The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-21
MADE A NEW MOVE
PROFESSIONAL JURORS ARE NOW
OUT 0F A JOB
Judge Reed Of the District Court
Increases the Regular Panel
and His Action is Com
mended by Attorneys
and Taxpayers.

The professional juror was Knocked out
in the district court yesterday when Judge
Reed ordered the panel of the regular jury
to be increased ten members more.
This is an unusual thing to do, but the
Judge knows his business and is dead on
to the racket Of the professional juror.
In accordance with the order Of the
court Justices Tucker and Jones and
| County Clerk Carv!n met yesterday and
drew the following names accordin. to
4 W: j. ". Green, John Mendenhall. J.
C. Kinkead, William Kassell. Wichita;
Michael Obi, Gypsum; H. G. Coen.
/ Wichita; II. J. York, Salem: w. L. Nc
Dowell, Union; Henry Joergl uson. Greely;
G. II. Grimes, Wichita.
| The district court has been effected re-
GENTLY with the professional juror and JUS
| tics has suffered thereby. No one knows
this better than Judge Reed and 1t is
only month or so ago when he
| took radical steps to reverse the
order of things or at least to put stop to
| the trouble. He was not very successful
but it was not his fault The fault laid
with the men who should be equally inter
ested In seeing the law enforced. At the
| time mentioned Judge Reed make an
| effort to get jury of business men and
| taxpayers aud ont Of sixty or seventy sum-
| moned be was unable to find more than
one or two who qualified. 1t WAS very
discouragipg aud is still discouraging
The attorneys are also interested in get
ting good jurors, and when Judge Reed
determined yesterday to increase the panel
they were delighted. One of them In
speaking Of the matter with a reporter for
the EAGLE said: Judge Reed has done
the proper thing when he increased the
panel. 1t is shame the way some tails
men, whose names | could mention,
have acted. Some OF them have,
to my knowledge. hung jury
for two days in order to draw as much pay
rs possible. Of course | need not tell you
that honest and just tailsmen can be
found, but very rarely about the court
house where professional jurors hang
around in hopes of getting job. fla
juror is anxious to get on jury for the
money there is in it be will stay as long as
possible for the same reason and the re-
suit is that juries hang for sometimes two
days on cases in which en agreement
could be reached in fifteen minutes.
Then, again, if juror is dis
honest enough to hang jury
for two or three days in order to bleed the
county he would be dishonest enough to
accept bribe. The best way is to increase
the regular panel, for under this system
jurors will draw their pay regularly and
will have no incentive to delay case. BY
drawing jurors from the list of taxpayers,
Instead Of picking them up about loafing
places, the chances are much greater to
have a good and honest jury. l will say
again that Judge Reed has done the proper
thing, not only froma standpoint of econ
omy, but from a standpoint of more equal
justice"
County Attorny Boone also commended
the action Of the court. He stated that be
had no charges to make against any class
of citizens, but was decidedly of the opin-
ion that Judge Reeds action would better
serve the ends of justice. Willard paid
high compliment to the present panel and
regards it as among the most intelligent
and fairest bodies of men before whom he
has ever tried case.
The result is that he has been very sue
cessful in his prosecutions this term, and
has only lost one case out of all he has
tried.
The court reassigned the criminal cases
yesterday as follows:
Jan. D. State VS.. j. p Schroeder.
Jan. % State VS.. George Cald dwell.
Jan. 24 State VS.. George Smith.
jan - State VS.. Ula Fitzhue.
Jan. &c. State vs. l.. p. Thompkins.
Jan. ~. State VS. Mart Obel.
Jan. 60 State vs.. j. j. Ford, alias ". W.
Siegler
Jan. 80 State VS.. j. w. Taylor and Will
lam Davidson.
Jan. 81. State VS.. Peter Lineber.
Feb. l. State VS.. Nellie Stewart.
Feb. !. State VS.. William Hupp
Feb. ?. State VS.. James Coffey.
Feb. g. State vs. T.. w. Barnaby.
Feb. 5. State VS.. Alva Wilson.
Feb. 6 State VS.. Henry Walters.
Feb. g. State vs.. Ed Bird.
Feb. 6. State VS.. j. p. Schroeder.