Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — THAW TRIAL BEGINS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THAW TRIAL BEGINS.

MILLIONAIRE CHAHGED WITH MURDERING WHITE. «5 ■ : ' * T “ ; .■. One of the thi*l ScauirUaUle Trial* in the ( rimiiial History of Xew 'York—Penult WalcUcit by X otaliloii in Two Con linen m. The great Thaw trial Is on in New York. The light to save Harry Kendall Tlmw tr.au death- in the decider fjiiijr fnrTTTr idltinj nr ifniitrft ntiin ford White began Wednesday morning before Justice Fitzgerald. The drawing .:of the jury to try the.young I'ittsbnrg millionaire, began with the opening of court. Long before the hour set for the trial, crowds Hocked to the Criminal Court's building and tilled the rotunda. An hour before the trial began the crowd was driven- into the street and every entrance guarded by police. Only talesmen and reporters were allowed to enter the qourtronm. The triali overshadowed the Mollneaux and Patrick trials* Over 200 newspaper men made application for admission to report the trial, No spectators were allowed in tlte- trial room, Thwmvvere fstrrespendents ' rrdni l'iiris. 'l.uii'i. n a nd~ J BtjrttTU and on the lower lloor. of the building cable and telegraph' offices were inStalled. Outside, crowds waited to get a glimpse of the prisoner as he passed’ over the bridge of sighs. It was only a fleeting glimpse of a shadow outlined on an opaque sheet of glass, but the curious had waited hours to see that shadow and they were satisfied. Tliaw cmne to bis- trial for-the murder of Stanford White on the roof of Matlisoa Square Garden on the night of June 25, last year. The millionaire A prisoner believed that White was seeking to separate him from his wife, the beautiful Evelyn Xeshit Thaw, the artist model. Emotional insanity is the defense offered to save the young Pittsburg youth from the electric chair. When Justice Fitzgerald took his seat in fourt and Ilarry Thaw had been brought from the prisoners' pen to his seat beside the counsel, table, a trial was begun that will remain perhaps forever on the pages of criminal history in New York without a parallel. All the elements of a tragedy are woven in the warp and woof of his case. All tile characters of the stage world and of the gay Bohemia of a great city; a titled sister, a countess;

a beautiful model known ail over the world; n famous architect whose love of youth .and beauty brought him violent death, and a youthful spendthrift

millionaire play leading parts in this tragedy that had for'fts ending the shooting of Stanford White by Harry Thaw on the crowded and gaily-lighted roof of Madison "Square Garden. No mystery veils this remarkable case.

HARRY K. THAW.