Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-03
HALT IN TROLLEY STRIKERS TRIAL.
Counsel For Prisoners Asked For Time to Examine New Pane It Was Graned-Nne Jurors DraWn-Frs Panel Ex. hausted-New One Summoned ed-Adournment
 Taken Until TOMorrOW Morning

l Sheriff Durham testified he did not give a list to MT Williams nor did he. serve any of the warrants. MT Williams was then sworn and he stated that he saw the jury list about 9:30 o'clock last night. It was shown to him by MT Gallagher, assistant clerk of the New Haven superior court
 This was all the evidence taken and
 MT Williams moved for the discharge of the challenge. He said he waited in
 the court house till 9:3O to see the list
 MT O'Neill replied that it was evil dently the intention of the state officials | to get jury prejudiced to the defense. Such course could not fail to reflect on the judicial conduct of the state off, cers. It should not be so in case like this; that not the slightest breath of
 taint should be cast upon them or their
 conduct. 1t was strange that the state should know all about the list at
 9:30 last night and the defense not
 know anything about it until this
 morning. MT O'Neill did not think
 the state judiciary would tolerate such
 a state of affairs He then moved that the new list of jurors be excluded. l The court ruled that he would give | the defense until 2 o'clock to look into the qualifications of the second panel l of jurors.
 l The examination of the first panel was then resumed This took three lquarters of an hour. There were eight jurors examined and one of them was accepted, making nine altogether. l Counsel for the defense then retired
 and after moment MT Hamilton ask 1 ed to be allowed until tomorrow morn l ing to prepare to examine the second l jury panel The panel was called and I all but three responded. MT Williams
 asked that ten more jurors be summon ed. MT Hamilton thought sufficient were on hand to select three more jur- ors from. As nine were selected from fifty, surely three could be chosen from twenty three having been ex-
 cused. The court decided to summon
 no more.
 The excused jurors were John T..
 Shanley of New Haven, Terrence $.
 Allis of Derby and Samuel F. Bradley
 of East Haven. Court then adjourned to 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. l Greater care was exercised to-day in giving admittance to the court room,
 consequently the great crush of yes- v available inch in the court room was occupied. Among those present was
 Mrs Gary of Naugatuck After court adjourned she passed to the dock and spoke to the accused. A number of young women, apparently relatives of the accused sat near the dock. l Yesterday Wo1cott, who 1t is believed will turn states evidence, was on hand I q the custody of Detective Rogers. This
 morning he passed i'll the office of the
 assistant states attorney. The boys about whose whereabouts
 great deal of speculation was indulg
 ed in last week, were on hand early and
 immediately after court began to clamor for their fees as witnesses and their mileage from Otis in Massachu- setts, where they had been camping out when Sheriff Rigney dropped upon them No fees will be paid until the case is over.
 There is good deal of gossip flying
 around the court house just now. One of the facts, however, is that At torney Meigs, who defended all strike
 breakers in the city court, and prose- cuted all cases arising out of the troll ley strike will assist the state.
 Following are the jurors who have been accepted:
 North Branford- -Sedley Bartlett, painter and paper hanger; Charles J. Jordon, farmer.
 Oxford-Clayton Scars, lineman and general workman; Henry B. Treat, farmer
 Cheshire Charles S. Gillette, farm- e..
 Guilford- F. Rowland, shoe dealer; Henry H. Griswold, farmer; William H. Potter, farmer.
 Wallingford- A. Simpson, farmer.