The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-25
Little Chance That It Will Begin Until After the Christmas Holi-
 days.
GREAT INTEREST IN
 COURSE OF DEFENSE
Belief That His Counsel Viii Attempt to Prove Some Sort of In-
 sanity.

New York, Nov. 24.-The second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw for the deatA of Stanford White, set for one week from tomorrow, will again be pest poned and there fig little chance thae it will begin until well along in Jan- uary. The decision to ask for a post ponement has been agreed to by both sides. It is due partly to the fact that the task of selecting jury wouid be doubly hard during the approach Of the holidays, owing to the prospect bef6re the talesmen of spending both Christ mas and New Years day looked up under the care of court bailifTs, and owing also to Thaw's counsel having applied to the court for permission to inspect the secret evidence obtainea be- fore the lunacy commission during tho first trial An added cause for delay is runor that the attorneys repse- senting Thaw may apply for change of venue, on the ground that fair trial for their client in New York coun- ty is impossible, because of the aI- leged unfrlendly attitude of many Of the local papers and the extent to which the evidence has been printed and read in this community. District Attorney Jerome would oppose an eff fort toward a change of venue.
 Thaw, in his cell in the famous old Tonibs prison, which he has occupied since the night of the tragedy on Madi- son Square roof garden June 26, 1906 Aa planning for his second tr1aI with the same confidence of acquittal that Mo prepared for the first ordeal He daily advises with his counsel, chafes at the delays already encountered in getting his story before a second jury and is impatient for his days in court to be- gin
 It is nearly a year since the first trial was begun. It covered period of- twelve weeks and after two days and two nights of denberation the jury could not agree. Seven of the twelve men who heard the dramatic recital of Evelyn Nesbit Thawa story of all legged wrongful treatment the hands of the noted architect; story that as flashed by telegraph and cable to every part of the civilized world and read as one of the most remarkable utterances ever heard in a courx roem-failea to believe that her confession to her hus- band justified him three years later in taking the life of the man charged with the ruin of his chorus girl wife. They voted for guilty of murder in the first degree. Five of the jurors, on the other hand, were ready to acquit, most of them believing that Thaw's mind had been so upset over the story of the girls downfall that he was bereft of reason and was entitled to that pro- vision of the law which excuses a per- son so insane as not to know the na~ ture or quality of his act and not to know that the act is wrong. At the po- lice station the night of the tragedy and afterward in the city prison Harry Thaw contended that he was acting as 'an agent of Providence in sending Stanford White to his grave.
 Great interest centers in the course of the defense at the coming trial. It is generally believed that despite any ideas of justifioadoh which Thaw may entertain his present lawyers VIII conflne themselves to making out case of legal insanity. This may be emotional" or hereditary, both of