The Indianapolis journal., 1895-09-17
A JUROR TAKEN I'LL
HINsHAw MURDER CASE POST
PoNED UNTIL THURSDAY.
Attendance at the Noted Trial Dwin-
died Down-Little Curiosity as
to Character Evidence.

DANvILLE, Ind, Sept. 1s.-The Hinsaaw
murder case was delayed this morning be.
cause of the illness 6fowniam Hunt, one
| of the jurors. Mr.. Hunt lives near Hadley,
| Clay township. He was taken violently
| sick Sunday morning, and so serious vas
his condition that ne had to be conveyed
home. Everything was In readiness for the
resumption of the murder trial this morn
| ing. when "a ineighbor OF Mr.. Hunts ar
rived and announced that the sick juror
| was still unable to come. and for him to
serve would be against the advice of the
physician. Upon receipt Of this informa-
| ton a consultation was held by Judge
Hadley and the attorneys in the case. 1t
was decided that the only thing to be done
under the circumstances was to adjourn
until Mr.. Hunt is able to be present, the
suggestion to proceed with eleven ;u, ors
not meeting with favor from either cour :,
State or defense. Court adjourned u,sil
1890. o'clock and a messenger was dis
patched to Mr. Hunt home to see IL he
could be on hand during the afternoon or
in the morning. AT the noon hour tele-
gram was received from Hadleys saying
Mr.. Hunt could not be present during the
afternoon. Court then adjourned, attorneys
Smith and Spaan returning to Indianapolis.
Dr. c. A. White visited Hunt in the after
noon and found that he will not be able to
attend court till Thursday. The case will
therefore go over till that day.
At the reconvening of court this morn
ing there was but q small crowd present.
which may be explained upon two theories.
First, 1t was wash day and busy dsy
with most personse and. second. it was
generally known that the defense was to
begin with character witnesses. which are
not productive OF any 'gossippy" evil
dence. Before the time for the calling Of
the Hinshaw case there was n iuesti1g oe-
tween the court and the Hendricks county
bar for the purpose of arranging the
docket for the September term of court.
The fixing of dates for hearing of petit lar
ceny, assault and battery, drunk and rro-
woke cases was very uninteresting to the
few spectators who had come to hear
something relative to the celebrated muir
der trial. Many OF those in the court we're
friends and neighbors of the defendant.
who came to aid the accused preacher by
word and presence. Many brought their
dinners and during the noon hour lunches
were spread In the courthouse yard under
the trees.
Hinshaw was brought into the room look
ing better than on Saturday, and his aged
father and mother soon followed him. His
friends gathered around him and the at
torneys were present ready to proceed.
when the word announcing Mr.. Hunts ILL
ness was received There was some little
delay after court adjou and Judge Had
ley talked to the attorneys from his bench.
Suddenly he began to sniff the air inter-
estedly, and he interrupted the conversa-
ton by exclaiming:
"Pawpaws!" &rc-s
The name Of the Hoosier fruit was suff1-
cient to excite an interest and search was
commenced for the origin Of the odor. In
the right hand drawer of the courts bench
was found a dozen or more Of ripe. yellow
pawpaws. The judge took them out ten
derly and carefully and placed them in his
hat. to carry TO MS private Office. 1t was
explained that the pawpaws were pres
ent from the Jurors, swho went pawpaw-
ing'' yesterday Under the surveillance of
Deputy Taylor the eleven well Jurors went
on an excursion and found bushels of paw
paws. Freed from the restraint under
which they have been the jurors romped
and ran through the woods with their
minds free from murder evidence. The ex-
ercise evidently did the jurors good. for
when they appeared for duty this morning
they looked much refreshed and several of
them said if ,Bill' Hunt had exercised a
little more care he would not have become
Ill from the effects of the court room con-
finement.
soME JURY LITERATURE.
During this morning the jurors sat in the
court room reading and talking Judge
Hadley and Deputy Taylor acted as CEN
sors, specifying what they might read. No
restrictions were PLACED upon them regard;
ing smoking, some p1fingp away at good
cigars others at very bad ones, and two
pulling at pipes. A copy Of the Youths
Companion was torn in four parts and
distributed to the four jurors who had an
appetite for such literature. Judge Hadley
remarked that he thought nothing could
be found in the pages relative 10 the Hin
shaw case or inclined to bias the minds
Of the Jurors. The court also permitted
the jurors to read copies OF his Seven
the Woods" being the recital of personal
experience during the war. That portion
of the Journal which contained no refer
ence to the Hinsh2w case was circulated
among the jurors. Judge Hadley remarked
that the reference to the case In the part
held back was fair to both sides. but he
thought best to withhold all reference to
the case.
There was little furore In the court
room during the morning over some papers
which Mr.. Smith had lost He was sure
that he left them on his table Saturday
night. but one knew anything about
them. The papers were of vast impor-
tance and the defense could not well pro-
ceed without them The court room was
ransacked and Mr. Smith was searched by
Mr.. Duncan, but no papers could be found.
Mr.. Smith hurried from the court room and
TO the telephone station, where he OBJ
tained communication with indianapolis
and learned that he han left the valuable
papers in another coat at home.
Both sides of the case seem confident of
success The defense feel that they are
going Ito knock the very bottom OUT OF
the States case. while the State intimates
that much damage will be done the defense
on rebuttal. for. as in all important cases
there. is some conflicting evidence. The
State claims that Mr.. Smith in his OPEN
ing statements left several gaps which
cannot be filled. II was said yesterday
that Mr.. smith did not attempt to explain
why the doors of the Hnshaw house were
locked how Hinshaw could identify a bur-
glar as dark eomplexioned when there was
no light, why burglar would shoot a
woman. thereby waking the man and then
not shooting him, and a number of blood
stains found about the premises
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