The Mena weekly star., 1907-05-23
HAYWOOD TR|AL TEDIOUS
Another Adjournment Likely in Or der to Summon q New Venire
 of Talesmen.
BOISE MANIFESTS LITTLE INTEREST
Scant Attendance of Spectators When Trial Was Resumed on Monday A Former ksnsan Accepted by Both Sides Many Talesmen Ex- cused for Diverse Reasons.

Boise, Idaho, May 2l lThe number of talesmen to fill the constantly oc- curing vacancies in the jury that is being formed to try William D. Hay wood for the alleged murder of Frank Steuenberger. continues t.. snrfnk and it now seems certain that another special venire of 90 or 100 talesmen must be issued early this week. Some official counsel were of the opinion Monday morning that 1t would le necessary for the court to take an adjournment to give time for the summoning of the new special venire.
 There was scant attendance of spectators when the trial was re- snmed \. A..nday morning, and the court took up the work of filling the vacancy coated on Saturday by the ninth peremptory challenge. The Haywood family was absent. A num- Der of witnesses including Bulkeley Wells, of Colorado were in the court room The prisoner sat close to his counsel and frequently consulted with them as to the talesmen under ex- animation.
 hen Mondays court session opened
 renee s. Darrow for the defense continued the examination of W. C. De Cloroq. rancher, who was called into seat No in the jury box just before court adjourned last Saturday. After long examination Dee Cloroq clared that his mind was pretty we'll made up. He was excused.
 Nearly half an hour was consumed in the examination of the next tales man, George w Masters, rancher. who came to Idaho from Kansas. He finally asserted that the opinion, which at first he had stated was not a fixed one would require strong evil dence to remove. He said he had read the socialistic papers which had been put in his mail box for several months past. Because of his opinion Masters was challenged by both sides and stepped down.
 Frank Marcellus, a rancher. origin ally from Illinois, was excused by consent after he stated that he had some prejudice against circumstantial evidence and had expressed an un- qualified opinion.
 George Powell, also a rancher and a native of Kansas. finally proved ac- ceptable to both sides and took ID his place as juror No Mir Powell said he had neither opinion nor preiudice in the matter. He. is about 60 years of age with grizzled beard
 The defense then was called upon to exercise it's fifth peremptory challenge. It was directed against Joseph Chinn, at No. 8. Chinn is hack driver and a Democrat.
 George Fletcher, president of a To- cal bank, was the first talesman called to replace Chinn He said he had a very strong opinion and was quickly excused.
 Frank Cess, a farmer and stock rais- CT, declared an opinion as strong as the preceding talesman and was also allowed to go w. L Thrailkill tele- phone manager, had conscientious scruples against capital punishment. and Sumner Dee, merchant, had expressed too strong an opinion.
 The next man up for examination was Forrest See, rancher and stock grower His opinion was fixed. He stepped aside
 Crawford Moore. another banker was quickly challenged for bias. Lee Scrivener, a farmer, was called into the box as the luncheon adjourn ment until D. m. was ordered