Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-26
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THAW JURORS
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men and newspaper writer's. Thaw
seemed especially interested in the re-
porters tables and tried once to read
the large typed account of his trial
in a paper one of the writer's was scan
ming. He seemed to have much bet
ter color today, although his wife was
paler.
Bits of color was thrown into the
tedious proceedings by a talesman
named Ketcham, who said he was con-
nected with an electrical supply house
and supplemented this with the declara-
ton that while he was not opposed to
capital punishment in murder degree
cases he was opposed to the use of
electricity in that connection.
Ketcham was asked whether he knew
Stanford White and replied:
Il am glad to say that did not
Another feature was the number of
talesmen who had known Stanford
White. At one time three men in sue
cession asserted that they had been Sc
we'll acquainted with the architect as
to make them unsuitable as Jurors.
There will be no session tomorrow
the court adjourning late today until
Monday morning. In the meantime the
seven jurors will be in the custody of
bailiffs.
Relatives in Court
Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the de
fendant, was present at the opening OF
the morning session, having fully le-
covered from the indisposition which
kept her indoors yesterday.
She was accompanied by her daugh-
! ter, Mrs. George L. Carnegie, the two
| having been preceded some minutes by
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and May
Mackenzie. The prisoners wife still
, wore the plain dark blue suit that she
| had appeared in on every day of the
trial, Today she had discarded het
white veil for one of blue chiffon. The
effect was to bring out more distinctly
the features of her face, which ap.
peared unusually pale The elder Mrs
! ThaW was in conventional black.
The countess of Yarmouth did moi
| attend the trial today owing to a slight
cold. Edward and Josiah Thaw were
early in their seats.
When Harry Thaw entered the court
room his family's attention was dis
tracted by the arraignment of a de-
| fendant in another case. ThaW noticed
this, and as he passed his mothers
chair he reached over with one hand
and grasped both hers. She looked uI
! quickly and answered her sons smile
Mrs, Harry Thaw gave her husband
an earnest look of greeting, and dur
ing the examination of talesmen she
! assumed her customary attitude, lean
ing we'll forward in her seat to catch
every answer to questions put either
by the district attorney or by counsel
| for the defendant.
Mrs. Thaw Watches Jurors
Counsel for Thaw was informed to-
day that Henry c, Harney, the fifth
juror, had acted as a juror in the case
of which Edward Pekarse was con-
Victed of murder in the first degree.
Pekarse's plea was insanity, and sew
eral alienists testified that he was
mentally unbalanced when he muir
dered a woman from whom he had
rented rooms. The verdict was guilty
and Pekarse was sentenced to death.
Daniel O'Reilly of counsel for Thaw
was quoted as saying today concern
| ing Juror Henry:
1--WE went upon the assumption that
a man who has voted to put man to
death on one occasion will never vote
! for the execution of a second man. We
wanted him upon the jury. Mr.. Har-
ney's jury said the man was sane. but
| 1t was proven before Governor Higgins
that he was insane and the governor
saved him"