, 1873-02-05
First Day Of Ills Trial for the h1ur-
der Of Policeman 0'1leara,
The Prisoners Peculiar Interest in tie
Selection of the Jury.
Good Progress N1adc---The les
ti1nony for the Prosecution
All In.
Examination of Witnesses for the
Other Side.

AN~~@T~A~A-~-~|
Other Side.
The second trial Of Christopher rafferty, for
the murder Of Police Officer O'A1eara WAS COM
menced at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, before
Justice Williams. in the Circuit Court Of Lake
County, sitting at Waukegan. Tho Courtroom
was crowded with people, many Of whom had
come long distance from the interior Of tho
county. States Attorney Rccl and States At
torney Williams, Mayor of Waukesan, represent
ed the people in tho trial, and 1r. Small, OF Chi
cago, and s1r. Sear1cs, of Waukcgan, appeared
for the defence Tho murderer He1erty sat be-
hind his counsel looking pale from lis long con-
fnemcnt, and impressed the spectators with the
if1ea that lo was not in tho least interested in
the grave proceedings Of the Court. He carried
himself in careless, and, at timcs, defiant
manner.
GETTING THE 5UnF.
Tho forenoon session WAS occupied in empnn-
cling jury. Tho regular panel was exhaust
ed in less than hour, and three special centres
had to be Issued before twelve men who had
formed no opinion Of the prisoners guilt or IN
nocence could be selected. Tho attorneys for
tho defence tool Rafferty, into their counsel be-
fore accepting any Of tho jurors. md tho seiec-
ton depended entirely on his decision. It may
be presumed that the following men were en-
tirelg satisfactory to him, for ho looked each Of
them in tho countenanco for somo seconds be-
fore deciding to trust his life in his hands.
c. r. Deckwith, Benton; Aure]ius Ames,
Wauconda; John o. Potter, Highland Park; ].
A. Kimbau. Waukegan; G. L. stowart, Mill
burn; Roswell Wilcox, Diamond Lake Jay
Wheeler. Waukegan Norman S. Cannon, Anti
och; John Wolf, Halliday; Charles ;. IIil
Waukesan; Walter J. Miuen, D.erfo1d; Edwin
Osborn, Libertyyil1o.
Tho Court adjourned for dinner after tho jury
Vas swo1n in.
opESISa OF THE CASE
Upon the reaEsembling of the Court, at half
past o'clock, the room was even more crowded
than at the forenoon session. Several Of Raf-
9erty's Bridgeport friends, rough-lookng, hard
featured men, could be seen among the specta~
tors. When the jurymen had answered to their
names, the counsel delivered their opening I'D
dresses.
States Attorney Reed briefly told the story Of
the terrible crime for which Rafferty, ia now On
trial. He displayed the immense navy revolver
with which O'Meara's life WAS taken, and in
quircd it peaceab1e private citizen would go
about the streets OF Chicago armed with such q
~1eAl4u1 "eapou. nuoo eAe ~ nH-,s" al-e
oi the jury to the circumstances o1 tne mutue.'
which have been already publiahed, and which
eo nd - x;c;n;tz ths state,a sttornar bronrht to
~ anu '1e ~o nsos.,s .:a.sNy:o o&oesas
light some ne'nIs N Aanerasa M masoly ples,nnA 3
70 the murder WINCH arc noe seneiaay Ano"n
3Ir. Reed claimed that he could prove that on
tha evening before the shooting Of O'Afoara,
Raffcrtr Approached B1idge-Tender Bedell, on
Halsted street bridge, and told him that if
any Of the Twenty-second Street sation police
men or spy of the Cottage Grove Avenue Station
policemen arrested him (Ranerty), he wou1dnot
make any o]ections, but that if any ct the Archer
Avenue Station officers (of whom O'Mearn was
one) laid hand upon him, he would SHOOT him,
ct the same time showing the revolver from
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