The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-10
READY FOR
 TESTIMONY Jury Secured to Try Jet
 and White. ALL MAG0FFIN FARMERS EliS0r Jones Has Exciting Time Securing Them. At a Wild Spot in the Country He Was Held Up, But He Fired
 and the Highwaymen
 Ran Away.
ALL MAG0FFIN FARMERS

Jackson. Ky, June s.-The jury to try Curtis Jett and Tom White, charged with the shooting of J. B. Marcum as he stood in the court house door, was completed shortly before 2 o'clock tonight
 The twelve men were placed under the charge of the elisor and his deputies and will be sworn and the opening statements made in the morning. The present in- dications are that testimony will be com mcnccd before noon.
 The jury are all Magoffin County farm CTS who said they had not read newspaper accounts of the tragedy and knew no details of 1t. They were accepted after an afternoon and evening of arguments. challenges and the filing of numerous af- fidavits Their names are: Burns Fitx- patrick. James Allen, Dick Miller. Levi Hacker R. May. VIII Reid. Jasper Wal len, Estill Reid, N. B. Salyer, James Bondy. Hall Prather and J. H. Ridd A detail of soldiers joined the eiisor in attendance upon upon the jury. Both sides seem satisfied with the body. The defense exhausted it's fifteen peremptory challenges and the prosecution used threa of it's five.
 Elisor Jones Held Up.
 The extra veniremen did not arrive frosn Magoffin County until o'clock They were secured after strenuous ef- forts on the part of the elisor who rode all night through the hills. Shortly be- fore midnight he was held up in wild portion of the country. a man springing from behind a tree and seizing his bridle. Jones fired full in the mans face. He said the man reeied then made oh through the bushes.
 Among the affidavits filed this after noon was one by S. H. c. Hurst, in which he alleged that money was offered men in Magoffin County if they could get to be veniremen. Hurst alleges that one s. H. Garnett told one man that he could net Sln0. aad anotliar s4A if they could become members Of the special venire. fk has before been alleged that powerful faction which by some ft is accredited with keeping a large number of men on its payroll for service somewhat similar to that of militiamen. had agents in the counties bordering Breathitt. The men cited in the affidavits referred to was excused by Judge Redwine.
 What Noble Would Swear.
 In an affidavit. the defense alleged that S. E. L. Noble, an absent witness, would testify that from his position, Jett could not have fired the shot which killed Marcum. On the ground of his absence, the defense asked postponement. but tha prosecution admitted that if present No- He would so testlIy ana the preiimlna~ ries proceeded
 Ninety per cent of the veniremen had not read newspaper accounts of the kill- ing of Marcum and the rigid examination was directed as to their kinship and re- lations with people in Breathitt County, or their friends or relatives in Magoffin County. Tn some instances what to the casual observer seemed no bar, meant a great disqualification, to tbose whose knowledge of feuds enabled them to trace a friendship or relationship through sev- eral families or possibly go back several generations and find a tie that might have a bearing on the present state of affairs in Jackson. An extra guard will attend Jett and White during the trial,
 No More Indiscriminte Firing.
 Frankfort, Ky. June s.-A lengthy con- ference was held here this afternoon at the Executive Department in which Gov- ernor Beckham. State Inspector Hines, Col. Roger Williams, in command at Jackson. and Major E. W. LilIard, sec ond in command, participated. At it's close the State Guard officers left for Jackson accompanied by the State Inspec-
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