The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-26
SEVEN JURORS
 ARE SECURED Drawing Becomes More
 Slow. ADJ0URNS UNTIL MONDAY Fifty-one Talesmen Were Examined
 by Counsel. Excuses of Men Who Don't Want to Try Harry Thaw Become More varied--Defendan seems
 at Home.

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 New York. Jan. 25.-Fifty-o tales men were examined today in the effort to complete the jury which Is to try kHarry K. Thaw for the killing of stan | ford White. but only two were added [ to the jury roll making seven in all. | That there is increasing difieulty in finding men willing or competent to 1 serve is evidenced by the fact that on I the first day of the trial three jurors | were sworn from among nineteen tales | men, one of them being excused subse- auently by the court On the second day three jurors were selected from among thirty-one talesmen. while to- day 1t required the winnowing of moro than one-fourth of the entire special panel of 200 men to secure two. One of the new jurors is Harold R. Faire. a printer and publisher, who Is l the only unmarried man thus far se- lected. Faire looks less than 30 years old. The second new juror is Malcom l S. Fraiser, dealer in underwear. He is perhaps 70 years old and is married. Excuses framed by the taiesmen are growing more varied. Many a man declared today that his opinion as to 1 the guilt or innocence of the accused was so firmly fixed as to admit of no | change by reason of any testimony that might be adduced. District Att torney Jerome tried to convince tho talesmen that newspaper stories were not the same as sworn evidence before q court. but his efforts were general ly understood and challenges for cause were sustained by the court Of the | fifty-one falesmen examined today only three were peremptorf1y rejected.
 Harry Thaw seemed much more ac- oustomed to his surroundings today and for the first time gazed interest | Al lv at hn n he which was limited, however. to tales men and newspaper writers.
 There will be no session tomorrow, the court adtourning late today until Monday morning In the meantime the seven jurors will be in the custody Of baiiiffs.
 Pleased With Progress. l District Attorney Jerome and coun- sel for the defense in the trial of Harry K Thaw, all expressed-4tiensseive t0- day before court opened as gratified at the progress made in the work of selecting jury.
 Five men were in the box when court adjourned yesterday and some of those connected with the case predicted that the jury will be completed by Monday night. In this event the trial proper will begin Tuesday.
 Thaw, himself, took more interest in the proceedings yesterday and two ad- ditionaI jurors would have been secured i had 1t not been for his interference. A taiesman had proved acceptable to the district attorney and to Clifford W. Hartridge, leading counsel for Thaw. when there was a sudden gath ering of heads over the table at the head of which sat Thaw.
 The juror was about to be sworn when this occurred and Mir. Hartridge stopped proceedings to hear what Thaw had to say. When the confer ence ended the prospective juror was challenged for cause. This prc eding happened a second time during the day, Thaw objecting to talesman who was acceptable to counsel
 Thaw seemed pleased with the days work He said to the keeper at the Tombs last night:
 "We got three in the last half hour, (meaning jurors), and they are good men. tool think"
 The district attorney kept up his hammering on the "unwritten law" and | a possible deviation from the written law governing the criminally insane
 Can Jurors Restrain Emotional
 Yesterday afternon he added another l feature to his plan of examination ask ing the talesmen if they were capable l of withstanding appeals to their own emotions and feelings and if they thought they could pass on the pris- oner's case coldly and calmly, accord ing to the instructions in the law they would receive from the judge This was taken as a sign of the dis trict attorneys anticipation of the l promised dramatic appeal from Del | phin M. Delmas. of counsel for the | defense.
 Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the | defendant, was present at the opening of the morning session. today, having fully recovered from the indispositlon 1 which kept her indoors yesterday. She was accompanied by her daughter. Mrs. George Carnegie, the two having been precede some minutes by Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and her constant compan- ion. May Mckenzie.
 l The prisoners wife still wore the plain dark blue suit that she has ap- | peared in on every day of the trial. l Today she had discarded her white veil 1 for one of blue chiffon. The effect was to bring out more distinctly the | features of her face, which appeared | unusually pale. The elder Mrs. Thaw was in conventional black. The Coun- tess of Yarmouth did not attend the trial today, owing to slight cold she has contracted. Edward and Josiah Thaw were early in their seats.
 The five jurors selected during the 1 first two days of the trial appear to be men above the average intellect. l All seem to be in prosperous clrcum- stances Two of the five are seeming ly just above fifty years of age. George Pfafr. a hardware dealer. is the young 1 est probably not more than thirty four wears old Charles II. Facke, the ship ping agent, Is possibly forty and Ar thur S. Campbell. a superintendent of telephone construction, is not more than two years older The other two jurors are Deming B. Smith. a retired manufacturer, the foreman. and Henry l z. Harney, manager of a piano con l cern.
 Attorney Rand In Court.
 William Rand, the former assistant district attorney, who prosecuted Nan Patterson at both of her trials, was in court today, He represented a client who was called to the bar to answer to three indictments of per l fury This ceremony was brief and the |