Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-01-07
THAW JURY
IS NEARLY
COMPLETE
Case Has Started OFF With a
Rush aking Testimony
Soon Begins.
STILL DRAWS A LARGE CROWD
,pecial by United Press Wire:

Special by United Press Wire:
NEW YORK, Jan. 7:-Just before
the noon recess was taken today
Jurors Conway and Brewer in the
Thaw murder trial were excused by
consent of counsel on both sides.
Previous to their being excused, Will
liam H. Roberts, secretary of the
Signal Control Company, took his
seat as the tenth juror. The two ex-
cused reduced the number to eight.
The examination of talesmen, today,
is rapid and until Roberts was chosen
they were hastily excused. The nine
jurors selected yesterday were:
No. 1-CHARLES E. .GREMMELS,
shipping, No. 80 South street, living
in No. 817 East 155th street.
No. John R. HATCHETT,
wholesale cigars, No. 1877 West
Eighty-third street.
No. 3-GEORGE B. NORWOOD,
importer, No. Sc West Seventy-sixth
street.
No. 4-FLoYD s. SANFORD, as
sistant manager, No. 2405 Seventh
avenue.
No. JAMES E. CONWAY, hotel
keeper, No. 271 West Eleventh
street.
No. 6-WILLIAM E. BROWER,
decorator, No. 1873 Claremont ave-
nue..
No. ARTHUR R. NAETHING
baker, No. 1926 Seventh avenue.
No. S-MAURICE BOUVIER, vice
president, No. 101 East Eighty-fifth
street.
No. e-GEoRGE w. CARY, dry
goods, No. GAS Broadway, living in
No. 155 West Ninety-second street.
They passed a pleasant night in
their quarters at the KnickerbockeI
MOTEL: 1T is thought some of them
will be peremptorily challenged when
the jury box is filled.
Thaw walked into the court room
with a springy step this morning. A
number of absent veniremen were
fined $3.50 each for failure to heed
the court summons.
| Evelyn Thaw arrived in court soon
after the opening of the session. She
smiled in greeting her husband. She
was attired as yesterday.
Charles @. Goss, an accountant
employed by the American Tobacco
Company, was another to qualify this
morning and was given seat No. 8
made vacant by James e. Conway
who was excused.
Legal insanity at the time Of the
tragedy is to be the sole defense.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was pursued by
crowds as curious as ever and had to
be escorted in and out of the court
house by detail Of policemen.
The usual gaping crowd was gath
cred about the criminal courts build
ing In the hope Of catching a glimpse
Bridge of Signs. The word that women
were to be barred had been Judiciously
spread abroad, and there were none
but newspaper writer's on hand. Last
year at the beginning Of the trial wo
men predominated in the courtroom
and 1t was their insistence which caus
ed much of the disorder Of the opening
day.
Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, his
sister, and Josiah Thaw, one Of his
brothers, called on the defendant just
before the trial was called and brought
him a message of greeting from his
mother, who is still too i'll at her home
|
1t was the first time Thaw had seer
his sister and brother for some
months, and his greetings were mos
affectionate.
Thaw was called to the bar at 11:2I
o'clock His appearance showed little
or no change from last year.
Justice Bowling decided that unit
further notice there would be thre'
court sessions each day, as follows
From 10:15 a. m. to l p M, from
p. m. to p. m. and from p. m. t.
10 p. m. He also announced that thu
jury would be locked up Throughout
the trial.