Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-22
District Attorney Jerome Says he
viii be Able to Examine All
Ills Witnesses in -Four Days.
STORY OF The SENSATIONAL CASE
Youthful Millionaire Accused Muir
derer Has Been High Flyer Ever
Since He Had any Money at His
command-The Part Played by
Stanford White.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.--.r.,c trial of
Harry Kendall Thuw, the Plttsburg
millionaire youth, for the staying af
Stanford White on the roof or Madi-
son Square Garden last s,nnmer, WAS
postponed today until next Wednea-
dry because of delay IN concluding
the Hilget magic boots" case on
trial in Justice Fitzgera'1's court.
Harry Thaw did not appear in
court. The special panel of one hun,
dred and fifty talesmen was excused
Gy the court until next Wednesday.
AIRS. Evelyn Nesbit Thnw awaited for
ller husband in the Tombs while he
was taken to the Criminal Courts
building
Though pallid from his months o.
confinement in the Tombs' cell
Thnws health seemed much improved
by his incarceration.
Report has 1t this morning that
Thaw's defense will be temporary In.
sanity. Unable TO find provocation
for shooting White, his lawyers will
lily TO prove that he was sane before
the killing and is sane now. II the
jury Is satisfied that Thnw WAS in.
sane when he shot White and that
he Is sane now, 'rhaw will go free.
Lawyers say 1t is II long chance.
District Attorney Jerome believes
that It Will he n short trial. He de-
clares that the case is simply one of
brutal murder, and is the replica of
scores OF killings among the denizens
OF tho Tenderloin. Jerome says that
the State can conclude It's case with
In three or four days. though some
time may be required to select
jury.
Thaw Began Early.
AS boy Harry Thaw was mixed
UP in all kinds of pranks and he had
considerable knowledge OF the world
when he was sent to the Wooster I'm
iyersity, of Ohio, in 1887. No theat-
rical company ever came to the town
but what Thaw sought out the female
members of the troupe. On one oc.
casion he got all the girls of show
to wear garters and bows of college
colors and display them.
In 1894 young Thaw was sent to
Princeton and there he remained un-
I'll 1897. Returning to Pittsburg,
'rhaw cut n swath that even In that
town, which was becoming well vers.
ed In Tenderlolnese. was considered
very wide In his will his father had
cut. him down to an allowance of
$4,000 year until he was 35 years old
allowance of $4,000.
The $4,000 "Reauty Dinner"
Thaw first came into the strong
limelight, however, In 1000. when he
went to Paris. 1t was then that he
gave his famous $4,000 beauty din.
ner," to which were invited the reign.
ing beauties of the Paris giddy strata.
The dinner set all Paris talking and
long reports about 1t were sent here.
When he came back to America
Thaw went TO Washington and leased
the Don Cameron house. in Lafayette
Square 1t was about this time that
he met the Earl of Yarmouth, who
WAS afterwards to marry his sister
Alice. In the meantime he had met
Evelyn Nesbit.
The Young woman over whom
sprang up the enmtty that was to
lead to Stanford Whites death was
born about twenty years ago in Pitts
burg, the daughter of Winfield Scott
Nesbit, struggling lawyer Her
& father died about ten years ago and
her mother was forced to look to her
own work for livelihood. Since
then Mrs. Nesblt has become the
wife of Charles j. Holman, of Pitts
burg. AS a child Evelyn Nesbit, who
considered as having remarkable
beauty. and her picture was soon
seen in the different photograph gal
leries alter shehecame sought fol-
by artists. who wished her to pose for
them in their pictures of child life
From Pittsburg Mrs. Nesbit and the
girl moved to Philadelphia, and Eve
lyn Nesbit became known to the ar
lists of the Quaker City.
The Model In New York.
The lure OF New York brought Mrs
Nesbit and the girl there. where the
stories of Bvelyn's beauty had pre-
coded her. The girl, then scarcely II
years old, became model for sucl
artists as Carroll Beckwith. Twins
Wiles. f. s. Church. Carl Bienner ans
Charles Dana Gibson. She was theI
described as the most beautiful ar
lists model in America.
Evelyn Nesbifs first introduction
TO the New York stage came in An
gust, 1901, when she was made on,
of the flower girls in the first Flor
odora" company.
From the best accounts, 1t wa
White the same report has it, tina
"Florodora" company that she frs
met Stanford White. 1t was through
White the same report has 1t. tina
che obtained an engagement in TIL
White Rose" company. which wa
2 then appearing at the Knickerbocke
Under the management of George "
Lederer-
1t was after White became friendl
TO Evelyn Neshit and her mother tha
the Nesbits moved from their fu,
nislned room in West Twenty.secon
street to apartments in the Auditor