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Show Mf OF JURY WICH , WILL HAVE THAW'S fflTE IN ITS HANDS' IS CHOSEN I A i Ifl' 1 . I I V - - J -;- 1 More Than Ordinarily Intelligent In-telligent lien Being Selected; Mrs. William Thaw Attends Trial Today and Greets Her Son Warmly. NTLW TORK JAN. 25 THERE WERE FTVE MEN IN THE JTJEY BOX TODAY WHEN THE TRIAL OF HARRY K. THAW, FOR THE KITJ.TNQ OF STANFORD WHITE. WA8 RESUMED BEFORE JUSTICE FITZGERALD. MRS. WILLIAM THAW, MOTHER OF THE DEFENDANT, DEFEND-ANT, WAS PRESENT AT THE OPENING OF THE MORNING SESSION, SES-SION, HAVING FULLY RECOV ERED FROM THE INDISPOSITION WHICH KEPT HER INDOORS YESTERDAY. YES-TERDAY. SHE WAS ACCOMPANIED ACCOM-PANIED BY HER DAUGHTER, MRS. GEORGE L. CARNEGIE, THE TWO HAVING BEEN PRECEDED SOME MINUTES BY MRS. EVELYN NES BIT THAW AND MAY M KENZIE. THE PRISONER'S WIFE STILL I WORE THE PLAIN DARK BLUE SUTT THAT SHE HAD APPEARED I MISS MAY M KENZIE, i Former chorus girl associate of Evelyn Nesblt, and to whose home Mrs. Harry i K. Thaw went immediately after the killing of Stanford White. Miss Mc- i Kenzie is a constant attendant at the trial, and always sits near her friend. IN ON EVERY DAY OF THE TRIAL. TODAY SHE HAD DISCARDED HER WHITE VEIL POR ONE OF BLUE CHIFFON. THE EFFECT WAS TO BRING OUT MORE DISTINCT TVELY THE FEATURES OF HER FACE, WHICH APPEARED UNUSUALLY UN-USUALLY PALE. THE ELDER MRS. SHAW WAS IN . CONVEN TTONAL BLACK. The Counters of Yarmouth did not attend the trial fodav crwing to a slijM cold. Edward and Josiah Thaw were early in their seats. Intelligent Jurors Found. The five jurors selected in the firs two days of the trial appeared to be men above the average in intellect All sem to be in prosperous rircum stances. Two are iut above So years of age flenrge Pfaff. a hardware dealer, is the youngest, probably not more than o4. Charles If. Kcke, the shipping agent, possibly is 40, and A r thur S. I'ampbell. a superintendent of telephone construction, is not more than t" ears older. The other two jurors are Jieming H. Smith, a retired manufacturer, the foreman, and Henrv c. Harney, manager of a piano .in cern. When the elder r. Thaw came into court she seemed oblioi of fjie pres ence of the prisoner's wife in the next seat to her own. The la 1 1 r asj ed her mother in law. however, in remo I mg her fur lined c'o ih. Grasps Mother's Hap.ds. When Harrv Thaw entered the . oir' room his family's attention was di tracted bv the arraignment of a j fendant in another case. Taw no I ticed this. and as he passed his mother's chair he reached ..yer one I hand and grasped both of hers She looked up nui'klv a ud anwe;-cd her son 's smjie Mrs. Harry Than cave her husband -n earnest look of prerting and during I the examination of talesmen she n i sumed her customary attitude. . anI;,.r well foiward in her sea oagrriv to catch ffrv answer to questions put . either bv the Ditri' t Attorney or bv counsel for the defendant. Had Been Juror Before. 'ounse! for Thaw were informed to dav that Henrv c. Harney, the fifth juror, has aete'i as a piror in the case of which Edward Prkarz was convicted of murder in the firs; degree Pekarz's plea was insanity, and several alimts testified that he was mentally un balanced when he murder. si a woman from whom he reDted rooms. The yer diet was guilty and Pekarz was sentenced sen-tenced to death. It is believed that Thaw's counsel were unaware of these facts when they accepted Harney as a juror yesterday. The first talesman todav was Walter M. Jackson, a real estate broker, who was excused on a challenge bv the people, when he declared that he en tertained certain prejudices which might make him a partial juror Ashley '. .Jennings was examined in detail and it seemed as though he might be accepted as the sixth juror, but at the last moment he spoke pri vately with Justice Kitzgeralcj, and he was excused bv consent. Charles A. Fuller. Charles I. Halsev. f'harles M. Lew and Horace H. Smith had such decidVd opinions that they believed they could not be moved bv the evidence and were excused bv con sent. Glad He Didn't Know White. James M. Ketcham, the next tales man, caused something of a stir by gome of his answers. Asked if he had any scruples against capital punishment, punish-ment, he said: "I have not, but I do object to the application of electricity as a means of carrying out such a penalty." There was a decided murmur throughout the courtroom when Lawyer Law-yer Hartridge asked the talesman if he knew Stanford White and he replied: "I am pleased to say I did not. A bailiff had to rap for order. Ketcham said he had a pretty decided opinion, but he thought he could lay it aside in the face of the evidence. (Continued, on page 7.) . (Continued from page L) . - -Tier irae a'Urely ' arftonaxit. ba- tvaea Hr. Jerome and Jix. Hartridge to tie extant and affect of tie talee- toan'a- opinion, and tils led to tba tint '. incident approaching a dash 'between counsel. . Mr.' Jerome was speaking when v Mr. Hartrtdge arose and was '. about to interrupt. Jerome turned on tie young attorney and said with a : ahow of Irritation: won allow me' to flnlai my T gunentT,, . Mr. Hartridge sat down without a re- - Ply. 1 Ketebam was excused. -X Wien Charles H. Nesbit was called V to the stan,d all eyes turned towards - Mra Xvelyn Nesbit Thaw beeanse of y tha similarity of names. Nesbit said f ,es) .it not in any way related to the ' frlaoner's wife. He had read about : the, case and had f ovmed an opinion. " Any reasonable doubt he would give - to the defendant. r '-'Nesbit was challenged by Mr. Je- rome. This was the ninth challenge of a peremptory nstore nsed by the district attorney. Thirty such challenges chal-lenges are allowed each aide. Thd defense de-fense haa employed six. Sixth Juror Secured. Harold R. Fair proved to be the sixth juror secured. . He was is the midst of a elothbound novel when he was interrupted by. the clerk calling his name. Fair waa the thirteenth talesman examined today and the sixty-third sixty-third since the trial began. He took his place after the oath was administered. adminis-tered. District Attorney Jerome and counsel for the defense all expressed themselves them-selves as gratified at the progress made in the work of selecting a jury yesterday. yester-day. Five men were in the box when court adjourned. Some of these connected con-nected with the esse predicted that the jury will be completed by Monday night and that the trial proper will begin be-gin Tuesday. Thaw Objects to Two. Thaw himself took mpre interest in the proceedings yesterday and two additional ad-ditional jurors would have been secured had it not been for his interference. A talesman had proved acceptable to the District Attorney and to Clifford W. Hartridge, leading counsel for Thaw, when there was a sudden gathering of heads over the table at the head of which sat Harry Thaw. The "juror was about to be sworn when Hartridge stopped proceedings to bear what Thaw haa to say. When the conference ended the prospective juror was challenged chal-lenged for cause. This proceeding happened a second time. Thaw again |