Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-26
Two More Were Accepted Out of
The Fifty-0ne Ta|esmen
Who We're Examined. *
WORK IS GROWING MORE DIFFICULT
Men Who Do Not Want to Serve
Have All Sorts of Excuses to OF.
fer-Thaw is Getting More Accus.
toned to His Surroundings and is
Looking Better.
(By Associated press).


NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Fifty-one
talesmen were examined in rapid fire
order today in the effort to complete
the jury which is to ttv Harry K.
T.law for the killing of Stanford
White, and at the end of the DAYS
session two names had heen add r
tn the jury roll, making seven in all.
One hundred and one talesmen have
thus far been examined That there
is increasing difficulty in finding
men who are willing or competent 10
serve was evidenced by the fact that
On the first day of the trial three
jurors were sworn from among nine
teen talesmen, one of them being ex.
caSed by the court. On the second
day three jurors were selected from
among thirty-one talesmen, while 10.
Gay 1t required the wlnnowin:r of
mere than one.fourth of the special
fanel of two hundred men to secure
two members of the necessary twelve
, The names. are Harold r. Faire.
printer and publisher, who is the on
~ unmarried man thus far selected.
Fairc is not more than twenty-etsht
or thirty years Of age. The second
new juror is Malcolm S. Frazer. a
dealer in underwear. He is perhcps
forty years of age and is married.
Early in Mr.. Frazer's examination
1t became apparent from the manner
of his answers that he would make
n juror satisfactory to both sides and
there was no surprise when he Was
accepted. Fare was Registered as
No. and Frazer as No. Z in the trial
panel. This panel, as it grows, i'm
Presses the followers of the case
more ana more favorably.
0on't Want to Do Jury Duty.
Excuses formed by the talesmen
to avoid jury duty in the case are
growing more varied each day. Man
after man declared today that his
opinion as to the guilt or innocence
OF the accused was so firmly fixed
rs 10 admit of no change by reason
81 amy testimony that might be adj
duced. District Attorney Jerome
tried to convince the talesmen that
newspaper stories were not the same
MS sworn testimony before court,
but his efforts were generally UNI
successful and challenges for cause
were sustained by the court. or the
fifty-one talesmen examined today
only three were preemptorly reject
cd The state challenged a talesman
named Nesbit, who stated, however,
that he was in no wise related to
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of
the defendant. The calling of Mr..
Nesbit and his examination attracted
much interest, the most eager lis
toner being young Mrs. Thaw.
The defense used the preemptory
challenge on Harris NJ. Fletcher, who
declared that while he would carry
an opinion into the jury box he was
sure lie could lay it aside and rest
under fair and impartial verdict
The second preemptory challenge by
the defense was directed against
Sol. Levy, a tobacco dealer.
Thaw Getting Accustomed to II.
Harry Thaw seemed much more ac-
customed to his surroundings and
for the first time gazed interestedly
into the crowd in the court room,
which was limited to talesmen and
ncwsDapcrmcn. He seemed to be in
tcrested in the reporters table and
tried to read the large type account
of the trial in a paper on the table
of q writer He seemed to have
much better color today, although his
wife was paler, the Wilderness of her
face being intensified by the thin
blue veil she wore in place of the
customary white tullc affair
Was Tedious Work.
The work OF going through the
jury list was extremely tedious. Some