The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-25
ONE POSSIBLE
JUROR PASSED
Second Special venire in the
Haywood Case Not Planning
Out as Expected.
IN LINE WITH ROOSEVELT
TALEsMAN BELIEVES DEFEND
ANTS UNDESIRABLE"

Boise Ida. May a.-The second special
venire Of talesmen in the Steunenberg
murder case is proving barren of men
qualified to act as jurors and unless the
form shown by the first half OF them is
completely reversed in the second half
there must be another special venire sum-
moned The first half of this venire has
yielded only one man who actually quail
flied and only one more man may quail
ify; the rest went down in succession of
fixed opinion or bias therein OF various
forms. Only twenty-six OF this venire
remain to be examined and on the as
sumption that all peremptory challenges
will. be used seven more jurors must be
found.
Stands by Roosevelt.
In the procession of the disqualified
that passed through Judge Woods court
today came the first man since the trial
began who unqualifiedly stands by Pres
ident Roosevelt and his utterances as to
Messrs. Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone.
He is W. b. Teeter, farmer, and long
ago a member of the Knights of Labor.
He came TO the stand late in the after
noon and the states examination barely
qualified him because he had q certain
amount of prejudice against labor unions
or any kind of combinations designed TO
fix prices. was unfriendly to the Western
Federation of Miners and against social
ism He made a distinction between the
and between socialism and socialists,
however, and finally the state passed
him.
Question About Gear Shut Out.
At several points in the examination by
Teeter's answers would give cause for
challenge, but he crossed all the thin ice
down to the question of the letters OF
President Roosevelt. In answer to a ques-
4-l,o rlo H. h.
Endorsed the letter of President Roosevelt
in which the prisoner was characterized
as an undesirable citizen. Mr.. Richard
son snapped in a question about the car
of Russia approving the attitude OF
President Roosevelt, but the state ex-
cluded 1t with an objection. Mr.. Richard
son then asked the talesman directly IL
he thought the prisoner. had been guilty
Of melting riot and was an undesirable
citizen, and got an affirmative answer
The court sustained the challenge of
the defense and Mr.. Teeter walked the
plank OF bias.
One TaIesman Qualified.
Early In the morning TaIesman Henry
Curtis qualified for the vacant seat of
Juror Orrio Cole and the defense exam
ined and finally passed Juror John Whit
lock. That opened the way for peremp-
tories again. The state challenged Juror
Isaac Bedell of seat No. ., and there the
proceedings halted all day. Nineteen
talesmen occupied the chair during the
day and the only person who may OCCUPY
II is Finley Mclean. the last man 10
reach it late this afternoon He salts
fled the state that he is qualified to act
and just az adjournment passed to the
hands of the defense. He is Scotchman
by birth and seems to be open-ninded
on the guilt or innocence OF William Hay
wood.
Counsel for the state today indicated a
desire to limit the breadth of the de-
fense's examination, but the court kept to
its early purpose to allow all possible lat
itude and overruled all objections aimed
at limitation.
More Women Present.
More women came. into the courtroom
than on any other day and at one time
there were more than twenty of them IN
the courtroom. But at no time was the
courtroom crowded; the city Of Boise still
its attitude of aloofness
The trial will be resumed tomorrow al
800 a. m.