Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-25

with the lawyers. d.. his wife never moved.
Beyond her bow in response to Harry K.
Thaw's Good morning" when he first en-
tered the court room, she gave no heed to
the prisoner, but gazing straight before her
seemed nerving herself to go through a
dreaded, but inevitable ordeal
Any deep public curiosity which may ex-
list as to the participants in the trial, which
in its anticipation has thrown so binding
a light on the life along the Great White
Way has either been, temporarily Quenched
by. the rigorous exclusion of all outsiders
from the court room or has been satisfied
in preliminary views of the youthful charms
of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, for which muir
der was done. While the young wife's visits
to her husband in the Tombs were the occa-
sion Of daily threngs. she has come from
and gone to the court house without .ny
impeding crowds to bar her progress or
drive her to seek the aid Of the police. Not
even the sight of the American countess of
an English earl has been sufficient to in
duce those who fatten on sensation to face
the chilly blasts at the entrance to the
In the case have been thus far spared one
of the most cruel features of an unsought
notoriety.
Thaw's Patience sorely Tried.
J.. Harry X. Thaw, within touch of his
brothers and his wife from the momen. he
took his seat, apparently gave them no
thought. He never turned his head in their
direction. AS talesman after talesman was
Excused" and the afternoon light began
to wane with no single acceptance, his pa
thence was evidently sorely tried. Yet he
weighed with slow elaboration the answers
to District Attorney Jerome and Mr.. Hart
ridge which purposed to carr import %
his fate. AS little by little the suggestion
of the plea of insanity began to take shape
in the attitude of the Defense he seemed ia
take fright. He was imperative in his de-
mand that the two jurors which his coun-
sci had found acceptable be refused. Yet,
when at 4:15 o'clock George Pfaff was
sworn. he leaped to his feet, the accused to
face his juror, with the impetuosity of an
intense relief. Outwardly impassive for
the most part, he is study in warning i'm
pulses. No faintest smile has escaped him.
He is too deeply concerned with the plans
for his release to allow any other thought
to intrude. He listens and suggests. He
never rests for moment
At $40 o'clock when the court arose. fifty
talesman had been exhausted and five jury
men only sat in the jury box. The district
attorney had the air Of a cat toying with
a mouse, plainly enjoying the situation. The
array of counsel for Thaw was reinforced
during the morning by Mr.. Iselin, former
assistant district attorney, though Mr..
Hartridge and Mr.. Gleason alone exam
lucu Tic
There were many humors in the replies
of the jurors. There was the man who was
"engageu in the fine arts" which reduced
to the vernacular developed into the keep
ing of an art store. There was another who
declined as a wholesale grocer, to admit
that he had any occupation. But there was
a moment of tense interest when Henry B.
Bristol, who gave his occupation as ac-
countant, said that he had been for twelve
years in the employ of Mckim, Mead &
White. the Stanford White firm. and added
under question that he had 80 far dis
cussed the crime on the day after the MUIR
der with another employee that he must re-
gard his prejudice as beyond that amenable
to the cold-blooded considerations of the
law. Thaw leaned forward in his chair, his
hands clasped tightly on the table before
him and with his head down, kept his eyes
fixed on the man in the chair. 1t was the
first thrill of the trial and 1t ran through
the room.
OF the three new jurors all ere married
and all in the prime of life. 80.