Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-14
Prospective Jurymen
Not Anxious to
Serve
Therefore Haywood Case
Is Proceeding
Slowly
Some TaIesmen Declare Their Wives
Are Ill, While Others Offer Various
Excuses-Young Steunen-
berg In Court
BY AsS0ciate ted Press.

By Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, May 13-Only frag-
ment Of today was given over to the
actual work in the Haywood trial and
the one step forward was the qualifl-
cation of a single talesman who seems
marked for peremptory challenge later.
The rest Of the time went to the
talesmen of the special venire and the
reasons that made it impossible for
them to serve the state at this time.
Judge Wood called the case at 2
o'clock and at once gave attention to
the 100 men summoned by Sheriff
Hodgin in the special venire issued on
Thursday last. The court asked those
who had special excuses to offer to
come forward and up surged a little
mob Of thirty-five. They swarmed
around the clerks desk and choked up
the left approach to the bench.
Seven of them were sick and five
were the husbands of sick wives. Some
presented certificates from doctors,
others offered their quaking bodies as
visual evidence, the rest pleaded ear
nestly.
Then there were ditch riders who
must ride hard and constantly these
days in this land Of irrigation, where
water is a community concern. Next
there was a batch Of federal grand
jurors, who are under call to meet on
June 15, date that will surely con-
hict with this trial and after them
| trooped little column Of county Of
| fcials, great and small.
| Then there were administrators of
estates with heirs who may suffer by
their enforced absence, and two bank
ers who mus watch and count the coin
in national banks.
In age they ranged from gray-haired
old chaps, quivering under their years,
to husky youngsters in early citizen
ship. and in appearance from the
weather marked, muscle-hardened men
Of the farm, to well dressed, comfort
able burghers.
With tact and patience Judge Wood
heard them through end the thirty-five
taleSmen were not examined until 3:20
by the clerk. Twenty-four Of the
pleaders were excused and the other
eleven returned to the panel, either
temporarily or permanently, leaving the
total at seventy-six:
Young Farmer Excused
In the hour devoted to counsel's ex-
animation of talesmen Ellsworth Lis
ter, young farmer who had vainly
striven to be excused, went down De
fore an objection from the prosecution
for implied bias and gave way to Wal
ter Shaw, 20 years old, brother of a
present member of the Idaho legisla-
ture, now a farmer and formerly a
meat cutter of Seattle and Everett,
Wash.
Shaw qualified after an extended ex-
animation that filled the time down to
the adjournment, but he was indefinite
in many of his answers and semed un-
informed upon many matters essential
in the standard grade of jurors. Shaw
is generally labeled for peremptory
challenge.
Tine examination by James H. Haw-
ley, leading counsel for the state, was
again brief, that of E.. F.. Richardson
again long and searching. Hawley
chiefly directed himself to the question
of attitude toward circumstantial evil
dence, capital punishment and the alb
sence of the prisoner from Idaho when
the crime was committed. He also
sought for possible feeling as to for
mer Governor Steunenberg personally,
and carefully questioned the talesmen
as to formed and expressed opinions.
and the possibility of their removal by
competent evidence.
Makes Thorough Examination
Hawley's direct challenge of Lister
in which the defense acquiesced, made
Shaw the only talesman examined by
Richardson. Once again he asked as
to the effect of the letter of President
Roosevelt, designating Haywood and
his associates as undesirable citizens"
the speeches of Secretary Taft and the
= oV,l kIA
no legislature.
He again carefully sought for preju-
dice against socialists and members of
the Western Federation of Miners, pos
sible bias against the members of labor
unions generally He also covered the
line of sympathy with or interest in
the organization of mine owners and the
Citizens alliance, and possible local al
liances in the church. the lodge and
the political party.
Talesman Shaw said that after he had
been summoned on Saturday last he
talked the fact over with the members
of his family and this led Judge Wood
to pointedly admonish the other tales
men to refrain from discussing the case
with any one under any circumstances.
He asked them to report to him the
name or names of any person or per-
sons who attempted, after warning, to
talk to them.
To the court this afternoon came
Julian Steunenberg, son of the mur-
dered governor, a tall, sturdy youth.
strikingly like his father in face and
figure. For two hours he sat with the
members of the Boise bar. ten feet
from the chair of the prisoner. William
He spoke to no one and re-
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