THE THAW TRIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 314, 13 January 1908, Page 2

THE THAW TRIAL.

SELECTING THE JURY. New York, January 10. The selection of a jury for the second trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White is proceeding. Up to the present 400 jurors have ween- examined and only seven selected.

IHE EARL AND THE BROTHER. In the nineties a remarkable scion of nobility fluttered across the Australian landscape. It was the young Earl of Yarmouth, and he proved his attributes of youth und froliesonieness by giving, inter alia, a public exhibition of skirt, dancing at Hobart. It is by this circumstance that the aristocratic balletman is to-day best known in Australasia.

At Home the Earl of Yarmouth is a Justice of the Peace, Deputy-Lieuten-ant, and County Councillor lor Warwickshire; Second Lieutenant of the Warwickshire Imperial Yeomanry; also, eldest son and heir of the sixth Mar-, quess of Hertford, whose title dates from 1793, and owns about 12,300 acres. The Earl of Yarmouth was born in 1871, and married in 1003, Alice Cornelia daughter of the late William Thaw,! Btove manufacturer, of Pittsburg (U.S.), and sister of Harry K. Thaw, now of The Tombs Prison, New York. When millionaire Harry K, Thaw shot millionaire Stanford White at Madison Square Gardens on the plea that White | had ruined and was still pursuing Thaw's wife (nee Evelyn Nesbit, artist's anode! and actress), the Countess of Yarmouth, as the sister of the alleged murderer, came in for her share of the public gaze. She came to her mother's aid, and Mrs William Thaw and the Countess of Yarmouth visited their son and brother in prison, and also figured at his trial, with them'the young Mrs Harry K. Thaw. b

It is related in the book which B. H. Atwell has published dealing with the Thaw trial at which the jury disagreed -that while Tliaw's wooing %f Evelyn ») was in progress, the name o hw family loomed large in the public prints because of the marriage of Harrv [ Thaw 8 sister to the Earl ofWoutZ nt tl at , B C6r f mon - y h j? an ~ «ig that, unless satisfactory financial would be no marriage. ''The money was paid' i>W--..~.-§~ „• -'■"«»-'-' his nuiriHive, "althoueh Harry Thaw told reporters' that The the Karl downstairs. A little later, however i„ B?ter m Com^M j la.mouth repaid the harsh blow at the husband by publicly snubbing Evelyn Nesnt at an English race tracs (Subsequently, at the marriage of Harry K. Thaw, the members of both families were present).

| m At the present time, Harry K, Thaw is wafting his second trial on the mur,, der charge. A cablegram appeared lasf] week that the Countess of Yarmouth was seeking a divorce, but did not explain the grounds on which Thaw's sister is seeking nullity of her marriafts Wl ?™u? u ? ° f Yarmfl "H>. Mozlev and Whiteley's Law Dictionary defines a suit for nullity as "a matrimonf* suit instituted for the purpose of oFtaining a degree declaring a supposed marriage null and void."

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