The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-30
the defensss second psremptory chai-

the defense's second peremptory chai- lenged today. He is about 50 years old and said he was 6 lithographer. .Tha eefense secured another peremp. tory challenge against the very next talesman. who was James S. Shoot. a coal dealer MT. Shoot said he was a native of Kentucky. The opinion he had formed, while apparently not strong enough to justify g challenge for cause. was too strong to suit Thaw's |, lawyers.
 George W. Triton had an opinion which could not very well be moved. He wss excused bys consent Only one of the state alienists was in court today, pr. Austin Flint. His
 associates. Dr. Mcdonald and pr. Ma son. have hitherto attended every ses-
 sion of the court and have scrutiniz- ed the defendant closely.
 Barlow S. Weeks. one of the law
 yers. who defended Roland B. Moli-
 neaux, was an interested spectator of | today's proceedings.
 Benton J. Sullivan. dry goods mer- chant, occupied the stand for more
 than half an hour before he was f. nally challenged by the defense. malx- ing the fourth man thus kept out of the jury box during the morning ses- sion.
 The luncheon recess was ordered al 1:11 p. m, until 2:15 o'clock, just after l talesman. Donald Bethune, had been concluded and he had been challenged peremptorily by the defense. ~.r 9 Two Jurors Excused. Mir. McPike of the Delmas law firm
 was present for the afternoon session. which was not begun until 2:30 o'clock The delay was due to the conference which was held by Justice Fitzgerald ! and the attorneys of the State and for the defense as result of which it was announced that an agreement had been | reached to excuse from further service Jurors Arthur s. Campbell and Harold R Faire. Faire was chosen the third day of
 the trial and Campbell the second day. l It was agreed that the reasons for ex- cusing the jurors should not be an- nounced, but they were said to be of q
 business nature. The excusing of the two jurymen
 seemed to have a bad effect on the talesmen who were next to be exam | ined, and within twenty-five minutes nine of them were allowed to take
 leave of the court rooni for one req son or another. Six were biased and three had letters which Justice Fitz- gerald perused and deemed to be suf- hcient excuse.
 Harold Faire. one of the excused
 jurors. declared after leaving the court room that he did not know why he had
 been excused. and that the announce
 ment made in court was the hrst
 knowledge he had of the intended ac- tion.
 Tn passing through the corridor
 this morning." he said. T'heard man
 remark that two jurors were to be excused today had no idea that the remark could include me" District Attorney Jerome would give
 no explanation or intimation as to the
 cause of the dismissal of the jurors.
 MT. Campbell likewise declined to
 talk on the subject, saying he had
 "too much respect for the court to give an interview"
 The original jury panel was ex- haustsd when the twenty eighth tales man was examined today. The last of the old list was Henry Peacock, who was challenged peremptorily by the de- fense. -, The first ta1esman of the new panel to take the stand was Alphonse J |, Slmondinger, who had letter as an excuse. The second, Francis Schmaiz had an opinion.
 The second juor of the day was cho- sen late In the afternoon session. He