. OF the 200 newspaper re
porters who tried to gain admittanc'
not more than 20 succeeded. Thes
represented papers from all of th'
United States. from London, Paris ant
Berlin. No trial in years has excited
such interest, partly on account of thu
immense wealth and social position o
the prisoners family and also becaus'
of the prominence in the artistic worlt
and otherwise of the victim. Stanford
White. So far the business of the cour
has been 20 select from the specia
panel of 2e0 talesmen IL good and tru,
men who will decide whether ThaN
shall live or die. Two were chosen the
first day of the trial. three the second
and two the third. 1t is thought thai
the taking of testimony may begin OF
the 30th. The entrance of Thaw ant
his family to the court room wa!
watched with breathless curiosity. No
only was the room itself crowded, bu
the grand staircases of the building uI
which the prisoner and his family
would pass, as well as all other possible
VI NdnldSe, were Hlteu Will
dreds of people, jammed closely togeth-
er, perfectly satisfied to stand thus fol
! hours to be finally rewarded by fleet
| ing glimpse of the Thaw family. Thaw's
mother, his two sisters the Countess OF
! Yarmouth, who has come over from
England to be with him and her moth
err his elder sister, Mrs. Geo. Carnegie
his brother Edward and his wife Evelyn
came in together. With young Mrs
! ThaW her arfracc friend Nav Me-
KenZie. Thaw came in few moments
after them, without handouts, tho fol-
| lowed closely by prison guard. bowed
to his mother and the rest of the group,
and seated himself between two of his
counsel. He looked pale. but was self
possest. The ladies of the party were
all very quietly but richly dressed, with
out jewelry of any kind, and looked
very serious, naturally, The childish
little wife was the least composed. She
looked half-frightened, was very pale
| and quite unable to control her ner-
vousness. Miss Mckenzie was the only
one of the party unaffected. She chat
| ted with her friend continually, laugh
| ing a good deal, sometimes winning a
responsive but very wan little smile
from the pale lips of the young girl by
her side, to whose pretty face and will
full ways may be attributed the cause of
that solemn gathering. = 1t, soon became
evident to the spectators that the pres
ence of Miss Mckenzie was resented by
Mrs. Thaw and her daughters, which
feeling manifested itself IN a decided
GOODNESS of manner towards young Mrs.
Thaw. None of them looked at her or
spoke to her. She herself kept her
eyes all the time on her husband, who
occasionally would look around and
smile at her. Far back IN the court
room, recognized by no one except the
reporters, sat Howard Nesbit. Evelyn
Thaw's young brother, who, IT is said,
important witnesses. Near him sat
Charles Harnett. Stanford Whites for
ner secretary. A sensational story was
told the other day of some torn and
damaged shirtwaists belonging to the
prisoners young wife and now held by
her mother, Mrs. Holman. Mrs. Hol-
man, it was said, would produce these
waists in court, and prove that they had
been torn in the rough handling of her
nies this story, and says she has no idea
of being a witness or even attending
the trial. Never before were such re-
markable arrangements made to give to
a hungry public with the least possible
delay the results of the proceedings of
trial. Around the east and north
sides of the white-marbled ventilating
graph operators and connected with
them are two great cables, which have
been swung down from the dome of the
Criminal Courts Building. Each of these
cables contains 10 wires, every one of
them direct" A London paper has
two. There are other operators in every
nook and Granny of the building, spe-
cial telephone booths in the various
rooms, and more than 100 messenger
and telegraph boys standing ready to
run, to say nothing of the army of ar
lists, reporters and special correspond
ents District Attorney Jerome has
charge of the prosecution. and what
the defense will be is still secret
1t is stated on very good authority
that definite arrangement has finally
been agreed upon by the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough. The Duchess's
mother and other near relatives have
been with her for some weeks. and the
subject of her separation or divorce
from the Duke has led to many a fam
lily conference. King Edward, who is
friendly to both sides in this unfortun-
ate affair, has also taken q hand, and
the result of their united efforts has
been to induce the Duchess to concedc
to an adjustment. AS the matter now
stands the Duke and Duchess will live
apart, he retaining Blenheim and the
100000 Mr. Vanderbilt settled on him
at the tins of his marriage. The two
little boys will live with him six months
of the year and with their mother the
other six months. The Duke will have
charge of their education until they
become of age, and will decide the
question of their profession. The Ouch
ess will continue to have the use of the
Marlborough family jewels. will take
precedence as the wife of the Duke
and will also be allowed to take the
boys with her to any part of the conti-
nent during their holidays. They are not
to be taken to Amerira, however, for
any length of time until they are older
The Duke will now live in cBleinheim in
stead of Woodstock House, but the
Duchess has had REMOVED from the
former her books. pictnres, china and
other articles of "bigotryI. and virtue"
which she took there as a, BRIDE many
of them being wedding gifts from
American friends. The, Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Dukes uncle, of whom
the Duchess has always been particu-
larly fond, as well as the legal advisors
of both the Duke and Duchess, are said
to be largely responsible Tor the pres |
ent tolerably satisfactory arrangement. |
The beautiful Martha Hitchborn.
daughter of r-AdmiTapP Philip Hitch |
born, u. S. N, who was the unfortunate |
victim of young Jim" Bfaine's second |
misadventure, has just
been married to Lieut.. Paul S. PearsaIl. |
AS Martha Hitchborn she was a great |
belle in Washington specially diStin