The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-25
THREE MORE u ORS
 CHOSEN FOR THAW TRIAL
ACCEPTED NEAR THE VERK CLOSE OF YESTERDAH'S
 SESSION

For Over Four Eours Futile Struggle
 Had Gone On to Get Another Juror
 When the Tide Suddenly Changes
 Counsel and Spectators and Even the
 Defendant Had Become DrOwsy from
 the MonOtOny of the PrOceedings-
 Five Men Now sworn in--The New
 Jurymen.
 New York, Jan. 24.-After trying in vain for more than four hours of the morning and afternoon sessions to se- cure an additional juror to try Harry K. Thaw for killing Stanford White, and just when counsel and spectators, and even the defendant himself, were drowsy from the monotony of the pro- ceedings, there came a sudden change in the tide and within the last three quarters of an hour three new jurors were sworn in. When court adjourned for the day five jurors had been ac- cepted, leaving seven men yet to be chosen.
 Twenty-three talesmen had been ex- amined without success when the un- expected happened, and two talesmen in succession proved acceptable to both District Attorney Jerome and the de- fendant's attorneys. Then followed the drawing of five more talesmen, who were quickly excused for one reason or another. Henry c. Harney, a piano dealer, about fifty-five years old, was the thirty-first talesman to be called, and as he had never formed an opinion in the case and had read but little about it in the papers he was quickly seated.
 The other jurors chosen to-day were George Pfaff, thirty-four years old, dealer in machinists' supplies, and Ar thur s. Campbell, forty-years ole a su- perintendent of telegraph and telephone construction. The two jurors selected the first day of the trial were Deming B. Smith, retired manufacturer, who will serve. as foreman, and Charles H. Fecke, shipping agent Each of the jurors is married and has family.
 The tedious manner in which the se- lection of jurors proceeded to-day makes 1t difficult to predict just when the trial panel of twelve will finally be filled. The order of the court that the jury must be kep- together under the care of bailiffs had the apparent effect of making many of the talesmen reluc- tant to serve Various excuses were offered to-day, one man declaring that to be locked up for two months would so wreck his nerves as to make calm consideration of the case an impossi- bility. He was excused.
 The nineteen talesmen examined yes terday and the Ghirty-one to-day brings the total thus far called for eXamina- tion up to fifty. If the ratio continues it will require two or three days yet to complete the jury. There was a feel ing after the adjournment of court to- night, however, that both sides would try to facilitate the matte as much as possible. Of the thirty peremptory challenges each allowed the prosecution and the defense the former has used eight and the latter six. The defense IO-QdY S6GlllC0 NAll4lAS " c'SSSP1 SeAAJ talesman who made reasonable answers to the questions propounded by the dis trict attorney.
 The fact that Thaw's attorneys asked several of the talesman if they had any prejudice against any particular line or character of defense was taken by many to indicate that the defense may be either the so-called ''unwirten law" or emotional insanity, or a combination of both.
 Thaw's attorneys again to-day offer ed no objection, however, to the dis trict attorneys questions as to whether or not the proposed jurors would be guided by the actual law, as laid down by the court, to the exclusion Of any fanciful law they might themselves im- port into the case. Each of the accept ed jurors promised to abide by the ln- terprtation of the court.
 Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the defendant, was not in court to-day. She was greatly fa-igued by the long sessions of yesterday and was on the verge of a collapse at one time We'd nesday night She remained to-day in her apartments, where she was attend ed by her daughter, the Countess of Yarmouth. The other members of the family were in their accustomed seats in court, behind the defendant. How ard Nesbit, brother of Mrs. Harry Thaw, also was in court, sitting well in the rear with the man who 5as Stan ford ySThita's secretary Neither he nor his sister glanced at the other.