| Show WORK OF SELECTING JURY fai TRIAL one hundred and one Tal esmen have been Examined to secure seven jurors new york jan 25 fifty one tales men wore examined in rapid order in the effort to complete alie jury which is to try harry K thaw for the killing of stanford white and at the end of the days session two names had been added to the jury roll making seven in all one hundred and one tal esmen have thus far been examined that there is increasing difficulty in finding men who are willing or competent to serve was evidenced by the fact that on the first day of the trial two jurors were sworn from among 19 tal esmen one of them being excused subsequently by the court on the second day three jurors were secured from among 31 tales men while today it required the winnowing of more than one fourth of the entire special panel of men to secure two members of the necessary twelve one of the new jurors is harold F fairo a printer and publisher the second new juror is malcolm S fraser a dealer in underwear the panel as it grows impresses the followers of the case more and more favorably excuses by the tales mento avoid duty in the case arc growing varied each day man after man declared today that his opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused was so firmly fixed as to admit of no change by reason of adv testimony that might be adduced district attorney jerome tried to convince the tal esmen that newspaper stories were not the same as sworn testimony before a court hut hla efforts were generally unsuccessful and challenges for cause were sustained by the court peremptory re actions only three tal esmen wore peremptorily rejected the state challenged a named nesbit who stated that he was in no way related to mrs evelyn nesbit thaw wife of the defendant fen dant the defense used two peremptory challenges one to relieve from duty harris M fletchir who declared that while he would carry an opinion into the jury box he ans sure ho could lay it aside on hearing the evidence and render a fair and impartial verdict the defense challenged fletcher in their own right only after justice fitzgerald had overruled a challenge for cause the second peremptory challenge by the defense was directed against sol N levy a tobacco dealer harry thaw seemed much more accustomed cus tomed to his surroundings today and for the first timo gazed interestedly at the crowd in the courtroom which was limited however to tal esmen and newspaper writers thaw seemed especially ally interested in the reporters tables and tried once to read the large typed account of his trial in a paper one of the writers was scanning he seemed to have a much better color today although his alto was paler bits of color wee thrown into the tedious proceedings by a nomad ketcham who said he was con necked with an electrical supply aliouse and supplemented this with the decla ration that while lie was not opposed |
