The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17

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 This trial which has caused so much SUIT. 1t is predicted. will cost the Thnw family S3e5.000. The cost to the State will also be large but nothing like the amount the defense has spent and will spend. Never before in the court an- nals of this city has such an expensive array of legal talent been gathered to- gether in a criminal case. It Is ex- pensive not only on account of ability, but because of the disposition of the Thaw family to throw open the doors of their money vaults and Ego the Him. It" for the defense of the man ore trial The Thaw fortune, according to Pitts burg estimates, is about $40, 100000. All the tremendous strength of this for- tune has been thrown into the battle to save Harry K. Thaw from the death chair.
 The array of lawyers, councillors and what not, consisting of Messrs. Hartridge. Peabody. Delmas, o'Reilly. Gleason, and others. will cost the Thaw estate before the trial Is over at least S200.000. Apportion 1t as you may. you cannot go much below this figure.
 Scores of detectives working in va- rious parts of the world for many months will cost $50 900 more. Then there are the services of Roger O'Mara, the former chief of police of Pittsburg. whose expenses will be reckoned in the thousands, as we'll as heavy out lays for witnesses whose time and ex- penses must be paid by the Thaws.
 Taken in It's entirely the Thaw trial will cost in the neighborhood of s325,- 900. This may be divided approxi- mately as follows:
 Lawyers -. ... ... ...... .s2oo, 900 Out Of town detectives ...... 50 900 Preparation of case. inciden-
 tals. etc. 50,000
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 Of course this amounts to only q fraction of the income of the Thaw family. but 1t Is enough to fill the mind with wonder
 s1oo,o00 for One Lawyer.
 The fee of Thaw's leading counsel, Dolphin Michael Delmas. formerly of California. will be not less than s1oo.- 900. Last summer the Thaw's cast about for a great lawyer--the great est In the country if need be--to save Harry K. Thaw. John O. Johnson. q noted attorney of Philadelphia. was mentioned. but declined. Partly at
 
 through the influence of Justice Me- Kenna, of the Supreme Court of the United States. and a coterie of Cali fornians MT. Delmas was retained 5 MT. Delmas is Napoleon" of the West in more senses than one. Those who know him best say that he rather brides himself on his resem- biance to the Corsican conqueror. There is a suggestion of Napoleon in the boise of his head. his profile. and the shape of his temples. His facial resemblance to Napoleon is emphasiz- ed by his habit of wearing a pointed lock of hair over his forehead. like that seen fin the portrait Of the French emperor. His friends in San Francis co have twitted him on a story that he was indeed a descendant of Napo- leon. Some Californians even believe that. Mir. Deimas being of French extraction, there Is some kfnship be- tween the two men. When theatory is mentioned to him the lawyer as- sumes an air of gentle deprecation.
 MT. Delmas IS 53 years old and odd years. Most of his practice has been in civil cases, and many consider him at hfs best In that branch of his profession. The suit which earrted his fame all over the country was tn ( contest over the millions of she tate Senator Fair. He represented the contestant. Mrs. Craven, and met one of his infrequent defeats. He also defended a libel suit against Claus Spreckeis. and was recently sought for the position of general counsel of the Southern Pacific Railway, but de- ciined the offer.
 While he never posed as a criminal lawyer sornfsof his greatest victories have been won in such cases. He has had sixteen clients accused of homi- eide, and all have been aquitted. Hs has made fortune. His fee in the