The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-21
STILL NO JUDY
IN FORD CASE
ANOTHER SPECIAL VENlRE IS,
SUED CALLING FOR SIX
TALESMEN TODAY.
DEFENSE TO IMpEACH
ing He Told Different Story From
Tha, He Gave to coroner's
Jury.

No progress was made in the cir
cult court yesterday in the Ford mur
der trial. Although the court was at
work the greater part OF the day when
the court adjourned the case stood
exactly where it stoed the evening be
fore. With eight men finally accepted
three temporarily accepted and one
to get. The only difference was that
there had been change in the per
sonnel OF the three last mentioned, the
defense having exercised its right
of peremptory challenge in the case
Of two, w. Palmer and John Nil.
Ter. Palmer, it seems. had strong
yiewsx xabout the saloon business He
Is substantial farmer, worth SOM"
fifteen thousand dollars would make 4
good juror ordinarily, but the defense
learned thar lie had expressed him
self decidedly against saloon men.
Some other objection developed with
respect 10 Mr.. Miller In place OF these
two E. b. Boles and John Sweeton
were placed in the box and are held
for final approval The defense has
only two ptremptory challenges re.
naming and the prosecution has five
Jr six.
Only eight Of the special panel Of
twelve men ordered the day before
.,sponded yesterday aud the two men
.bove referred TO come from these
light Another special panel Of siA
nen was ordered and four OF these
ame in during the afternoon but were
.rickly disposed Of as unsatisfactory
w. L, Brauson OF Sandusky. had his
,Wn views about the law OF sell de
tense. declaring that he did net b.
ieye a man bad a right to kill anothe
to prevent that other from iuAietine
serious bodily harm upon him such as
breaking a leg or an arm; but. never
theless if taken as a juror he woul
enforce the law which gave man tha'
right There was prolonged
questioning by Attorney Green for th
lefense seemingly with the purpose Of
making him admit that his persona
feelings would overbalance his respect
for the law and he was finally induced
% admit tina. this might be the case
lnd was excused But probably tht |
strongest point against him in III,
mint Of the defense was that ne ha1
jat on COMPLETING jury in a homicide |
'aSe here about twelve years ago.
Walter Sorrell admitted that he ha
read and heard about the case hal |
ormed an opinion aud proceeded then |
md there to express It very emphaI
cally by saying he believed the de |
'endant was justified. He was prompt |
y wismissed by the states attorney |
C. w. Irby had read about the case
and had formed an opinion which j;
would take sworn testimony to re
move. This disqualified him
Carson Martin made the same an.
wers a. Ilby and was also excused.
The court had waited several hOua-
or some Of these men to appear and
ynen it developed that no more could
'e gotten for the day adjournment
vas taken till this morning Sheriff
Davis was out in the country trying |
o secure more talesmen under tn q
pecial yenires that have been issueu1
md he is expected to bring in half
dozen this morning
A small sensation OF Yesterday was
he report by one of the hailiHs namea
}raddnu, who said he had been as
,auted with pistol by an old citizen
# Hodges Park, namey Alfred Aus
in. He had gone into Austins house
o serve summons upon d man
lamed Won. austin objected anf |
when the officer nevertheless proceed
d to read the paper to Won, Austin
hrust a pistol against his head say |
lg no man should take anybody from
is house. Judge Butler issued 4
ummons for Austin and Sherin Dayi
vent after him
Among the eight men thus far ac.
cpted there are three Young men.
lree gray haired men and two middle
ged men. It is noticeable that ther,
re among them no LONG headed. sharp
firm mogthed men. A num-
cr of these were on the stand among
he talesmen. but they either disauali
led under the law or were peremptor
Iy rejected by the defense. They
early all had positive opinions about
ONE phases of homicide cases. which
enlered them undesirable as jury
zen.
There is no longer any question in
nyone's mind as to what the plea Of
he defense will be. but there Is
teadily growing curiosity as to the
haracter Of the evidence that will
% produced to sustain this plea. There
s little or nothing in the evidence
.iycn before the coroner's jury 10 jus
iiy it, The strongest witness the
license has among those who testified
'eiore the corener's jury is DR.. Nc
>eemer- who stated that he saw
-ewis. the dead man. and his compan
on kimmons. in Bourgeois & Dun's
aloon shortly before the tragedy. AMI
gain at the corner OF Eighth street !
opposite Riddles saloon in which
.laces Lewis had talked angrily about
ONE one with whom he had had