The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-22

These ueD will sit in the Thomas
Vance wife-murdeg case and determine
the guilt or innocence of the accused
man-whether be shall live or die for
his alleged crime,
The jury was completed early Satur-
Gay afternoon and adjournment was
taken until $3.50 clock Monday morn.
ing, when the trial proper Of the case
will be begun.
The last juror seated was Joseph 8.
Darke At adjournment Friday after
noon nine Jurors had been secured and
when noon arrived Saturday two more,
making eleven in al, had been seated.
Darko was chosen shortly after din
ner.
Two venires and a part of a third
we're exhausted TO obtain a jury. The
first venire, the regular panel. consisted
of thirty names, the second of sixty
two and the third, drawn Friday after
noon, sixty-one names Sixteen of the
last venIre was exhausted before the
last juror was seated.
Following the impaneling the jury
the opening statements on each side
we're made, and Travis s. Pendergrass,
buSlDCSS udIdSeI Oh Ct MdIk , uOSpI'
tai, where Mrs. Vance, the alleged mur-
dered woman, died, was called TO the
stand to give testimony as to the date
OF Mrs Vance IS arrival there. the
length of time she was there before
death, her temperature and other symp
toms and the like, but Mr.. Pendergrass
said that for some reason or other Mrs.
Vance's hosnital record could not be
found, and be was not examined at
any length.
Mr.. Pendergrass said it was the best
Of his recollection that the records had
been turned over TO Dr.. A a. Kerr
the attending physician, for use al
Vance g preliminary hearing, and Dr.,
Kerr will be called as witness Mon
day morning; also practically all the
nurses at the hospital, especially those
who waited upon Mrs. Vance.
Brother in Attendance.
In attendance Saturday morning
were A. 3. Vance. brother Of the ac.
nephew. The first is a policeman at
Ogden. He appears TO follow the case
with more interest than does the pris
oner at the bar
Mrs Amanda E. Ward. q sister OF
The dead woman and the divorced wife
OF the 7risoner nephew, also was in
attendance Saturday, for the first time
the proceedings with absorbing interest
Lafayette Hanchett, general business
agent for Samuel Newhouse, million
aire, occupies a chair in the lower rpw
Of the north end of the jury box he
appears TO view the task before bin
With more complacency than might be
expected. Mr.. HaDchet coufidcd some
OF his plans for giving his fellow Jurors
a good time, in the Intervals off duty
to the court Friday, expressing a desire
to have the jury as his guests at the
theater that night, and Judge Arm
strong offered no objection. There
would be nothing irregular in that Il
the jury were not separated, the court
said, and as result Mr.. Hanehett en-
tertained the jurors seated up to that
tine. nine in number, at Z theatel
party.
It is said that the defense will bit
terly oppose the first count Of the in
formation, TO the effect that Mrs
Vance s death resulted from injuries in
flicted by Vance beating and kicking
her. Already a motion to quash tha'
count OF the information and the shire
count, which joins both poisoning anC
beating as cause OF death, in so ia,
as it includes the first count, has beel
made, but denied.