Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-06-29
ABOUT THE TRIAL.
What the First Days Developed
Seattle IntelIigsnCer Report.

Seattle InteIIig4nCer Report.
The first day of the trial of Geo.
Mitchell, charged with murder in
the first degree in the killing of
Edwin Creheld. the "Holy
Roller" in the streets of Seattle,
May 7, proved in some senses a
fore cast of the tedious care and
attention which may be expected
to be exhibited by the court and
by the opposing counsel all
through the case, which is ex-
pected to last three weeks. At
the end of the days work twenty
talesmen had been examined, of
whom nine had been selected as
possible jurors in the case.
The questions of both the
prosecuting attorney, Kenneth
Macintosh, and his deputy, John
F. Miller, for the state, and of
Will H. Morris and Silas M.
Shipley, of Morris, Southland &
Shipley, for the defense, covered
almost every possible phase of the
now famous case. Especially
close we're the interrogations on
the attitude of the talesman to the
right OF a man to kill another
under provocations such as Mitch
ell is claimed to have had. The
right OF man to plead insanity
was also a subject for particular
attention on the part of counsel,
the effort being made by the state
to secure men who would explic-
lilly follow the courts supposed
instructions that a man is to be
believed sane until he has estab-
lished his insanity.
Of the jurors Professionally Sc
lected, most OF those from the
country had not read very much
about the case, either being ab-
sent from home about the time of
the killing, or else not close read
ers OF the daily papers. Of those
in the city some declared they
had formed no decided opinion on
the case, and the remainder con-
fessed to such, but thought they
could disregard it in the weighing
of evidence, in accordance with
the instructions of the court.
Mitchell proved a silent spec
tator of the proceedings of the
trial. His brother, Perry Mitch
ell, from Illinois, was allowed to
sit by his side during the day.
The two young men, though
there is two years difference in
their ages, resemble one another
almost as closely as twins. The
one is a triAe paler than the other,
on account of the CONTINENT
of almost two months in the
county Jail. Onlv occasionally
did either make a remark and for
the most part they sat quietly
watching the jurors as the latter
were questioned.
The court room was crowded
the greater part of the day,
aud among the spectators were
several witnesses from Oregon,
already on hand to testify for the
defense. Those who had arrived
yesterday were: o. V. Hurt, faith
er of Mrs. Creffield; E. H. Bald
win, James K. Berry and Louis
Hartley, of Corvallis; Mrs. B. E..
Starr, of Corvallis, Mitchell's Sis
ter; John Catlin, deputy marshal,
and Geo. Van Drant, OF Albany;
B. E. Starr and his three chill.
dren; E. P. Harris, Mrs. Hager
and Mrs. Anna Hager, all OF
cortland, and J ]. Woods, deputy
sheriff; Mayor Robert Morris and
A. Mills, prominent farmer, of
Newberg.
Seattle, WASH, June 27.-It
was day of legal squabble in
the Mitchell murder trial. Will
H. Morris, counsel for the young
man who killed Holy Roller
Crefield, became indignant early
in the day aud fought the efforts
of the prosecuting attorney to
question the talesman along
lines tending to bring out wheth-
er they would take into consider
alton the crime of adultery and