Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-17
AS ENGLISH SEE THE THAW TRIAL.

A satirieal forecast of the second
Thaw trial recently appeared in John
Bull as follows:
1907. Selection of new jury. Obec-
ton taken to every person who admit
ted that he had ever heard anything
about the Thaw case.
1908, Jury completed-seven hermits,
four long sentence convicts and light
house keeper.
1909. Trial adjourned for American
cup race. Sir Thomas Upton shakes
Mr.. Thaw by the hand and says he is
confident that he will carry off the emp
before the trial is ended. Ignominious
defeat of Shamrock XVII.
1910. Judge shows symptoms of SEN
lie decay. Asks, who is Mrs. Thaw?"
1911. Mr.. Delmas, in illustrating the
unwritten law for the I37Sth time,
shoots a juryman.
1912 Thaw jury goes out on strike
for old age pensions and bulletproof
jury box.
1913. Extraordinary sensation in New
York. New York World discovers that
a juryman has been mad for years and
believes he is teapot
1914. Mr.. Jerome puts hypothetical
question lasting two sessions of the
court to mental expert Mr.. Delmas
objects but the judge overrules the
objection. Mental expert discovered to
be stone deaf. Question has to be re-
peated in deaf and dumb alphabet.
Two jurymen die of apoplexy.
1915. New York state passes law that
Thaw jury should be paid and that
vacancies on it are to be filed by cleo
ton. Tammany carries all of its candi-
dates, defeating Mr., Roosevelt and Pier.
pont Morgan. Salaries of jurymen rails
ed to $40, 900 year.
1916. Mr.. Delmas propounds new de-
Tense, arguing that if White had been a
Christian Scientist the bullet would
never have hurt him, and that, there
fore his death was suicide. Mrs. Eddy
gives evidence that the purchase of si2
little books at ten dollars each (no dis
count for cash) would have made White
bullet proof.
1917. New York paper appears with
out portrait of anyone connected will
the Thaw case. Mr.. Delmas apple:
that the editor be committed for con
tempt of court.
1918. Professor Weissman of Leipsil
publishes pamphlet on the Grea
Thaw Myth-proving that the murde
of White by Thaw is merely primativ
mans method of symbolizing the tri
umph of spring over winter SHOWS.
1925 Mr. Upton Sinclear publishe
his great work, The Bpngle, exposing
legal delays in the Thaw trial. Elk
President Roosevelt energies from re
tirement and orders the jury to bring i
> their verdict instantly.
} 1926. Mr.. Delmas begins final addres
: to the jury. Asks them if they will cor
vict his client in year which is tn
( twentieth anniversary of the creates
sorrow in his (Mr Thaw's) life-th
5 sudden death of his old friend, Stanton
s White. A reporter weeps in court.
s 1927. The jury decides that they mus
: examine the Austrian castle in whic
Mr.. and Mrs Thaw lived before return
; ing their verdict.
; 1928. Discovery of the jury at Mon
J Carlo. Funds have to be wired for the
- return home.
! 1929. Jury returns vedrict OF Guilt
I of bigamy in the second degree.
Great popular enthusiasm. Kaiser pr
sents commemorative statue of himse
to Wabash university.
1890. Mr.. Thaw chosen as democrat
nominee for the PRESIDENCY. Defeats M
Jerome, the republican candidate,
immense majority. Declines to live
the White House because the name
offensive. AS compliment to Americi
journalism the name is changed fro
/ "White House" to "Ye11ow House
= Popular biography of President Thaw
- From Murderer's Cell to Viii
House'-sells by millions. Mrs. Tha
elected lady president of the Viii
Ribbon Army.