The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-01
Especial to The q ines Dis patch.l

RALEIGH, N. C., September 3o---rhe.
last Juror In the trial ofsDr. D. S. Row
land and his wife, Lille NJ. Rowland.
for the murder by poison, In MarchSof
Engineer Charles S. Strange Mrs. Row
land being then his wife, was secured
I at 6:25 to mi ght. after working at this
fall day, "a second special venire OF
twenty five being called in addition llit:it'l'
+ to the $50 summoned before. I'M 58&
S 1t seemed at one time! az II no jury
I could be secured, and Judge Long said
$that4lf this was not done with some
/. dispatch he would move the trial to
another city,. Within Ave minutes
after this the jury was completed. 1t
Is composed Of eleven farmers from
the country, and one jcwcler, of this
] city. II 81 lls5$ u &
Big crowds are attending the trial,
j and although this is the third time
: the evidence has been 5E gone 8 over,
counting the coroners 81 inquest and
1.-THE ha beas corpus proceeding. interest
i&in the case seems to be In no way
= abatcd. M AS n
4 Fl Prisoners in Court.
It was 9:4 5 o'clock when the pris-
Z oners were brought In and assigned
4: seats at the bar. With them came
\ Mrs. Rowland's sister, Mrs. Lena Lee I
van, OF Nebraska who has been here
with Mrs. Rowland ever. since her ar
rest. calling 10 see her daily at the
-5sssiail, and David Gill uncle OF Or. Row
land, he having come from Vance
county to be with his nephew during
The names OF tho witnesses for the
z the trial. 4s3 "a. Al jEs5
b State were called out repeatedly be-
fore tho State could announce readi-
ness for the trial. and even then a
number Of the most important witness
rs had not answered. Judge Long de-
4 clared his willingness to issue instan-
& taneous summonses for those failing
"a to answer, and fine them. saying that
he could not allow a few witnesses to
delay the court and detain ESQ III men
thatEwere here ready to proceed Coun !
Fl sci for the State would not ask this
I punishment for their own witnesses
y and requested&a postponement; OF few
hours. Judge Longs reply was: u
will do no such thing! This case mus
\ proceed at once. Your witness es should
III be here ;l54 ~
Then was that the State announced
readincss to proceed. The regular
panel for he week was called into~th,
jury box, one failing to ans wer. Judg
ri Long promptly directed the clerk +, t,
enter fine 9 forty dollars agafns
the efaulting Juror. His n q mo WI
y T.. X Kite. 5S583 s833
sa ! All being IN readiness Tor the Sc
81
land were directed to stand up an,
5s!a were warned OF their right to challeng
Jurors as empaneled. Both looked wei
Il showing practically no bad effect
from their long imprisonment Mrs
Rowland fwore her usual COS tune + .
4 black and DR.. Rowland his blue serg
sacquc SUIT. s5,$
Seated in front OF the prisoner
& were their counsel. il NJ. Holding, {;
c. Il. Harris, ". L. Watson and T. q
Hickcs. the latter OF Henderson. Fo
F Solicitor Armistead Jon s, Colonel I
EE3 NJ. SaArgo and Walter Clark. Jr, Arg
and Clark being retained for TIL
prosecution BY the rotherhood OF fLc
connective Engineers.
The empaneling Of the jury ,.as
slow process. All the. regular juro,
and more than twenty Of the speci;
venire Of l SO men had been told II t
stand aside for one cause and anotht
by loon. and only one Juror ac995 t.
by the State. Many were rej ected X
ss cause, and quite r number becau:
they had expressed an opinion as s
the prisoners guilt.
An evening session OF court was ne
8 " essary to complete heNselection of Il
$5S fury. It was y S O'clock WI en- the al
nouncement was made that the specl
venire OF one hundred and fifty nj
was exhausted with only ten juro
accepted by both sides, Il,
Judge Long made an ord er that +
sess be taken to s I o'clock at " hi
Zine the sheriff was directed to retu
Twenty-Five additional veniremen. Til
was done and one juror was still lac
Ing when the last man Of this svenl
was called. He was T. A. Mailer,
well known deweler Raleigh.
was accepted by both sides before
had opportunity to raise the point