The Grenada sentinel., 1907-02-09
EYE WITNESS TELLS HOW HE
SHOT STANFORD WHITE.
WHITE'SSON FIRST WITNESS
Prisoner Bows His Head as He Hears
Lawrence White Describe Parting
With Him on the Night of the Trag-
edy.

tile effort to continue the process OF
jury weeding-out Monday morning, AS
sistant District Attorney Garvan
opened the case by presenting the peo-
pies side to the jury, and then the
taking Of testimony began.
The tragedy of the Madison Square
Roof Garden was rehearsed in detail
by two eye witnesses, one of whom
swore that Thaw, on his way to meet
the police while his victim lay dead
on the floor of the garden, admitted
the crime and said he had shot the
architect because he ruined my Wife
The other, leaving the witness stand,
walked the floor In front of the jury
box to show how Harry Thaw had ap-
preached Stanford White as the latter
sat at a table, and had slain the. archi-
tect while the chorus was singing !
Could Love a Million Girls ..
AS the witness told the story in de.
tail, Thaw sat with bowed head, star
ing at the table. about which was
grouped his strong, array of counsel,
The prisoners; face was. flushed and
his hands trembled. slightly. ~. i: ]
Lawrence White. a son of the late
Stanford White, was the first witness
called by the prosecution, He testi-
fed briefly of his meeting with his
father on the night OF the tragedy. As
he related how he and chiim had
parted with the architect just before
the latter started for the Madison
Square roof garden, and as The, youth
said That was the last time saw my
father alive" Thaw gazed' steadily
at the table, without lifting his eyes:
He did not look up when young White,
without ross-examination, was ex-.
cused from the stand. '~,' 49,
The second witness war Warner
Paxton, the engineer Of Madison
Square garden, He was, an ,eye;-wit-
ness of the shooting and the arrest OF
Thaw. He said that. when he reached
Thaw's side he had been detained by
a fireman and an employel of the gar
den, who asked him, to hold. Thaw
while they searched for. "a, policeman.
They were then in front ,Of an aele-
vator and .Thaw said to him: i,
We've got to go down in the ele-
vator Why can't We go now?" .. -
Paxton said, he replied that it was a
good idea, and they started down.
1--WE went. into the elevator. the
witness continued, and Thaw admit
ted that he did 1t, saying: He ruined
my wife, 49,. - 49, -..-. i
A woman whom he thought was
Thaws wife, replied to this:
But look at the fix yousare in now"
and .Thaw replied to sher: ':sWell,
dearie, 1 have probably saved your
life"
On reaching the gropndl floor, Thaw
requested some one to telephone
George Carnegie, his brother-in-law,
that he was in trouble. .-''~
The witnes identified a plan of the.
roof garden and pointed out the posi-
ton of the actors in the tragedy.
He was not .cross-eXamihed.
Shows How White Was Shot.
Myer Cohen, a song writer, and
manager of the house which published
the music of "Mamzelle Champagne"
was called as the third witness for
the state. He saw Thaw there for
the first time during the initial act of
the musical comedy. Cohen described
on a diagram the position of the tahle
at which White sat-
When asked by Mr.. Garvan to in
dicate Thaw's manner Of approaching
the architect the witness left the
stand, and, walking UP and down be-
fore the jury box, he illustrated the
slow pace which he declared charac-
terized Thaws deliberation in ap-
preaching his victim.
HE walked up to Mr.. Whites table
like this said the witness, indicating.
ing up to Mr.. White from behind, sud
denly faced him and fired three
times"
The witness did not take part In
the events which Immediately fol
lowed the shooting.
David N Carvalho, the handwriting
expert, was a new figure in the case.
He sat just behind Harry Thaw and
evidently has been summoned to tes-
tify for the defense. No statement as
to what will be shown by Mr.. Carval-
no would be made by Thaw's counsel.
'Heditary insanity" is Thaws plea
in defense of the murder of Stanford
White. When the prosecution had
rested its case Monday after the in
PRODUCTION of several witnesses to the
tragedy brought forward merely to es-
tablish the fact that Thaw killed
White without warning, as the latter
sat at a table listening to the chorus
of the now famous Il Could Love
Million Girls" Attorney John B.
Gleason for the defense arose, faced
the jury, and presented Thaw's de-
fense.
Attorney Gleason declared that
Thaw was suffering from insanity,
hereditary in nature, when he shot
Stanford White. Mr.. Gleason said
that Thaw believed he was acting
upon the word of Providence when he 1
killed the architect. He, declared that
Thaw shot without malice, and did
not know The nature or quality OF his