20 APRIL 1907, Page 3

The Thaw murder trial ended abortively on Friday week. After

deliberating for forty-seven hours, during which it is stated that eight ballots were taken, the jury disagreed, and bail having been refused, the prisoner remains in prison to stand a new trial. The conduct of the trial has nowhere been more unsparingly condemned than in the United States, and no better comment is possible than that of the New York World : "The trial has been a grave scandal and the necessity of trying Thaw again carries with it the necessity of never again trying him, or anybody else, in a way that makes the American criminal procedure an object of derision on two continents." To secure that end it is above all things needful to heighten the status and prestige of American Judges.