Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-26

No. g. Charles n. Fecke, manager of the
second. cabin department Of the Cunard
may also be- termed "a young man, not
having yet reached the two-score mark He
mas small mHstaehe and dark brown hair.
Of the prosperous business man. Like his
hsaoss he is well and tastily
No. 4. Arthur s. Campbell, an cleo
for the local Bell Telephone Company,
married. Mr.. Campbell has the build, the
grace of carriage, the quick, agile move
ments Of the trained athlete. He is posi-
lived healthfGf, out of door life. His face,
which IL smooth shaver, Is marked by fine
features, and he is in every respect what
might be termed a .man'sxna
No. 5. Henry G. Harvey. manager of
piano concern. probably fifty-three years of
age and married. Mr.. Harvey Is attracting
much EXPERIMENTATION the fact that
he is said to have served on a jury which
convicted man Of murder in the first de-
gree after~he had set up plea of insan-
ity. Thaw's counsel seem satisfied. One of
Abraham Levy IN =the Man" Patterson
trials, declared today that he thought
Harvey would make an excellent Juror and
would ,oun listen to testimony as to insanity
fore, because of tie fact that the governor
OF the, state committed the sentence of the
man he had helped to convict Mr.. Harvey
does not appear to have much Of the mag
nation IN his makeup, and in this respect
is not unlike the jury's foreman, who APP
pears somewhat phlegmatic.
NO. q. Harold r. Faire, printer and pub
Usher. unmarried. Mr.. Faire is the youngest
man on the trial panel and Will probably
continue. to hold the record in this respect.
HIS age might be put between twenty EIGHT
ana thirty years. He Is the publisher Of
trade slip. used extensively in Wall street.
In stature he is rather above the average in
height, his hair is dark and rather long.
Inc expression r .' OF his face is pleasing
preston that Thaw's counsel scored a
strong point In securing him. The name is
also an attractive one for a juror: .
NO. Z. Malcolm s. Fraser, dealer in I'M
derwear, married. forty years old. Mr..
Fraser has a straight forward way about
MIN when under examination as a tales
man which won the esteem and confidence
Of both District Attorney Jerome and the
sextet OF lawyers gathered about Thaw's
table. His manner was a great relief COM
ing asst did at the end of yesterdays
had characterized the examination of more
than two score men, who were apparently
willing to go to almost any ends to avoid
duty in this famous case Mr. Fraser i'm
pressed the entire court room, and the ex-
preston was heard on all sides that he
would be good man to trust with fell
ow-being's life.
The Last Man.
Fraser was the last man selected yester-
day afternoon, and he was the one hundred
and first talesman to be drawn from the
wheel of fortune affair which reposes on
Court Clerk Penny's desk, and which
originally contained two hundred names
There were twelve absentees from the spe-
cial Thaw panel and several were excused,
so that not more than seventy talesmen are
now available for the drawing of the five
0~vr 20 11ko %.t-
Dozen. s'''~f- ~-H
AS the days go by the task Of securing a
jury becomes fraught with more and more
dlhculty. The talesmen who remain to be
examined have prof1ted much by the expe-
rence Of their predecessors on the grin,
and they are prepared with ready answers
when District Attorney Jerome propounds
his usual questions. From the very first
Mr.. Jerome has tried to make the examina-
ton of each man as thorough as possible,
and when talesman professed to have
formed an opinion which was as adamant
the far-faIned district attorney has led the
proposed turyman by devious ways and
wiles into admitting that he might render a
fair and impartial verdict.
In these cases Mr.. Jerome begins his at
tack from afar, and by apparently harm
less questions he brings some Of the tales
men to the crisis where they must either
admit. a deficiency in intellect or else de-
clare their mental capacity to be equal to
the task of laying aside an opinion based
on idle rumor and biased reports in certain
newspapers upon hearing the sworn testi-
many This process has been more or less
fatigu1ng, and 1t was noticeable yesterday
afternoon in the closing hours of the ses-
sion that Mr.. Jerome did not press with the
usual number of questions those talesmen
who declared they had beliefs which would
require weight Of evidence to change. He
merely submitted challenges for cause and
Justice Fitzgerald sustained them
Thaw's attorneys are allowing the burden
OF the greatest weight in the selection Of
the jury to fall upon the district attorneys
shoulders He must ask a.. the statutory
questions, and must explain the various
points Of law to the talesmen. Some of the
questions are VoluminouS affairs, and when
Mr.. Jerome is done with uttering them the
ta1esman often requests the court stenog-
rapher to read them over again. The dis
trict attorney paints the various possibili-
ties to the man summoned for jury duty,
and then asks him bluntly would he do this
or that. monosyllable is usually the re-
ply to a question containing perhaps 800
words .
What am trying to get at Is this is a
favorite phrase used by Mr.. Jerome as he
launches into a hypothetical proposition
which some of, the stalesman answer with a
mere nod.
Course of the Defense
The defense continues it's battling course,
accepting almost any juror who seems to
give satisfactory answers to the questions
framed by the representative of the prose-
cution. They evidently take the ground that
good juror is good juror. regardless of
who develops the apparent fact. The most
significant question Clifford w. Hartridge,
Thaw's leading counsel, who by the way is
young southerner, Georgian in fact and
no older than Thaw himself, asked a tales
man yesterday when he said:
Have you any prejudice against any par
ticular line of defense or have you any
ideas of your own as what sort of defense
should be nader
When the talesman had replied that he
had no such prejudices as those suggested,
there followed this pertinent query:
well. would 1t make any difference to
you If there were two or three or half a
dozen defenses offered?
The talesman said it would not
1t has been reported time and again that
Thaw might rely upon the dual excuse of
temporary emotiona insanity and the ''un-
written law
Curious crowds continue to collect daily
about the criminal courts. building despite
the fact that they cannot get within one
hundred yards Of the court room in which
the trial ia henp held Thav Saen, tn he