NEW YORK'S FRENZY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 22 April 1907, Page 4

NEW YORK'S FRENZY.

HOW THE NEWSPAPERS DEAL WITH THE TRIAL. The New York newspapers which are arriving in London now contain practically nothing but reports of the Thaw trial. Whole pages are devoted to reporting the preliminary stages of the 'trial, and other pages are given up to photographs of the principals, the jurors, the judge, the lawyers, and every one else connected with the case. Other pages are, devoted to drawings made in court by the leading American black-and-white artists, who have been specially retained ed by the more enterprising among the papers. Not content with reporting the case in letterpress and pictures, specialists have been employed by the "yellow" journals to analyse the emotions of Mr Thaw and Ms wife, his mother, and his sisters and brothers. Among those cmployed by the "Evening Journal'' is Julian Hawthorne, the son of the great American novelist, who devotes nearly a page to analysing Mrs Harry Thaw's beauty. One of his articles is headed, "The more brains the twelve have, the better for Thaw." The "American" has retained Miss Clara Morris, the actress, and Mr Alfred Henry Lewis, a novelist. SCARE HEADLINES. Some of the other headlines arc very itartling. "Harry Thaw's face is lovable, but a weak one," is the title of an article by Miss Beatrice Fairfax, a noted woman writer, who considers each of his features in detail. Next to it is a study in emotion by Miss Dora thy Dix headed "Thaw women show anguish." in which every nerve conies under her dissecting knife. Miss Ada Patterson analyses the jury on another page. The headings of the news reports are quite as startling. "I won't break down, for Harry needs me," is one heading. The, words are quoted from an interview with Mrs Harry Thaw at the opening of the trial," lam more hopeful than ever,' says Thaw," is another headline in letters nearly two inches high. On the same page there is a drawing depicting Mr Thaw greeting his mother in court. The mother's face is upturned to her son's with a look of poignant anguish. One issue of the "Evening Journa"" announces in black type three and a half inches high that "Thaw's mother breaks down," and that the "Countess is also absent."