Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-10
THE SECOND THAW TRIAL.
A Special Forecast of Events From ar
English Prophet.

1907. Selection of new jury. Objec-
ton taken to every person who ad-
mit,cd that he had ever heard any
thing about the Thaw case.
1905 Jury completed-seven hermits,
four long-sentence NcOnvicts and a
lighthouse keeper.
1909. Trial adjourned for America
CUP race. Sir Thomas Upton shakes
AIR. Thaw by the hand and says that
he is confident that he will carry OF
the cup before the trial is ended. Ig-
nominious defeat of Shamrock XVII.
1910. Judge shows symptoms OF
seni!e decay. Asks, ''Who is Mrs.
Thaw?"
| 1911. Mr.. Delmas, in illustrating the
unwritten law for the 137sth time.
shoots a juryman.
| 1912. Thaw jury go out on strike Tor
old age pensions and Il bullet-proof
| jury box.
1913. Extraordinary sensation in
| New York New York World discovers
| that q jurvman has been mad Tor
Years and believes he is teapot.
1914. Mr.. Jerome puts a hypotheti-
! cal question lasting two sessions or
| the court to mental expert. Mr..
Delmas objects, but the judge over
| rules the objection. Mental expert
| discovered to be stone deaf. Question
has to be repeated in deaf and dumb
| alphabet. Two Jurymen 0ie "a
| apOplexy.
1915. New York state passes law
that Thaw jury should be paid and
that vacancies on it are to be filled by
Tn
all its candidates. defeating Mr..
Roosevelt and Pierpont Morgan. Sal
aries of jurynnen raised to $4,000 a
| year.
1916. Mr.. -Delinas propounds new
| defence. arguing that if White had
been Il Christian Scientist the bullet
would never have hurt him. and that,
| therefore, his death was suicidal MIS-.
| Eddy gives evidence that the nur-
chase Of six little books at SIG each
| (no discount for CASH would have
made White bullet-Droof.
| 1917. New York paper appears with
| out a portrait of anyone connected
with the Thaw case. Mr. Delmas APP
| plies that the editor be committed for
| contempt OF court.
| 1913 Prof Weissman of Leipzig
publishes pamphlet on the Great Thaw
Myth-proving that the murder OF
White by Thaw is merely primitive
mans method of symbolizing the tri-
umrh of spring over winter SHOWS.
1925. Mr. Upton Sinclair publishes
his great work, 1.-THE Bungle.' expos
| irg legal delays in the Thaw trial
EX-President Roosevelt energies from
retirement and orders the jury to bring
in their verdict instantly.
| 1926. Mr. De!mas begins final adj
dress to the jury. Asks them if they
will convict his client IN year which
is the goth anniversary of the greatest
sorrow in his (Mr. Thaw's) life-the
sudden death of his old friend. STAN
ford White. A reporter weeps in
| court.
1927 The jury decide that they
must examine the Austrian castle in
which Mr.. and Mrs. Thaw lived before
returning their verdict.
1928. Discovery Of the jury at Monte
Carlo. Funds have to be wired fol
their return home.
1929. The jury returns verdict
Guilty of bigamy in the second de-
gree" Great popular enthusiasm
Kaiser presents commemorative statue
o. himself to Wabash University.
1905. Mr.. Thaw chosen as Demo.
cratic nominee for the presidency. De-
feats Mr.. Jerome, the Republican
candidate. by immense majority. De
clincs to live in the White House be.
cause the name is offensive. AS"
compliment to American journalism thu
name of white House" Is altered Il
yellow House" Popular biography
of President Thaw-"F'rom Murderer
Cell to White HOuse"-selis by mil
lions. Mrs. Thaw elected Lady Presi
dent Of the White Ribbon Army
John Bull.