Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-29
NINE MEN NOW In The BOX
Two More Jurors Secured for the Thaw
Jury at Yesterdays Hearing.
PROBABLE PLANS OF THE DEFENSE
Statement from Pittsbure That EN-
perts on Insanity VIII Testify
That Thaw Was Not RE-
spOnsibIe for Act.

NEW YORK. Jan 2s. The jury TO try
Harry X. Thaw for the killing OF Stanford
White is nearly completed. When court
adjourned this evening there were nine men
In the jury box one having been added dur
ing the morning session and one just be-
fore adjournment at o'clock. 1t is ex-
pected that the taking of testimony will
begin Wednesday afternoon.
Fifty talesmen were examined today
and so rapidly were the remaining members
Of the special panel disposed of at the
morning session that at noon recess orders
were hurried from the court for the sum-
monirg of an additional 1OO who are to
reoc,c before Justice Fitzgerald tomorrow
morning. This will make a total Of 300 men
this far summoned. OF the original panel
there remained tonight only thirty-fve and
Il is not considered that this number will
be sufficient out Of which to select the
three jurymen necessary to make the neces-
sary twelve.
OF the fifty men examined today forty
three were excused on doctors certificates
or on the ground that they had formed
opinions which We're too strong to be shaken
by the testimony, for various other
reasons sufficient to incapacitate man
for service in capital cases. Five talesmen
were challenged peremptorily. the state
leading in the exercise of this privilege
with three challenges.
Identity of New Jurors.
The two men of the fifty who proved ac-
ceptable to both sides were Charles ID.
Newton, a retired RAILROAD Official who is
perhaps g years old, and Louis Haas, the
New York representative of Philadelphia
wholesale candy concern, who is about 30
years old. In accepting the latter Mr..
no
ton of reasonable doubt questioning the
talesman searchingly as to his ideas of the
difference between a reasonable doubt and
a possible doubt. Mr.. Haas seemed to in
cline to the idea that conviction for muir
der in the first degree should be voted only
when such doubt as one might feel in re-
gard to some vital issue in his own life had
been removed by the evidence. Thls
seemed to satisfy the district attorney.
District Attorney Jerome continued today
10 base his examinations of the talesmen
on the belief that Thaws lawyers may
ofer two defenses, one emotional insanity
q the tins Of the shooting and the other
'the unwritten law"
All of the defendants family were In
court today.
Mrs. Harry Thaw and her companion.
Miss May Mckenzie, were the first to ar
rive. Then came Mrs. William Thaw,
mother OF the prisoner, accompanied by
her two daughters, the countess of Var
mouth and Mrs. George Lander Carnegie
also were present. The family sat closely
grouped in two rows of chairs just back
of the prisoner. As usual, they seldom
spoke 20 one another. Thaw seemed de-
lighted wher he saw all of his family in
court. and appeared 10 be in high spirits
throughout the day.
Defense May Plead Insanity.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 2s.-Detective
Roger O'Mara. formerly superintendent OF
police, who was engaged by Harry X.
@haw Immediately following the murder OF
Stanford White will leave this city to-
morrow To attend the Thaw trial O'Mara