New-York tribune., 1872-02-28
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
MAYOR HALLS TRIAL.
SIX JURORS IN TWO DAYS.
The FIGHT GROWS wARMER-THREE MOE
JURORS OBTAINED YESTERDAY.


THE FIGHT GROWS wARMER-rHREE MORE
JURORS OBTAINED YESTERDAY.
The beauties OF the present jury system were
nney Illustrated yesterday by the spectacle presented
In the General Term Room OF the Court OF peas
at the trial OF Mayor Hail. where uust dozen lead
ing lawyers spent entire day in legal skirmlsl
ing for three men who should he found uninionned
and opinonless Mayor Hall himself appeared "a
enjoy the scene, OF which he is the chief attraction.
Grouped about him his counsel, exJudee Fthian,
exRecorder smith, Ira shafer (the latter the bull
dogs In the ngh J. C. T. Buckley f.. W stouRhtcn, and
Aaron J. Vsnderpoel Mayor Halls law partner. In
front OF them were tho counsel for the prosecution.
wheeler H PeekhaTn, Henry l.. Clinton, Lyman Tre-
maine end Assistant District Attorney Sullivan The
Mayor seemed yesterday 10 base hs bope ~ safety
delay and the ease looked suspoously like putting on
,he syl day" Jurors who did not choose 10 announce
that they were entirely ilterse. were Iexousod with
prornptness almost precipate, who urors whose minds
exhibited the most complacent simplicity we're ham
rnered with questions until they fairly compelled
10 confess that they did know something when, the re
ouse admission being made, the Juror was OF course
declared incompetent, and again counsel breaihed
freely. Occasionally. however, O juror was 30 mani
fcatly fair and wenenoned that he was taken after
being made OF great contention in the shape OF
argument and counter argument Mr Clinton con
dcied the examinations entirely for the defense, ana
Ira shafer and ex- Recorder Smith for the Mayor.
The Art two Jurors did not answer 20 their names and
therefore escaped the ordeal which was in store Tor
them Edward L. shipman, Joseph Il. Peyton, Horny r.
Lockwood and Richard Jordan had formed and expres'd
opinions upon the matter and were therefore inc"n-
peent TO express any in this Louis Kreder
an intelligent German who keeps dry goods store a'
No 90 Fret and has only been IN this country rev
years. objected TO by Mr. Clinton on account OF ms
imperfect knowledge of the English language. Truo he
understood somethng about the charges" neglectina
bills or something OF that kind" hut he only heard Of
last week Monday. Considerable discussion, purely
technical and entirely mnterosting. resulted In the
withdrawal OF MT Cnton's challenge and Louis kTueder
became Juror No.4.
George Isaacs Of No 32s Broadway turned out 10 he
man who read the newspapers every morning and OF
course, knew all about the charges Both sides were
willing to excuse him. The examination OF John VI.
sprngmeyer ran along very smoothly until the jury
box was almost in sight He did not thoroughly under
stand the charges and had scarcely them In the
papers which he seldom read knew the Mayor by sight
and that WIS ALL Mr. Clinton asked him what business
he was ,n and he replied "the cabinet business down
70 within two years" It suddenly occurred t' MT Cnh
ton that there used to Nc a man in that business WHO
drev unwarrantaby large amounts Of money from the
CITY through the Ggency Of this accused Mayor ~
would do no harm TO ask a question, ana De pu' "
"Did you know Mr.. Ingersollp Yes sure enough the
iuror did know "the old man, and had known him ever
since he was Tweeds partner In fact he used 70 DIV
chairs from him up about five years ago nc was CA
cused on a peremptOry challenge by Mr. clinton
Jobn d. Cordex and Edward Martin knew too much
nbout It, and were excused. Henry c. Valentine, who
had read all about it, but had never expresSen an op
ION had obtained his news from THE TRIBUNE eh"
though he declared that his mind was nevertheless Lao
sheet OF blank paper believed II possible, and
ne had to 60 Maurice NJ. Brainard, an old man OF TO-
though not disqualified by age. was excused nv both
sides on account OF hs years George W WagroVF'a
cothier on Nassau-st John Boyd lace dealer Maurice
Artheier and Edward u cesby were passed sde almost
IA fast as their names could be called.
Joseph W. Simpson. lace dealer In Ei-hth-avc knew
tho general nature OF the complaint agsnst the Mayor
and had talked about it, Du could not remember that he
had either formed or expressed opinion on hs guilt OF
innocence II he went into the juPybox ne cond mo
verdict on the evidence expOunded by the JufgH He
knew none Of the Of the Committee o Seventy,
aud had attended reform meetings. MT simpson was
sworn IN as the hfth jurOrat D. m.
The sixth Juror was obt'iued in the person ~ Henry
A. yanne a. furniture dealer, VINO never took any part
IN politics.
The Court thch went 10 drner for half hour. After
the recess no jurors were ohta'Eed 1no~ caued
were Fredk A. Bnrnham, Alex. Henderson. Michael g.
Van Pelt Albert s. Hatfield, and David +. Faehler
This last Juror admitted that ho had opinion in re-
card 70 the general earges but not 10 the specific
one Ex-Ilecorder Smith declared bin utterly lncom-
retent Lut Mr. CLINTON read from recent derlsloh III
the case OF the People against Allen where although
the Juror may believe the accused very bad nHn H.
II he has formed opinion in regard 70 the particular
| charge he ia perfectly competent. This was hard
| how for Mr. Smith who cond only ward Il on by say
inc that IT was the duty Of Judge DAILY to usanty over
! rule that decision The juror was finally excused
Francis A. Jayne were also called. The last named,
very intelligent looking gentleman, nad bcch WI0rlu
Mems Democratic Reform Association, and to he ac.
quanted with some members OF the Commttee of sev-
such strenuous objections made by the counsel that
| t concluded TO let him 10 IN peace ah' inc 'oo''