Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-31
ONE VACANT SEAT IN
THE THAW JURY BOX
Believed That District Attorney Je.
rome VIII Begin Address to
The Jury Today.
Defense MATTER OF CONJECTURE
Two More Jurymcn Secured ToGay
But a New Panel Of 100 Had to Be
Drawn to Work From When Court
convencs This ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ed Events Likely to Happen.
t.y Associated Press;

t3y Associated Press.j
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.--There was
but Single vacant chair in the
Thaw jury box when court adjourned
today and it is believed that tomor-
row afternoon, at the latest, District
Attorney Jerome will begin his open
ing address to a completed jury.
Then the defendant, his wife, anu
all the members of his family which
are able to be in court must listen
to the stor of the roof garden trag.
cdy to listen to all its dramatic de-
tai and as simple as the prosecution
can make it, Length ana breadth of
the ground the district attorney will
cover has not been disclosed
Just how far back he will de.
into the history OF the principals IN
the famous case no one but Mr..
Jerome knows. He has not related
+ the plan OF his opening address Cd
a alnyone though 1t has been intlmat
cd a,rtlioritative'y that the direct
evidence of the prosecution will be
dealing only with the incidents ieac
ing up to the killing and the story
of the tragedy itself as seen by
eye witnesses.
One or two witnesses may be
heard as TO the alleged motive for
the crime.
It remains for the defense to open
the way to testimony which has to
do with any details of the relations
which existed between Stanford
White and Evelyn Nesbit prior to
the Staying of the architect. Thaw'.;
attorneys probably will not reply 70
AIR. Jerome tomorrow, reserving
their opening until the state mas
finished its case.
New Panel Had to Be Ordered.
Two Jurors were added to the trial
panel today. making eleven in all
In an effort to complete the jury,
the attorneys exhausted the second
special panel of talesmen summoned
for the trial. a new panel of 100
was ordered and will be in court to-
morrow. The twelfth juror will be
chosen from the new list. Sixty.
live talesmen were exhausted today
breaking all records of the trial.
The highest on any previous day
was so. One juror was secured dur
ing the morning session and one
near the close of the afternoon ses.
sion of the court.
The New Jurors.
Harry C. Brearly, an advertising
agent, thirty-five years of age, and
married was the first talesman to
qualify today He took his place as
juror No. 6, the chair made vacant
BY the dropping of Harold r. Faire
from the jury yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Brearly told the attorneys for
the defense that he had no prejudice
whatever against a plea of insanity,
and that in judging such plea he
would be guided by the principle or
allowing the defendant the advant.
age of every reasonable doubt. The
afternoon juror. Henry /. Kelinberg-
er, silk merchant, forty-two years
old and married. said he knew very
little about the subject of insanity
and would have to be guided by the
instructions of the court in arriving
at conclusion on such plea. He
did not think his judgment would be
nnduly swayed by sympathy or emo
ticn.
Looks Like Defense of Insanity.
The manner Iii which Thaw's az
torneys continued to dwell upon the
subject OF Insanity in their examina.
ton OF various talesmen seemed 20
indicate that plea of temporary
insanity, which would be legal de.
Tense, will eventually be entered. III
developing the claim that Thaw was
insane at the time OF the tragedy
the defendants attorneys may bring