Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-06
THE THAW TRIAL
Begun Again To-Day, But Uuder Different Conditions And a
 Change in Plea
INSANITY THE DEFENSE


 to-day for the second time faces a trial on a charge of wilful murder. After months of waiting in the Tombs the tedious work of securing a jury to try the young Pittsburger for the killing of Stanford White has been begun in the criminal branch of the supreme court, the same room in which Thaw sat daily for nearly 3 months during the previous trial. Compared with the former trial in- terest in New York is at a low ebb.
 The encouragement of the court room has materially lessened the number of seats for representatives of the press, but the demand for room for reporters has been consider ably less than at the former trial, and there will be no trouble in ac- commOdating all those who are en- titled to press seats in spite of the reduced accommodations. It is prob able that many tedious days will. be spent in securing jury for the trial of the case. During the previous trial thousands of columns of the evil dence were printed in practically every paper in New York and it is not likely that any case ever tried in New York attracted the amount of attention or caused widespread argu- ment that accompanied the first trial of Thaw It has already been decided that jurymen will be placed under lock and key from the moment they are chosen until they finally finish with the case and this will add to the difficulty of finding qualified jurymen who will be willing to serve in the case and who will not in some way be able to squirm out of that duty. It will not be a surprise to the attor- neys in the case if a month or more is consumed in securing the jury. District Attorney Jerome and Assist ant District Attorney Garven will again represent the people in the case while Martin w. Littleton, a well known Brooklyn attorney, will appear as Thaws chief counsel, replacing Dolphin Michael Delmas, the Califor- nia lawyer, who headed the defense's corps of lawyers at the former trial. r The prosecutions direct case will be brief.
 The actual killing will be proved and then the defense will have an opportunity to prove if it can, that Thaw was not mentally responsible when he fired the shot, which ended the life of Stanford White. It is said that the defense has subpoenaed {, fa.,n ,,,,.,,l,a, <,f n nGd;tiouol xyituocc- es for this trial but it is believed that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will still be the principal witness of the defense. That she will tell practically the same story as she told on the last trial Is probable. but it is rumored that the prosecution will cross examine her even more severely than was done at the other trial. Assistant District Attorney Garvan is said to have spent greater portion of his vacation in Europe last summer in going over the route of the trip through Europe made by Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit be- fore they were married and it is not impossible that he secured informa- tion there that may come out on the cross-examination.
 A special venire of 300 jurymen has. been summoned 100 of whom re- ported to-day. A second hundred will report tomorrow and the re- mainder on Wednesday.
 Thaw was called for trial at 11:21 and his counsel announced that his former plea of not guilty would be amended to read. that the defend ant was insane at time deed was committed" Mrs Evelyn Thaw, Mrs Carnegie and Josiah Thaw were present. Justice Darling announced that until further notice sessions would be held daily from 10:15 to 1. from to D. m. and from to 10 D. m. During the morning one juror was selected, Charles E. Grem- mels, ship broker.