The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-25
FEW MEN ARE
QUALIFIED
Venire Barren Of Jury
Men.
ROOSEVELT IS ENDORSED
One Man Declared He Approved Of
Presidents Letter.
Single yenireman Qualified During Day
OF Tedious Examination while
Another May Get Through.
Women In Court.

Boise, Idaho, May 24.-The SECOND
special venire of talesmen In .n'
Steunenberg murder case is proving
barren of men qualified to act as 9u
rors. Unless the form shown by tnt
first half of them is reversed In TINT
second half, there must be another spe
cial Venire.
The first half has yielded only one
man who actually qualified and only
one more man who may qualify; the
rest went down for fixed opinion OF
bias or various forms Only twenty
six of this venire remained and on tbs
assumption that all peremptory chal'
lenges will be used, seven more Jurors
must be found.
In the procession OF the disqualified
that passed through Judge WOODS
court today came the first man since
the trial began who unqualifiedlS
stands by President Roosevelt and his
utterances as to Meyer. Haywood and
Pettibone.
He is w. 3. Teeter, a farmer, and
a long ago member of the Knights Of
Labor. He came to the stand late In
the afternoon and the States examina-
ton barely qualified him because he
had a certain amount of prejudice
against labor unions Of any kind oil
combination designed to fix prices. was
unITltHuiy To the " tSteTn
of Miners and against Socialism. He
made a distinction between the FEEDER.
alton and members of the federation
and between Socialism and Socialists
however, and finally the State passed
him.
At several points In the examination
by the defense there were indications
that letters answers would give cause
for challenges but he crossed all the
thin ice down the questions of the
letters of President Roosevelt. In an
swer to a question he said that he had
endorsed the letter of President Roose.
welt in which the prisoner was char
acterized as an undesirable citizen.
Car Brought Forward.
Mr.. Richardson snapped a question
about the Gear Of Russia approving
the attitude of President Roosevelt, bu
the State excluded 1t with an objection
Mr. Richardson then asked the tales
man If he thought the prisoner haf
been guilty of melting riot and wal
an undesirable citizen and got an af
firmative answer.
The court sustained the challenge o!
the defense and Mr.. Teeter walked the
plank of bias.
Early in the morning Henry Curtis
qualified for one vacant seat, and the
defense examined and passed John
Wnltioch. mat opened the way 1oI
peremptory challenges again. The
State challenged Isaac Bedell. seat No
2. and there the proceedings halted.
Nineteen talesmen occupied the chair
during the day and the only person
who may stay In II is Finley Mclean
who reached it late this afternoon. He
satisfied the State that he is quail
fed to act and just as adjournment
was ordered. passed to the hands OF
the defense.
Counsel for the State today indicated
a desire to limit the defenses's exami-
nation but the court kept to its early
purpose to allow all possible latitude
More women came into the court
room than on any other day and al
one time there were more than twenty
in the room.
The trial will be resumed tomorrow
morning.