Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-07
NINE JURORS
ARE SELECTED
TENTA lively
EVELYN NESBIT is AGAIN CEN
TER OF INTEREST
INSANITY AT TIME OF SHOOTING
TO BE DEFENSE
Trial Panel VIII Be CHARTERED at a
Fashionable HoteI-Prisoner En-
joys Being Out of Cell
at Night

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-At the close of
three court sessions which marked this
the first day of the second trial of Harry
X. Thaw for the alleged murder of Stan
ford White, nine tentative jurors had
been selected out of fifty-seven talesmen
examined by District Attorney Jerome
for the prosecution and Martin w. Lit
tleton for the defense.
All of the men in the jury box are
subject to peremptory challenges, Of
which each side has thirty
In view of the difficulty experienced
last year in discharging five jurors after
they had taken the oath of service it
Was agreed this time not to administer
any oaths until both sides are satisfied
with the panel
Legal insanity at the time of the trag-
edy is TO be the sole defense This was
made clear at the very outset of the
proceedings today, when Mr.. Littleton
formally served notice that the former
plea of not guilty was amended by the
specification that the defendant was in
sane when the homicide was committed.
Nine in Jury Box
The occupants of the jury box at the
conclusion of ale session were the fol-
lowing:
1-Charles E. Gremmels, Ship broker.
2-John r. Hatchett, cigar dealer.
3-George B. Morewood, importer.
4-Floyd s. Sanford, bank manager.
5--James e. Conway, hotel keeper
civilian e. Brewer, decorator.
7-Arthur AS Naething baker.
S-MaurIce Bouvier, exporter
9-George w. Cary, dry goods dealer
or the above men it was generally pre-
dicted that Mr.. Gremmels would be chal-
lenged by the state. He declared he had
Scruples against capital punishment but
could lay them aside if sworn as Juror
Mereweod entertains certain apinians
with regaru to expert medical testimony
and probably will go out ON challenges
from the Defense
Sanford may also be excused for he
confessed to an opinion regarding the
truth of certain important testimony at
the first trial
Conway. who said he read the evidence
presented year ago without gaining
any particular opinion from 1t may be
made the subject of a challenge from Mr.
Jerome.
Hatchett and Naething appear like fix
lures.
Bouvier who has slight prejudices
against defenses of insanity, probably
will not be retained.
The trial opened with little or no cere-
Hiouy. ne only women allowed to be
present are members of the defendants
family and newspaper writer's.
Mrs. ThaW Center of Interest
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was again the CEN
ter of interest, even to the exclusion of
the defendant himself. She was fol-
lowed by tnrongs of curious persons as
she entered and left the court house
for the morning and afternoon sessions.
Every possible convenience is to be
provided for the jurors who are to be
locked up throughout the trial. They
are to be quartered in one of the fash
ionable hotels on upper Broadway ana
luncheon is to be served at an expensive
downtown restaurant.
Josiah Thaw was the only member Of
the defenuants family present at the
evening session. The unexamined tales
men were the only spectators.
Thaw seemed to thoroughly relish the
idea of being out of the Tombs prison
after nightfall--his first experience of the
kind since his Incarceration following the
roof garden tragedy of June 25, 1906
Court adjourned at 1910 D. M until
tomorrow morning.