Arizona republican., 1901-11-07
THE MCDONALD CASE
The Famous Trial Was Begun
 Yesterday
The Whole Day Was Taken Up With the Slow Work of Selecting Jury-The Challenge in One Case.

The trial of George Mcdonald, charged with the murder of F. P. Gard ner,' was begun in district court yester- day. The whole day was occupied in the selection of the jury and it was not until o'clock, an hour after the usual hour of adjournment, that the jury was procured. The members are w. B. Will sop, Kinsey Phelps, w. l.. Mccartney, w. M. Price, J. w. Black, C. c. Mont gomery. F. l.. Norris. O. l.. Rudd, c. w. Brown, R. Hill, J. E. StovaH and Robert Friedel. The regular venire was exhausted before noon and A special venire was ordered. There was not much of that left when the last juryman was passed for cause.
 It appeared that every talesman eX- amined had either read of the tragedy or heard it discussed and most of them had formed or expressed an opinion which would prevent them from doing either the defendant or the territory justice.
 Among those passed carry in the day was H. F. Collins. who said that not withstanding the secondhand informa- tion he had of the tragedy. he could enter upon the trial of the case without bias. Later in the day Messrs. Alex ander and Bullard. counsel for the de fense. tried to impeach him. They put on the stand Constable E. H. Martin, who swore that on the day of the pre- liminary examination of Mcdonald. Collins. standing at the head of Wal street, had said that If what he had heard about the case were true, Mo Donald ought to hang" Collins denied having made any such statement and said to the best of his recollection he was not in town that day. Attorney ' Tltt1l nrd coll Inl for Inc g1f NT notes in the examination of Collins touching his qualifications to act to prove that he had said the reason he was not present at the examination the doorway of the court room was so crowded that he could not get in. The notes failed to disclose that statement.
 Judge Street sustained the challenge of the defense, but desired that it be not understood that the juryman was to be considered to be impeached. His order was made to relieve him of the embarrassment of serving in q case ir which he might even appear to be prejudiced.
 In the questions to the talesmen the most inquiries were whether they knew Capt. Hi Mcdonald. the father of the defendant, and Ray Cartledge, the principal witness for the territory.
 When the jury had been selected the court ordered it to be at once put in charge of bailiffs and not to be allowed to separate until the case had been de- termined. Captain Alexander remind co the court that no request had been made by either party for the confine- ment of the jury. The court replied that he had made the orGer on his own motion. The hearing or evidence will be begun this morning.
 Judge Street then asked all members of the venire who were not then in service to offer any valid reason why they should be discharged, but he said he did not want his request to be con- strued to be an invitation to trump up reasons.
 Among those who responded was F. Reedy, who said he did not think he was eligible to serve as juryman. He was a resident of Michigan and had been in the territory only five days. He was excused.
 The jury in the case of Juan Flores the Yaqui youth who killed Moloque. after having been out all night yester- day morning returned a verdict of manslaughter. The jury had been di vided between this crime and murder in the second degree.