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Show IILD SCENES AT THALJF THAW SESP Hundred Policemen Guard MKourtroom When Slayer of f White Awaits Fate. I OUR JURORS ACCEPTED I I IN FIRST DAY'S SESSION m ' fjisfrict Attorney Makes Special Reference to Unwritten Law 1 1 in Examining Talesmen. 'oil 5 NEW YOEK, -Tan. 23. Scenes ap-k ap-k caching absolute disorder attended 'opening of the trial of Harry K. wfiw, today, on the charge of mur- 12 ring Stanford White. Most of the ifkshcs were between reporters and i respondents and the police. Ot the wspapermcn there were perhaps 200 Z d there was a policeman Jor each. I he a? at squad of bluccoats was command-rai command-rai fbv a police inspector. ifi Only about fifty newspaper writers ally were admitted, the remainder of tli i space in the court room being re- yen for the 200 talesmen, summoned ti ithe special jury panel. ,i The trial began belore Justice FiU-, FiU-, raid in part one, trial term of the " wienie court, and was scheduled for vSJiM Before that, time the police 3ft5had been extended from the cor-i&Bor5 cor-i&Bor5 adjacent to the court room to rXlndc the entire first floor of the crim-: crim-: XKV-court building. The public, had warned, in advance, not. to at-,'jMpt at-,'jMpt to get into the court, room, and cSSr. appeared. Wfr Mother and Wife Present. !nfriie quarrels with the police preced-5JE preced-5JE the trial were quickly forgotten IShien at 10 o'clock Mrs. William Thaw. iTothrr of the defendant, appeared in i court room. Following her. came i Countess of Yarmouth, and Mrs. force L. Carnegie, her daughters. Mrs. elvn Nesbit Thaw, wife of Harry, jiame" next and was closely followed by Mhy McKcnzie. the actress, to whose Tbrne JSvelvn Thaw fled on the night 'Sftthe tragedy on the top of Madison Suarc Garden", June 25 last. The party 7!Prelatives was completed by Edward Paw, Harry's brother, and Georgo wjirnegie. his' brother-in-law. mThc Countess of Yarmouth wore a "! Ddest brown cioui gown, - ui-.u to it and veil. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was Pressed all in gray, with a hat and veil 'J'H.he same color. . :W District Attorney Jerome appeared in i? iurt at 10:20. "At this time most -of J i talesmen had arrived and the room Uk- crowded. SWiistice Fitzgerald took his -seat at jjjl:26 and the trial was on. f'jjrtjj Alienists in Court, inhere was a decided stir in court Jpon two prominent alienists, Doctors id paries McDonald and Austin Flint, &ro escorted into court and given seats '"mido the clerk's rail, where they con-i'Wted con-i'Wted with Mr. Jcromo. These same lyfctors represented the District Attor-hmfc', Attor-hmfc', -when the Josephine Terrnnova JJil'wns stopped in order that a test ffint be made of her sanity. ijJR'hcn the roll call of the jury panel begun there were several abseu-and abseu-and the court imposed a fine of ) on eneh. , Harrv K. Thaw to the bar,' shout-the shout-the clerk, he prisoner appeared almost instant-ttfrom instant-ttfrom the jury room. lie walked gi'mcwhat nervous at first, but when he yjugui signt ol ins iuuiuui fid the other members of his family. ?ffj somewhat solemn face lighted into Jmile. Ho bowed as he passed to 0a seat beside his counsel-HjiGbarles counsel-HjiGbarles W. Brvdcn, an engineer, was i e. first talesman. Ho declared he hau EMconscieutious scruples against capi- Ijpunishmciit, but had formed an uti-,ja uti-,ja arable opiuion as to the defendant, s jail lit or innocence. mlU. Jerome made his first reference Mrthte 4 ' unwritten law. " He said : '(& Refers to Higher Law. I''There is a so-called higher law, an fif! written law; would yon allow such .Wlaw to enter into vour judgment? Counsel for Thaw objected. $lTusticc Fitzgerald said the witness nid already replied as to points of law iiwould be guided by the court. ffiWhcii the District Attorney asked the lesman what were his ideas as to the rious forms of insanity as an excuse ffX, the crime, the defense objected, fit Objection overruled," said Justice S3zgerald. ear?,'! would be guided by the nistruc-ener nistruc-ener of the court as to that," replied 'arvden mjtU: Hart ridge, after asking the tales-fh tales-fh a few questions, challenged him Ificausc. Alter further questions, the jjyjection of tho defense was overruled -ft Brydcn was excused. ijft)eming B Smith, a retired nianu-jair-Hror "'"brellas, v.-us the second wlesmnn called. Mr. Jerome read to Ijii the law of insanity. Mr. Smith iOdJ nc W0l,M rcv upon "the court upon ,tions of lav.:. He felt he could "jler a fair verdict. PJftftcr having nnswered a few ques-s5r8 ques-s5r8 V Ir "r'ridge, for the dc-JJpm, dc-JJpm, Smith was ncecpted as a juror .jhu sworn. jefc" C. Gran), the third talesman, was illicitly excused, Vtlm111 1110 ox'imination of Frank P. V(rf ' a baker, the fourth talesman. Mr. 'w5riino nsko(I if lu' wo"1'1 hc g'ided ft 'UV'' in rc"(;'1'n ft vcr" t-WmX mean the actual law, not some-' Kfi that might be determined law," kw fi' Would Follow the Court. tift KL understand that. T would fol--n ,aw as lnid down b-V tllc court." Vi -sanl 1,0 formed a strong .JJrf iiiion in the case, but not so strong mij lo preclude his renching a fair vcr-'S vcr-'S 'h Kirlcs W"'tS thcrcn''on ai:cptcd by Jlyilliam P. Aldrich, the next talcs-?S;iU- sa."'i l,c ha(l fJn"ea a decided ySlS.1.011; '"t lie felt, ho could be guided joJ'iOJi" li.v the evideuce uud Javr. "We umiiiiH challenge peremptorily." said Thaw's counsel. The talesman was excused. Aforgau J. O'Brien was called as tho sixth talesman and was excused after giving his business as that, of an architect. archi-tect. Oliver Jones was excused after a whispered conversation with Justice Kitzgcrald. The reason given was disqualification. dis-qualification. A recess was then taken until 2 o'clock. Afternoon Session. The afternoon session convened at 2:25. Samuel K. Wilmurt. an iron and steel broker, was the first talesman examined. ex-amined. He said he had formed nn opinion opin-ion on tho case, hut was not, so firmly fixed as to prevent his serving as a fair-minded jur.or. During the examination examina-tion of Wilmurt Thaw showed more interest in-terest in the proceedings than lie had at the morning session, Mr. Hurtridge cross-examined Wilmurt. Wil-murt. rather closely and brought out the fact that ho had read the papers extensively exten-sively since the Madison Square roof-gardeu roof-gardeu tragedy. Mr. Wilmurt. said he was not prejudiced. preju-diced. Finally he was challenged by Mr. Jerome peremptorily and excused. Benjamin T. Rogers, Jr., tho next talesman, declared he was personally op-posod op-posod to capital punishment, but this would not deter him from rendering a verdict as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. He wns excused on the State's peremptory challenge. Charles Kceke, a teamster, was accepted ac-cepted as the fourth juror. William O. O'Brien, a teller in the National City bank, called next from among Lhe talesmen, declared he had formed an opinion in the case some months ago, but had now laid it aside. .He was challenged by the District Attorney At-torney and excused. George H. Budlong proved to be tho second architect in .the special panel, and was peremptorily challenged by Thaw's attorneys and excused. Samuel H. Millard was the nineteenth talesman. He said that while, he did not disbelieve in capital punishment, everv doubt must be removed before hc would convict. Ho was excused by Justice Jus-tice Fitzgerald. There was at this point. consultation between counsel and Justice Fitzgerald, as the outebmu of which it was announced an-nounced tb;it Juror No. 2, Frank P. Hill, would be excused from service, "in view of certain explanations made by the juror as to his private interests, and with the consent of counsel." Following this, at 5:03 n. tn adjournment adjourn-ment was taken until 10:30 a. m. tomorrow. |
