The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-10
Slight Progress in An
 drewS Murder Case.
CROWDS PACK THE ROOM
Witness Sent to Jail by Judge
 Miller.
.. D. Stewart Expressed Opinion In Presence of venireman, and for This Must Serve Five Days
 in County Bastiie.
By Will T. sheehan.

By Will T. sheehan. Camden. Nov. 9.-(Speoial sCorre- spondence. )-Working far into the night, Judge B. M Miller and his court were able to get no further today in the trial of Bob and John Andrews. for the terrible murder of their father and stepmother, than the selection of the jury.
 The hearing of evidence had to go over until tomorrow morning.
 The drawing of the jury was long and monotonous.
 The Andrews case is a celebrated case in Wilcox County. It has been dis cl ssed at every crossroads, perhaps in every home, and men have made up their mind upon the guilt or innocence of the men accused of the terrible crime. and so householders or freehold CTS of Wilcox to large numbes came forward and answered questions before a jury of twelve of their peers could be found to try the men accused of the terrible crime of December 12th.
 Throughout the day the court room was filled from door to door and from window to window. Many of these who filled the room were special jurors, oth- CTS were witnesses, and others were kinsfolk of the young men accused of the terrible crime Some of these kins- folk appear in the role of prosecuting witnesses, others coming forward as supporters of their accused kinsmen.
 On the rear benches of the court room, and in the county offices down. stairs there were members of the An drews family, men, women and chill dren.
 Prisoners Study veniremen.
 And throughout the gloomy. drizzly November day Bob and John Andrews sat behind their counsel and side by side studied the face of the men who would have, through the law, the power of life and death over them.
 The rain beat against the window panes, the crowd moved in and out of the court room. hut the two men let 1t all pass unnoticed, keeping their steady gaze upon the officials and the jurors.
 Night came eeon. the big student lamps were lighted and brought into the court room, for the judges desk, the clerks desk and the table of the lawyers, but Inc two brothers over whom hangs the shadow of a terrible murder charge. sat gazing intently at those who could give them life or who could give them death.
 There was one incident of tense inter est to mark the nonotonous drawing of the jury. A venirennan told the judge that one of the witnesses had talked to hin. about the murder. He said it was J B. Stewart, who was a neigh bor of James Andrews. the dead man. Mr. Stewart was called before the bar.
 Stewart Sent to Jail
 He admitted that he said the An drews brothers deserved worse than hanging, but he told the Judge that he did not know that 1t was in the presence of special jurors when he made the assertion. There was some conflicting testimony on this and the incident closed by Judge Miller sent enoing MT. Stewart to five days In jail. And when say put him in jail." sai1 Judge Miller. T mean put himin jail" Coming in and cut the court room during the day were the boy and girl, less than 12 years of age, the natural children of James Andrews and whose word will send their half brothers to the g.tlows, if the jury should believe their evidence fully and should not be- lieve them incapable of knowing the nature of an oath. They are the important witnesses of the State, and out side of the prisoners, the centre of interest in this tragic af- fair. They were present at the enact ment of the fearful tragedy and they have given damaging evidence against the accused men. but they are, young, and the defense claims that they don't know the nature of an oath, and that they are under the Influence of an aunt who is helping the prosecution.
 At the last trial some of the jury men believed this contention and a n1istrial resulted
 Claim of the Defense.
 The defense will claim that James Andrews murdered his young wife and that he was killed in a struggle with his son John who sought to take the pistol away from him. when he saw what his father had done.
 The defense will introduce a number of witnesses who will testify that ten days previous and on the day of the Ia threatened kill his young wife.
 The drawing of the jury was not com plete until after o'clock tonight its members are c. c. Roberts, J. A. McKin- ney, T. J. Pearson. Charley Fen. w. J. Foxworth W. A. McClean, J. W. Nor gan, J. B. Coleman, J. s. Tucker, w M Brooks, N. Brooks and T. J. Edwards
 The prisoners sat in the center of the wide space for attorneys and court of ficials railed off from the rest of the big court room. They are yet young men, both of them. Neither of the two is much above thirty. Both were cleanIy and closely shaven. except as to the upper lip. both men wearing heavy mustaches.
 The jail pallor, so marked in prison CTS who have been long confined, Is - just beginning to show itself on the face of these men. who have spent so much of their lives in the sun and air. The eyes of both are small and deep set, but their facial expression is not for bidding nor repellant. They would be taken everywhere for brothers. and they could easily be mistaken for twins.
 John Shows the Strain.
 John Andrews, who. at the last trial. came nearest the death sentence and who is held by the State to have done most of the violence on that terrible December night shows most the effect of the strain. the two men have been
 T-A Ak- train at Schuster and rode to the home of their father and stepmother. His face Is thinner end he appears more Neither of them, however, showed him self especially nervous.
 Both were neatly dressed. wearing the store bought clothes of the farmer fin moderate circumstances Bob An Irews wore a lowered and rather loud lie But the tie of John Andrews was black.
 The brothers hung upon every word ~ fha court nrocaedinaR