The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-15
TEN IN THE BOX.
Fourth Day Of Haywood Trial
Opens at 10 O'clock.
Not Over Three of Jurors Passed
Likely to Remain.
OF LITTLE INTEREST.
Public Seems Not to Care About
Proceedings.
Attendance Today Smaller Than
That of Yesterday.
OF LITTLE INTEREST,

Boise, Idaho, May 15.-With ten
men in the box who have been passed
for cause by both the prosecution and
the defense, the trial of William D.
Haywood, secretary and treasurer of
the Western Fedora ton of Miners,
charged with the murder of former
Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho,
opened this morning at 10 o'clock for
the fourth day. The morning session
was taken up with the qualification of
the two men necessary before the
work of examination preliminary to
peremptory challenging begins.
Counsel on both sides profess to be
confident that a jury will have been
secured before adjournment next Sat
urday, but necessarily this is entirely
speculative, as it is impossible to say
to what extent the remaining talesmen
will be able to qualify. The scope of
the questions seems to increase as the
hearing continues. Notwithstanding
this there is not the slightest evidence
of a desire on the part of Judge FIRE.
mont Wood to curtail the latitude of
either side. He has consistently car
ried out the statement he made at the
opening of the case. that he proposed
to give to both sides the widest lati-
tude in their examinations.
Counsel for the defense and prose-
cution in this celebrated case admitted
to the Associated Press this morning
that the chances for retaining more
than three or four of the talesmen so
extremely small. In fact, one of the
counsel says that at the outside he
expects not more than three of the
present occupants of the box to pass
the peremptory challenge. Under the
rules of practice in the Idaho courts
when a seat is vacated for cause or
under peremptory challenge exercised
by either side. the seat is filled by a
talesman who has not been examined
for cause and he must fully qualify
before the next seat in the box is
reached.
Under the circumstances it is re-
markable to find that interest in the
proceedings in this, one of the most
remarkable cases ever tried in this
country. so far as Boise is concerned,
does not increase. The attendance in
er than that of yesterday. Because
of the presence of about seventy or
eighty talesmen, the room, which
seats about $50 people is comforta bly
been room for one more except for a
few hours on the opening day when
the standing room only sign was
hung out and the doors were closed
to newcomers until seat was vacated.
1t is also probable that about 100 of
those called as witnesses are present
in the court room. At no time has
the slightest evidence of extraordinary
interest been exhibited by the people
of Boise. There is no crowd outside
on the lawns to see jury or prisoner
as they pass from or to the court
room Apparently there is not the
slightest curiosity, but on the con-
trary, as was noticeable before the
case opened, almost apathy and a
complete disregard of the important
event here transpiring. On no day
since the hearing commenced has
there been seen in the court room a
single really prominent merchant or
citizen of Boise or of the state other
than as jurymen or witnesses These
seats are seldom filled and each day
there have been at least fifteen or
twenty vacant seats inside the bar. 1t
would be hard to explain this appar-