Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-24

Nesbit families.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 24.-The second
session of the trial OF Harry X. Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White at Madison
Square Garden dragged through to its
slow conclusion with the jury which is to
try him for his life no nearer completion
than when court adjourned last night. The
two jurymen who We're chosen yesterday
sat alone in the big box and not one of
the fifteen talesmen who were examined
during the morning session was found suit
able to join them in sitting in Judgment
upon the life Of the young Pttsburg mill
lionaire.
The prosecution and the defense followed
the same line of questions as yesterday,
but the dsincIhation to serve on the Jury
was so apparent that they could find no
talesmen who would swear that they were
able to judge Thaw's guilt without pref
udice.
Doubt Dispelled.
If there was any doubt as to the stand
Evelyn Nesbits family is taking in the
case of the young Pittsburg millionaire this
was entirely dissipated today by the ap-
pearance of her mother to take the stand
against her. Howard Holman was again
in court today watching with curious eyes
the trial Of his sisters husband. He. too.
is ready to go to the witness stand and
tell what he knows in favor of Thaw's
victim, the man who paid for his education
and gave him everything which he had in
the world after his sister came to New
York to take up her life as an artists
model
Another development today was the i'll
ness of Mrs William Thaw and her daugh-
ter, the Countess of Yarmouth, both of
whom are so bowed down by the strain
under which they are laboring' that they
were not able to submit to the ordeal OF
sitting through the session of the court.
The court ROOM where the case was being
tried, may not see them again until the Jury
is chosen and the first witnesses for the
prosecution go on the stand. The other
members of the Thaw family also show the
strain to which the trial is subjecting them
Mrs. Harry Thaw sat through today's ses-
sion with white face and staring eyes
giving an appearance of having been almost
broken down by being compelled to watch
her husband sit under judgment for his life.
Mrs Carnegie, the defendants sister. shows
by her drawn face and the expression OF
her big brown eyes that She too feels the
ordeal which the family is undergoing.
Harry Thaw. alone, of all the family the
most critically concerned. seems to a great
extent to be unaffected by the seriousness
of his position and the notoriey which he
has brought to the heirs of William Thaw's
fortune.
The second day of the trial opened badly
for the crowd of morbid persons who are
determined to take advantage of 1t as
spectacle. The weather was against them.
On the street the thermometer registered
almost zero temperature. and those who
stood where they could see the Bridge OF
Signs" were driven into the court house
corridors by Jack Frost only to DO
promptly driven out again by the police.
The authorities are doing all that can
be done to prevent disgraceful scenes In
connection with the proceedings. All ID
decorum, Of course. within the court room.
but in the corridors and Hobbies and ON
the steps to all outside doors there is need
of stern measures to protect the ladies OF
the Thaw family from inconsiderate rush
ing of the curiosity seekers. 1t is not
merely staring to which these ladies are
subjected, every time when it happens that
there is not q considerable police force at
hand the nnob ureases against them carrien