The Washington herald., 1907-02-02
THE THAW JURY.

FoTeman-Deming ID. smith, fifty
years old; has wife, of twenty
three, and daughter of eighteenJ re-
tired; 253 West nth street.
No. 2-GeOrge Pfaf, thirty-fOur
years old; married; machinery sup
plies, 1872 Center streets lives ut 537
West I4Sth street.
No. 3-CharIcs II. Fecke, thirty
seven years old; married; steamship
agent; GOt West I35th street.
ssNo. 4-Osear A. Pink, fOTty-siX
years OIdi married: salesman for box
factory mt Thirty-fOurth street and
Hudson Rivers AZ West 145th street.
No. Henry {. HHrney, fifty-five
years old; married; pianos, l32d
street and Brook avenue, the Bronx.
~NO. Cherry {. BrearIey, thirty
four years Old; mnrFiedJ advertising
agent, Il state street; lives ut 30
East Sixteenth street
No. 7-MaIcom :. Frazer, forty
years old; married; salesman, $40
broadway; 142 West 12Sth street.
No. S-CharIes d Newton, ffty-
three years old; married; retired
railroad clerk; EGG West l34th street.
tNO. 9-WtIbur +. steele, sixty years
eiuf mIFFie0s manufacture 81 EuS
pIantss - West I5ISt street.
No. IO-John :. DeBnee, forty years
Old; unmarried; travelling freight
agent; III East Thirty-third street.
enc. II-Jeseph II. Bolton, fifty
eight years Old; HHTTied; clerk in
dyeimg establishment at I57th street
and Bronx River; 115S Boston road.
No. f2-Bernard Gerstmar, thirty
24G broadway; 100 East Eighty
eighth street
Second man chosen for this place.
ssThird man sworn IN as No. 4.
New York, Feb. The jury to try
Harry X. Thaw for killing Stanford
White on the roof of Madison Square
Garden. on the night OF June >. 1896
was completed late this afternoon, after
an all-day search for the twelfth man.
The juror finally accepted by both sides
is a young man about thiTty-twO years
OF age. named Bernard Gerstman. He
lives at 4g East Eighty-eighth street, is
married and is the manager of the Girard
Company. a mill-owning concern with
Offices at 346 Broadway. When the juror
had been sworn in, court adjourned to
Monday morning. when il is expected
that the real trial viii begin.
While the jury is complete as it stands,
fl was not sworn in as a body after
court adjourned, and it is almost certain
that one of its members or even more,
VIII be excused when court cOnvenes
again on Monday morning. Rumor was
busy all day to-day with the name Of
one Of the jurors. and it was expected in
many quarters that action would be taken
in his case some time before the days
dolngs were over.
There was. iH fact, a long conference
between Justice Fitzgerald, District At
tOrney Jerome and counsel for the de
fense when court opened this morning,
but its subject was not announced, and
at its conclusion the examination Of
taIesmen went on as usual
Twelfth Juror sworn In.
After the twelfth juror had been sworn
in this afternoon and it had been decided
to take an adjournment until Monday
morning. the district attorney addressed
the court. saying:
'Inasmuch as il is probable that the
people viii open and close their case at
the first session Of the court on Monday
morning, It may be advisable that counsel
Tor the defense should be informed Of
that probability, 50 that they might get
ready to begin the presentation Of their
case promptly upon the conclusion OF the
presentation of the case for the people
This announcement having been made.
Clerk Penny instructed all the talcsmen
of the fourth panel not yet called to the
stand to be in attendance on Monday. the
court once more instructed the jury as to
their proper behavior, and adjourned un-
til 1890 O'Clock on Monday. The an
nouncement to the talesmen is taken as
having some relation to the possibility
that the jury that will try ThaW may not
Yet have arrived at its final complexion.
The district attorneys statement indi-
Gates that the case for the prosecution
will be presented within an even briefer
limit Of time than had before been sup
posed. The morning session Of the court
lasts but two hours and n half. and of
that time q part must be occupied by the
prosecutions opening address to the jury.
According to the present arrangement.
Assistant District Attorney Garvan will
make the address.
Some Real Excitement.
There was a moment Of real excitement
al the afternoon session Of the court to-
day, It was further development of the
district attorneys previous line Of ques-
tions relating 10 the possibility Of tales
men having been approached.
1t all happened when Benjamin B.
Townsend who is employed in the actu-
ary department of the New York Life IN
.surance Company was on the stand Mr.
Townsend is a little man. who wears
spectacIes. and has an iron-gray mus
tache.
Gould you put aside any opinion that
you have formed in this case2" inquired
Mr. Garvan, and decide it purely on the
evidence adduCed in cOurt?"
I'm certain I could, said Mr Town
send promptly.
Would you accept the law as laid down
10 you by the COTt?"
The law Of the court is the only law