Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-11
co over EVIDENCE
Attorneys in Thaw Case Take
Day Off Before Beginning
of Trial Proper.
Jury FINALLY COMPLETED
Rieidly Guarded and Will Be Kept So
Till End of the
Trial.

New York, Jan. 11.-Attorneys in the
Thaw trial are taking day off today
and going over their testimony for the
last time before the actual trial of the
case begins. Monday morning the trial
proper will be opened with brief ad-
dress by Assistant District Attorney
Garvin, and then the peoples case will
be put in.
Case VIII he Brief.
The case will be brief. The killing
viii be proved and evidence will be
introduced to show the shot which
killed White was fired by Harry X.
Thaw. 1t is not likely more than two
or three hours will be required. Then
the prosecutions direct case will be
closed and the defense will begin.
No Freedom for Jury.
The jury completed yesterday will
however, spend today and tomorrow
and all the other days until the case
is finally completed under close guard
The jurors may be taken for drives,
and they nay be allowed to walk
laround a little, but all the time they
will be in the custody of a battalion of
court officers, and will not be allowed
TO receive visitors. although they be
even members of their own fami.
lies except in the presence of bailiffs
Mail All Censored.
Their mail will all be read before
they are allowed to see it, and they
can only read the newspapers after
, the head bailiff has carefully cut from
them every reference to the trial. They
Will be even more closely guarded
than Thaw himself
- Jury Is Completed.
New York. Jan. 11.-The jury which
Is TO decide the question whether o,
not Harry X. Thaw was guilty of mur
der when he shot and killed Stanford
White on the roof of Madison Square
garden on the night of June 25, 1906
was selected yesterday. The 12tt
juror was agreed upon at O'Clock
! after a day ~iss-saslaichpli aprovfsfoffa
Jurors were nut i'll the box and six o
them knocked out. This is the jury
) selected TO hear the testimony ir
Thaw's second trial:
Charles E. Gremmels. shipping
lFifty-ffth street.
> Arthur A. Naethins, baker, 1872;
Seventh avenue
George w. Cary, dry goods mer
II lchant. living at Hotel Churchill.
George C. Rupprecht. grocery sales
man. 406 West One Hundred and For
lty-ninth street.
II John H. Holbert, president Chemun:
| Water company. living at 126 Yves
III Thirty-sixth street.
e David A. Arrowsmith. Jr., presiden
20 Harlem Carpet Cleaning company, liz
N ing at 517 West One Hundred am
Thirty-siXth street.
> William H. McHugh, clerk 165
Madison avenue.
st William F. Doolittle. auditor for tn
|, New York Centra! railroad, living a
A. 557 West One Hundred and Forty
IN eighth street.
" Frank J. Howell president Nationa
ne Drill Manufacturing company. livin
~, at 325 West .Eighty-third street.
le William Bhrck, assistant secretar
~ of J 1ung Mems Christian association
til Hives at Bowery branch.
nj Francis Dovale real estate dealt
in lof 2137 Seventh avenue.
ot James A. Hooper, butcher. 275
Broadway.
- Con-ratulates Attorneys.
1t took eight days to get the jun
for the first trial and five days tn
time. but the court sessions wei
lmuch longer. When the 10Th jur,
p was taken Justice Dowling congra
p ulated the lawyers on the rapid ma
II ner in which they had worked.
lgetting the jury S72 talesmen We're e
no Iamined At the first trial 336 tale
ad lmen were questioned. The prosec
:, ltion used up 10 peremptory challeng
,r land the defense 23.
A glance at the jury shows. wi
ho the exception of the foreman, n
- Gremmels. and Mr. Arrowsmith, J
- the sixth juror, that they all are mi
l die aged men or over. They all ha
- been married District Attorney j.
ONE and Mr.. Littleton, Thaw's COZ
lsel. say they could not have expect
10 get a better body of men. One
vas the lawyers for the defense said th
On Thaw took part in the selection
- each juror.
ing EOPOlD IS NOT SEEKING