Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-04

: ildl' W lne ueIenSe, S235,OOU.
Estimated cost of the first
trial to the county, 100000.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Unless
something altogether unforeseen oc-
ours, the second trial of Harry K.
Thaw for the murder of Stanford
White will begin next week before
Justice Bowling in the criminal
branch of the supreme court The
attorneys for both the prosecution .
and the defense are ready for the
trial and DESTROYS that it shall
proceed without further delay. The
Impotence of the prisoner for the
trial to begin is we'll known. 1t
will doubtless be the most welcome
sound he has heard in months when
the keepers keys rattle in his cell
door and he is asked to march
across the Bridge of Signs to face
once more the judge, the prosecutor
and the throng of morbidly curious
who will crowd the courtroom to
hear the trial.
Great interest centers in the
course of the defense at the coming
trial. 1t is generally believed that
despite any ideas of justification
which Thaw may believe in, his
present LAWYERS will confine them
selves to making out case of legal
insanity. This may be emotional or
hereditary, both of these phases of
the matter having been gone into at
the first trial
There will be few changes
among the witnesses, though for the
most part they viii be the same as
testified at the first trial. Several
OF the alienists will be dropped, and
new ones introduced. Fireman
Paul Brudi who was one of the first
on the scene after the shoot ing; Po-
liceman A. l.. Debs, who got Thaw
and the gun; e. H. Convey, assist
ant superintendent of Madison
Square Garden; H. F. Blaese and
Never Cohen, eyewitnesses of the
affair, will all be put on the stand
to tell their stories again.
Mae Mackenzie. an actress friend
of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. was one Of
the foremost characters in the frs
trial, and had a prominent place II
the history of the case. 1t is nov
rumored that she may be placed or
the stand by the commonwealth ant
be used by the district attorney IL
an effort to convict Thaw.
Missing when the case went t.
trial the first time was Miss Id;
Vernon Simonton of Pittsburg. Sh
was in South Africa, where she re
q manned until a short time ago, whel
II she returned to Pittsburg The ties
r. timony to be offered by this MISSING
n witness is the unknown quantity il
. an equation that has once refuse
I. to yield to the solver, and it |
% awaited with interest. Admittin
It that she knows something about tn
It case, Miss Simonton has announce
70 that she will obey summons of tn
u court and will go on the witnes
= stand. Also she has said her test
N mony will be sensational and w.
IS be for the commonwealth as agains
" the defendant.
he One actor in the dramatic frs
X trial has passed out of the cas-,
This is Abe Hummel, the once prom
a inent little attorney, who testif1e
If to the relations between Evely
c. Nesbit and Stanford White and wa
N regarded as one of the star Wi
t nesses for the prosecution. Hummt
u is now serving a term on Blaol
= wells island, and as he will not /
- released until March, District Attoi
ney Jerome must go along withor
" his aid.
L There is much speculation as
IN whether or not Evelyn Nesbit Thav
', the schoolgirl like figure abol
y which the storm and tempest of tn
! first trial beat out its fury, wi
Ie again take the stand in her thu
Il. bands defense. A report has bee
y current for some time that she wi
not h,st a definite decision IN ~