The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-25

New York. Jan 2-Nearly half the
members Of the jury that will Try Harry
X Thaw for the murder Of Stanford
White have now been selected Three
more were to-day added TO the two OBJ
tanned on the first day Of the trial. Should
a trife more rapid progress be made in
the next two days Of the proceedings. it
is likely that the taking Of evidence will
begin next Tuesday.
After working all day long without find
ing talesman TO whom neither the pros
ecution nor the defense objected and who
could find no valid excuse for being al
lowed TO escape, three jurors were chosen,
one after another, in the last hour Of the
afternoon session. The first Of the three.
who will figure in the case of juror No.
3, was George Pfaff, a hardware dealer.
Of 122 Center street, which is not far from
the Criminal Courts building. He was as
signed to the seat in the jury box left va
cant by the departure Of Frank P Hill,
the banker, who was excused on Wednes-
day, after having been 5s9rn in.
The next man up also proved ac-
ceptable. He was Arthur 5. Campbell, a
superintendent Of telephone construction.
who lives at s23 West End avenue. The
fifth juror was the last talesman exam
ined. He was Henry c. Harvey. manager
Of piano company, at Brook avenue and
East 152d street All three Of the jurors
chosen to-day appeared 20 be men OF an
intelligence requisite for the task they
will have to perform, and Mt. jerome ap-
peared TO be more than satisfied with
them. Just before Thaw returned 10 the
Tombs for the night. he expressed him
self as well pleased with all five Of the
Jurors thus far selected
Smith Once Helped Convict.
It is doubtful, however, il he had
learned that Deming B. Smith. the fore
man Of the jury. whA was selected on
Wednesday. had once served on a jury
that convicted d man Of murder in the
/ first degree. The man whom NIr. smlh
voted TO convict was Edward Pekar. who
was sentenced TO death by the electric
chair about year and a half ago lie is
still in Sing Sing prison. various legal
proceedings having delayed the ezecu-
( li0n Of his sentence 1t is an additionally
I pertinent fact that in the Pekar case tile
/ defense was insanity.
Afr. Harvey was the dflieth taIesman
examined out Of a panel Of 200. iudiCat-
/ ing that al this rate the panel viii not
I be exhausted before the jury is completed.
/ Twelve Of the talesmen failed To appear
when their names We're called. making a
total of 81 200 in fines that they will have
20 pay unless they can devise some accept
able excuse Thirty peremptory challenges
are allowed each side, and up 20 date
the prosecution has used up eight OF its
/ thirty. while the defense has perempt0rily
/ challenged only six talesmen.
Reporters Hard Pressed.
1 The ordinary reporters. whose busi-
ness il is TO tell in as appropriate
/ language as they are able TO employ just
what goes on at the Thaw trial, are up
/ against severe competition. In the first
place, there is that enterprising newspa-
per. who has hired Roland B. Molineux
20 draw for its readers pen pictures" OF
what goes on in court Mr.. BIolineux
may not be able quite to fulfill this con-
/ tract for the reason that he has not thus
| far ventured TO appear IN court. The ax-
PLANTATION is hazarded that the distin-
/ guished chemist has seen ali he cares TO
/ see Of the interior Of the courtrooms. It
was in the Criminal Courts building that
/ he was convicted of murder by the first
/ jury that tried him.
| Florence Burns and Nan Patterson
/ somewhat escaped a job on the Thaw
/ trial. and Albert T. Patrick is at present
not available by reason Of nonresidence.
| But the plain reporters are kept up 10
/ the mark by the fortunate presence of a
squad of pen pushers from another class
of headliners. These are the lady ar
| lists" from the editiOn-eveTy-min
| Offices They were the only women In
/ court to-day. excepting the members Of
/ the Thaw party. They are not there 10
write anything so common as news.
Women Write Gushing Stories.
Their job is to tell a waiting public ex-
actly how it feels to be the wife or the
mother or the sister of man who is
being tried for his life. They work con-
scientiousIy at the task and hand their
! COPY every, few minutes to a boy who
hustles it out to palpitating messengers.
Miss Queechy Barefacts, for example.
! counts the lines that have appeared i'm
/ the face of Mrs. Harry Thaw since her
husband was arrested. She did that on
/ Wednesday. To-day she counted two
more. Miss Trixola Heeley is a specialist
| in tragedy. She writes two columns about
the pathos of it all In plain. blunt. al
most brutal language. she tells her many
readers that it is pathetic. Also that IL
is very pathetic. Later. that it is ex-
tremely pathetic
/ Miss Mazda Utterson states frankly I'm
/ her inimitably ingratiating style, that a
misspent youth has led up TO the pathetic
/ things. and thar Harry Thaw'S relatives
/ are suffering keenly for his Tnisdeeds.
| Also that the fate of the prisoner lies In
] the hands of twelve good men and true.
All these are things that the public
should know. and il is a mighty good
| thing that the lady artists are there to tell
them. Two columns about the pathos Of
| ig is not column too much.
Thavv Lawyers Plentiful
| Then there are the students Of human
nature. who go 10 a murder trial as they
would attend an exposition Of vivisection.
The courtroom is so small that there is
hardly enough room for all OF Thaw-s
lawyers. let alone the hUman-nature stu
dents but a few of them have managed