Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-07
Twelve Men to Try Harry Thaw
| For Second Time Will Be
Accepted Soon
CHALLENGES ARE RESERVED
Conditional Jurors Accepted While
Agents Conduct Private Probe
Two Of Those Accepted Monday Ex-
eused From Service - Places Soon
sd-Prosrsss Today.

ors in the box, all being subject to
challenge, and with new
panel OF 100 talesmen to draw from.
the Thaw trial was resumed today.
Thaw was not called to the bar until
the roll Of the new panel was called.
Absentees were noted and fined $3.50
Eighty members Of the, new panel
were present.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was not In the
court room when the proceedings be-
gan. Josiah Thaw being the only
member OF defendants family present.
IAs soon as Thaw had taken his place,
the work OF filing the jury box was
taken up. with District Attorney Jer-
ONE again conducting the examina-
2tions for the people.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw came in while
the first talesman was being examined,
she Ii ruddy checked and appears in
the best OF healtha sharp contrast to
her husband, who is thinner and more
pallid than last year. The first six
men called for service were all dis
nualified WilliamD. Roberts, secre-
cary Of . signal concern, was selected
as juror No. 10.
Two Of the provisional jurors select-
ga In the Thaw case ware excused by
consent shortly before this mornings
session ended. leaving eight men in the.
box
Charles G. Goss, an accountant, was
selected as q juror, making nine men
In the box.
Look Up Jurors Records.
Indication Of the early beginning OF
evidence in the celebrated case, for an
was reached between Dis
trict Attorney Jerome and Martin w.
Littleton. chief counsel for the accused.
that as the jurors were selected they
should be put in the box without either
side using its peremptory challenges
until the entire twelve had been cho-
sen.
Each side has thirty peremptory
challenges, making sixty all told, and
this means that at least five juries can
be selected, put in the box, and thrown
out by the use Of these challenges.
The arrangement will mean more
than speed, for as the men are selected
and put aside, locked In their hotel and
guarded, the prospective jurymen will
ibe subjected to careful investigation
BY the detectives of the district attor-
news office, and perhaps by represen-
tatives Of the counsel for the defense.
1t will practically assure the state OF
= safe jury, one in which absolute
reliance may be had for q fair verdict,
for wherever there, should be found
grounds for suspicion against any
man chosen by either side, the per-
emptory challenges will remove him
before the actual trial Of the case be-
gins.
While the dull work of examining
talesmen is going on In the criminal
courts building: men will be securing
the city investigating the modes OF ex-
istence Of each and every man held
prisoner as prospective juror.
Examinations Are Short.
AZ on yesterday, Justice Dowiing
frequently took hand in questioning
the talesmen, his Interrogation usually,
bringing the examinations to an abb
ript conclusion. The Judge is not par
tiai to long arguments among counsel.
His Interruptions and suggestions car
~ the impression of frmness. but al
ways are in the best Of humor. Little
ton IS thorough in his examinations,
prob. q into the innermost thoughts
and t.iefs Of the talesnlen. One of the
auesti as asked most Of the talesmen.
was u at the newspaper purported.
accoun.s of the previous trial they had
read.
Assistant District Attorney Garven
relieved Jerome in con-
Quoting the preliminary examination
Of talesmen. During the first two
hours Of the morning session sixteen
talesmen had been examined and only
one conditionally accepted. During
the examination of Charles G. Goss.
auditor and accountant, Jerome asked
for the first time during this trial:
.Hace you any ideas of your own
as to a higher law or irresistible I'M
pulse, or anything Of that sort" Goss
replied In the negative and was ac-
cepted as provisional juror.
One Of the jurors created some-
thing OF a sensation as the afternoon
session opened, by announcing that he
had lost gold watch and chain val
ned at $50, since coming to court.
Mrs. George L. Carnegie, Thaw's sis
ter, came downtown In driving rain
to b present at the afternoon sitting.
Withih fifteen minutes after Justice
Dowling had resumed his place on the
bench, eight talesmen had been dis
posed Of They all had opinions which
no evidence could change.
REoPENs OLD SCANDAL.