Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29
STUDY OF THAW.
Analytical Look at Principals in the
Great Murder Trial.

NEW YORK, January 29.-Harry K.
Thaw looks out with an assumed air OF
nonchalance on a world that hens him In
wit, the menace of death. He has con-
scious, weak and CHASTITY smile, as II he
minded the opinion Of people a great deal
and wanted to fit into the thing that is 60
ing on and carry it off creditably.
But his eyes!
They are strange and horrible. They are
brown and round, like an animals and al
first they had to me the look of a hungry
beasts, but that was before had caught
them square, straight in front. Then the
hungry-animal look disappeared and the
eyes of the accused youth were those of a
man who is -,alf drunk. There was a
vacancy in them. though they revealed also
an unsteady eagerness for sympathy.
Harry Thaw, catching, perhaps, a SYM
pathetic eye in the crowd about him,
clutches at it with strange. pathetic, sor-
rowful emotion. He holds strangers SYM
pathetic look steadily and gaZes and gazes.
He is rather an ordinary-looking young
man, except for that wild, nameless look In
his eyes. You would notice the eye and
Of 1t on an elevated train.
Eye of Hunted Savage.
1t is like the eye Of a hunted savage. That
does not mean that it is cruel or brutal.
Most savages are soft and gentle in their
other order Of beings. mentally and moral. :.
from the civilized human. No barbarian
ever had he eye expression of a civilized
man. There is something rudmentary,
something animal-like, in his eye And that
is the way Harry Thaw's eyes look to me
now.
There is nothing of the normal about .ne
shape of his head 1t is a little high - the
back, to be sure, like an Indians. Thaw
has extraordinary cheek bones, too. but
fhov n q homes
are too fine and sharp; they look as II he
had a hickorynut under the skin CT each
cheek.
His features look as If they were slightly
bloated His lips are heavy, his mouth
sensual. Alteration is quickly betrayed in
the ears, but Harry Thaw's large ears are
normal. Nothing criminal or insane about
them-no faun point at the top, no lack OF
lobe at the bottom. Strange, unusual lines
slant from the inner corners Of his eyes
toward the curves of his mouth. They are
the marks of confinement-of strain to hear
or see something in a dull and walled-in
world-of wonder, perhaps. at his own sud-
den predcament of crime.
From time to time. as he sits at the end
of the table where his little army Of law
yers is encamped. Thaw puts to his fore
head a hand that looks soft and useless
not an artist hand; the fingers are stubby.
naturally bony and rather hooked. 1t is al
aberrant hand and weak one.
Pathetic Little Figure.
Evelyn Nesbit Is pathetic little STACEY
figure in her dark jacket, black hat and
veil. Always the veil. One day this veil
was white Yesterday morning 1t was blue
Yesterday afternoon it was black. She
watches everything and YEARLY whispers
with Mae Mckenzie. Often she watches
and studies the reporters. She seems to be
interested in their swift and confident
movements and the way they whirl little
punches of copy out of the room.
tainly that. She is pretty beyond all the
accidents Of unbecoming circumstances.
She could not look anything else than pref
ty, no matter what she had on or what
she did. If she leans forward in her clair
it is pretty pose. If she settles back
YEARLY, that is pretty thing. The pose
becomes her, action becomes her. She is a
creature to wonder at. Just very pretty.
Not truly beautiful, but to a man governed
by sense impression. a goddess-a creature
to die or to kill for.
The wise-looking citizens in the jury box
look somnolent as well as important. Truly,
they are a good-looking lot so far. They
look like little section of the stock ex-
change or the chamber of commerce, of a
meeting Of the board Of directors of Har-
lem or Newark bank.
: But 1t is a great spectacle, this swarm
of newspaper men from all over the world.
1t suggests the Santiago campaign over
again, and one looks around involuntarily
for Gen. Shafter.
If Harry Thaw had. been just YIN :
dead in a brawl this distinguished jour-
nalistic assemblage would not be there.
would 1t? So Harry Thaw must really be
different.