Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-06
ONE JUROR CHOSEN
FOR THAW'S TRIAL
Work May Occupy Nearly a
Whole Month.
APPEARANCE OF PRISONER
Three Hundred Men Summonded in
the Special venire.
WOMEN SPECTATORS BARRED
Evelyn Nesbit, as Before, Expected
to Be the Principal Witness
for the Defense.
WOMEN SPECTATORS BARRED

Harry K. Thaw today, for the
second time. faces a trial on a
charge OF willful murder. After
months of waiting in the Tombs
the work of securing jury to try
the young Pittsburger for the kill
ing of Stanford White has been
begun in the criminal branch of
the supreme court, the same room
in which Thaw sat daily for near
1y three months during the pre-
vious trial. During that trial
thousands of columns of the evi-
dence were printed in practically
every paper in New York, and it is
not likely that any case every tried
in New York attracted the amount
of attention or caused the wide
spread argument that accom-
panied the first trial of Thaw. 1t
has already been decided, that
lurymen will be placed under lock
and key from the moment they
are chosen until they finally fin
ish the case, and this will add TO
the difficulty in finding qualified
jurymen who will not in some
way be able to squirm out of that
duty. 1t will not be surprise to
the attorneys in the case if
month or more is consumed in Sc
curing the jury.
NEW YORK, January 6.-The usual Gu
rious crowds were gathered about the
criminal courts building this morning in
the hope ofNcatchins a glimpse of Harry
Thaw as he crossed the bridge of sighs
on the first day of his second trial. In
the corridors of the courthouse there was
also throng Of several hundred persons
who had come to witness the opening
scenes of this hew rehearsal of an old
story. A squad Of fifty policemen kept the
passSFeyays clear. The arrangements
werei@ay) bettet than at the first trial,
when ffe crush to get into the courtroom
amountef practically to a riot. The word
th<BofAen we're to be barred had been
. Giysnuuf and there were none but news
paper writer's on hand today. Last year at
Athe besinn,aS- Of the trial women predom-
mated -Rthe courtroom and 1t was their
Asistence which caused much of the dis
ofer of the opening day.
EvelynsNesbit Again.
u1strict Attorney Jerome and Assistant
resent the people in the case, while Mar
Tin W. Littleton, well-known Brooklyn
Attorney. viii appear as Thaw's chief
counsel, replacing Delmas, the California
lawyor. who headed the defenses corps
of Ia1yreD at the former trial.
The pfosecution's direct case will be
brief
The actual killing will be proved and
then the defense will have an opportunity
to prove, IL it can, that Thaw was not
mentally responsible when he fired the
shot which ended the life Of Stanford
White. 1t is said that the defense has
Subpenaed large number of additional
witnesses for this trial. but it is believed
that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will still be
the principal witness for the defense.
Assistant District Attorney Garvan is
said to have spent greater portion of
his vacation in Europe last SKINNER in
going over the route of the trip through
Europe made by Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit
before they were married, and II is not
impossible that he secured information
there that may come out on the cross-ex.
animation.
Thaw Sees Lawyers.
special venire of 300 jurymen has
of
today. A second 100 will report tomor-
row and the remainder on Wednesday.
Before the Thaw case was reached to-
~ Justice Dowling. who Is presiding.
6s called upon to charge the January
grand jury and to attend to the other
formalities of the new term. The Judge
arrived at the court building at 1O:225 a M.
and the days session was formally opened
a few minutes later.
Thaw was visited today by members
of his counsel in the Tombs prison. He
was elated over the fact that the day of
his new trial. SO long awaited, had at
last arrived.
Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie his sis.
ter. and Josiah Thaw, one of his brothers.
also called on the defendant and brought
him message OF greeting from his
in Pittsburg to come on for the trial
II was the first time In several months
that Thaw had seen his sister and brother
and his greetings were affectionate.
Plea of Insanity.
Mrs. Harry X Thaw went direct from
her hotel to the courthouse.
There were the usual number of rumors
about the courthouse todaN one of them
being that the first 100 n4Ines had been
stricken from the special jury panel Of
200 on account of the publicity given to
their selection. Clerk of the Court Penny
said there was no truth In the report
One hundred tslesmen are under orders
to report on each of the first three
days of the trial.
Thaw was called to the bar at lI:2I
o'clock. His appearance showed little
or no change from last year.
As soon as Thaw appeared his chief
counsel. Martin W. Littleton. announced
that the former plea of not guilty. en-
tered BY his client. would be amended to