The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-01-02
Accordingly Harry Thaw
Is At Present GuiItIeSS
of Crime.
THE LINE OF DEFENSE
Said TO Have Been Decided On By
Attorneys for New York Man.
New Trial Begins Shortly.

NEW YORK. Jan. l-one week
from today Harry X. Thaw Will
/ be called a second time before a jury
TO make his defense to the charge Of
having murdered Stanford White.
There have been several postpone
ments of the daie. of the second hear
t ing of this noted case, but il Is said
now there will he no further delay.
IL is announced that Mrs. William
| Thaw. mother OF the defendant. is
expected In the city by next Saturday.
Mrs Thaw has been In poor health,
| II is said, but believes she will be able
TO come on TO be with her son during
the opening hours of his second fight
for life and freedom. Other members
of the family circle. including airs.
George Carnegie, Harry Thaw's sister,
and Josiah and Edward Thaw. his
brothers, are also expected to reach
the city during the week and will re-
main throughout the trial. The coun-
tess of Yarmouth, the defendants sis
ter Is at present In England and is
not expected TO attend the second
trial Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. who
has been daily visitor at the Tombs
agreed, save recently, when she was
III for few days, will of course, be
one of the first arrivals in the court
room on Monday next.
There have been many rnmoTs as
TO the plans of the defense for the
second hearing of the case and it has
been predicted that an entirely new
line of action might be followed. II
can be authoritatively stated, how
ever that the defense will again be
the same, that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
will again relate her story TO the jury
and that an imposing array of expert
alienists will again undertake to es-
ltablish the theory that Thaw was in
sane at the time he killed Stanford
White In the Madison Square roof
garden, but has so far recovered his
mental balance since that time as to
be no longer menace to the COM
mnnity and therefore is entitled to
| freedom
In the coming trial will be no
higher. or unwritten law, but the de-
fense will adhere strictly to a plea of
legal insanity at the time the act was
committed. There were mistakes
made at the first trial which 1t will
be the attempt of Thaw's attorneys
stndiously to avoid during his sec
ond hearing. In the expert testimony
for instance, they have been able to
separate the. wheat from the chan,
and will only offer that which proved
most effective before. And having
once felt the sting of District At
torney Jerome's skillful cross exam
/ ination on all the phases of diseases
affecting the brain. several of the
Thaw experts will be in much more
secure position than they were at the
first trial when the prosecuting Of
fcer's wonderful knowledge of medi-
cine fairly amazed, and In one case,
completely dumbfounded a witness.
District Attorney Jerome will OF
course, he prepared to combat the
testimony of the insanity experts. His
formidable hypothetical question,
which was asked before in omnibus
style to nine state experts In row,
and upon which they based opinions
entirely opposite to those entertained
by the experts for the defense. will
he taken out of the archives and pol
Ished up for use In rebuttal. The
: states direct case will again be vet
brief. 1t will have added to II the
} testimony of James Clineh Smith, a
: brother-in-law of Stanford White,
, who met and talked with Thaw the
: night of the tragedy, Mr.. Smiths
: testimony which Mr.. Jerome regards
: as highly important and as showing a
. calm. cool. calculating state of Thaw
/ mind but few minutes before he