St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-29
TWELVE OF HIS PEERS
SWORN TO TRULY TRY RICHARD KEN
NEEDY FcR SHOOTING HOY.
JURY SECURED YESTERDAY.

Nearly 200 Men Examined Be
fore the jury Box Was Filled
County Attorney Nye Opens
the Case for the Prosecution
Testimony Will Be Heard To-
morrow.
The trial of Richard Kennedy. who is
indicted for murder in the second de-
gree for shooting Joseph Hoy, is now
under way. Yesterday forenoon the
jury was completed, and the county at
torney opened the case for the
people. The court then adjourned
until 10 o'clock Monday morning.
When court opened at 9 a. m. yester-
day there were eleven jurors in the box.
The grind commenced at once. Man
after man was examined, challenged
and excused. Ole Byorum. all under
taker. was called, but before being
questioned he ventured the opinion that
uhdertakerS were exempted from jury
duty. Judge Canty Informed MIR. By
Drum that there was no such law, but
the result was the same, for the under
taker was excused for bias. Shortly
after 10 o'clock the twelfth juror was
obtained. His name is Joseph MertZ.
and he is a farmer at Medina. MIR.
MertZ was the 17Sth man examined.
But the jury was not yet full, for the
defense took advantage OF one of the
four peremptory challenges left to it,
and excused William II. Lang. con-
fro q inh
chosen. Several more men were eXam-
ined, and both sides finally agreed to
accept Charles NJ. Hinckley, a Cham
plain farmer. The list of the jurors is
as follows:
Charles Kitner, farmer, Osseo town.
ship; j. C. Oswald. Corc0ran township;
William p. Chase, manager BoveY-De
Laittre Lumber company, 1929 Eighth
avenue southeast; William Gibson,
hardware merchant; John w. George,
tailor; Peter Schappel. barber; Joseph
Carr, laborer, 1928 Nineteenth avenue
south; Charles Nj. Hinckley, farmer;
William E. Norris. grain dealer; w. b.
Cooley, cabinetmaker, 3037 Fifteenth
avenue south; John j. Croft, boot and
shoe dealer; j. M. MertZ, Medina.
County Attorney Nye then opened the
case. He told the Jury the story of the
shooting. and related the facts which
led up to and followed the act. The
public is already familiar with them.
Mr.. Nye said that the state would prove
that Kennedy had provoked the first
quarrel, which took place in front of
Vos' saloon, and that Kennedy. after
getting the worst of the scutfle, had
threatened that he would do Hoy, if he
had to lie at his doorstep all night. !"
Then Kennedy went to his fathers
house and returned i'll from fifteen 10
thirty minutes. This time he went into
Vos' saloon. Kennedy was there, and
several other men were present. By
these witnesses Mr.. Nye claimed that
the second quarrel, which resulted IN
the fatal shooting of Hoy. Mr.. Nye
closed his opening address with the
following metaphor and compliment to
the counsel for the defense:
"Were | not armed, and doubly
armed, with the truth and the facts in
the case, l should hesitate to try it,
with the counsel on the defense of
whose brilliancy and adroitness you are
we'll aware. In the early morning the
highest mountain peaks catch the first
rosy CLEANS of dawn, but, remember,
gentlemen, that as the sun mounts high
in the sky. The mountain peaks and
valleys are alike filled with the search
ing light of truth, and 1t will be high
noon, as far as the truth of this case is
concerned. when the testimony is fin
ished."
At the conclusion Of the opening adj
dress, Mr.. Davis asked the court to
order that all witnesses except the
professional ones be excluded from the
court room except while giving their
own testimony. The court SO ordered.
The first witness called was William
Burke, but before single question was
asked him, Judge CAVITY adjourned
court until Monday morning.