The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
INTEREST IN
 THAW CASE All of New York Is Gossiping. MANY RUMoRS ARE AFLoAT Mother and Wife of Prisoner Said
 to Quarrel Constant Appearance of Former Ar- lists Model with Her Chorus Girl Friend, Cause of the Re-
 ported Estrangement.

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 New York, Jan. 26.--Three days of the trial of Harry K. Thaw have passed and the net work of all this time has been the selection of seven jurors.
 { To get these seven jurymen. 1to talesmen, half of the panel drawn, have been examined. While the law yers engaged have got so that the examination of the talesmen consumes less time than was taken in the early stages of the trial the taies- men themselves have become more wary, apparently and the excuses put forward for not serving are varied and ingenious. It is possible that the remaining i've jurors will be found 9in the 100 talesmen still awaiting ex- animation.
 The chief reason for the general de- sire not to serve is probably found in the order of Justice Fitzgerald prac- tically locking up the jurymen from the time are drawn until the trial Is over. This is an unusual proceeding and as most of the talesmen are active business men. 1t involves possible fi- nancial loss besides the hardship.
 About the only physical exervise the iurysnen selected enjoy or are likely to enjoy, for some weeks, is the little walk twice daily accompanied by court officers to and from the Broadway Central Hotel and the court house. The men are practically prisoners. The Men dine together and then spend the evening in chatting until they retire.
 Mir. Peabody also declared that the report that Harry Thaw and his wife were contemplating . divorce If Thaw is acquitted is also false. He said that Thaw and his wife 'are more insepar- ably bound together today than before the tragedy"
 My client has received hundreds of letters during the time he has been awaitinE trlal in the Tombs, and have misnivss sent by others than friends and relatives could be classed as thfeatening. About one in q hundred of the letters contained what may be described aa unfavorabie comment and is 6 Mght per centa%e as letter writing cranlxs, as rule. use strong words fn their nncalled for communications"
 Tho Thaw jurors were kept under close surveillance at their hotel today. The wives of two of them called last night but their guards only permit conversations In the presence of an- other juror and the guards.
 One of the reports in circulation to- day dealing with Thaw's motive for shooting Stanford White was to the ef- feet that on the night before the shoot ing Thaw called on White and exacted from him a promise that he would never try to communicate with Evelyn Thaw again. It was reported that while at dinner in the Cafe Martin four hours before the tragedy Thaw inter- cepted White from asking Mrs. Thaw to meet him.
 Lawyer Hartridge, when his atten- tion was called to the gossip took oc- casion to deny that there had been any disagreement between the mem- bers of his clients family.
 Rumors of difference between Mrs. Harry K. Thaw on one side, and Mrs. William Thaw and the Countess of Yarmouth. mother and sister, respec- lively, of Harry K. Thaw, continued to be circulated today despite denial by Thaw's counsel that any such differ ences existed.
 The reported differences are alleged to have arisen over the continued pres ence in the court room of Miss Mac Kenzie, the former chorus girl. who in- variably accompanies Mrs. Evelyn Thaw and sits by her during the ses- sion of the court. Miss Mackenzie Is said to be the younger Mrs. Thaw's constant companion since Harry Thaw shot Stanford White.
 A Russell Peabody. of Thaw's coun- seI. was asked to state whether there ia any truth in the stories that Thaw has received many threatening letters since he has been in the tombs.
 May Mckenzie Friend.
 MT. Peabody said that Miss Mac Ken gle had proved herself one of the best friends Mrs. Evelyn Thaw ever had, and that she took care of Mrs. Thaw last summer when the young wife was "sufrering agony greater than that borne by any woman in New York"
 "It 1t to be expected that now Mrs. Harry Thaw would cast her friend aside just for the sake of appearancesT MT. Peabody asked.
 Read Jurors Letters.
 Every letter that is sent to the jurors Is read by Police Captain William J. Lynch. who has immediate personal charge of the jurymen. Thls Is not done with the mail of prisoners in the Tombs. No newspapers that have any reference to the trIal or tragedy arc permitted to be read by them. Cap tain Lynch cuts out the parts of these papers that refers to the case and the jurors have to be content with his cen- sorship. Even the books and maga- ines are subjected to the same sort Of scrutiny.
 The men are comfortably housed ht the hotel, seventeen rooms with baths and private dining room having been engaged for them. The jurors so far selected are accepting the situation in u philosophical spirit and with the ut most good nature,
 The plans of the defense, while they have not definitely developed are still believed to be those which have been generally phesied-emotiOnal insan- ity. and an appeal to the so-called "higher law" Only 6le faitnest indica- tion in this direction has appeared at