The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-24

guests of the court and one in the
spectators seats.
One by one the governments wit
nesses had come in and at 1870 there
were present Assistant superintendent
( p. B. Cusick of the police; DR.. Her
man Mynter and Dr. NJ. D. Mann.
who attended the president: DR. James
w. Putnam, Drs. Joseph Fowler and
/ Floyd s. Gregg, local physicians.
Frank J. Litz, clerk, and Michael
McGloin, carpenter. were excused
because they had formed opinions
William Lotion, farmer Of Eden,
was chosen as the sixth juror at 11:43-
Judge Sheran of the superior court
I and Judge Hammond of the supreme
court of Massachusetts came into the
court room just as Benjamin Lang,
/ a Buffalo grocer. was called They
were introduced to Justice White and
were given seats at the clerks desk
Judge Titus for the defense con-
Quoted the examination of Lang The
| latter was excused on the ground that
he had an interest in a corporation
owning property, though he had none
in his own right.
An error in the panel list was found
when Otto F. Hager. a Buffalo music
dealer. was called for examination.
Otto F. Hager of Grand Island pre-
sented himself instead, and he was
excused.
The next man called was Walter z.
Everett, blacksmith. He was salts
factory to both sides and so was ac-
cepted as the seventh juror. just as
the bells struck for noon.
Short Sessions Asked.
After the acceptance of this juror,
Judge Lewis addressed the court. say
ing that InaSmuch as both he and his
principal assistants were aged men,
and that owing to the suddenness of
their connection with the case they
had had little time for preparation.
he desired the sessions of the court
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the progress of the case would in no
way be hindered or delayed by short
hours. He suggested that court con-
vene at 10 a. m. and close at p. m.
and that there be an intermission from
u noon until , p m.
Justice White expressed himself as
being agreeable to this arrangement,
believing the request to be a reason
able one. He therefore made the hours
of the court to conform with Mr.. Lew
is request.
Benjamin ]. Ralph, a bank cashier
was called to the stand at noon. After
the usual questions from counsel on
both sides he was accepted and took
the eighth seat in the jury box.
The adjournment of court until
o'clock was then announced. The
spectators were ordered to keep their
seats until the judge, jury and coun-
! sci had passed out. At the same time
Czolgosz was handcuffed to the depu-
ties and hurried from the court room
; back to the Jail.
For the first time since he came
into the court room today he spoke
to one Of his guards.
Get my hat" he said. and the off,
Ger pressed it upon his head as he
walked out.
Afternoon Session is Begun.
After the noon recess the prisoner
was brought in. manacled as before, to
two officers, and at 2 o'clock Justice
White resumed the session
After the jurors who had already
been chosen had answered to their
! names, the examination of others was
resumed. Samuel P. Waldo of Alden
a farmer. was called Waldo was ac-
copied and was sworn in as the ninth
juror.
Andrew ]. Smith. dealer in butter
and eggs, Of Buffalo. was next called.
His answers were satisfactory to coun-
sci for both sides and he took the
tenth chair in the jury box.
The name of Truman d. Keyes of
Collins was called and he did not re-
spond.
You will fine Mr. Keyes s25." said
the court. Four others were called and
/ excused. Joachim H. -Mertens a shoe
dealer of Buffalo, was called. He had
formed an opinion, but was open to a
reasonable doubt, and was accepted and
sworn as the eleventh Juror at 2.20r
Robert J. Adams, a contractor. had
formed an opinion. He was accepta-
BILE to both sides. however, Snd the
jury was completed by his being sworn
in.
Frederick Halter, assistant district
attorney, began the presentation for
prosecution at 2;4S. He reviewed the
assassination of the president his ill
ness and death. The prosecution
would endeavor to prove. said he that
the defendant had been for several days
prior to the shooting informed of Pres
ident McKinley's movements; that he
entered the Temple of Music at the
weapon concealed beneath a handker-
chief in his hands; that he appeared
before the president to shake hands
with him and fired the shots that re-
suited in the death of the chief execu-
tive.
While the assistant district attorney
was speaking, the court officials were
busy mailing up on a blackboard a large
map of the Temple of Music, in which
the crime occurred.
Fields is First Witness.
Samuel J. Fields. a civil engineer.
was the first witness. He was chief
engineer of the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton and visited the Temple of Music
on the day of the crime to take meas
urements Of the positions of articles at
the time it occurred.
The witness was questioned by the
district attorney His cross-eXamina-
ton by Judge Titus was brief bringing
out the TACT that the witness had no
personal knowledge of the locations oc-
cupied by the various persons with the
receiving party, but indicated them as
he had been told they were placed.
Percy A Bliss, the second witness,
testified that on the day following the
crime he photographed the interior of
the Temple of Music at the district at
: torneys request The photographs.
which were very large ones, were
, passed to the defendants counsel and
afterwards to the jurors.
Dr. Harvey r: GAYLORD was then
called and testified that he performed
the autopsy upon the body of Presi-
dent Mckinley. He described the loca-
ton of the wounds in the stomach and
: the direction OF the bullet. The funda-
] mental causes of death were the
changes back of the stomach. he said
The actual cause was absorption of the
broken down matter of the pancreas.
There was, in his opinion, nothing
: known to medical science which would
have arrested the progress of the
changes caused by the massage of the
: bullet through the pancreas.
Mynter Tells of Operation.
DR.. Herman Mynter was the next