The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-09
Six Men Sworn for Ser.
vice and Three Provis-
ional Ones Accepted.
DEFENSE TO CALL
EXPERTS OF STATE
Three Of the Specialists Who
Testified for the Prosecution in
Former Trial Now to Be
Put on for the Prisoner.
Mrs. ,l'haw Asleep
in Court.

NEW YORK, January s.-The work
OF securing Jury to try Harry X.
Thaw second time for killing Stan
ford White was half complete when
court adjourned shortly before s
o'clock tonight. The original venire
OF 300 special service Jurors had been
exhausted at that hour, and the Gus
tomary night sitting was not held.
Two hundred additional talesmen
have been ordered to report to-mor-
row morning.
The oath Of service was admins
tered to-day to three men, making six
in all who have been finally accepted.
Three provisional Jurors were also in
the box at the close of the days ses-
sions. Another series of these arbi-
trary removals reduced the panel
when all twelve seats had been filled
at o'clock, and six chairs were left
vacant when 1t was finished. The de-
mense has now exercised eleven OF it's
thirty challenges and the prosecution
eight. The sworn Jurors. In their re-.
lspective positions. are:
Charles z. Gremmels. ship broker,
foreman.
arthur Il. NaethinE. baker,,
George ". Carey, dry goods.
George c. Rupprecht. salesman.
John II. Holhert, mineral waters.
David z. Arrowsmith. manager.
Inc provisional Jurors are William
McAdie. salesman; George NJ. Afettz.
drugs. and James S. Davidson. clerk.
The plan of maintaining both perma.
nent and temporary Jurors in the trial
panel until twelve men have finally
been selected for service is UNIQUE in
the New York courts, and has i'm
posed double duty upon the guards,
who are directed nightly 10 keep the
sworn jurors and the provisional ones
separate.
Must Prove Ills Sanity.
In the selection of the Jury Martin
w LittIeton, Thaw.s senior counsel.
Is SO conducting his examination os
taiesnen as to impress upon them that,
should the defense introduce evidence
tending to show that Thaw was in
sane at the time of the Madison Square
Root Garden tragedy. the burden of
proof VIII fall upon the shoulders of
tne o1s.rict attorney, and he must
prove. beyond all reasonable doubt
t"a, al the defendant was legally sane.
Ihaw's attorneys to-day furnfsbed
admitting that several of the exnar,
witnesses who were retained by the
District Attorney for the first trial
and who declared that when Mr. ,Je.
rome made application for a lunaev
commission that. In their opinion.
.Thaw was so insane as not 10 know
the nature of the proceedings against
him. and. was entirely incapable OF
advising with his counsel.
are now under ssubpoenae by the de,
tense. They made affidavit that in
their opinion Thaw was suffering at
the time OF the inquiry from an in
durable form of insanity. These same
doctors, however. previously testified
on the witness stand, In response 10
Mr.. Jerome's hypothetical question that
they believed Thaw knew what he was
about when he killed Stanford White.
This move. 1t is said, is intended by
the defense to block the prosecutions
putting the doctors on the stand and
1t is taken as showing a deternllna-
ton to save Thaw from conviction
even with the danger of stay in. the
insane asylum as the alternative. The
alienists who were the mainstay OF
the prosecutor at the first trial were