Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-03-03
Jury IS SELECTED
TO TRY HARRINGTON
Court Is Holding Night Sessions to
Hurry Trial Along.

The jury that will try Lord" F. Sey-
mour Darlington on the charge OF
numbering James P. Mccain at Bonfls
quarry on the night of June 18, last,
was selected and sworn in at 1920
O'Clock Thursday morning at Clayton.
The following are the ones selected to
serve: II. Schollmeyer, Spanish Lake,
farmer: Charles Barbee. Strattman,
farmer; Ernie Poertner, Grover form
er; Henry p. Aft, MELVILLE, farmer;
George Lehman, valley Park. contract
or; Joseph Lindermann, Black Jack,
merchant; James sutton. Maplewood,
capitalist; A. Davaneys Mokeville, farm
err; G. w. Sale. Bobringville, nursey-
man: j. w. Nickels. Fenton, farmer;
August ART, Ellisviile, farmer; John
J.. Stanage, Old Orchard, insurance.
At 1925 Prosecuting Attorney John
son began the trial by reading the in
dictment against Darlington This in
dictmen contains FIVE counts separ-
ately charging that harrington MUIR
dered Mccain with a pistol, with a
knife or razor, by choking, by drown
ing and that he robbed the body after
the murder The last count was dis
missed at Barrington's preliminary
hearing and the State did not propose
to read it in the circuit court, but
harrington insisted that It be read to
the jury, claiming that he wanted the
Jury to know the charge had been made
and not sustained.
The ProsecutingAttorn stated that
the State would show by the motor
man and conductor of the car that
while they were waiting at the ter
minus of the line for time to return,
they heard pistol shot 10 minutes
after the two men left the car. This
was followed by the indistinct cry of
a man in terror, then came the Sec
ond shot, and silence.
Next morning, the State claims, it
will be shown by the conductor and
motorman of the Rock Road car, Bar
rington was seen by them walking to-
ward town. They passed him several
times, and once only did he turn his
face to them Once he tried to hide be-
hind a coal she'd
The State then follows harrington
to McCann's house, alleging that he
entered the house by the basement
at the rear, that Onie Morrison, col
ored woman servant, threw up her
hands at sight of his blood-stained,
dusty and muddy garments, and cried
out, where is Mr.. Jim?"
Barrington's story of a fight in which
he went to McCann's defense, was
knocked unconscious, and left in a
ditch until the falling rain revived him
at daylight was then reviewed, as he
told it to the servants, to Mrs. Mccain
and to the police. His statement that
Mccain had gone away and had given
him instructions to take charge of the
house, his efforts to get $500 from Mrs.
Mccain on a letter bearing McCam's
name and telegram which followed,
both Of which the State says, he sent
to himself, were detailed. Then the
States attorney. reviewed the story
of the first arrest, the visit with the
detectives to the scene of the alleged
fight, his release, the discovery Of the
nude and mutilated body, Barrington's
preparations for flight, his arrest and
the discovery Of the articles belonging
to Mccain in his trunk.
In stating the States case, Mr.. John
son professed to be able to trace every
movement of harrington and Mccain
up 20 the time Of the murder, and
every movement of Barrinton from a
short while after the murder.
The first witness was called after
the conclusion of Prosecutor Johnson's
speech.
Night sessions Of the court will be
held to hurry the trial along.