The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-19
JUROR APPROACHED
 BY 4 POLICEMAN Jerome Sends for Several of
 Thaw Jurors WILL SET REPORT TODAY Thaw Case at a tandstiIl-Question of Counsel Not settIed-stormy t.N Interview In the Tombs.

New York. April 1s.-It was announced today that the district attorney had be- gun an investigation of 8 report that ono of the jurors ill the recent trial of Harry k. Thaw had been approached" by a policeman before the trial closed. Henry C. Prearley, one of the jurors, had an interview with District Attorney Jeroms late today at Mir. Jerome's office. Later 1t was announced that several others of the Thaw jurors would be asked to come to the district attorneys office tomorrow and tell of anything they know of the report in question.
 It was reported that policeman talked with the jury on one of the walks the jury took from the criminal courts build ing to the Broadway Central hotel.
 Counsel Question Unsettled.
 It became definitely known today that the question of counsel for Harry Thaw has not been permanently settled Tho publication of q letter sent by Thaw to Hartridge and Peabody yesterday in which he informed them that they would continue as counsel of record was gen orally accepted as disposing of that phase of the case for the present at least Today however, Clifford W. Hartridge gave out a formal statement in which he said the suppos.ion that he is senior counsel was absolutely unwarranted. He said that at the present time there Is no senior coun- sel in the Thaw case This statement was given out at Thaw's request it Is said after a heated Interview in the Tombs between the prisoner, Mir. Peabody and Daniel O'Reiley.
 At StandstiI.
 Harry K. Thaws case remains at a standstill so far as legal action is con cerned. statement to the public from Thaw Is expected today regarding his selection of counsel. Meantime the ques- tion of applying for the prisoners release on ball is held in abeyance.
 The latest report regarding the man who will defend Thaw at his next trial is that former Attorney General Herbert T. Parker of Massachusetts may be chosen Parker acted as prosecutor in the famous murder trial of Charles Tuck CT, who was convicted for murder of Mabel Page.
 s It became known today that Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe. onesu the alienists who testi- fed fer ,iie defSzte h bha Feee9t trial of Harry K. Thaw for murder, spent two hours with Thaw in his cell in the Tombs last night. A. R. Peabody of Thaw' s counsel was present during the interview. but neither he nor pr. Jelliffe would say anything today.
 Sees pr. JelIiffe.
 Thaw had remained in bed yesterday morning until o'clock and only arose to see his counsel when Warden Flynn suggested to him that if he were i'll he might go to the hospital ward. It was said at the prison that Mir. Peabody had summoned Dr. Jelliffe to attend Thaw because pr. Mcclure, the regular Tombs' physician Is suffering from a slight at tack of tonsilitis.
 Roger O'Mara, the former Pittsburg chief of police. who has had charge of the detective work for the defendant, came to New York today In response to q request from Thaw. He will have a talk with the prisoner before returning to Pittsburg.
 Demas Is Out
 That Dolphin M Delmas will not un- der any consideration be one of the coun- sel in the next trial of Harry K. Thaw was the statement made tonight by one of Delmas' closest friends. According to this information Delmas was asked by Thaw and other members of his fam fly to take hold of the case at the next trial, but refused, and wrote a letter to that effect to the family.
 Mir. Delmas felt that to gratify Thaw s whims was not in accordance with his views of the dignity of a lawyer. 1t was said. and this was what determined him to get out of the case.