Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-01-03
HARRY K. THAW COUNTING THE
DAYS TO ELAPsE BEFORE TRIAL

bill, which he presented while in the
senate.
Bowling holds the record in New
York for breyity in trying a muir
der case. Insanity was offered in
defense of the prisoner. as will be
the case in the Thaw trial. and after
listening 10 the evidence for forty
minutes Judge Dowling sent the case
TO the jury, which promptly returned
verdict OF Not guilty, because OF
insanity"
A special panel of $50 talesmen.
from which TO select jury TO try
Thaw. has been ordered by Justice
Bowling and will report Monday
morning, when Thaw will be led
forth from his cell and across the
famous bridge of sighs to the court
room. Lined up in the court room,
in battle array, will be District At
torney Jerome and his assistants.
for the prosecution, and Martin w.
Littleton and a half dozen less ia
nous attorneys, for the defense. The
silver-tongued oratory of Dolphin NJ.
Delmas, the California lawyer. will
not be heard in defense of the "un-
written law" but another westerner
will take the place OF Delmas as
Thaw's LEAKING counsel Martin w.
Littleton Is even younger than the
youthful Judge Dowling, and will at
tain his 35th birthday on January
~. His young manhood he spent
in Texas. and was at one time as
slstant prosecuting attorney at Dali
las. He married a Dallas. Tex. wo-
man, Miss Maud Wilson, on Decem-
Der l, 1896, five years after he had
commenced his legal career He left
Texas to go to New York. settling
in Brooklyn, where he speedily be-
came prominent. He was for four
years assistant district attorney of
Kings county, and president of
Brooklyn borough, 1908 to 1905. He
first attained national prominence
when, as a delegate from New York
to the Democratic national eonven-
of Judge Alton b. Parker for the
presidential nomination. He is a
member of several Brooklyn clubs
and prominent in the social and po-
litical affairs of that borough.
1t is known that Mr.. Littleton is
distinctly opposed to any appeal to
the so-called "unwritten law" and
that he will make his sole appeal for
his client on the ground that Thaw
was temporarily deranged when he
fred the shot which ended the life
of Stanford White. While the de-
Tense will be insanity, with no de
mentia Americana" side issues Mr.
Littleton and his legal assistants
will bitterly contest any attempt on
the part Of District Attorney Jerome
to railroad their client to Matteawan
madhouse.
Both Harry Thaw and Mrs Thaw
are in as good spirits as could be ex-
pected, with Thaw a prisoner in the
Tombs and facing the electric chair
or the madhouse. Both are conf
dent of acquittal and this hope is
openly shared by Thaw's attorneys,
who declare that when the evidence
they have to offer, showing CON
clusively that Thaw was temporarily
Insane when he shot White, is pre-
sented to the jury. no other verdict
will be possible. Attorneys who have
carefully followed the case and who
have no personal interest in It., do
not share this opinion, and believe
that the coming trial will result in
another hung jury. In that event,
however, It is probable that the pros
ecution against Thaw would finally
be dropped.
There is little doubt that Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw will again be the prin-
ciDal witness for her husband. The
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