Connecticut western news., 1886-05-19
JAEHNE BEFORE A JUDGE
BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL OF THE FIRST OF THE.BOODLE ALDERMEN.
Five Men Accepted Jurors Out of the .-' T-~ Special Panel.

Alderman Henry W. Jaehne, of the Fifth District, member of the Aldermanic Board for the past three years, and until recently Vice. President of that body, was put on trial Mon- day before Judge Barrett in the Court of Oyer and Terminer to answer to an indictment agalnst him which charges that while acting as member of the Board of 1884 he accepted or agreed to accept bribe of $2O, 900 for his vote and influence ln favor or Jake Sharps Broadway Railway franchise.
 During the day five jurymen were accepted, but none of them may serve, as all are yet subject to peremptory challenge.
 A few minutes before eleven o'clock Alder man Jaehne forced his way through the his counsel, Richard s. Newcomb. Smiling and nodding to his friends and acquaintances, he took seat near the table reserved for his counsel and looked about the room as uncon- cerned as any person present.
 few minutes later Gen. Roger A. Pryor and John Graham, associate counsel for the accused Alderman, took seats beside him, and were followed moment later by District-At- torney Maritime and Assistants Nicoll and Eel lows, who took possession of the next table in front.
 As soon as the Judge was seated, County Clerk Walsh began calling the names of the jury panel drawn last Friday. When he had finished, the defendant, Henry w. Jaehne, was notified that he might challenge any juror when his name should be called. Lawyer Gra- ham arose and announced that he challenged the whole array, on the ground that tho panel was illegally drawn. He objected because the by lart to ha eyixar to tha de. fendant to scan the list was not allowed his client. He was going on to read the sections of the Code upon which he based his objec- tions, when Judge Barrett interrupted and asked him to read the formal challenge to the array which had been prepared by the de- fense. This was formidable document in the shape of an affidavit signed by Jaehne.
 District-Attorney Maritime asked to be al- lowed to inspect it, and he and his associates consulted together for some minutes. Then Assistant Districs-Attorney Nicoll, for the pros ecution, demurred to certain portions of tho challenge and traversed and denied the princi- pal allegations of irregularity in the drawing of the panel contained in it. In reply, Mir. Graham spoke of the rumors of ''jury fixing" that had been rife for several days past, and remarked that the newspapers '''should look up stream and not down." A- ter much squabbling among the lawyers, Chief Clerk Sparks was called to the stand by the defense to pr ove certain of the allegations contained in the challenge, whereupon Assist ant District Attorney Nicoll stated that the prosecution was willing to admit all the facts contained in the challenge excepting the alle- gation that anything was done to the preju- dice or injury to the defendant.
 At 5.2O o'clock the court adjourned until 10 o'clock the next morning. Of the one hum dred and fifty jurors on the panel ninety-seven answered to their names. Of these twenty -four were examined and five selected as jurors leaving seven to be chosen from the remaining seveniy-three. On Tuesday six more jurors were selected.
 The full number of jurymen were secured for the trial of Alderman Jaehne. Gen. Pryor announced to the Court that Jaehne was satis- fled with the jury. The jurors were locked up flor the night in the Astor House. The prose cution called their first witness Friday morn- ing.