The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-01-25
THAW ON TRIAL
STANFORD WHITE'S SLAYER
AT LAST BEFORE THE
COURTS. ]
Morning Spent In Securing Jury
District Attorney Jerome in
Person Conducting Prose-
cution.

Person Conducting Prose-
cution.
New York, Jan. 23.-Crowds
thronged the streets early today in
the endeavor to see Harry K. Thaw
enter the court on the opening of
his trial for the killing of Stanford
White last June. Thousands of
applications for places in the court
room were rejected. Two hundred
newspaper men of this country and
Europe were admitted. These,
with the attaches of the court and
those directly connected with the
trial, caused the exclusion OF the
general public for lack of space. In
the public chow of interest the Mo-
lineaux and Patrick trials are sur
passed by the demonstration In the
Thaw case. .
Shortly after 10 o'clock Mrs.
William Thaw, Evelyn Thaw, the
Countess of Yarmouth, Mrs. George
Carnegie and May Mckenzie were
escorted by Edward Thaw and Geo.
Carnegie to designated seats.
The prisoner remained in the ju-
ry room during roll call of the tales
men. When this was concluded
District Attorney Jerome moved
that Thaw be arraigned for trial
on the charge of murder. Judge
Fitzgerald cautioned the spectators
against any out burst or noise.
The Clerk then called "Harry
K. Thaw to the bar.'
Thaw, pale and nervous, walked
quickly to a seat and nodded smil-
ingly to his relatives az be ap.
preached. @
4 He wore q dark blue euit and
carried a great brown ulster, which
he threw over his shoulders after
| he had been seated a few minutse.
He exerted great effort to retain
his self control.
| Charles Dryden, an engineer, was
the first talesman called. he lndi-
Gated that be had biased opinion,
which District Attorney Jerome
thought would not permit his i'm
partial consideration of evidence.
A number of the members of the
panel were absent. They were fined
$1O0, each.
That element of the public which
seems to delight in sensational cases
of this character, and, if truth be
said, it is a very large element, is
! awaiting the trial with feverish in-
terest. 1t is limited that the dis
closures at the trial will be of a
most sensational kind aud that such
cases as "Nan" Patterson trial will
be extremely tame in comparison.
/ The Thaw- White case contains
every element calculated to attract
public attention. The prominence
of the Thaw family socially, the
wealth of his parents, the circum-
stances surrounding the young
mans marriage to Evelyn Nesbit,
the "Florodora" girl and artist g
model, and the spectacular scene in
the midst of which he fred the
/ bullets into the breast of the man
who, he asserted, he'd betrayed his
wife, all tend to attract interest to
, the trial from one end of the coun.
i try to the other. Even the leading
papers of London aud Paris, in
] 10th which cities the principals to
the tragedy were vel known, have
arranged to "cover" the trlal by
: special representatives.
Portland. Jsn. 23.-During the
dense fog that hung over the city
this morning. two cars on the r.
vington line collided between East
Eighth and East Ninth on the sim
,, gle track en- Multnomah street, Sc
riously injaring Conductor William
Evans Of the outward bound car
! and badly cutting and bruising
several passengers on both cars.
t The accident was due directly to
: the csrelessness of tbs platform
men of car No. 16o, who bad pass
E ed switch in fog and we're rum
I ming slowly to avoid just such an
accident as did happen.
sit was our fault" said Conduc-
!. tor J. W. Davis of this car few
minutes after the accident. II