The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-11-28

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alternately was a ..sir Galahad. !" or a
est George" destroying the dragon
This line Of argument gave Distric,
Attorney jerome an unexpected open
ing and he too disregarded the mass
Of testimony tending to show Thaw's
mental irresponsibility, devoting him
seld to ridicule OF the heroic roles in
which Mr.. Delmas had cast the de-
PENDANT and his wife. Mr.. Jerome de-
ciared the tragedy was nothing more
than "a common, low. vulgar Ten
derloin murder" To the jury he de-
scribed Thaw as ''wilful wretch
INDUCED from his youth by wealthy
parents and at last turned loose to
float his way through the Tender
loin on $4,000 a year" The SEEM
ingly irrational writings OF Thaw
which were placed in evidence. were
dismissed by Jerome, as the work of
a rich illiterate and nothing more"
District Attorney Jerome and Fran
els P. Garvan, his first assistant, again
Will have charge of the prosecution,
but Thaw has made an important
change OF attoreys. Replacing Mr..
Delinas as chief counsel will be Mar
tin W. Littleton, OF Brooklyn. Mr..
Littleton is known as a capable law
yer and brilliant orator. At the
DEMOCRATIC National convention of
1904 1t was he who nominated Alton
B. Parker for the Presidency Mr..
Littleton is southern man, having
been born in Tennessee just thirty
five years ago. He is what is gener-
ally termed self-made man. having
educated himself. He began the
practice OF law in 1891 and maving
to Dallas, Tex, served there for u
term as assistant prosecuting attor-
ney. Later he removed to Brooklyn.
and at once became prominent fig
ure in politics and at the bar. For
four years he was assistant district
attorney for Kings county and under
the first Mcclellan administration in
Greater New York was president OF
Brooklyn borough Just who will be
associated with Mr.. Littleton may not
be definitely known until the day the
trial begins. AT present Daniel o.
Reilly and A. Russell Peabody are the
only members Of the former array OF
counsel credited with being in Thaw's
service. Because OF Thaw's impetuos-
ity It was not always known during
the former trial just who his attor-
neys might be the next day. The
opening day of the. coming trial I'M
doubtedly will settle whatever misun-
Outstanding may exist among counsel.
1t is the hope of the prisoners friends
that his cause may not be hampered
this time by the wrangles among
counsel which were request last win
ter. !.
There Is much speculation as to
whether or not Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
hte schoolgirl-like figure about which
the storm and tempest OF the first
trial beat out Its fury. will again take
the stand in her husbands defense. A
report has been current for some time
that. she will not. but the Thaw case
always has been surrounded by every
class of rumor and suggestion that
human ingenuity can invent. A
definite decision as to the matter of
placing the girl again upon the stand
may not be arrived at until the trial
lis well under way Without her tes-
timony there would be difficulty in
making out case of emotional in
sanity-a defense which would have
to be relied upon to gain .Thaw abso-
Lutte freedom. II medical or heredi-
tary insanity be the plan of the de-
Tense, the best Thaw can hope for is
an indefinite commitment to the
State Hospital for the Criminal In
sane at Matteawan.
Neither Thaw nor his wife relishes
the idea of placing the girl at the
mercy of another cross-examination
by Mr.. Jerome, who. unmoved by her
burning cheeks of shame, forced her
to admit the long-continued relations
which existed between her and Stan
ford White. and to tell the jury in
plain words of the two European
tours she made with Thaw before be-
tours the girl declared. that Thaw
demanded to know of her the rea-
son why she would not consent to be-
come his WIFE,. Then she told him
her life-history and of the alleged
wrong which was claimed to have
ruined her career. Told for second
time the wonderful story might lose
much of the dramatic effect of its
first offering. and It is not generally
believed that young Mrs. Thaw, In
the knowledge of the cross-examina-
ton that would come. could hold her
self together as we'll as she did at the
first trial. when Mr.. Jerome freely
proclaimed her as one of the best
pitnesses he had ever heard any
where.
The second trial may not last more
than a few weeks. Its length will de-
pend almost entirely upon the time
required in securing q Jury. This is
expected to be tedious work, as there
are few persons in New York county
who id not read the details of the
former trial and who have not some
prejudice or bias in the question sof
a1p,ts. A.