Semi-weekly herald., 1908-01-16
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

that no application for commission tc
go to Pittsburg and take testimony ot
Mrs. William Thaw need be made as
defendants mother telegraphed she
viii come to New York when needed
Mrs. Thaw is still very sick. but the
value Of testimony as personal re
cital rather than in form of deposition
has led attorneys to abandon the lat
er proposition. Thaw was called g.
the bar promptly at 10 a nj. Within
the next few minutes Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Garvan had begun the
out line of the case.
THE defense in this case" said Mr.
Garvan, lis insanity. The material
facts are admitted Insanity, let ME
assue you, is not to be defined by
what you or | might think 1t is not
what physicians or metaphysicians
may tell us. or what scientists or
pseudo scientists may describe. In
sanity as we have to deal with it, has
been defined by the Legislature of New
York" Mr.. Garvan then defined it
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw listened to the
assistant prosecutors discussion of ac.
tual details of the tragedy with tense
drawn features. Josiah Thaw, a broth
er, and Mrs. George l.. Carnegie the
sister completed the usual family
group. Thaw sat with eyes fixed upon
the prosecutor his head resting upon
his right hand. In describing the kill
ing of White, Garyan declared in con-
clusion that judged by court prose
cution he believed that homicide could
be proven "premeditated, deliberate
and cowardly murder" w H. Volken.
ing, draughtsman, was the first wit
ness. His diagram of the scene of
the killing which the prosecution used
through the first trial was introduced
in evidence.
After the examination of several wit
nesses who testified as to the shooting
of Stanford White by Thaw the prose
clution closeSr its case this afternoon
and the defense was ordered to pro-
ceed
Chicago. Jan, 13-Chicago's tele-
graphic communication with the outer
world which was practically paralyzed
by yesterdays sleet storm, is slowly
being restored to normal condition to-
day. The construction department is
busy at work of repairing poles and
IL
ont by the telegraph companies have
been strung along fences in rural dis.
tricts. l,
st. diati' Jan. 1s.-The north. mid
die wes1,,, parts of the south are in
the gra tof n blizzard today. A
heavy f'' of snow during the last fDl
ty-eight hours has accumulated on the
ground to an average depth of alb We
five inches. and in many places trafHc
has been hindered and the telephone
and telegraph service affected. Range
cattle in the Panhandle country OF
Texas suffered principally from the
condition. The Panhandle is covered
with four inches of snow.
Florence. Colo, Jan. 13.-Five hun
dred men were engaged this morning
searching for the bodies of Dominick
Minichiello. Joseph Minichielo, Mrs.
Minichiello, Mrs. Frank Palmetto and
Arcola Ruffatto between here and the
Portland cement works. Officer Fur
Miss found a clew yesterday which
leads him to believe the bodies have
been hidden farther than the search
hitherto has been made. The suppo-
sition now is that the bodies are hid
den in some deep arroyo between here
and Portland. This is one of the wild
est sections in Fremont county and a
body could very easily be secreted so
that 1t would be difficult to find it.
The Denver Post todays offers one
thousand dollars reward for the infor
nation leading to the arrest of the
murderers.
Washington, Jan. 13-Geo. George
Cook. congressman at large for Colo
RADIO. has caused a great sensation here
Dy ndhins punIiC an open iettsi "
the president in which he severely ar
raigns the administration for its course
in prosecuting alleged infractions OF
public land laws in Colorado. Con
gressman Cook insists that great in
justice has been done number OF
Colorado's most honorable, upright and
law-abiding business men, in that they
have been unnecessarily branded as
criminals through over zealusness OF
the government in ordering indict-
ments without furnishing proper evi-
dence. He cites recent decisions of
Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis at
Denver in which he quashed indict-
ments against some thirty citizens to
show that the government prosecutors
were over active in their efforts to
punish land frauds. He spoke sharply
of this impulsive administration and
says:
THE unprecedented and dictatorial
encroachment Of the executive against
the ayacutive and fudicial dena rtm ent 4