Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-01-30
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New York. Jan. 30.-Something of
the pomp of a general suggests itself
in the demeanor of Harry X. Thaw
in his trial for the murder of STAN
ford White. He seems ambitious to
push the campaign. There is no list
lessness, no timidity. He is impa-
tient for the crux of the trial, else his
manner bellies him. He can hardly
wait for the climax.
He is the same Harry Thaw he
was on the night of the Madison
Square Garden tragedy, when he
strode into the police station with his
head up, his shoulders back. He
slapped his breast with his hand.
Il am the man who did it," he said
no, proclaimed it!
Modified, of course, his attitude is
the same. He marches into the court
room with the alacrity of one who is
used to the center of the stage as his
right. The eyes bent upon him from
the thronged court room are that
many spotnghts. He sees them all.
He looks round to see If they are
| there.
over to one side are tables creak-
| ing under the feverish writing of a
This is the press. All, the press is an
other spotlight.
The man who "did it, is here. He
has waited since last June to tell
it. He thinks he is going to tell it
I'm few days, and is more eager than
ever. Maybe his lawyers will say diff
ferently, but he does not dream of
that. He feels he is there 70 re-enact
the tragedy.
| Behind Thaw, the ambitious gen.
eral, sits his first reserve.
There are five women sitting behind
there. three I'm somber garb, the other
two flashing with purple in their at
tire.
OF the latter, the small, insignifi-
cant one, with a pair of startled eyes
peering out through a thick, smoth-
ering veil? What of her? For her
he slew.
Is Harry Thaw's sense of import
ance felt toward the public, or is IL
all, all to impress that mite of hui
manity? The trial should show.
There are the other women. THAI
white haired one is his mother. She
has a clear eye and a good color. She
has courage.
He never had to pose to her as a
hero. She always thought he was
one, where even his most indulgent
friends realized the bitter truth. She
is the most loyal one of all, the most
hopeful, perhaps. She is his mother
There is another woman, a coun'
tess, made so by marriage. He tried
to lord it over her. 1t did not last
She was of the same blood and the
same will, and the parting of the
ways had to come. She married her
foreign suitor unforgiven by the i'm.
petuous youth, who would have We
toed it, Unforgiven or not she is
here to give him succor. She is a wo-
man, a sister. She has been weeping
for him.
There is another, a sister, one more
commonplace. This sister is not sc
fearful She seems stronger. Also
she has not so much to forget and
condone. This sister is needed to sus-
tain the more frall sister. She will
do her full duty toward Harry.
Now the other woman The other
one wears colors. She comes from
the chorus girl ranks whence the
wife graduated. This is Mae Nc
Kenzie. She is there out of friend
ship to the little woman. II is plain
that she is not even now impressed
with Harry X. Thaw. Probably she
never was. She wore purple from
the beginning. Evelyn Nesbit wore
dun garb for the first few days, then
put on gayer attire like her friend.
These five women are Harry
Thaw's first reserve. VIII their aid
swing the tide of battle in his favor