The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-01
SENSATIONS < ARE FREQUENT Number of Jurors Re-
 mains Same. THREE SWORN, THREE LET OUT District Attorney and Partridge
 Have Lively Dispute. With oniy one More Juror to Secure 1t 1. By No Means Certain
 Thaw Trial Begins
 Today.
THREE SWORN, THREE LET OUT

day ana Derofe the TWO 9eSstOn8 or court had ended three sworn jurors | in the case, making i've in all sumrna- rily excused from the trial panel dur ing the last three days.
 l In the case of two of the released | jurors no explanation was made in court. The third was allowed to go up- | on a physicians certificate that his life would be imperil1ed by the close con- l fnement of jury service. Three new l talesmen were found to replace the | excused jurors. so that when the rap- idly shifting situation underwent q survey at tho close of the day. there
 were again eleven men In the jury box. I the same number that had been seated | at the close of yesterdays session. Rumors were current today that the end of the jury changes Is not yet in sight and that further chapters may l be added to what has already become | an unprecedented record in criminal procedure in New York city.
 There were several conferences of att | torneys this afternoon at which Dis | trict Attorney Jerome Is Said to have vigorously urged the release of still another juror now on the panel. Thaw's ! counsel, however, are said to have blocked every effort of the prosecuting 1 oficer in this direction. The disagree ment which first developed in Justice | | fore the afternoon session began. was l resumed in open court at the Judge's | desk twice thereafter, and engenderd | a bitter feeling among the attorneys. Heretofore the relations of the Dis | trict Attorney and his assistant with | Thaws counsel have been of the friend l Hest nature. This afternoon there was | friction of tho most apparent charac- | ter.
 | First Sensation of Day.
 The first of the day's sensations came | immediately after tardy opening of the morning session. The delay was l due to a conference of the attorneys
 with the presiding judge. Finally. fshess roayt opannG Rietrtes AttornaE I Jerome announced that tt had been unanimously agreed to relieve jurors
 David g. walker and Louis Haas from | further service. Mir. Walker, who is a | son of John Rrisben Walker. was num- | Der and Mir. Haas was number on | the jury roll. Both are young men and
 unmarried. Neither could offer an ex- | planation for the courts action in or
 dering their discharge.
 It was taken for granted that the
 release of these two jurors had ended | the days surprises, but during the luncheon recess, rumors of a further
 reduction in the personnel of the jury
 were put in circulation. Thaw's attorneys had been none too willing to allow Messrs. Walker and
 Haas to be replaced. and 1t was only
 after long argument by the District | Attorney that they consented in the | case of the third man. The afternoon
 conference evidently was one of some warmth for when District Attorney
 Jerome appeared in the court room he
 was visibly angry. He despatched his assistant, Mir. Garvan, on an important | errand.
 1 The examinations of the talesman
 called after the conference was car | ried on under circumstances that indi-
 cate feeling on both sides.
 Mir. Garvin returned to court after
 an absence of forty minutes, and when 1 Mir. Jerome called another conference
 which was held this time at the judges
 desk, there were gesticulations and an 1 Indication of & lively argument but again to no avail. and the regular pro- ceedings were resumed. Toward the 1 end of the afternoon session a mes | senger came from the District Attor- | ney's ofhce there was a whispered com
 sultation with Justice Fitzgerald and the attorneys. and 1t was announced | that because of ill-health juror No. II, l Henry l. Kleinberger, a silk merchant, | would be relieved from further ser vice. This action was a complete sur prise, and evidently had no connection with the earlier conferences. Mir.
 Kleinberger's physician had informed the District Attorneys office of the dan
 ger to his patients health. and it was agreed that he should be excused. Three Jurors Added.
 Two of the three new jurors added
 to the panel were secured at the morn-
 ing session. They were Oscar A. Pink,
 AS years of age, who replaced Mir.
 Walker as No. 4, and Wilbur S, Steele. a manufacturer. 50 years old, who re-
 placed Mir. Haas as No. 9. The juror
 secured during the afternoon to re-
 place MT. Kleinberger as No. II Is Jo-
 seph B. Bolton, 27 years of age'
 clerk. All three are married men.
 It is believed that the twelfth juror will be secured tomorrow morning, but the uncertainty as to the term of ser vice of a juro9 now sitting on the trial panel was so strong today that predic- tions are all but worthless.
 District Attorney Jerome announced today for the first time that he had decided not to make the opening ad- dress to the jury. He will turn the task over to his assistant, Francis P. Garvin, who has had immediate charge ot the Thaw case ever since the night of the tragedy.
 Roger O'Mara, former Chief of Police
 at Pittsburg. who has been working
 for several months gathering evidence
 i'm behalf of Thaw, arrived in town last night. He Is said to have ob- taIned information and data valuable
 to Thaw, but refused to disclose its
 nature.
 "I have come here In answer to a
 telegram from Mrs. Thaw's counsel" said oMara last night. 'I have known Harry Thaw for years. and we have been friends, and I know that he de- aires that I shall be on hand during his actual trial
 1I have information and data which
 (. of value to the defense. I can say that for l have been constantly em
 nIoyed for months in the gathering of evidence and making investiga- lions for my client and his counsel"
 The members Of Thaws family who are standing Loyalty by the side of
 the accused and Thaw himself. while naturally anxious, have looked for-