Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-18
NO JURY SELECTED
TO TRY HAYWOOD
Work of Securing Drags Slowly
Along and viii Go Into
Next Week.
PEREMPTORIES BEING USED.
Average Age of Men in the BOX Sixty
Storm Raised Over Orchard In
teryiew Has subsidized.

Boise, Idaho May IS.--The work OIL
securing jury TO try William Hay
wood on the charge that he murdered
Frank Steunenberg continues to drag
slowly forward. and major portion OF
next week will be consumed in COM
plotting the task. The sixth and sew
enth peremptory challenges were used
Walter Shaw, and the state w. n.
Bulge Talesman NJ. II. Goodwin was
after an extended contest in which the
defense challenged upon several
grounds. chosen to replace Shaw.
Goodwin is "a veteran of 70 years and
his acceptance lifts the average age Of
the present jury to about 90 years
Shaw was only 2S Years. and the only
very young man In the box The argu-
ment of counsel over the challenging
of Talosman Goodwin seemed to lndi-
cate a sharpening of the contest be-
tween them, n tightening of the lines
along which the trial proceeds.
The Haywood family was absent
again this morning and the prisoner
sat alone behind his lawyers. He CON
suited them frequently as the exam
nation progressed and particularly on
the exercise Of challenge rights.
With the opening OF court this morn
ing the attorneys continued their long
drawn task of securing jury to try
William u. Haywood. There We're II
men az usual in the box when todays
proceedings began and only five of the
% peremptory challenges had been eN-
ercised-three by the prosecution and
two by the defense.
Atty Richardson took up the exam
nation of Isaac Bedell, farmer ut No,
2. VINO was called yesterday afternoon
to fiji a gap made by peremptory
challenge Bedell had already been
passed by the state without challenge
for cause.
Bedell was also accepted by the de-
Tense. which was then called upon to
exercise its third peremptory challenge.
Walter Shaw, al No. 4, was excused
Shaw's brother is a member OF tho
state legislature. As such he voted
for Senator Borah, now one OF the
states counsel.
NJ. II. Goodwin. a lumber dealer.
called to replace Shaw. said he was
raised on a Maine farm, moving 10 Bos-
ton he took up a trade as a carpenter
Did you belong to union?' he was
asked
"No: we didn't have such things IN
those days" he declared, Mr.. Goodwin
Is apparently 20 odd years Of age
Leaving Boston he went TO Mssissip-
pi TO live.
But soon left there in a hurry"
said Goodwin.
Why did you leave In a hurry" he
was asked.
1T was 81" came the reply amid
laughter.
Returning from Mississippi 10 his old
home IN Maine for few months. Good
win soon caught the California fever
ana came west, where he has lived
ever since,
Goodwin said he had formed a tenta-
tive opinion and had expressed IL un-
qualihedly He was thereupon chal-
lenged for cause by the defense, tho
state resisting,
Judge Wood denied the challenge and
an exception was noted
Examined along another line by tho
defense. Goodwin declared he dii not
approve OF many OF the acts charged
10 tho Western Federation OF Miners
and that he had q prejudice against
the organization 10 "a certain extent
He could not say but that his prejudice
extended from the organization 10 Hay
wood as an officer OF II. Goodwin wds
again challenged for actual bias. once
more the state resisted. The proposed
Juror was questioned by the court he
declared he knew nothing OF the West
ern Federation on Miners except what
he had read IN the papers He stat
ed positively that nothing he held
against the Western Federation ~
Miners would influence his verdict.
Judge Wood thereupOn denied the
challenge, The defense again excepted
10 his ruling.
The next arbitrary challenge was
with the prosecution and was exercised
against w. n. Bulge. . farmer ana
road supervisor, who sat al No. s.
Bulge had applied 10 Judge Wood for
under bond 10 kssp tbs roads u his