The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-03
ThaW's Lawyers Are Entirely
Satisfied with That Body
as 1t Stands.
THE COST OF THE TRIAL
THE SLAYER OF WHITE ANXIOUS
THAT THE REAL ACTION OF
THE CASE SHOULD BEGIN AT
ONCE.
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New York, Feb. 2.-The defense in
the trial of Harry X. Thaw, for the
killing of Stanford White, will call
more than fifty witnesses and three
weeks will be consumed in the taking
of testimony. Any attempt to changs
the makeup of the jury on Monday,
when the prosecution opens it's case,
will be vigorously opposed by Thaw' S
lawyers.
These statements are made on the
authority of A. Russell Peabody, of
counsel for the defense, who impaired
the information regarding the immedi-
ate intentions of the defense today,
and added:
1--WE are perfectly satisfied with
the jury as it stands and will certain
ly oppose any further effort to change
it. We are anxious for the trial to
proceed. and will be ready to go ahead
on Monday morning.
"As to what line the defense will
take, l am not at liberty to say. We
have not and shall not give any hint of
anything we mean to do along those
lines.
The presentation of our side of the
case will probably consume three
weeks. We have a raft of witness
es-about fifty in all How many we
shall call depends on the develop
ments of the trial.
When the proceedings begin on
Monday the opening address for the
people will be delivered by Assistant
District Attorney Garvan. 1t will be
brief Then will come the peoples
witnesses, who will tell how Stanford
White was slain. These will include
eye-witnesses of the Madison Square
Garden tragedy. What more the
prosecution intends to establish has
not been limited at and will not be
known until Mr--Garrsans 1nakss.skis
short address. 1t is known that hosts
of witnesses are under subpoena for
use in rebuttal in case the character
of Stanford White is attacked.
There has been considerable spec,l-
lation as to the probable cost of the
trial to the county of New York, and
many wild guesses have been made in
this connection. In order to settle
the matter for good and all, figures
have been obtained in the district at
torney's office that show the total cost
of the trial for the county will be
somewhere between $4,000 and $15,-
600, an exceedingly low figure when
all the circumstances are considered.
The fees to medical experts will be
more than half the total amount The
two trials of Roland Molineux put the
county to an expense of upward of
$4,000, and it cost $4,000 to convict
Albert T. Patrick. In both the trials
experts were employed, and experts
are luxuries. In the Thaw case three
medical experts are lined up with the
prosecution. They are doctors Flint,
Macdonald and Mabon.
These medical experts receive a
compensation dependent on their ap-
pearance in court. They are paid
S100 a day for every day they attend
the sessions. Each day that talesmen
have been examined has seen them
within the enclosure allotted to the
prosecution. They will probably be
in attendance for three weeks longer,
which means fifteen additional court
days, so at rough estimate they will
500 in all.
Thaw arose early this morning and
after couple of turns around the cor
ridors, read every word about the trial
in the morning papers. After spend
ing couple of hours in this manner
he began to show impatience for the
arrival of his relatives.
The possibility that one or more of
the jurors will be dropped is the only
cloud in the prisoners sky. He is
very impatient to have the real action
of the trial begin at once and chafes
at the squabble over the jurors, al
though he realizes that it is the most
important preliminary in the fight for
his life.
The Thaw jury was "at home" to-
day at the Grand Central hotel. Be-
cause of the weather, the jurors were
not anxious to take a stroll, but plan
ned to remain quietly in their rooms
until tomorrow afternoon and then
take a carriage ride through the park.