Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-01-29
JURORS ARE TREATED
SAME AS PRISONERS
All Their Mail Is OPP ned Before
Given TO Them.
STATUS OF THE THAW TRIAL
Thaw's wife and His Mother Do No,
Notice Each other-Gossip Says
That There Has Been a Serious
Family Disagreement.

New York. Jan. IS. THREE DAYS
Of the trial of Harry X. Thaw have
passed and ,he network of all this
time has been the selection Of seven
Jurors. To get these seven jury
men 40 tdlesmen. half Of the panel
drawn. have been examined. While
the lawyers engaged have got so that
the examination OF the talesmen con-
sumcs the time thai was aiken In the
early stages of the trial. the talesmea
themselves have become more weary,
appa~ertly and the excuses put for
ward for not serving are varied and
ingenious. Il Is possible that the re-
naming FIVE Jurors needed will Do
found i'm the 100 talcsmen sin await.
ing examination.
The chief reason for the general
desire not 20 serve is probably found
in the order Of Justice Fitzgerald
practically locking the jurymen from
the time they are drawn hntil the
trial Is over. This Is an unusual
proceeding and as most Of the tales
men are active business men, involves
possible financial loss besides the
hardship.
About the only physica' exercise the
jurymca selected enjoy or are likely
TO enjoy for some weeks Is that little
walk twice daily by court officers
10 and from the Broadway Central
hote! and he court house. The mea
IRE practically prisoners. The men
spend he evening in chatting until
they retire.
Every letter that Is sent 10 the tu-
rors is read by Police Captain VIII
liam J. Lynch, who has immediate
personal charge Of the jurymen. This
Is not done with the mail Of prisoners
in the Tombs. No newspapers that
have in them any reference to the trisi
or tragedy are permitted to be READ
by them. Captain Lynch cuts oui
the parts Of these papers that refers
go the case and the jurors have 70
be content with his censorship. ETen
the books and magazinOs>are subject
ed TO the same sort Of scrutiny.
The men are comfortably housed
AZ the hotel. II rooms. with baths
and a private dining room, having
been engaged for them. Inc sa-
rors so far selected are taking the
situation In philOsophic way ana
most good natured way.
The plans Of the defense, vns
they have not definitely developed ."
still believed 10 be those which hs's
been generally prophesied-emotionA
insanity. and an appeal 10 the so-esi'.
ed" higher law. Only the taih'e~
indication in this direction has appear
ed at the trial thus far. and that vas
Friday when Clifford w. Hartriese'
chief counsel for Thaw< asked q pros
pective Juror this question:
Would YOU take into consioerA
all the evidence tending to show -
condition of this mans CThaW) DE
at the time Of the killing Of stani'N
White"
There were rumors in the coan i'
day that there had been q se''
disagreement among the memoen
Thaw's family.
The reports started when hs,u
Thaw's wife and Miss Mackenzie -
constant companion. arrived a.
court house some time before
William Thaw. and Mrs. Carness
mother and sister Of the PRISON.
The gossip was intensified wen
was noted that though Mrs. via.
Thaw sat near her daughier-h-~
the two apparently took 40 nouos
each other all through the day, =
yer IIartridge. when his attention
called 70 the gossip. took oceas
deny that there had been any -
greement between the members ="