THE THAW TRIAL.

Motueka Star, Volume VIII, Issue 582, 5 April 1907, Page 4

THE THAW TRIAL.

—o— HOW IT IS REPORTED. New York files contain particularsof the extraordinary provision made for reporting the great Thaw trial; In the court house the two great telegraph companies set up offices. Two telegraph cables enter the building by way of a skylight. One London newspaper has exclusive use of a wire. With a paper in Pittsburg, mote than 300 miles away, there is direct communication by telephone. Two hundred reporters asked for seats, but more than three-fourths of them were excluded. Some of the newspapers are represented by writers whose works of fiction have commended them to a considerable number of readers. There are three novelists Alfred Henry Lewis, Samuel Hopkins Adams, and Julian Hawthorne, the last-named shining party by the reflected light of his eminent father, Nathaniel, now many years dead. Clara Moris once a very successful “emotianal” actress, is another of the reporters, and the Herald has employed for daily comment and review no less a person than Roland R Molineux, who was twice tried for murder, once convicted, and at last acquitted. His was a celebrated case, in which the murder was committed by means of poison in a little bottle of what seemed to be “bromo seltzer.” This, in a handsome silver holder, had been sent by mail to the intended victim, who escaped death by giving it to another person.