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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
5
Report covers jury pool screening in the Thaw murder trial. Talesmen confess bias from newspaper reports while noting their ability to judge evidence impartially. Family figures including Mrs Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit Thaw observe proceedings as alienists testify and spectators react.
Homer Davenport describes the Thaw trial in the Evening Mail noting Harry Thaw’s blank face and dangerous head shape. He portrays Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as a frail, frightened figure and commends Mrs Thaw for her dignified bearing as the Thaw family appears in court.
A police squad and a curious crowd filled the building while Mrs Thaw and several attendees appeared in court. Four women in the room were reporters. jurors Deming B. Smith and Charles H. Fecke remained in the box for bailiff custody. Trial resumes tomorrow at 10 30 with two daily sessions ending at 5.
About 298 foreign and American correspondents and New York reporters crowded the Thaw trial opening in a courtroom seating 220. Western Union set up an improvised telegraph office as London Paris and Berlin outlets linked directly to their papers. Police and press guards filled the floor with DAs and Thaw defense teams squeezed into cramped spaces.
The Supreme Court judge allowed the will of the late Sophia Mundy bequeathing 2000 dollars to Boston College. The estate valued at 14000 dollars was divided among relatives and friends apart from the bequest. Annie Carroll, sister of the deceased, contested in interest of her daughter Sophia Hart, an instructor at Wellesley College.
In New Haven on January 23 a high railroad authority stated that if the Park Square Station in Boston is acquired by the Boston and Albany railroad it will be bought outright for a price of 5 million dollars.
Bert Hanson, a New York lawyer and Yale graduate who played center for Yale football teams in 1889 and 1890, was named third deputy police commissioner to replace the resigned William H. Mathot. Hanson hails from Somersworth New Hampshire.
On January 23 in St John’s Newfoundland the captain and mate of the American vessel Vigilant rescued after drifting from Bay of Islands endured 56 hours on a deserted island without food or shelter. Their signal fire drew rescuers and likely saved them. The Elizabeth N. of Bucksport Me was driven ashore and may wreck. her crew was saved. Seven American and five colonial fishing vessels have been wrecked in this year’s herring fishery, with 108 vessels engaged. Elizabeth N. was built in Essex Mass in 1901, 102 tons, owned by Thomas Nicholson.
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