The evening world., 1894-04-17
SIX meyer JURORS.
Three of Them Secured To-Day
with Great Difficulty,
One Is Afraid an Adverse Verdict
Would Shock Him Severely.
Legal Wrangle Over the Selection
of Talcsmcn.

When Court Officer Pete Seaman
shouted: Hats offl' In Part II. of the
Court OF General Sessions this morning
ninety citizens Of yesterdays special
panel, obeyed the order. When Clerk
william r. Penny, in his most dulcet
tones, Invited those who had excuses 20
present them to Recorder Smyth, the
ninety arose en- masse and moved upon
the pale-faced jurist. AS they ad-
vanced. the pale face settled into an
expression of forbiddancc that made the
hearts of the jurymen quake. and one
by one he sent them back to their
seats.
AS Mr.. Brooke aye loosely: "These
men all have conscientious scruples; be-
sides: the Spring trade Is Just be-
ginning"
No business man wants to surrender
himself and give up the next three weeks
OF his time to public duty as a Juror
In the trial of DIR. Henry C. Il. Meyer
for murder. Fifty per cent. OF those
called proclaim that they have conscien-
tious scruples against capital punish
ment. This signifies either that the con-
sensus Of public opinion lis in favor OF
the abolition OF the death penalty or
else that Spring trade is more important
than the protection of society.
one Juror a day is the record for the
first three days of the proceedings.
Three hundred citizens had been called
tons to sit as jurors to try DR., Meyer,
and l4s had been examined. only these
three being found to be acceptable to
both John f Mcintyre; the prosecutor.
ST Ra ,S6 R5 Meyer +, MARITIME. ,r.. son of
iTdEs Martine. and DEPUTY Assistant
Upon Mr.. Mcintyre viii fall the heavy
burden Of presenting the case OF the
Charles Crosse, n hardware dealer. at
164S Second avenue, seemed to be a
man or intelligence, and was without
sort Of an opinion based on the propo-
sition that where there was smoke there
must be fire. Then he added that he
It would break him ali up" to render a
verdict that would condemn a fellow
man to death, but he declared firmly
ina that would not prevent him from
MT. Crosse was sworn as the fourth
Juror and took his eat in the box. OF
the twenty-one, men who had preceded
him; twelve had scruples against capital
punishment and four We're biased.
Mr. Mcintyre expended his fourth per-
emptory challenge in excluding from the
'is " L l1ldH I1ttIIlSOln, II CdnuN-
maker. of G25 Secenod avenue.
Eugene o Middlebrook was accepted
as the NTH juror: MIR. Middlebrook is
at 1874 Third avenue. He was the last
man in yesterdays eco.
He had been much interested in the
former trial. which was ended abruptly
when Juror Alexander b. Low went in.
sane In the ,jury-boX. He read every
thing he could find about it. and formed
an opinion. On his statement that he
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he could and would find his verdict on
the evidence alone. he was accepted.
Nine struggling jurors were called. ex-
amined and excused. and then a recess
was aiken. Here is the list Of jurors so
far secured:
JOHN ". wERsEnE. foreman, a.clcrk for
Tent: Weller 4 Co; OF 225i seventh avenue.
place; lives at Ii East Eleventh street,
JACOB c, NETH9op, restaurant keeper of
CHARLES CROSSE. hardware dealer. 1915
EUGENE o. MrpDLEnRooK. printer. IS vescy
street; lives at 1874 Third avenue.
~nEv HENl!Y g builder, III
dam avenue.
The first seven men called this morn
ing got no further THAI the first ques-
ton. They, all had scruples. After a
excused by consent" Which means
that the lawyers concluded that they
lacked the intelligence necessary for the
tOIlSlltTutlOH OF IL tHSe SO intricate as
this, with Its conflict of testimony by
scientists in poisons, pathology, medi-
cine n chemistry.
Then came a man whose life was in
sured in one Of the companies which DR..
Meyer intended to cheat out of the in
surance on the life OF his victim, ac-
cording to the indictment. Then came
IA man who would not convic upon cir
cumstantia! evidence.
1t would be interesting to know what
is passing in the mind of the ~gray-eyea
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Jurors with questions. Again and again
the Juror is told:
"Dr Meyer is charged with murder In
the first degree. the penalty for which Is
death"
Then the Doctors .white-lashed eye.
lids droop over the wide gray eyes. and
the knot that marks the hinge in his
OF his face. md his big. thick fingers
tumble, in his lap. He sits too stu and
motionless TO be natural. His attitude
suggests that he Is In expectation OF
Among the jurors to-day was a col
ored man, william II. Smith, a caterer,
at As Wall street. He was, excused for
conscientious scruples. which he smiling
After recess a score of jurors for Parts
l.. and III. of the Court OF General SCs-
sions assembled to the chamber of Part
II. But when Alexander NJ. Powell, the
famous Chambers street candy manu-
facturer, was called to the stand, II was
Wy $40 ~ " = No. -
Mr.: Brooke objected or the ground
that Mr.. Powell had not been summoned
to do duty In Part H.. the defense had
not been given due notice, nor given
the data regarding the names, CcCupa-
tons and residences Of the citizens on
the panels for the other parts OF the
Court, and for half Il dozen other rea-
sons.
The Recorder overruied the objections,
and noted about n dozen exceptions
made by the willy lawyer. and then the
examination of Mr.. Powell was begun,
He got along all right til lie learned
that this was a murder trial, and that
the evidence against Meyer consisted
Of the story of an alleged accompllce.
the testimony or exports m circum-
stantiai evidence. lie would not con
Wet on circumstantial evidence, and he
was excused.
Adam Miller, painter. at &C Sixth ave-
nue., passed the examination with nom
ors. but Mr.. MCINTYRE didn't like him
and challenged him percmptorily.
The defense got rid Of Alva Cooper. a
Central Market butter dealer, in the
same manne
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the sixth
Juror was found in the person of Henry
G. Vaudeville, n builder, of III West
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