The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10
District Court AdjOurns After
the Failure.
Out of Sixty-three Men Called
Twelve Not Eligible.
T ALL COMES HIGH.
Costs Are Already Over $500
for This Jury.
Eight New Names Drawn for
Mondays Session.


Mondays Session.
The original panel of % men, a first
special venire Of 20 men, and a second
special venire of Il men, were examined
between Friday afternoon and today
noon to obtain a jury in the district
court to try the case against Chris
Maier and Charles Reynorv charged with
selling liquor and maintaining a nuis-
ance at 400 Kansas avenue, and still
the u requisite men had not yet been
obtained to fill the box. So the court
ordered third special venire Of eight
men drawn to report on Monday after
noon at 1:30 o'clock at which time the
case wiz be resumed. This makes a
total OF 63 men subpoenaed for one case,
and still a jury has not yet been made
up. The state has exhausted both of its
| Two rights Of challenge, While the at
| torneys for the defendant have still two
left out of eight The latter announced
! their determination to exert them Mon
! DAY, and consequently still more trou-
| bic is in sight.
Age limit, physical inability to at
/ tend, failure of sheriff to find the iur-
/ ors, defective hearing, press of business.
TOO pronounced desire to enforce the
prohibitory law over all others. opinions
1 OF the guilt OF the defendants which it
1 would take evidence to remove, sacrifice
! of business interests, and arbitrary chal-
/ lenges for cause, were in the main the
reasons for the difficulty in obtaining a
jury.
Up-to-date this one case has cost the
| county 1881 for jury, service, witnesses,
and drawing fees alone, and the end is
not yet in sient. That it will be more
than $500 when finished is even too con-
/ servative a figure.
i A table of the cost follows.
/ Original jury, % men at 81 per day IS Is
Trgsf 1nl 1ra afHE
day --.--.-..... ....-.-.-- ...-.. 40
Second special venire, Il men at 81
per day ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. "A
Third special venire, 8 men at 81 per
i 20 witnesses. service, fee for days
at $3.50 per --............-.. 159
Sherims drawing fees........... s
Service on 40 special jurors ......... 40
Total ................ .............s 1881
A juror gets 81 a day for his work
It costs the county about an average
Of one dollar each to serve them. This
includes service, mileage and drawing
of the notice. The sheriff gets 81 for
each drawing of names from the box.
The witnesses receive $3.50 per day.
They have been in attendance Friday
and today and must report again Mon
day afternoon, giving them three days
pay up to date There are % of these.
The sheriff also gets about one dollar
each for serving them. The service on
the original panel of % jurors is not
named in this table, but only on the
10 drawn in the three special venires
The case commenced on Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. The original
2 5 men were exhausted within an hour
and one-half. So the court ordered
the drawing of a first special Venlre to
report this morning at 3 O'Clock. The
following were chosen, 20 in all: 4.
Parsons, D. w. Norton, Fred Leuen-
berger, J. ". Jones. B. H. Stark, r
NJ. Rfgdon. D. H. Forbes, g. s. Ben
nett Thomas HOrsefeld. T. D. Ham
matt, W. c. Stephenson, Il. 5. Day,
John NJ. Currier, John Knoll c. H.
Roof E r. Davis, F. L. Stevens, c. E.
Hubbard, r. 7. Howard, z. ". Tat
man.
They reported with the exception Of
two who could not be found. Again
the relentless examination was con-
tinued by the attorneys and by ham
l.past ten the list was exhausted. The
l-court ordered the drawing of II more
men on a second special venire and
these names were taken from the box;
w H Reed lip. Johnson, Herbert
Hackney Samuel Huston, T. W.
George c. Martindale. Thomas Chap-
pelle, c. d. Meyers. I. j. Ketcham w.
Only seven of these reported the
other five not being in the city. About
half past eleven work was resumed
but the seven who came were still not
enough to fill the jury box Judge
Dana stated to the attorneys that more
than so men had been drawn so far
and he wished they would obtain the
u necessary men. fBut." he said, III
YOU cannot do it. then let us draw an
other venire. Tt was ordered and
done.
Eight were drawn. Their names
follow: John A. Kleinbans. A. b
Whiting. e. Mather, Harry Roehrs
John Richie, T. r. Sheard, A. A.
Schmidt. John Feiget.
These will report on Monday after
noon at 1.30 o'clock when the case
will again be taken up It is more
than likely that the iurv viii be filed
at that time, although the defendants
still have two rights Of challenge left
If the same experience is met as this
morning and yesterday afternoon, the
worlds record for special venires may
be smashed.
What is the trouble ?" was asked OF
Assistant Attorney General Carver, who
is handling the case for the state
ST understand he replied, that
/, these two men keep a nice quiet place
. down there and sell good beer Lots
of people must go there. That is the
way I account for it
The defendants attorneys had little
to say Carver is doin9 it all, said
u Galen Nichols with a laugh.
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