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ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
MRS. MccoMAs, FOLLOWING LONG
ILLNESS, CUTS HER THROAT.

A hurry call was received at the Emer-
gency Hospital this morning about $50
O'Clock, and DR.. Sheep proceeded with the
ambulance to the residence of Edward NJ.
McComas, the druggist, 14O6 L street. He
found that Mrs. Florence A. McComas,
wife of the druggist, had attempted sui
eide by cutting her throat with a razor.
DR.. Hobart S. Dye, who has an office in
the McComas house, happened to be in his
office when the wounded woman was
found lying upon the floor of the bath room
and he was able to give her temporary
treatment before she was taken to the
hospital.
Mrs. McComas had used the weapon with
telling effect, making an ugly cash from
ear to ear. The windpipe was severed, but
the blade Of the razor had missed the
jugular vein. When DR.. Dye reached her
she was gasping for breath ana 1t was
feared that she would die before the hos
pital was reached. The physician was able
to stop the flow Of blood, however and
she was cared for so well that she was in
a fairly good condition when she reached
the hospital and the attending surgeons
think she may recover
1t is stated that Mrs. McComas suffered
an attack of typhoid fever and was con-
fined to her bed for about three months.
She was warned by her physician and
nurse that she would have to keep quiet
and take good care of herself for long
time, but she was not content to remain
quiet, for shortly after the nurse was dis
charged she resumed her household duties
Too Much of Task.
The work proved too much of a task for
her, and her physical and mental condition
indicated that she might suffer relapse
She had become nervous wreck, it Is ex-
planned, her strength not being sufficient
to assist her in warding off nervousness
Her husband never suspected, however,
that she had any idea of ending her life
and he was greatly shocked this morning
when he realized what she had done.
To DR.. Sheep Of the Emergency Hospital
Mrs. McComas said: There's no use Of
my living; 1 want to die
Drs Vaughn, Dye and Sheep took charge
OF the patient at the hospital. She was
placed upon the operating table as soon as
the institution was reached, and the terri
BILE wound in her throat was closed. Later
she was sent to a ward, where she will
probably remain for several days.
Mr.. McComas was formerly in the drug
business at 14th and l. streets, but he is
now in business at 18th and H streets. He
Is from Hagerstown, Md, having come to
this city number Of years ago.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February with twelve
men selected to try Harry X. Thaw for the
killing of Stanford White, and the prospect
that the presentation of the case by the dis
trict attorney will be even briefer than had
been expected, the lawyers for the defense
were busy today rounding up all the mass
OF evidence that is to be presented for the
prisoner Just before court closed yester-
day Mr.. Jerome announced that the pros
ecution would probably open and close at
the first session on Monday. 1t is planned
TO call an initial witness. and then Mir
Caravan will lay the peoples case before the
Jury in very short address
Following this will come the witnesses to
the shooting on the Madison Square roof
garden on the nigh; Of June -. They will
take no more time to ;ell their stories than
was consumed at the coroner's inquest. ex-
cept that the defense may cross-examine
10 greater extent The length of time
that the district attorney will take in rebuff
tai depends entirely on the evidence sub
mitteG by the defense.
Even after the selection OF the full jury
there were still rumors that it might not
be allowed TO stand at present composed,
and some color was lent to tails rumor from
the fact that the jury WAS not sworn as a
body last evening. and Abe talesmen who
had not been examined wire told to return
on Monday.
The jurors are a sU0staniial-looking lot
of men. Most of them are bordering on
middle age, and three are under forty.
Nearly all of thea have served in criminal
cases before, hut only two have sat in the
box at trials where the prisoners were
charged with capital crimes.
AL. Jurors Married.
All are married. Two of the Jurors are
retired. The others are In active business.
During the long examination of the last
men who were to take seats beside them.
the men already in the box, for L.. most
part, kept their eyes on the talesmen In
hand and made no comment to fellow men,
bers.
In the calling of talesmen 1t was no.
ticed that a great percentage of them were
engaged in the real estate business. For
a day or two the insurance men had the
call, but soon they fell far in the minority.
1t was remarked, too. with some surprise
that a largo number of talesmen announced
themselves as retired from business. Al
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Who will probably be witness In the Thaw case
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family and his attorneys were delighted
with the jury. Mr.. Peabody of counsel for
Thaw said: Harry Thaw is delighted with
the men who have been selected to try him.
So are his relatives and all those who will
defend him.
Mr.. Peabody was asked about a statement
that Thaw was said to have made last night
through his counsel Clifford w. Hartridge
Thaw was made to say in this statement:
81 shall certainly take the witness stand In
my own defense. / have absolute belief
that i shall be acquitted and that it will be
proved beyond a doubt that l was justified
l will gladly place my fate in the hands of
this jury. l fear neither death nor the mad
house, for know that l shall go free"
With reference to this, Mr.. Peabody said ::
Il am absolutely sure that Thaw made no
such statement / was with Mr. Hartridge
until late last night and nothing about any
such statement was said. / am sure that
Thaw did not make it. Mr.. Hartridge will
not be down to his Office until late in the
day, but / feel that l can say for him
that the statement did not come through
him..
note was sent to Harry Thaw in the
Tombs this morning asking IL he had made
Continued on Second Paee.l
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AFTER A LONG ILLNESS.
Death of Representative Flack at
Malone, N. Y.

MALONE, N. Y, February 2.-William H.
Flack, representing the ST. Lawrence
Franklin, Clinton, Essex district, died at
his home in this village after a long ILL
ness today. He had been unable to attend
the present session of Congress. Mr. Flack
was serving his second term in Congress-
He had lived for nine years in Malone
coming here from ST. Regis Falls. He was
chairman of the Franklin county republican
committee
William Henry Flack was born at Frank
lin Falls, Franklin county, N. Y, March
%, 1861. He was educated in the public
schools, and later became interested in the
numbering and tanning business. He took
an interest in public affairs early in life,
and was elected supervisor Of the town of
Waverly for seven years and chairman of
the board for two years. In 1897 he was
elected county clerk of FRANKLIN county,
and reelected in 1900. In politics he was a
republican, and was honored by his party
with the Craftsmanship of the republican
county committee from 1898 to 1902. He
served as trustee of the village of Malone
and was elected president of that village in
1902. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth
Congress and reelected to the Fifty-ninth.
October Z, 1852. he was married to Kath-
crime NJ Lynch, and two sons, Daniel w.
and William H. Flack were born.
Representative Knapp Of New York, when
the river and harbor appropriation bill was
laid aside today in the House for the pur-
pose of listening to eulogies on the life,
character and public services of the late
senator from Maryland, Arthur Pue Cor
man, called the attention OF the body to
the death of his colleague. William H.
Flack of the twenty-sixth New York dis
trict, and presented resolutions directing
the Speaker to appoint a committee of
fifteen members to attend the funeral and
that the sergeant-at-arms arrange for their
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THAW JURY MADE
OF GOOD TIMBER
All the Men in the Body Are
Representative of Bust
ness interests.
Defendant IS IMPATIENT
~e is Anxious 0stensibly to Have
His Fate Soon Decided by -
His Peers.
MAY BE SOME JURY CHANGES
Fear That the Body Will Not Be Per-
mitted to Remain Intact
Character of the Talesmen-
Few Are Liquor Men.
MAY BE SOME JURY CHANGES
Thaw Jury Complete.

NO. 1-DEMING B. SMITH, retired
manufacturer of umbrellas, who
lives at 253 West 111th street. He
is married, and about fifty years
old
dealer. 100 Center street. He lives
at CIT West 13Sth street, is mar
ried, and is about forty years old.
NO. 3-CHARLES H. FECKE, man
ager of one department of the
Cunard line. He lives on 135th
street and is about forty-ive years
old
NO. 4-OSCAR A. PINK, forty-five
years old. a salesman for hay
and grain house: lives at Al West
145th street. He is married, and
once served as juror in a capital
case.
NO. 5-HENRY C. HARVEY, man.
ager of piano warehouse; lives
on Brook avenue and 1920 street;
he is well toward sixty years old.
NO6-HARRY C. BREALEY, thirty
five years, an advertising agent,
with an office at II State street,
fifth street: he is married.
NO. 7-MALCOLM +. FRASER, a
clothing salesman, of ~ West 12Sth
street; he is about thirty-eight
years old, and is married.
NO. S-CHARLES D. NEWTON, a
retired railway employe in a cleri-
cal department; he is about sixty
years old, lives at 266 West bath
street, is married, and is a brother
of Gen. Newton. the United States
army engineer, who superintended
the blasting of the He'll Gate
passage in the East river.
NO. 9-WILBUR F. STEELE. a
manufacturer of gas fixtures; he
is about fifty years old; lives at
800 West 13lst street, and is mar
ried.
NO. 1O-JOHN S. DENNEE, travel
ing agent for the Southern rail-
road. Mr.. Dennee has an office at
pal Broadway, lives at 217 East
33d street, and is married.
NO. 11-JOSEPH II. BOLTON, about
fifty years old, of 1887 Boston road,
clerk in a dyeing establishment.
NO. 12-BERNARD GERSTMAN,
manager for the Girard Company,
at 346 Broadway; he is married.
about thirty-two years old, and
lives at 40 East 3Sth street.
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ELEVEN PASSENGERS HURT.
Train Crashes Into Engine Near Cone
maugh, Pa.

JAMESTOWN, Pa, February 2.-While
the first section of train % Manhattan
limited was speeding east over the Penn
sylvania railroad early today it ran into
an empty engine near Conemaugh. Eleven
passengers asleep in their berths were in
jured and four trainmen were hurt. The
injured passengers. all of whom suffered
sprain of either neck or back or both, ow-
ing to the sudden stop of the train, which
threw them against the end of the berths,
are as follows:
William p Henry, New York; T. F. Mar
tin, Washington, d. c.; C. H. North, Cleve-
land; w. F. Newbert, Chicago; w. E.
Webb, tr, New York; Elenora Borworth,
Crestline Ohio: ]. r. Stout, Princeton, N.
j.: Mr. and Mrs. A L. Abraham. Duluth.
Mimi; j. Ulman, Philadelphia; John
Weaver, New York.
The trainmen hurt were Engineers Bond
and George and Firemen Mckee and Will
Jams. They were removed to the hospital.
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AT THE WHITE HOUSE
AMENDMENTS TO THE
DENATURED ALCOHOL BILL.

Representatives Hill and Marshall dis
cussed with the President today the amend
ments that are desired to perfect the de-
natured alcohol bill passed at the last ses-
sion. The President showed himself In SYM
pathy with the demand for some changes
in the present law, and expressed the hope
that Congress would enact the legislation
which experience has shown Is necessary.
The existing law and regulations do not
give the farmer the chance to manufacture
alcohol. that was originally intended. They
really throw the business into the hands of
capitalists or persons having capital Of sew
eral thousands of dollars. The amendments
1t Is proposed to make will enable the
farmer, on capital of a few hundred dol
lars, to establish his own plant and make
alcohol for his own use as we'll as for sale.
The German farmers have their own plants
using their own potatoes, and are not de-
pending upon combinations and corpora
lions for their supplies.
Invited to Attend Local Function.
Invitations to attend local functions were
extended to the President today by two
delegations. Rev. Zed H. Copp, Mrs. Clin-
ton Smith and John r. Maloney asked the
President to attend the mass meeting to he
held In the interest of temperance and
moral reform Sunday afternoon, February
10, at o'clock. in the Belasco Theater.
The President said he could not 20. but
would write letter.
The President was also invited to attend
the fortleth anniversary exercises of How
ard University and the Inauguration Of
President Wilbur P. Thirkield April q He
was not able to accept. The invitation was
extended Justice Peelle of the Court of
Appeals, Justice Barnard of the Supreme
Court Of the District and President Thir-
kield, members Of the board Of trustees.
Collector at Kansas City.
Senator Warner has recommended the
nomination of Charles G. Burton as COL
lector of internal revenue at Kansas CITY.
Mo-, to succeed Charles w. Roberts, who
was filling out the unexpired term of his
late brother. Senator Warner saw the
President today in connection with the posi-
ton.
Representative Babcock saw the President
today and among other things mentioned
the fact that 1t was expected that the
House would today pass the tuberculosis
bill. This is one Of the measures in which
the President is much interested.
Simon Guggenheim, the newly-elected
sen senator . from Colorado paid his respects to
be the smallest man in the Senate in stat
ure.
Regretted He Could Not Accept.
President Roosevelt was today invited by
a committee Of the Pennsylvania Society of
the order Of Founders and Patriots of
America to attend the banquet of the meet
ing of the General Court of that organiza-
ton in Philadelphia on the 18th of May. Ad-
miral George Dewey, the governor-general
of the order, headed the committee which
also included Rev. Charles Wadsworth jr.,
George B. Woodman, Charles w. Sparhawk
L.
The President regretted that he could not
accept the invitation.
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though they appeared hardly beyond mid
die age, and seemed good for at least TWEEN
ty years to come.
OF the 366 talesmen who were examined
not a half-dozen were in the liquor busi-
ness. good many were artists or archi-
tects or in some business bordering on
these callings. Invariably these men were
excused. There was only one undertaken
called, and he was excused as soon as his
business was announced and before he had
taken the oath.
A New Witness.
So far as known, the only new witness
that will be called as to the shooting will
be Halsey Warren. a Herkimer county
man. who was on the roof garden on the
night of the shooting, and, according to
his own story, sat at~the' table adjoining
the one where Stanford White was shot
The other witnesses will be employees of the
roof garden, the manager of the musical
production that was being presented. the
fireman who first accosted Thaw after the
shots were fired and took the revolver away
from him. the policeman who made the ar
rest and one or two others.
That the defense will be that Thaw shot
White while he was suffering from emo
tional insanity there seems to be no doubt.
In the last days of the examination of the
talesmen no reference was made to the
'unwritten law or the higher law" al
though Mr.. Jerome referred to it almost
constantly during the examinations of the
first men who took the witness chair. From
a question asked yesterday by Mr.. Glea-
son, for the defense, it looked as if Thaw's
lawyers would offer testimony to show that
Thaw might have been insane at the time
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Col. Geo. E. Pond to Be Retired,

At the expiration of his present leave Of
absence Col. George E. Pond, assistant
quartermaster general, recently stationed at
the War Department will be placed on the
retired list at his own request with the
rank of brigadier general. He is from
Connecticut and served as a private in the
21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during
the civil war. He was graduated from the
attached to the cavalry arm until October,
1883, when he was transferred to the quar-
termaster's department. He has held the
rank of colonel since January, 1904.
His retirement will promote to the next
higher grade Lieut.. Col. james w. Pope
Mai. ]. b. Bellinger and Capt Thomas
SWobe.
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Who will be witness for Thaw.
photo by Underwood & Underwood, New York;
he shot White and then place the burden
of proving that he was sane upon the dis
trict attorney. Mr.. Gleason's question was:
IF the court should charge you, after the
defense had submitted testimony to prove
insanity at the time of the act, that the
prosecution must prove beyond a reason
able doubt that the defendant was sane at
the time, would you accept the courts
charger.
This question, which had evidently been
prepared with some care and which was
read from a notebook, was objected to i'm
mediately by Mr.. jerome and was over
ruled, but it left little doubt as to the line
of the defense.
This question, which had evidently been
prepared with some care and which was
read from a notebook. was objected to i'm
medately by Mr.. Jerome. and was over
ruled, but 1t left little doubt as to the line
| of the defense.
Thaw's Lawyers Reticent.
Thaw's lawyers have been reticent all
along as to what part any of them may
| take at the actual trial. 1t has been said
that Dolphin Michael Delmas of California
would do most of the examining of wit
| nesses and that he would sum up for the
defense. Mr.. Delmas came here heralded
| by a record of successes in criminal cases
and by a reputation as an effective orator
before a jury. He has not said word in
open court yet, and there was good deal
of speculation today as to how he wou-.
show up when it came his turn.
1t was declared by counsel for the defense
this morning that Thaw, the members of his
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JAPANESE BONDS DECLINE.
Rumors of Trouble With America Az
feet Berlin Market.

BERLIN, February 2.-The Vossische
Zeitung's boerse report today says:
Prices on the boerse today were depressed
on account of the dispute which has arisen
between the United States and Japan. which
is regarded here and in London as being
very serious. The lower quotations of Jap
anese bonds In London caused similar de-
cline In Berlin.
japanese AZ per cents fell over three
quarters of a point. but recovered partly
after the olose Of the boerse.
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transportation to and from the home of the
deceased in Malone, N. Y, and at the close
or the exercises attendant upon the eulo-
gies to the late Senator German that the
House adjourn.
The Speaker appointed the following
members OF the committee: Messrs. Sher-
man, Littauer, Knapp, Draper, Driscoll,
Fassett, Dwight, Ryan, Fitzgerald and
Goulden of New York. Grosvenor of Ohio,
Minor of Wisconsin, Watson of Indiana
lowell of New Jersey and Reynolds of
Pennsylvania.
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Retirement of Chaplain Steward.

Chaplain Theophilus G. Steward, 25th In
fantry, has been ordered to proceed to his
home at Wilberforce. Ohio, and there await
retirement "for the convenience of the gov
eminent"
Chaplain Steward was born in New Jer-
sey In April, 1S43. and was appointed from
the District Of Columbia chaplain of the
25th Infantry in July, 1891. He is a grad
uate of the West Philadelphia (Pa-) Divinity
School, and will reach the statutory retiring
age next April. He has the rank of captain.
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Inventor Edison Not Ill.

NEW YORK, February Enquiry at the
home of Thomas A. Edison in Orange. N.
j., today ELECTED denial of the reports in
circulation that Mr.. Edison is In bad
health. 1t was also denied that Mr.. Edison
had gone to Atlantic City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-02
Marines Going to Cuba.

Gen. Elliott, commandant of the Marine
Corps, has arranged for the transportation
of 200 marines to Cuba by the first avail
able transport sailing from Newport News,
to take the places of an equal number of
short-term marines who are to be brought
home.
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Regretted He Could Not Accept.
One Killed; Six Injured.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, February 2-One
person was killed and six injured near Lin
ton today by the explosion Of a ton of DOW
der and thousand pounds Of dynamite.
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Bridge Across tho Missouri.

The Senate today passed a bill authorizing
the Interstate Bridge and Terminal Railway
Company Of Kansas City, Kan, to con-
struct bridge across the Missouri river.
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WHITES DEATH REGRETTED.
Suicide Of Young Student Casts
Gloom Over School.

Special Dispatch to The Star
LOS ANGELES, Cal, February 2.-The
suicide Of young Andrew D. White, the
grandson Of Andrew D. White, former am
bassador to Germany, has cast a gloom
over Thatcher School, at Nardhoff, where
White was a student and where he was
very popular. The only reason that his
fellow-students can give for his act is that
he was working extremely hard to prepare
for his examination for Yale University,
where he hoped to enter next year. and
that overstudy unbalanced his mind.
Young White shot himself in his room at
Thatcher School yesterday afternoon. AS
one of the instructors In the school was
passing the boys door he heard two sharp
reports. He forced the door open and
found White unconscious, with two bullet
wounds in his head. White was rushed
here on special train. but died on the
way.
The boys mother. Mrs. Frederick D.
White, lives in Syracuse, N. Y. His father
committed suicide in 1900. Young White
was only nineteen years old, and was re-
garded as one of the cleverest students at
Thatcher School
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Special Dispatch to The Star.

SYRACUSE, N. Y. February 2.-Post-
master D. H. Bruce, his grandfather and
Mrs F. D. White, mother of young Andrew
D. White, who committed suicide in Cali
fornia yesterday, decline to speak of the
young mans act. He was a serious minded
fellow, but not given to melancholia, and
while of delicate health had vastly i'm
proved under the California climate Miss
Lola and Miss Jessica Bruce, aunts of the
young man, are both in Los Angeles. Wide
sympathy is felt here for Andrew d. White.
The boy was his favorite grandson.
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