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THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY; “AP — ot ae about the testimony indicated that there had been « Sements over points in the evi é. All of these being stra ame Way was open for a ballot the first thing this afterno: ; Most of the questions asked by the jurymen related Gaithe state of Thaw’s mind. This seemed to the defe © aging sign, indicating that there was an impression amor » that Thaw was insane when he killed White E. © althoagh there was a big crowd assembled in the court-house, th foom was not opened to the general public. Only the re Jawyers and members of the Thaw family were admitted whaw arrived at the court house alone Thaw family preceded her. She left the Lorraine Hotel alone a few minutes after the others. At ten thirty o'clock the side door of the court was opened fo edmirsion of the reporters to the empty, echoing chamber, It was ® that Justice Fitzgerald had received some sort of a communication fro _ faro:: and that he had orcered the official clerk and the oficial steno, to hold themselves in readiness for nervice. There followed n Jong wait. Then, at exactly 11 o'clock, tered, looking worn and sallow and haggard, some of them, the Thaw family came in by a side door. “Harry K. Taw to the bar,” chanted the clerk mechanics haw was. desperately pale, all but a pink flush in her cheeks. ‘8. book. The door by which the Jury had entered swu the prisoner. His shoe soles clattered on the floor as he came a as if he wore wooden sabots. His hurrying, tattoo in the half-empty, echoing chamber. His eyes goggled, his face was without life or tint in the skin. From the t!me he entered until he half fell | nto his chair his gaze never left the double row of twelve men in the attr: box. Hp never looked toward his own-people as he passed them “Good morning,” he said tn a husky undertone to his lawyers, Delmas “gnd O'Reily, but he did not at them; he looked at the jurors who faced straight ahead of them. Evelyn Thaw was boring the twelve jurors with her eves. JUSTICE REPEATS THE JURY’S WISHES. Justice Fitzgerald had mounted the bench amid an expectant clearing of throats. “The jury have asked me,” of the State's chart on the roof of Madison Square Garden, for defendant's ~ exhibits A to I, which are his letters; for his will and codicil; for the Com- | stock letter and for the Delmas and the Jerome hypothetical questions. Is there any objection?” Neither side had any objection tomake: “Very well,” said his Honor. “Anything else, gentlemen?” |. "Phe ninth juror, Steele, whispered something in Foreman Smith's eaj Smith, a small, alert man, stood up. “We do not care to have the original of these documents, providing | there are faithful copies of them,” he said. a was a scurrying about while the Jawyers on both sides found the desired papers. Mr. Jerome had typewritten copies of the letters, ‘which he supplied, it being agreed that these should be used owing to ‘the dificulty of deciphering Thaw's writing The original of the wil! was ‘Qurned over to Smith, it being typewritten, with the exception of the “collie! which was fatrly legible—tor Thaw. TWELFTH JUROR MAKES A REQUEST. ttman, the twelfth juror, sent (4 message to Smith. Brierly, ecrivbied a little note and passed It to the foreman. The foremmn in poke {n an undertone to the clerk. “I am informed,” hear the testimony of Meyer Cohen.” Cohen was the song writer who saw the murder of White on the roof, of Medtaon Square Garden and who testified on the first day of the trial for; the the ‘jury Simultaneou jy. Evelyn She carried ag open ly, Inca wn the at The other women of the} uncertain tread made a noisy he said, “for a personal examination | the} t said Justice Fitzgerald, “that the jury now desires ‘the State. It was Cohen whom Delmas, in summing up, declared had| | MOB TEARS AT EVELYN'S CLOTHES TO GET SOUVENIRS ~~ although the Just Moynah aken 1 + reading might | Thaw's at deve er knitted t : | eee ey All of Thaw’s fear Police- Brushed Aside in Mad Rush itis ity ssi soot THAW R Along here SGAINS HIS was his old welf, N of Curious Men and Women— was led away to the pris | have torn Mrs While the jury was assembled in Sho: Phaw’s hat and clothing from her in strips for souventrs. 1 had already assémbled was sug- mented by swarms of well-dressed persons who appeared to have nothing to do but They invaded the basement and ground flogr of the Criminal Courts Butlding, crowded into offices, overturned temporary telegraph and telephone offices and paralyzed the entire elevator service. Cal! after call was sent for police reserves, The only policemen of any effect in handling the crowd were those on horseback. swept off their feet, and held there. | Evelyn Thaw, escorted by Dan O'Reilly, went to Pontin's for luncheon. | Lafayette street wax comparatively clear, but a mob In Franklin street, gazing at the Bridge of Sighs for a glimpse of Harry Thaw, saw his wito| and made a rush for her. O'Retily and the Httle woman had to run for {t. and yelling, stormed the little restaurant, but a police guard at the door j Was effective on the narrow stairway, Dan O'Reilly telephoned for a big| ridicules the oratory of Messrs. Delm police guard to escort his cient and himself back to the Criminal Courts | 88¥8 !t considers Mr. Delmas to be the Bullding | that it “seemed as if a minor poet had r , , j The paper inquires if {t is possib! Mrs. Willlam Thaw, the Countess of Yarmouth and Mrs. George Car imen could be Influenced by after noon the crowd: that “Lam told it is so impossible attending to my ordinary affairs, but to unpack my things if necessary if the verdict 1s favorable. I had a v as outdoors. I had weak coffee and terest to us, as they are often inisstat Patrolmen were thrown down areaways or jammed up against walls! The crowd, hooting LONDON, April 11.—Commenting Junseen via the White street entrance. They, carriage was followed for blocks by hooting boys. ne VERVE, | : jurors casually and taking a sort of non-personal interest in What went ¢ Hooting Bo S Follow Car- seemingly pithout any deep regard for lous weight which the V. | whole thing would almost certainly haye issue of his life and . | death. Never since the tria|_started had the a clearer exposition of riage for Blocks. the wonderfully strange personality of Stanford W hite's er The examination of Dr. Hamilton was tediously, because | | {t nad been scattered in bits through Use pages of | At 130 o'clock ‘the hearing for the refr or's mind. A crowd of nearly 10. ur or SSRN ote crowd of nearly 10,000 people gathered around the Criminal Courts | evidently nearing its close, for the jurors called for the on of the Jus his afternoon to await the Thaw verdict. It was a disorderly, | tice’s charge relating to the evidence of Dr. Wagner and Dr. Evans regard. : ing their personal exa fon of thé defendan composed of about one-third women, Evelyn Nesbit | ¥ ior Ween heard the want wa ily were mobbed in spite of the efforts of twenty-four was stated that were not exy mo! policemen to protect them during the luncheon hour. But for @ valiant i ola atad dy fight put up by O'Reilly and a few newspaper reporters the crowd would Lonbatit fahad ming , Stopped to kiss his wife as he K Thaw issued the following stateme: to tell always filled with fresh air in the early morning hw. London Jeers at Jerome and Delmas Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, “such emp’ negie, with an escort of a dozen cops, sought to escape from the buflding; such a kind 1s inconceivable in an English court too, were mobbed, and their, Judge and jury alike and provoke a bitter remoastrance even fram the RIL 217 1907. AW IS BUOYED UP BY CHEERFUL MESSAGES FROM HIS FAMILY baie 2 AS THE AGONY OF SUSPENSE GROWS OVER THE DELIBERATIONS. oe SHOW HORSES NICKED OV BABY CARRIAGE Threw Mrs. Norris's Child Sephe ae Into the Gutter, but Didn’t Injure It. he} sily a chatting with hig lawyers, eyeing the} the Criminal nt in his c what a Courts Bulléing, Harry Tombs will do, jury preparing for the best, as it is sin so l am n it wo! ery good cold bat rn here for them The bathroom is The same ter ure These details have in rolls as usual on the trial at New York of Harry K. the Evening Standard to-day as and Jerome as being “flapdoodle worst sinner in this respect, and adds been let loose upon the Court.” e that a jury of practical, experienced thetoric,” and snys: “Oratory It would digust th BIDS OPENED FOR | Drisoner at the bar.” On ihe reiurn trip from Pontin’s Mr. O'Reilly and Mrs. Thaw became reparated from the police guard. At times it seemed that the sensation- THE WAY HERE AS *ASANE PATIENT | easily have supposed that the trial was going on again. All the main! Actors and all the stage settings were in their customary places. | The reading of the testimony of James Clinch Smith was disposed of | finally at 12.30, Until that ume no cross-examination had been read. But lat this etnge the Justice, after referring to the jury's note, called upon! the stenographer, not for the examination, but for the cross-examinations [of the three doormen who had been og duty at the Tenderloin station | during the night of June 25 and the marning of June 26. Moynahan led) “sworn on the stand that immediately after the shooting Harry Thaw] gaised his arms in the form of a ctosr, Moynahan, the stenographer, rat-| © led through the records of Cohen's testimony. To facilitate the under- standing of the jurors Clerk Penney caused an under-shertff to prop up| ‘the big diagram of the roof garden in front of them. During the reading ef Meyer Cohen's testimony Thaw straightened | and began to look a little less scared. He had taken h long, deep breath, | Mke a man coming up after a dive in the river, when he heard the Judge's opening announcement, and knew that he was not yet to be called upon to P frace himeelf for the shvck of a verdict, When His Honor had asked the’ question: “Is there any objection?” Thaw, with a queer, automatic grin of Telief on his face, had patted Delmas twice on the shoulder with a hand that trembled slightly. and had whispered, “No objection. I've no objec | u.” Then he turned and sald the same Uiing in the same way to Hart- cidge, apparently oblivious of the fact that Dan O'Ret}ly arteen and made the waiver. i THAW WISHED FOR MORE WHITE LETTERS A dull sed color came back into Thaw's cheeks, He borrowed a pencil | from Peabody while Cohen's statements were being read, and wrote this statement for the press on # scrap of paper: “I wish they had sixty-four | Jettern of the deceased.” ‘This presumably was a reference to the letter of Stanford White to May McKenzie which his wife gave out yesterday afternoon for publication had already F transmitter to the Judge, read the record of the evidence of Henry F Blaiae, the music-publinher, Pau! Brudi, the fremman, and Warner Paxton the engineer, three more witnesses for the State, who had described the Killing of White from various view points. The Jurors, with thetr should ers bunched up and their chairs pulled together until the two rows of gents lost their proper alignment, listened closely. When Paxton’s testimony had been finished, the Justice created a mild pensation by saying “Read the testimony of James Clin¢h Smith The jury destres to hear rr It took Moynahan a good jong while to rattle like a human shuttle. 0c) Phrough the evidence which Stanford White's brotherin-taw had given to| ‘the District-Attorney regarding his significant talk with Thaw on the roof fust before the shooting took place Delmas, who seemed Whary to the point of exhaustion, had pulled hfs Pvercoat over bis back and/now he sunk tn his seat with his eyes closed Thaw, turning his head over bis shoulder, whispered something to his wife, "ho arched her eyebrows and pursed her lips in interrogation. The ‘other women of the family who were there appeared to have lost in the proceedings. HOW THE JURORS ARE SUPPOSED T0 STAND. To a reporter of The Evening World one of T this statement I bave heard a report that stx of the three \ interest aw's lawyers here made jurors favor ] & conviction for @urder in the first degree, three are for conviction for a lesser ree of murder, or for manslaughter n the firet degree three stand firm for Boguittal, If \uis report is true, or approximately true, then I take {t Ahat the men who favor a conylct for murde? are trying to bring the: thers over to their way of thinking or at least t« induce them to agree to Tm compromise verdict by refreshing their memories with the principal tes Umony of the prosebution in regard to the tragedy. Or, on the other hand #t might be Agured out that al) the jurors want to go over the incidents acened of the Wagedy wilh a view (o reaching Pasleged insane actions and words of Thaw at the & conclysior regarding the time 4 In (he sparse aud lence was livtening to the reading of the Sptrapsesip! were both the Tom plaine—ihe Qatholl Episcopa Mr. McGuire, the prison pirysician, was also present. Except for the emy iaiads of bruches and the emptiness of the witness chair, a stranger mig Brae: > * Pia ee’ | ne ving National League Hascall (han raietae Re oplaces ct Palle Concert beg. 1.80. Adm We 4nd O) o box, Mot Oe. tet By| the word “they” he was assumed to mean the newspapers. In—fapld—succession the stenographer, by request-of the jurors, as} off with quoting from the record Jerome's questions to Doorman’ Thomas F. Barrett and Barrett's answers. This last re variously construed to have come from the suroe| who were said to favor acquittal and from those who wanted the death pen- |alty, In any event, {t was pregnant with significance, All three of the! doormen had testified tn rebuttal for the defense that Thaw behaved pecul Jarly in his cell and two of them had sworn Thaw claimed he heard women's| SAN FRANCISCO, April 11—Joseph | voices in the station house lockup, whereas they could hear nothing, In| Ullman, the well-known bookmaker summing up both Delmas and Jerome had commented on the story of the |W taken East today as an insane | three doormen, and Jeorme had declared that none of them mentioned the | Patient by Deputy Sherif Whalen } incident of the fancied voices in their private examinations in his office be-| Ullman came here recently as fore the trial began. | fina: | When Barrett's oross-exanmiination had been disposed of, Steele, Juror |Company and was taken t hospital | | No 8, whispered again to Suitth, and Mr. Smith sald to the Justice shortly after his arrival, His company | Honor, one of the jurors 4s he wants the direct and included Nordica, Alice Nielsen, lof Thomas F. Lynch, the doorman, who told of the | panari and other noted stars. | ments that he heard voices.” psp Joe Ulman, who te fifty-five years PTS = es old, hae been for the ast twenty years DELUSIONS AFTER HIS ARREST, lacooag the leading race track boek- | Evidently it was Juror Steele who desired to better inform his mind upon the matter of Thaw‘'s alleged delusions in the station-house just after | makers operating in this country, He was the owner of several gambling oa: the shooting. Delmas had dwelt extensively upon thie testimony tn hts? a! address. He had claimed there had been no yolces of any sort, whereas! °c eere Canfield at Saratoga ‘Noted Gambler Is Charge of a Deputy Sheriff. in, st jal backer of the San Carlo Opera “Your cross-examination defendant's state- tablishments in this etty, and a rive! He was reared in an, orphan asylum, Jerome insisted the explanation lay in the fact that two drunken women|ana pince he bec: eaaiciiy hia Ghar! were in the cells and that one of them raved. and cursed tles to similar inetituuona have been The reading of Lynch's testimony showed Lynch bad made this state-|?¢@v7- Wh Barney ("Kid") Wellor jand backed by John W. Gates, he made “! passed Thaw’s cell about 2 o'clock & book at the Saratoga race track one I sald, ‘No, He sald we ain't got no girls, ment Hite girls upstairs?” ‘You have several | He said, ‘Yos, you bat Jed. the "Big Sto: have. I hear thetr voices; they are Ittle girls. They are girls around ten —— yy phy ant Dat reece or twelve years old.’ I sald, ‘We never keep girls here that are under elgh-| wagers were secepted as freely as 6 | teen years old.’ He said, ‘Yea, you do, I hear them, Listen to their voices,’|M bet Uliman came to this ofty from &, Louis, where he was a newsboy, and wes himeclf « heavy gemnbier He often bet as much as 960,00 in a wingle day 1 Mstened, but I couldn't hear anything, and so I looked at Thaw and ald to him: ‘Well, you must be dopey,’” “Now give us the crossexamination of Lynch,” seid Mr. Smith They got st, but tt didn't tell them anything except that Lynch had|at the Metropolitan moe tracks, He t# stock stoutly to his story under Jerome's severe tnterrogation. le familler figure at che Waldtorf-ad ¢ toria, Delmonico's, Rector’s and other tng places WITNESS WHO CHANGED FRONT, | Moynahan read the trunseript of the evidence given by Dennis Wright, | 7: | ihe young policeman, who accompanied Thaw from the door of the M u1- | “i. FIFTEEN MISSING IN each in fashionable | son Square Garden to the station house. Wright had been Jerome's wit- ness originally, and the District-Attorney, in summing up, b quoted Wright {n his endeavors to prove Thaw behaved and spoke rationally just RAILROAD WRECK. after the crime , |t was Wright who gave Thaw a light for bis cigar as the two of them s on Canadian Pacific Be-| went across Broadway on their way to the station-house. Foreman Smith lieved to Be Buried in Ruins | apparently on his own {nitiative, asked for the record, as {t pertained of Train in Ontario, Wr is Us story | MONTREAL, April 1L—-Fifteen ve | 1, Anthony's re-direct examination was read, Anthony was the |sone-wine adults and ax children-—are ied v " 7 ne of the 0 nissing, following & wreck on the Oa | third doormat Bvidently some one of the Jurors had a close mental grip ieee Pacifo Railway west of Chap |.upon | tant phases of the evidence given by the defense, for this re-|ienu, Ont., yesterday direct wed Anthony had contradicted himself slightly, Doorman Ba The vietimas are believed to be in the 4 t me q ie reckaae of the train, and @ search is reti's re-direct was next read, The proceedings had lasted more than two|™ " ‘ made | hburs oy now; the great murder trial was responding to a lengthy encore, | "Te following oMcia!” statement was 1 am told now,” said Fitagerald, “that the Jury desires to hear tesued today by Mr, MoNicoll, Vice President of the Canadian Pacific Kall again that part of the testimony of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw which relates to ithe position of the Thaw party on the roof garden way | Be ” p 7 5 om the Aight of the About twenty-two milex west ef Ona traged pleau, Ont., yesterday, the wee So the patient stehographer read young Mrs. Tha: atement, while |{ianacantinenial train,’ which | through a door at the rear came tempting, tasty odors of cookery which (ieeicr ceused'by & broken ratl. made the nostrils of the audience wriggle. Evidently the chef from thy (fs Tan down smimalenent si Broadway Central Ho had the jurors’ luncheon ip the building walling N v3 adulle and x children are maine and ready and amokir hot for them . Py t The reading of the testimony brought out this passage tn Mrs, Thaw's, the, folowing ftom ating * ‘ir. Thaw talked to me for half an hour before the shooting. His Kent nd He ¢ 1 and so was his language. He said roa ade : j ‘A atid a | SUGGESTIVE REMARK BY JUROR, 1, ages Mrs Hore Smith broke iu, saying that was enough of Mra, Thaw's evidence, |}! }anvign, ANG ily am the | t& | Godlove, of Broo! CRANK WITH KNIFE | ANEW BRIDGE LOOP Bide we HUNTS CARNEGIE IN PITTSBURG Tried to Force Way Into Hotel to Reach the Millionaire, from ¢ 2 Canal galleries are vont racy Pipe same He begged the the fotel, saying that ak with Andrew Carne © to the sale o He. was b tion. oren ing cows land poltee # had $261 on address as | Mr sie Was not in the hotel at the time of the arrest, he being at Carnegie Institute dedication cer monies, aget was iocked up, charged wit Mig & KUMicloUS person, The arrest has caused o be kept by the to Qgalust possible wi to short ar Of the notable guests who are participating in re exercises at om Cana the entrance on the ‘iMamabure conetrwoton Manhattan side of the Bridge is already under iformed th ching fe unawere of tiens to guard him 108 ANGELDS Predertck BROOKLYN MAN A SUICIDE IN MEMPHIS. E, Godlove Takes Poison in a Hotel and Leaves a Letter for His Wid MEMPHIS, Tenn unusual precau against harm. Cal. Avril 11.— not known here the sick necessity. 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