The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-29
VEN|RE DRAWN FOR
THE HAYWOOD CASE
$50 Names From Which to
Select the Twelve.
BAL TIMORE DISPOSITIONS
Judge PEBBLES Charges Grand Jury 10 Indie
Delinquent Tax-payers and Vagrau!s---
Dave Lane Case Continued
Again.

Inc cIlmlndl teTIu Ol wake superior
Court began yesterday morning at ten
O'Clock, with Judge R. B. PEBBLES. of
Northampton. presiding.
The Grand Jury was sworn in, as fol
lows " c. Royster foreman; Theo.
Maynard, A. L. Harris, Eugene Barthoma,
A. c. Cleg, j. w. Yates, E. A. Adams, j.
c. Baugh, w. G. Terrell, c. d. Jones, II.
Loeb, John M. Luther, Willis C. Briggs,
R. P. NOVEL;, Percy V. Mitchiner, Benia-
min Horton, j. H. Anderson and H. B.
Holland
The judges charge was very brief,
owing to the fact that he is suffering
from a severe attack of hoarseness. He
especially spoke of the. persistent failure
of many persons to pay their taxes, and
urged the Grand Jury to indict all per-
sons who were delinquent after all the
necessary notices had been served. Then
he dwelt strongly upon the vagrant law,
and denounced vagrancy III no uncertain
language. He said that the loafer, the
man with no visible means of support,
made his living off some one else's eff
forts; that he either gambled for living
or committed larceny when in need of the
necessaries of life. He charged the jury
that it was their duty to see that every
known vagrant was indicted.
After several minor cases had been con
tinued or otherwise disposed of by con-
sent, among them, the case against Dave
Lane, the negro lawyer. for seduction,
Mr.. Walter E. Daniel of Weldon, acting
solicitor for the Haywood case, moved
that the Register of Deeds be ordered to
bring the Jury box into court in order
that the special venire in the case Of
State VS.. Haywood could be drawn. Mr..
| Daniel asked for a special venire of $50
men.
| Ernest Haywood was present in the
court room, with his brothers, Messrs. A
W. and Edgar Haywood and DR.. Hubert
! Haywood, and his counsel Mr.. James H.
| Pou, Col. T. NJ. Argo. Col ]. C. L. Harris,
Capt. w. H. Day, Mr. ]. n. Holding, Mr..
S. g. Ryan. Mr.. w. N. jones. Col. John
w Hinsdale, Mr.. Elmer NJ Shaffer and
Charles U. Harris. Besides Solicitor
Daniel, there were present for the State
Senator John E. Woodland, of Wilson
Senator Donnell Gillian, of Tarboro
Senator H. E. Norris, of Raleigh, and
Mr.. R. C. Strong, of Raleigh.
Col. Argo opposed Mr.. Daniels motion
saying that $50 veniremen would give an
unjust advantage to the State. He con
tended that the number should be 200
Judge PEBBLES ruled that $50 should be
drawn, and ordered the Register of Deeds
into court with the jury box.
Then the drawing of names commenced
The Jury box consisted of a wooden box
with two compartments, one open and
the other having slot in the top. In
the open one were a lot of H. of paper
each one containing the name of a quail
fed voter OF Wake county. The box was
placed upon a table, and Deputy Clerk
of the Court Vitrumus Register placed
little Spencer Stell, son of Deputy Sheriff
Stell, on a chair by the table, and the
little boy would draw out the slips of
paper one by one, while Mr.. Register
would read out the names, which were
taken down by the clerk of the court
the Register of Deeds and several of the
attorneys. So the twenty-five names
were drawn, from which the twelve men
will be selected who are to say whether
Ernes Haywood, in shooting Ludlow Skin
ner, was gully of murder in the first de-
gree, murder in the second degree, man
slaughter, or was justified by the cir
cumstances.
The drawing of the venire was conduct
soon as the list was placed in the hands
of the Sheriff, he dispatched deputies in
I'll directions, some on horseback through
the county to summon the men drawn to
be present on the morning of Thursday,
October first, the day set for the trial to
begin. number of those drawn reside
in Raleigh, and many of those were noti-
fed last night.
Yesterday morning there were also
formally opened in the office of the
Clerk of the Court, in the presence of all
the attorneys on both sides, the deposi-
tions taken in Baltimore last week by
Col. J. c. l.. Harris and Col. John w.
Hinsdale. in the presence of Senator John
E. Woodland for the State. These depo-
sitions were as to the character of Mr..
Bernard A. Schmitz, one of the principal
witnesses for Haywood. There are about
thirty of them in all. and among those
testifying are: Mayor McLane Gen. F.
c. Latrobe, Congressman Frank c. Wach-
ter and James w. Denny, Attorney Gen
eral Rayner. Mr.. Charles R. Schirm, Jud &c
Charles w. Heuisler, Mr.. Harry Wells
Rusk, Brother Abraham. president Of
Rock Hill College; Brother Dennis, presi-
dent of Calvert Hall College; Mr. James
Bond, Police Commissioner E. H. Fowler.
Col. Arthur d. Foster, Former City Soil