The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-24
After Weary Wait In Tombs
Prison, the Slayer of STAN
ford White is Placed on
Trial for His Life.
JEROME IN PERSONAL
COMMAND OF CASE
THREE JURORS QUALIFY, BUT
ONE OF THEM rs EXCUSED ev
THE JUDGE-THAW's WIFE
SITS WITH MoTHER-IN-LAW.

Publishers Press1
New York, Jan. 2S.-After A we4fN
wait in the Tombs prion, Harry Ken
dali Thaw. young scion of Pittsburg
house. and recognized as millionaire
tpday faced Justice Fitzgerald and
the prosecuting machinery of the
county of New York, to answer for
the shooting down in cold blood OF
Stanford White, one OF the worlds
greatest arcitects. during the perform.
ance of cheap musical comedy In the
roof garden of the mammoth Madison
Square structure. last summer.
Crowd Of Curious.
Were 1t not for the great crowd OF
curiosity seekers who besieged the
doors OF the criminal court building
for hours in an effort to gain an en-
trance to have morbid feelings graft.
fed: the presence in the court room
of Mrs. William Thaw. mother OF the
accused. and chief beneficiary under
the will of the latter's father, the
Countess of Yarmouth. his titled sister
who married an Englishman whom
Harry had met in Paris. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Carnegie. brother-inIaw and
sister of young Thaw, Evelyn .~esbit
Thaw. his actress-wife, who is accused
of being chiefly responsible for the
shooting. and her chum. May McKen-
zie. an actress. and also the fact that
District Attorney Jerome, for the first
time in many. days, was in personal
command of prosecution, and that
naturally following their presence an
army Of highly paid newspaper repre-
sentatives were on hand to chronicle
for an interested public, every move
ment of the "notables." there would
have been little to indicate to the cas-.
ual spectator that the murder differed
in any degree from the trial last week
OF bill" Briggs, who was charged
with shooting and killing another East
Side character that .'swiped" his
"gal"
Two Jurors Are Selected.
The result of today's proceedings
was the selection of two jurors. Three
qualified, but one OF them, chosen as
Number 2, Frank p. Hill, a painter.
and married man, succeeded in con-
vincing the judge and counsel just be-
fore the court adjourned for the day.
that he should be excused, and he was.
The court gave no reason for with
drawing him, other than that his state
ments, which were of a personal char
acter. were sufficient for the action.
Will BE Kept Together.
When court adjourned for the day,
the two jurors who were acceptable
to both sides, were sent to hotel and
locked up for the night For the
first time in many months. in fact
since the Terranova trial, in murder
case in New York, the jury will be
kept togther at all times and not per-
mitted to hold any communication
with the outside world. The pair that
qualified today are:
Deming B. Smith, the foreman, who
is a retired umbrella manufacturer,
so years old residing No. 253 West
111th street. He is married and has
daughter % years old.
George II. Feeke, married man.
without family, As years old, of Sol
135th street, another who is a steam
ship manager.
1t was believed by those experienced
in cases of this character that the se-
lection of jury from the special pan.
el drawn, will prove a comparatively
easy task, and that by the end OF the
week it will be possible for the TAX
ing of evidence to begin.
Playing Them "close Up."
The defense is still playing its car6s
CLOSE to the breast" and not for one
instant during today's proceedings
did the attorneys for young Thaw in
dicate in any way what moves they
will make. or what arguments they
will advance to absolve him from the
shooting of White. District Attorney
Jerome was the only person to indi-
cate the so-called unwritten law and
he did SO inquestioning prospective
jurymen by asking them:
The Higher Law Question.
Would you in weighing the ques-
ton of this mans guilt or innocence,
be swayed. guided, or Influenced by
any higher law, unwritten law or any
code of ethics other than is laid down
in the law books?"
1t was agreed among veteran prac-
titioners that the district attorney
made wise move in asking this ques-
ton. BY SO doing he placed the
on record as declaring that
they would accept the definition Of
murder in the first degree as laid
down by the code, and that any story
Of Whites trying to win back" Eve
lyn Nesbit Thaw from the man whose
name she bears. must be disregarded
to certain extent at least OF
.ourco II Attorney HarfrfdQe and his