Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-29
''FRENCHY NO. 0NE'
f5s JURY IN BEN ALpS CASE IS FINALLY
CHOSEN,
siisr Examining Over One Hundred and Sixty Talts-
men-Naw YOrk's Ripper Will Now be
Tried for lis Lifs-Ihe Prisoner Locks
innocent enough NOw-Hss Con-
fdercs in Jasca.

try Ameer Ben Ali, the haplesS Arao
who is accused Of having brutally mur-
jered Carrie Brown. alias "Old Shakes
oeare.n in the East River Hotel Oh April
~. Seldom has such difficulty been eX-
Darienced in getting jury. A special
panel of 100 talesmen had been sum
monel for this case, beside the reguial
panel of fifty.
Both panels were exhausted yesterday |
afternoon, and the Recorder mad to |
send downstairs TO Part II. for more |
talesmen. There were eleven jurymen
in the box at O'clock, but after that
hour every one who took the witness
chair seemed either TO have conScien-
tious scrupleS about convicting person
of murder in the first degree or 10 nave
An opinion about the guilt or innocence |
of the prisoner. The last avallaole
man had been called. Had he, too,
held opinions in the case no jury couid
have been secured last night, and new
panel would have to be ordered Tor
"PSTaS ForaSnntely, ate y,"Ti TGioweveE he made
good iuryman and took the twelfth
seat. AS he did so R&order Smyth
said: Gentlemen, there are Il OF you
in that box. We had TO call 1872 tales
men to get you"
When the Clerk of the Court called
out Yesterday morning "George FRANK
to the Bar" Ben Ali, or "trenchy NO
l." as the police have christened him,
walked out of the pen and followed the
Court officer up to the rail in front OF
the Judges bench. He looked better
-
his trial. He wore lightweight coat
of fine material yesterday, and had hao
his hair and beard trimmed. lie ap-
peared TO be getting used to the Court
room proceedings and looked llttle
more interested in them But he mas
no idea of what is being said or done.
Yesterday he looked upon the jury with
more awe than upon the Recorder.
There were seven men in the box
when the prisoner entered the Court.
Just before taking his seat between his
LAWYERS. MessrS. Friend and Levy, he
put his hands to his ears, the palms
| facing outward, and made a genuine
Eastern salaam. The jurymen smiled
little at him, but "Frenchy" didn't
seem TO mind them. Then he paid his
Frenchy was particularly vivaclous
yesterday. His interpreter sat behind
him, and the two held animated conver-
sationS during the day. They talked
about Algiers and Alexandria, and Mar
SeilleS and all other places where both
had been. The interpreter understands
several Arabian dialects, and conyerSes
! fiuently with Ben Ali. His is tongue
peculiar to the mountaineerS east Of Al
giers.
Ben Ali asked about the trial and won
dered why he was not free. ''Why do
they call me Jack the Ripper?" he whis-
pered, looking the interpreter nearly
through and through with his small.
piercing eyes. The latter said some
thing in the funny Arabian dialect
which they talk, probably explanatory
of the reason why Frency labors under
such an odious cognomen, and the pris
! oner shook his head scornfully, as if re-
pudating the allusion. He has great
regard for the "Hackam," as he calls
the Recorder, and thinks he will never
sentence him to die.
"Hack ALA makes me free" he said
to the interpreter in Arabian. "Hack
ALA" means the law of God.
When they had talked about the trial
as much as Frenchy's limited knowledge
of the circumstances would allow, their
conversation drfted back to reminiS
cences.
"AlgierS" AT the mention of the
place the Arabs eyes glstened and he
rubbed his hands together gleefully.
Then he mcditated, and his eyes got
DINNER. His wife and two children
were in AglierS. Did they know of his |
sad plight, his trial for fiendish mur
der? The Arab shook his head and |
laid his pointed chin on the tips of his
right-hand fingers. The interpreter
changed the conversation. He took
piece of paper and drew a picture OF
big bowl pipe with long tube.
'Narghila" exclaimed Frenchy as
soon as the picture was completed, and |
mis- bronzed face beamed again with
smiles. The narghila was once his ia
vOrite condoler. He smoked "hasheesh"
in it, he told the Interpreter, and went
through the pantomimic display OF
breaking off an imaginary piece of
"haSheesh" and putting it into the bowl
OF the pipe. This delighted him eX-
ceedingly.
"Do you smoke 'haSheesh' now?" he
was asked. A shake of the head i'm
piled that he had none to smoke.
Somebody handed Ben Ali box OF
American cigarettes. He graSped them
eagerly, and putting them in his coat
coat pocket, looked around warily to
see if the "Hackam" observed the ac-
tion.
"No goot tumbac," he said, as he
looked at the ends of one the ends of
the cigarettes afterward. He liked
rolled cigarettes, he said, and he rubbed
the palms of his hands together, as one
in the act of making one.
Frenchy has certainly kindly face, if
he does not show any trace of inteili
gence. There is nothing repulsive about
it, and judging from his appearance no
one would credit him with one Of the
most brutal butcherieS ever perpetrated
in New York.
The case for the people will be opened
by Assistant District Attorney Well
man on Monday, after the jury pays
visit Of inspection to the East River
Hotel. 1t is expected that Fred House,
principal counsel, will be on
hand.
No Work There.
New YORK, June 2S.-The Central
Labor Federation was informed to-day
by the States Trades Assembly of Col
)radO that thousands Of men are out OF
employment in that State and it would
lot be TO the interest Of workmen to 60
here at present.