St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-23
The JURY is SECURED
One Man, However, Excused
After He Had Been
Sworn in.
The Nine Others Were Chosen
Without Much Diff
Guilty.
The Prosecution Will Open
Up the Case This Morn
ing.
Speculate ons as to What the
Line Of Defense Will
Be.

At exactly 2:30 yesterday afternoon,
the last of the twelve good men and
true" who arc to hear the evidence and
render verdict in the case of The
State VS.. j. Frank COLON, unless some
thing now unforeseen happens, was ac-
cepted and sworn. so that the jury as
constituted stands as follows:
j. f. Held, gardner of Golden Val
ley.
j. L. Johnson, boot and shoe dealer
at 211 Eleventh avenue south.
Jacob ID. Atwood, carpenter and
builder, who resides at 252 Eighteenth
avenue north.
J. J. Bell, bookkeeper for c. \. Prior,
residing at 914 Chicago avenue.
NJ. J. MOranetZ. commission mer-
chant at p Spruce Place.
J. A. Depew, a farmer, of Champlln.
John l.. Higgins, a teamster, whose
home is at 100 Sixteenth avenue north.
William BarrowS, a lumberman. OF
the firm of Merriman. BarrOws Il Co.
j. S. Arnold. lumberman, residing
at Cpl East Nineteenth street.
j. ". BirdWell. travelling man, whose
home is at 1429 Vine Place.
ID. J. Falvey. who was born and still
lives at st. Louis Park.
Il. 4. Benson, an eXpTeSSman. whose
dOmcile is at 5429 Fifth avenue south.
After the jury was empaneled the
court adjourned until 10 a. m. to-day.
AT the opening Of the court this morn
ing County Attorney Jamison will adj
dress the jury, outlining the case of the
state and its theory of prosecution.
j. II. BlaiSdell will then take the
stand and testify that his signature, as
endOrser of the note for $1,000. given by
j. Frank COLON in June last. is a for
gerry.
ID. T. Ames, of New York, the prin-
cipal expert witness for the prosecution.
will then take the stand and testify
that, in his opinion, the Endorsement of
Mr.. Blaisdell is forgery. He will give
his reasons in detail for his belief, and
will, no doubt, be subjected to rigid
cross-eXaminatiOn for the defense.
The case of the prosecution will be
brief. and may be concluded to-day, I'M
less the crOss-eXaminatiOn of witnesses
takes up more time than is expected.
After it is in the case for the defence
will be opened. in which the theory of
the attorneys for Mr.. COLON will be for
the first time made public.
Whether Mr.. COLON will be placed,0n
the stand or not is not yet known, but
probably he will be witness i'll his
own behalf. He will be followed by
the expert testimony of the defense
which will be devoted to an attempt to
convince the jury that the endorsement
of Mr.. Blaisdell is genuine and in his
own handwriting.
The testimony of Frank F. Davis as
to the alleged confession of Mr.. COllOm
may not come into the case until the
testimony in rebuttal is submitted, but
it is bound to cut a big figure and be
one of the principal points of interest.
The jury, as impannelled, is conceded
to lie good one. County Attorney
Jamison said that it was the best one he
had ever seen in the box. Most of the
jurymen are past the medium of life,
and apparently men of candOr, honesty
ami Judgment. Whatever verdict they
may render, ii they agree, will no doubt
be acquiesced in as just and true.