The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-18
$585..35
THAT rs WHAT IT COST TO GET A
JURY IN THE DAVIDSON CASE

JURY IN THE DAVIDSON CASE
They are Succeeding Fairly Well In Making
the Taxpayers sick-Talk that Bill
Campbell Will Make a Grand Stand
Play and then throw up the Case-Judge
Reed Goes out ia the Street and Hunts
mp Farmers for Jurors-Two More spe-
cial Venires Summoned Yesterday-Jury
Finally Secured and Trial Proceeds.
The jury in the Jack Davidson liquor
case were sworn IN at 3 p. N. yesterday.
The regular jury and five special VEN
Tres We're exhausted and three days
time Of the court taken up in securing
it and District Clerk Bridgeman figured
UP that it cost the tax payers just
S585.35 to find the jury.
If the men behind this movement
started out to make the tax payers
sick, as some of them have declared, it
will have to be conceded that they are
succeeding fairly well. The tax payers
are not only sick but they are Disguised
and eXasperated beyond measure.
just how much this case VIII cost the
tax payers of Sedgwick county before
the verdict of the jury is returned is
as yet past finding out. There are a
long list of witnesses sub poenaed in the
case and it is now believed that the
entire week will be taken up in the
trial of the case.
District Clerk Bridgenlan gave the
cost of securing the jury but his figures
do not include the regular jury Of
twenty-five men that have been wait
ing in the room ever since this case
commenced at a cost of $33 a day The
costs in this one case will figure up
something enormous before it closes.
1t is not surprising that the business
men and farmers walk into the jury box
and on oath declare to the assistant at
to-'ney general that they are disguised
with this whole affair They are tired
of paying the fiddler while a lot of i'm
practical cTanks whirl and swing in
an insane dance. These practical PEG.
ple-the farmers ana business men
believe that government is plain every
day business and they are opposed to
these theoretical experiments.
Even Bin Campbell IS beginning to
break down under the nervous strain
and the every day demonstrations OF
adverse public sentiment and it is al
ready limited that he will seek an op-
portunIty to make a grand stand show
and throw up the case in disgust
Bill Campbell is now making this
fight single handed and alone against
fearful odds. His faithful daughter
stays by his side but the men who were
most responsible for this whole unprof-
stable contest have deserted the already
lost cause and are shifting the respon-
sibility over onto the assistant attor-
ney general and the police commission
eTS.
Mr.. Campbell has shown a courage
worthy of q better cause and has
thrown aside friends of a quarter OF a
century and Joined his fortunes to the
enemies of his city and nome. He is
now casting his pearls before Unsuitable
swine that viii turn and rend him when
they lind he failed to perform inpos-
sibihbies. All this he now sees and he
sincerely regrets his mistake.
The proceedings yesterday We're not
very much different from the former
day of the trial. 1t was the same dis
gust and the best citizens sought loop
holes from which to escape jury service
in this effort originated in Topeka to en-
force the prohdbitory law in Wichita.
When court convened yesterday morn
ing the special venire of fifteen from
the country were on hand and it was
supposed that a jury would soon be
secured They proved, however. to be
very little different from the business
men in the city and one by one they
filed out of the jury box
George Robins of Waco township was
the first Of the special venire from tho
country called When the assistant
attorney general asked him if he was
opposed to this effort to enforce the
prohibitory law in Wichita ne promptly
answered, 81 am, indeed" He also
thought the penalty provided was too
severe and of course he had to go.
P. S. Orumb OF Minneha said he had
expressed AN opinion in the case which
he thought might effect his verdict and
he walked out
John A Wilson Of Waco, said he did
not known Jack Davidson and had no
prejudices dn the case but on general
principles he was opposed to the en-
forcement of the prohibitory liquor law
In Wichita, and he followed Crumb
S. e. Brady of Gypsum township,
created quite a sensa ton when he was
called and one man remarked Hes
dead sure an honest prohibitionist 4"
In answer to the questions propOlInslsad
by the assistant attorney general Mr.
Brady said that he read the Wichita
Eagle and the St Louis Globe-Demo-
GRAFT and WAS a prohibition Republican
He did not know Jack Davidson but he
was prejudiced in the case not. now
ever, against the defendant personally.
lie would have to have evidence that
the defendant was not guilty. And
when Judge Reed asked him if he would
go into This case prejudiced against the
cause of the defendant he answered,
YES" He was excused, OF course
This was a new turn. The defense
have claimed that whenever prohi-
bitioniSt was called into the jury box
that he showed an anxiety to stay on
the jury and THAT they concealed their
p-ejudices for that purpose. But here
was a prohibitiouiSt who did not want
to set ON Jack Davidsoa'S case because
he was afraid that he was so prejudiced
against the LIQUOR traffic that he might
wrong the defendant.
Stephen Balch said he did not think
he would make a good juror and he
slipped out by saying that the penalty
was too severe.
J. p. Royal and John Q. Mealy of Waco !
had read about the case in the Eagle |
and were inclined to be fair although |
Mr.. Royal said he was opposed 20 the |
law. They We're retained
Sid Summers of Minleha thought the |
penalty too severe ana had to go
Samuel SlYaler OF Delano and T. B. |
Cartwright We're accepted on general |
principles Charles n ougherty Of De- |
tarro had expressed an opinion and !
thought the penalty too rank and Bill |
Campbell thought he had better be eX-
olsed.
Harry Keith of Minneha said he had |
lived in this county ever since 1874 and |