Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-11-25
MANY BIG SURPRISES
FOLLOW RAPIDLY IN
POWERS CASE
New Venire for New Trial
Was Summoned Today
Prom Grant
County.
EFFORT Being MADE TO
keep DEMOCRATS OFF
Special Judge Morris Gives Red-
son for Diminishing Venire
Summoned From Scott
County Sheriff is
Ex0ncrdted.

Georgetown, KY, Nov. 25.-Fol-
lowing the first victory of the at
torneys for Caleb Powers, when they
secured the dismissal of the Harri-
son county venire last Wednesday.
Powers friends and supporters have
become very enthusiastic over the
prospects for the future trial.
Concluding the opinion, wherein he
dismissed the Harrison county ven-
ire, which was found to be COM
posed of democrats almost exclusive
ly, Judge Morris made very Inn
portant statement and Governor
open with a statement with refer
ence to Judge Morris opinion.
Concluding this important opinion,
Judge Morris said:
II do not want to preside at the
trial of any man when there is any
just ground of suspicion that he has
not had fair trial, and that there
has been any discrimination against
him in the selection of a jury, for
that is the vital point of the trial,
and because there might be well
grounded suspicion of discrimina-
ton, and while / do not think it
more than that, l am going to sus-
tain the motion to discharge the
second venire."
Following the order discharging
the second venire. Judge Morris over
ruled the motion to discharge the
first, declaring that the objections TO
II had not been sustained.
VIII Not Appoint Eiisor.
Judge Morris overruled the de-
fense's motion for the appointment
of an elisor to summon the next ven-
ire, and an alternative motion that
Sheriff Warning be required 10 select
.af ell n anA q h
deputy. and directed that venire
of $50 men be summoned today, all
to be drawn from Grant county, a
democratic county, which joins Scott
on the north.
The efforts of the defense to get a
venire from Fayette were without
avail
Never in the history of this fam
Gus case have surprises come more
raIidly. After the effort of the de-
fense to have Sheriff Warning super
seded for fear of his partisanship,
for which reason they had asked for
a republican deputy. the sheriff sug-
gested to Judge Morris that there
would be no personal objection on
the part of the officer to friend of
Powers accompanying him through
Grant county while on his official
duty, and promising due courtesy to
the gentleman. The offer when an
nounced was accepted by the de-
fense's attorneys.
The defense lost out in its motion
to have James Howard brought to
Georgetown jail. to be near Powers
for consultation. the court declining
for want of authority.
Causes a Sensation.
The weight of testimony introduce
ed before Judge Morris exonerated
the sheriff of Scott county and his
deputies, but the results of their work
in Harrison county led the court TO
the expression of an opinion that
created a sensation. In sustaining
the motion of the defense, Special
Judge Morris. an ardent democrat
and as appointee of Governor Beck
ham, said:
"The proof indicates that the dem
ocratic majority in Harrison county
is somewhere in the neighborhood of
zoe, perhaps more, in the last cleo
ton. The proof indicates that in
the precincts where the veniremen
were summoned, there is an over
whelming predominance OF demo-
Gratis. not so much in the last cleo
ton as in previous elections per-
haps. Now, in looking over these
lists i'm proof here, it must be strik-
ing that so many democrats were
summoned on these venires and so
few republicans