The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-15
The News of Selma.

Tuting anything. In his address to the jury Colonel Quarles charged him with poisoning the mind of the dying man against Lawrence, his best friend, and seeking to profit financially by Bei- mans death." Eagle Is a merchant in this city.
 Throughout the day his two brothers and several friends sat near Lawrence and were with him when the verdict was announced. This afternoon when the news that the case would go to the jury had spread from one end of the city to the other the court room. large and capacious, was crowded with spectators.
 It will be remembered that on Jan Beiman met his death in the rear of his store on Broad Street by a wound caused by a 3S-calibre pistol. He ac- cused Lawrence of shooting him and Lawrence has since been held. Mayor Atkins bound him over to the grand jury at the preliminary. when three lawyers prosecuted him, and since that time he has been in the county Jail. The plea of the defense throughout was that Lawrence shot Beiman accident ally.
 Tomorrow the murder cases of Sam Williams and Tobe Johnson, negroes, will be tried.
 The empanneling of juries. excusing jurors and witnesses consumed the time of the court this morning after the Lawrence case was called at Il o'clock. When this was completed a recess was taken until o'clock in the afternoon.
 A special venire of about eighty jurymen was drawn and the majority of them answered their names and were declared competent. Jury No. 1 is composed of Lock Brady. w. c. Ward, Jr.. J. M. Wilson. J. A Whitman, J. Irving Smith. George Phillips, Harry Broadway, l.. R. Godlin, Thomas Fl. Holmes, V. L. Allison and w. w. Berry. E. M. Marshall was declared incompetent because he would not con- vict on circumstantial evidence.
 The names of the other talesmen were called and they were examined. Less than a dozen said they had fixed opinions about the case, on capital and penttentiary punishment and would not convict on circumstantial evidence. Only two said that they had fixed opinions as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant and one of the two was accepted because he said he could render a true verdict after weighing the evidence.
 T. S. Vaughan, J. W. Demmitt. T. W. Berry. McD. Campbell. George W. Rut- ledge, c. B. Warr. William Warr and L. H. fMoseley were made a part of jury No. 9, but Mir. Campbell was de- cided incompetent
 The venire contained the following names: I. Schwartz, w. B. Keitz W aI- ter Duncan, Walter Callen. D. St. El- more Scott, Ed Gilman, F. P. Irwin, c. W. Parks, J. P. Maxwell. w. C. Holloway. W. L Middleton. l. Leipold, John Sherrill, L. Benish, J. s. O'Guinn, W. B. Tarver, Thomas G. Gayle, J. H. Martin, w. D. POrtiss, H. H. Smith, s. B. Olds, O. c. Miley, H M. Hindsman. S. H. Kyser. Edgar Wood. Norman Stanford, E. C. Melvin, J. B. Melton, J. W. Lovick, Joe Fritz, J. E. Wright, c. F. McCoe, J. W. Majors, J. H. Will Hams, Riley D. Stone, W. P. Welch, Jr., W. T. Porter.
 The names of the following witnesses in the Lawrence case were called pr. S. G. Gay, J. L. Bishop, Joe Rosen- burg, David Beiman, E. T. Walters. pr. W. w. Harper, S. Eagle, J. R. White for the State, and W. c. Day. J. A. Full ford, W. L. Weaver, l. Yaretzky, Enos R. Stewart, W. H. .LaGrone, Mrs. Ida Beiman. Miss Ruth Beiman. B. c. Nose ley Percy Day, Norman Ellis, Martha Cunningham, Gus Callen, J. L. Low, l. DeDardelaben, MT. boyd, ThomaS Johnson, Henry Johnson. Henry Phil lips, Ernest Lamar, J. W. McFerran. pr. W. W. Harper. Dr. s. c. Gay. J. R. White, Robert W. Young, J. J. Chisholm. T. P. McCreary and Judge Daniel Partridge for the defense.
 On account of the illness of Police man J. R. White, who Is a material wit ness for the prosecution, that side asked for a continuance until the wit ness could recover sufficiently to come into court. He was the only one of the States witnesses absent and the court forced the prosecution to trial. The defense then announced that 1t was ready for the trial to commence.