The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-25
After Tedious Work Three in Last
Hour Prove Acceptable
+ IS 10 GET PANEL FILLED
fifty Talesmen Examined Offer Vari-
Gus Excuses, and 1t May Be Sew
eral Days Before Jury Is
Complete.

New York, January 24.-After trying in
vain for more than four hours of the
morning and afternoon sessions to secure
an additional juror to try Harry X. Thaw
for killing Stanford Waite, and just when
counsel and spectators and even the de-
fendant himself were drowsy from the
monotony of the proceedings, there came
sudden change in the tide, and within
the last three-quarters of an hour three
new jurors were accepted and sworn in.
When court adjourned for the day five
jurors had been accepted.
Twenty-three talesmen had been ex-
amined without success when the unex-
pected happened, as two talesmen in sue
cession proved accepted to both District
Attorney Jerome and the defendants at
torneys. Then followed the drawing of
five more talesmen, who were excused.
Henry c. Harney, a piano dealer. about
So years of age, was the thirty-frst tales
man to be called, and as he had never
formed an opinion in the case and had
read but little about it in the papers, he
was quickly accepted
The other jurors chosen today were
George Pfaff, &i years of age, dealer in
machnists' supplies, and Arthur S. Camp
bell, AZ years of age, superintendent OF
telegraph and telephone construction The
two jurors selected the first day of the
trial were Deming B. Smith, retired
manufacturer, who will serve as foreman,
and Charles II. Fecke, a shipping agent.
Tedious Selection.
The tedious matter of the selection OF
the jurors proceeded today and makes 1t
difficult to predict just when the trial
panel of twelve will be finally filed.
The order of the court that the jury must
be kept together under the care Of baiiiffs
had the apparent effect of making many
of the talesmen reluctant to serve Vari-
GUS excuses were offered today, one man
declaring that to be locked up for two
months would so wreck his nerves as to
make calm consideration of the case an
impossibility He was excused
The nineteen talesmen examined yes
terday and the thrty-one today brings
the total thus far called up to fifty. If
three days to complete the jury. There
was a feeling after the adjournment to-
night, however. that both sides would try
to facilitate matters as much as possible.
OF the thirty peremptory challenges al
lowed the prosecution and the defense,
the former used eight and the latter six.
The defense today seemed willing to ac-
cept any talesman who made reasonable
answers to the questions propounded by
the district attorney
The fact that Thaw's attorneys asked
several of the talesmen If they had any
prejudice against any particular line or
character of defense was taken by many
to Indicate that the defense may be
either the so-caled "unwritten law or
emotional insanity, or a combination of
both.
Mrs William Thaw, mother of the de-
fendant was not in court today. She was
greatly fatigued by the long sessions of
yesterday. and was on the verge of
collapse a. one time Wednesday night.
She remained in her apartments today.
where she was attended by her daughter.
the Countess OF Yarmouth. The other
members OF the family were in their ac-
customed seats in court behind the de-
fendant.
Howard Nesbit, a brother of Mrs. Harry
Thaw, also was in court, sitting well in
the rear with the man who was Stanford
Whites secretary. Neither he nor his sis
ter glanced at the other.