The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-05

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ular panel of 100 February Jurors. added
10 the last of the special jurors. in the
Ihaw case. some l25 in number, crowded
the courtroom TO overlooking Thaw's
trial having been begun I'm the January
term. that term viii hold until the case
is disposed OF.
During the wait rumors continued to
circulate as TO the possibility of two more
jurors being removed before District At
torney Jerome would be willing to have
the case proceed.
When the February jurors had been dis
missed and Justice Fitzgerald had taken
the bench there at once began a con
ference OF attorneys.
Prisoner Was Flushed.
Thaw appeared trifle flushed AS ne
took his place at the end of the table as
signed his counsel
Back of him sat his mother. Mrs. Will
liam Thaw, his sister. Mrs. Carnegie:
Evelyn Thaw. May Mackenzie Edward
and Josiah Thaw. the only family alb
sentee being the Countess Of Yarmouth.
All the witnesses for the prosecution
were i'm court They comprised only the
eve witnesses OF the tragedy upon the
Madison Square roof garden. Some wit
the defense also were i'm court, although
the most of those who are to testify for
Thaw have not appeared
Whatever pressure the district attorney
brought to bear on Thaws attorneys for
the release of additional jurors il was
i'm vain. At the end of the last confer
ence upon the subject. Assistant District
Attorney Caravan arose quietly and in
very low tone began the opening address
for the prosecution and the famous case
was on.
Statement of Prosecution.
Mr.. Garvan spoke only ten minutes He
congratulated the jurors on their body
having been completed and then outlined
the purpose OF the law which was not
seeking for vengeance but TO uphold the
security of the state. He urged the i'm
portance of the case and strict observance
of the law in order that verdict fair to
all might be reached
1t was the claim OF the people he said
that upon the night of June % 1906 the
defendant shot and killed with premid-
= itation and intent TO kilr' one Stanford
White. He briefly outlined the move
ments of Mr.. White. beginning with the
Saturday preceding the tragedy and end
ing with the scene of the shooting on the
Madison Square roof garden.
Mr.. Garvan told how Stanford White
had en- June % last taken his son Law
renee and schoolmate of the latter to
dinner at the Cafe Martin. The bows
had bought tickets to the New York the
atre roof garden and declined an invita-
ton OF Stanford White TO accompany him
TO the Madison Square roof garden
Shooting of White.
Stanford White went to the Madison
square roof garden and sat alone at one
Of the small tables there watching the
tlrst production of a play called Nam
selle Champagne The defendant was
there with his wife and two friends. Trek
ton Beale and Thomas McCaleb. The de-
PENDANT walked constantly about the
, place In the middle Of the second act
the defendants party started TO leave
the ROOF. The defendant let his party
go ahead and he Jagged behind. Passing
the table where Stanford White was sit
ung the defendant faced Mr.. White and
deliberately shot him through the brain,
me bullet entering the eye. Mr.. White
was dead.
THE defendant did not know this. He
reared he had not completed his work
and he fired again. the bullet penetrating
Mr.. Whites cheek. Still, to make sure,
} he fired third time.
! Mr.. White. or rather the body of Mr.
White tumbled to the floor.
: Inc defendant turned and, facing the
auulsnce. held the revolver aloof with
she barrel upside down. to indicate that
ne had completed what he intended to
do The big audience understood. There
was no panic"
Mr. Caravan concluded by giving the de-
''iiS Oh lhaws arrest and indictment
Witnesses Excluded.
As Mr. Garvan took his seat. District
attorney Jerome sprung a surprise by
IN the case except the experts. BY do
ing this. Mr.. Jerome disclosed the fact
that Mrs. William Thaw and Mrs. Har-
~ IhaW are both 10 take the stand for
the defense. On the advice of Thaw's
counsel they left the court room with all
the other witnesses. May Mckenzie was
included in the list and accompanied Mrs
Harry rhaw into the court clerks Of
flee. Mrs. William Thaw who did not
expect TO take the stand for several DAYS
returned TO the hotel
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AT the exclusion of his mother and his
wife. His only other relatives left i'm the
room were his brothers. and his sister
Son of Victim Testifies.
The prosecution gave the court room an
other surprise when Lawrence White
the son of the dead architect was called
as the first witness. Thaw again fast
ened his eyes upon the table before him
and did not once look at the witness
Young White said he was 70 years old
and a student at Harvard. His mother
ne said now resides at Cambridge. Mass
White was on the stand but few min
utes. He told of accompanying his ia
Their to the Cafe Martin for dinner and
said that when he left him 10 go with
his chum boy named King, TO the
New York roof garden. it was the last
time he saw his father alive.
Thaws attorneys did not desire to cross
examine the witness and he was allowed
to go.
Story of Eyewitness.
The second witness was Warner Pax
ton. the engineer OF the Madison Square
roof garden. He was an eye witness of
the shooting and the arrest of Thaw
He said that when he reached Thaw' s
side ne had been detained by a fireman
and an employee of the garden, who asked
him 10 hold Thaw while they went for
a policeman. They were then in front
Of an elevator and Thaw said to him:
We've got to go down in the elevator
! Why cant we go now2'
Paxton replied that il was a good idea
and they started down.
I'VE went into the elevator" the wit
ness continued. and Thaw admitted that
he did it. saying; He ruined my wife .
A woman whom he thought was Thaw S
wife replied TO this;
But look at the fix you are in now
and Thaw replied to her: well. dearie.
| i have probably saved your life
"On reaching the ground floor Thaw
requested some one To telephone George
Carnegie. hrs brother-in-!aw, that he was
in trouble"
The witness was not cross-examined.
David n. CarvalhO. the handwriting ex-
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