The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-01-09
Woman Who introduced Eve
Iyn to Stanford White, Tears
Up the Subpoena Sent Her,
Indicating Her Wrath.
FAMILY IGNORES EVELYN.
tF THE YOUNG WOMAN NOTICES
1T HOWEVER. SHE DOES NOT IN
DICATE THE SLIGHT BY HER AC-
TjONS IN THE COURT ROOM.

Ne" 1 OEh, jan. III lilt llttH
irial the examination OF talesmcn con-
1inued this morning. Not alone do
the ideas Of Thaw and his counsel pr
vail in selecting the jurors. In pass
ing each juror Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
signals whether he shall be accepted
or not With six accepted jurors AMI
three tentative ones in the box, Frank
Manning, an insurance broker and
Chas. II. Thurstou was accepted this
morning. The counsel for the defense
has announced that Edna Goodrich.
who it is said introduced Evelyn Thaw
to Stanford White. made herself liable
To court by destroying the subpOenea.
Miss Goodrich is Nat Goodwin'S lead
ing lady.
The jury as il stands is made up as
Follows:
/. Charles f. Gremmels. ship bro
Her, foreman.
- Arthur r. NacthinG. baker.
3. George w. Cary, dry goods mer-
chant. ----
- 4. George c. Rupprecht. salesman.
j. John II. Holbert, mineral water
dealer.
s: David f. Arrowsmith, manager
carpet cleaning company.
:. Frank Manning, insurance bro
ker.
2. Chas. II. Thurston. bOokkeeper.
The provisional jurors are William
y, I
drugs: and James S. Davidson. clerk.
In all $50 talesmen have been exam
ined so far. Eighty talesmeu were
examined yesterday both Mr.. eJrome
and Mr.. Littleton using all possible
speed in questioning them The We
nire Of 100 talesmen drawn for today
was exhausted at q o'clock SO tht> e
was no night session. This pleased
everybody, especially the lawyers. who
were tired Another panel of 100
talesmen was drawn for today
Defense Furnishes Surprise.
Thaw's attorneys today furnished
the first big surprise of this trial by adj
mitting that several of the expert wit
nesses who were retained by the dis
trict attorney for the first trial and
who declared. when Mr. Jerome made
application for a lunacy commission,
that in their opinion Thaw was so in
sane as not to know the nature of the
proceedings against him and was ell
tirely incapable of iutelligently advis
ing with his counsel are now under
subpoena by the defense.
Tbey affidavit in nnio.
ion Thaw was suffering at the time OF
the inquiry from an incurable form OF
insanity. These same doctors, how
Yer. previously testified on the witness
stand, in response to Mr., Jerome's
famous hypothetical question. that
they knew what he was about when ht
shot and killed Stanford White. This
move, 1t is said. is intended by the de
Tense to block the prosecutions put
ting the doctors on the stand, and it Is
taken by some as showing a determi
even with the danger OF stay in the
asylum for the crimina! insane at Mat
teawan as the alternative,
Counsers Task Is Delicate.
The defense in the present trial is in
sanity at the time White was killed. II
maxim gOut its case the defense viii
need TO exercise delicate handling o
il to show that Thaw was so derange,
mt that time As not to know the natur,
or quality of his act and to show u
the same time that he is now mentall,
sound
II they are placed on the stand. Mr.
Littleton may draw from the thre,
physicians the opinion that Thaw wa
also insane at the time of the homi
eide, and then endeavor to limit all ties
timOny as to the defendants menta
condition to the Immediate period O
the tragedy. If successful in this, III,
defense would force a trial of the cas-
strictly on the ground of Thaw's men
tai condition in the summer of 1906.
This, in turn. would force Distric
Attorney jerome again to apply for
lunacy commission. and should this oC
cur. Thaw's attorneys are confident o
his ability TO successfully establish hi
claim of present sanity before such
board.
Thsw's Family Ignores Wife
Il is noticeable that members of III,