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Show SEVEN JURORS IN THAW TRIAL i Half of Panel Exhausted, I With Five Men Yet to Be Selected; No Session Held Today. was ri'.'.r I to the .jn, took occasion to deny th.if tLifn h.-.'l heen acv .iU-ajrreei'icnt .iU-ajrreei'icnt between members of hi client cli-ent 's :'a:i'' l . NEW YORK. Jan. 26. Because this is Saturday, there was no esiion in the Thaw trial today. In three days of the tri.il the net work was the selection of seven jurors. ju-rors. To get these seven jurymen, 1"1 talesmen, half of the panel drawn, were examined. While the lawyers engaged have got so that the examination of the tale:nen consumes les time than was taken in the earlv stae of the trial, the talesmen tales-men themselves have become tr.ore wary apparently, and the excuses put for ward for not serving are varied and ingenious. in-genious. The chief reaon for the general desire de-sire not to serve prohahlv i found in the order of Justice Fitzgerald practically prac-tically locking up the jurymen from the time tliev ri drawn until the trial i over. This i an unusual proceeding, and as most of the talesmen are active business men. it involves a possible financial loss besides the hardship. About the only physical exercise the jurymen selected enjoy now. or are hkelv fo enjoy for some weeks, is the little walk twice dai!v. accom pa ied bv court officer, to and from th Broadway Broad-way Central hotel anil the courthouse. The men are practically prisoners. Thev dine together and then spend the even Ing in chatting until they retire. Every Ev-ery letter that is sent to the j-iror is opened snd read by Police Captain William Wil-liam J. Lynch, who ha immediate per sonal charge of the jurymen. This is not done with the nisil of pris oner in the Tombs. No newspapers that have in them any reference to the trial or tragedv are permitted. ( apt. Lynch cuts out those parts of ti.e newspaper news-paper that refer to the case, and the juror have to be content with his censorship cen-sorship Even the books and magazines are subjected to the same sort of scrutiny scru-tiny . The men aie comfortably housed at the hotel, seventeen rooms, with ba'h and a private dining room h.ivirg been I engaged for them. The jurors so far ; selected are accepting the situation In a philosophical sptrit and with the utmost good nature. The plans of the defense, while thev have not definitely developed, are still believed to be those which have been generally prophesied emotional insanity insan-ity and an appeal to the so-called "higher" law. Onlv the faintest indication in-dication in this direction ha appeared in the trial so far and that was ves-terday. ves-terday. when Clifford W. Hartridge, , chief "counsel for Thaw. a.ked a pro- j pective juror this question: "Would vou take into consideration all the evidence tending to show the condition of thi man' (Thaw) mind at the time of the killing of Stanford White ? ' ' There were rumor in the court ves I terdav that there ha 1 been a serious dis j agreement among -he member of ThHW 's familv. The reports starei when Harry Thaw's wife and Miss Mae McKeuie. her constant companion, ar rived at the court' o.i.n some nne be fore Mrs. William Thaw and Mr. Carnegie, Car-negie, mother a::-l sister of the prisoner. pris-oner. The gossip was ir.tersified when 1 i' was noted that though Mrs. William ' Thaw sat near c-r .(l ighter in-law. the 1 two apparently took :.o notice of each j other ?. I! tlav. , 1,-vv.cr M.ntr'1.y u';en h; attention |