Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-12
THAN TRIAL TO BEGIN
IN EARNEST MONDAY
Lawyers and Defendant DsVole Day
Out Of Court Room 10
Examining Papers
CLOSE WATCH KEPT Oh JURY
They VIII Not be Allowed to See
Members of Their Families Save in
the Presence Of Officers and All
Newspapers Given to Them VIII be
Sclssorcd.
(ny Assoclntcd prcssl

NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-The attor-
ncys In the Thaw trial are taking n
day OFF today and going over their tcs.
timony for the last time before the
actual trial of the case begins.
The jury which was completed
yesterday. Will he. until the case is
finally completed In tho custody of
court officers ana will not be allowed
to even receive visitors. even mem
bers of their own families except In
the presence of lnilins. The mail
y Will all be read before they are al
lowed to sec II. and they can only
road newspapers after the head baiiff
has cut from them every reference to
the trial They will be oven moro
closely guarded than will Thaw him
self, the man whose fate now rests
In their hands
Tho twelve men, who will decide
the young Pittshurg mans fate are
all beyond middle age, there being
five gray hairs In the jury box. Ten
OF them arc married. the other two
being wldowers.
or the 700 vcniremen summoned,
3T2 were. examined, the defense using
% prccm,ory challenges and the pro-
secution 20 OF the 30 allowed.
At the first trial 336 venircmcn
were examined before the jury was
finally completed. each side using All
its precmptory challenges.
Trial in Full Swing Tuesday.
Thaw Will spend the time between
now and Monday morning looking
ovc.' his papers and consulting with
! his attorcys. When the trial Is call
cd Monday Assistant District Attor-
ney Frank Garvan will open as he
did in the first trial. The cxamina-
ton of the policeman who arrested
Thaw after the killing of White, the
witnesses who saw the shooting, and
the coroncrs physician who made the
postmortcm, will follow. The State
does not expect to consume more
than two hours in their examination.
Then the defense will open. Mr. Lit
Teton will make the opening address
in the afternoon and 1t is not likely
that witness will be called before the
close of the days session. Then on
the following day the trial will pc
in full swing.
Mrs. William Thaw. mother OF the
prisoner. who is i'll at her home in
Pittsbnrg, is improved today, but there
is no possible chance for her to ap-
| pear as witness for her son. A let
| ter he has Just received makes the
| fact plain. The matter has been pre-
scented to Justice Downing, and he an
houhced lat on Monday nc would en-
te:tain motion to have her testimony
taken in Pittsburg. If the prosecu-
ton docs not seriously oppose the mo :
ton. 1t is expected that Justice Dow.
ling Will appoint New York lawyer
10 take the testimony and certify il
| to the court.
Thaw Misses His Mother.
with his mother i'll, and his sister
the Countess of Yarmouth. busy in
England getting her annulment of her
management to the Earl Thaw will
not get the same comfort by the pres
ence of his family he got during the
first trial. Another Blister. Mrs. George
Lauder Carnegie, Josiah Thaw, and
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. will be the rem
resentatives of the prisoners family
In the court room. MIR. Little ion has
already notified the court that his
client will plead not guilty. and viii
offer as defense that he was insane
when he killed White. and did moi
krow the nature and penalty of the
act he was committing. He has gath
cred all the Witnesses who appeared
at the first trial. and aided man,
new ones.
In spite of efforts to have Evelyn
Thaw kept off the stand on the part
of the prosecution. 1t is said toda,
she surely will be witness and will
tell practically the same narrowing
story that she related at the first
trial. Some of the disgusting de-
tails will be eliminated. however. I'D
ma Goodrich, -----'>A-->-,, who is said
to have introduced Evelyn Nesbit tc
Stanford White. was subpoenaed al
the Grand Optya Houae yesterday
and has accepted service to testify
for the defense. sss