The daily sentinel., 1908-01-03
SOON AGAIN
TO FACE JURY
Harry 1haw in His Cell in the Tombs An1ousIy Awaiting
His Second Trial Which Begins Monday Before Fam
GUS Young Judge Special Venire Of ESQ Tales
Men Summoned Brilliant Young
Attorney Who will Defend the
Celebrated Prisoner The
Line Of Defense.

fense 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 ard Mrs. Thaw
are in good spirits as could be expect
ed. with Thaw a prisoner in the
Tombs and facing the electric chair
or the madhouse. Both are confident
of acquittal and this hope Is openly
\ shared by Thaw's attorneys. who de-
clare that when the evidence they
have to offer, showing conclusively
that Thaw was temporarily insane
when he shot Stanford 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. 1t is probable that the pro-
secution against Thaw would finally
be dropped.
There is little doubt that Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw will again be the prin-
cipal witness for her husband. The
tragic story of her lif-the story
(which even District Attorney Jerome
said was without a parellel in his
tory or literature''-will be gone
over again for the benefit of court
and jury and curious auditors and
sensation-hungry newspapers. Again
the little child-woman will recite the
tale of the drugged wine and the
mirror-lined room and of the terrible
wrongs she is alleged to have suffer-
ed at the hands of the wealthy archi-
tect. Again she will lay bare her
quiveriLg heart and tell the inmost
secrets of her soul, soiled by early as
scciations forced upon her by an am
Il bilious mother and designing friends
Again New York will revel for a
time in the tales of that gay Bohemia
of wealth and culture where virtue
is laughed to scorn and little, slen-
der girls are the favorite prey of men
of money and position.
This piteous tale of the life of Ev-
elyn Nesbit, the childish artists mo-
del. will be retold not as the basis of
another appeal to the "uiwritten
law" but to show the terrible men
tai effect upon Thaw of the relation
of these wrongs suffered by his wife.
The story is to furnish proof to the
jury of the sudden madness that
came upon Thaw and transformed
him for the time being into reven-
geful blood-thirsty lunatic, with no
room in his mind but for the one
thought of vengeance upon the man
who had betrayed his wife.
Attorney Littleton will maintain
from his first speech to the Jury. that
! Evelyh's testimony alone shows con-
clusively Thaw's mental and legal
responsibility at the time of the COM
mission of the crime. All other cir
cumstances tending to prove Thaw in
sane will be marshalled before the
jury. and greater stress will be laid
upon these than upon the theoretical
testimony of experts an alienists.
By combining the defense strictly
and closely along the lines of techni-
cal and logical proof of insanity, Mr..
Littleton hopes to have n decided ad-
vantage over District Attorney Je-
l n 10 Ton ,f -;
fact that the alienist for the prose-
cution swore at the FIRST trial that
Thaw was insane. from the stand
point of medical science. but that he
was legally sane. will be urged as a
very close distinction on which to
send man to the electric chair, the
lprison or the madhouse.
Strong stress will be laid by Mr..
Littleton upon Thaw's semi-religious
fervor previous to the commission of
the crime, which led to the belief in
his mind that he was the chosen ag-
ent of Providence and that 1t was
his mission and his duty to remove
from the world a man he looked up
l
remarkable last will and testament.
by which he devoted fund to the
discovery and punishment of his as
sihs. and large sum for caring for
the young women whom he declared
had been the victims of Stanford
White. will also be produced as an
evidence of Thaw's insanity.
Opinions differ as to the length of
time which will be required to se-
cure jury. 1t is reasonably GER
tain that there is not to be found in
New York an educated man, qualified
to act rs juror in a case as impor-
tant as this. who Is not more or less
familiar with the case and the testi-
mony adduced at the previous trial.
Interest in the case has been SO uni
versal. too, that nearly all have FORM
ed oDfHiona M tn Thnwsa Ouflf or IN