The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
NINE JURORS ARE CHOSEN
THREE MORE TO BE SELECTED FOR THE RATHBUN TRIAL TO-DAY

THREE M OR E TO BE SELECI ED FOI
 THE RATHBUN TRIAL TO-DAY.
 Panel of Sixty Almost Exhausted-New
 Panel of Twenty-Five to be Examined
 This Morning-The Famous Murder
 Trial isAbout to Begin-Mrs. Rathbuni
 Her Children, Witnesses and Great
 Crowd i'm the Court Room.
 The impanelling of the jury that will
 hear the evidence in the Rathbun mur-
 der trial took up the entire day yester-
 day and when court adjourned at
 o'clock nine of the twelve were chosen.
 The men chosen 50 far are as folloWs'
 Elmer E. Brooks of Prospect, William
 Hosley of East Haven, Henry s. Eros of
 Cheshire, Hubert M. Johnson of Nauga-
 tuck, Charles B. Wooster of Ansonia,
 George w. Carter of Guilford, Henry
 M. Rossiter of Guilford. Edward A.
 Hitchcock of Woodbridge. and s. R.
 Ryder of Seymour These men, with three others to be chosen to-day. will render the verdict of the now famouse case and 1t was after long and tire some days proceedings that these nine men were chosen. There were sixty men in the panel, and of these sixty all but one responded. D. s. Williams of Meriden, the sixtieth man, is dead. Up to the closing of court fifty five of the f1fty-nine men had been examined leav- ing four, besides the new panel of twenty-five to be examined to-day. Thirteen were excused by the defense five by the state, and twenty-eight were excused by the court.
 The other nine were accepted. It was not expected that the inlpanelling of the jury would take up more than a day and half, and from present indt cations it looks as though the twelve men would be chosen before noon to- day. If the jury Is selected this morn ing the case will go on trial this after noon.
 All during the proceedings yesterday Mrs. Rathbun sat in the court room near the prisoners pen and her face was covered by a heavy black veil. With her, Or near her in the court were three of her children, two girls and boy, and 1t could be easily seen that the children's interest in the outcome of the trial was very great, as they were con- tinualy about their mother, and she often had her arm around the smaller of the children.
 Tn the prisoners pen sat John F. Hart, who was found guilty of adultery with Mrs Rathbun earlier in the term He is held as a witness in the Rathbun trial and also for sentence by the court on the five charges of adultery on which he was convicted. Hart's sister and another woman were the only wo- men besides Mrs Rathbun in the court room yesterday afternoon The import ant witnesses in the trial were also there They are Coroner Mix. Detec- lives McGrath, Donnelly and Ward, Captain Brewer of the Grand avenue station, and a few others.
 The interest iA the case, if the crowd In the galleries can be taken for mean ing anything, is great for every seat in that section of the court room was crowded at the session of the morning and afternoon.
 Tn the morning session twentysix of the panel were examined, and three were accepted. They are Elmer H. Brooks, William Hosley and Henry s. Frost.
 THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
 The afternoon session yesterday op- ened with the examination Of Freder- ique R. Lewis at 2 o'clock. Mir. Lewis Is from West Haven. He had formed an opinion that crime had been com- mitted and was excused by the court.
 JohnSE. Platt aretired business man of Ansonia, was then called and as his views were about the same as those of MT. Lewis, he, too, was excused by the court, { Horatio Willard, the next man exam ined, also thought crime had been and as 1t would require evil dence to remove the opinion he was excused by the court.
 John Twitchell was opposed to capi- | tai punishment for woman, and he was accordingly excused by the court
 Almon J. Doolittle of Wallingford | said he had prejudice. against circum 5tantial evidence, and he was excused l by Judge Elmer.
 j. Il ut lOuTtu -J JuIOT CHOocH WdS LIcI- pert H. Johnson of Naugatuck. MT. Johnson is in the rubber business. and mad served on juries in 1852, 1898 and 1900. There was no objection by the state or by the defense. and the candi- late was accepted.
 Charles B. Wooster of Ansonia was he next man examined. He is a ma son and contractor, and has served on uries in civil cases a few times Mir was accepted
 Thomas Crane of Ansonia was next .alled and he said he had some exper- ence on jury. He had read little on he case. Excused by the defense.
 Everitt B. Clark oe Orange was then ,alled, He Is a seed grower and dealer. He was excused by the defense, and Ln exception was noted
 Albert c. Tibbals of Milford had no Experience on juries. He had read of he case in the New York papers only. Arr. Tibbals was excused by the state. The next candidate called was Lavel- cite Upson of Wolco.t. Excused by he defense. He read about the case n the Waterbury American.
 George W. Garter of Guilford was ex- mined next.' He is a farmer and aid he had no prejudice against cir '' evidence. He had formed 10 opinion in the case, and his answers yere satisfactory to both state and de- ense, He was accepted as the sixth