The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-20
ANOTHER PANEL
OF TWELVE MEN
CALLED FOR FROM THE COUNTRY
TO REPORT THIS MORNING
IN FORD CASE.
ELEVEN IN THE BOX
But Only Eight Finally Accepted
Some Sensational Incidents of the
Day-One Taiesman Sent TO
Jail

JAN.
when circuit court adjourned last
evening there were eleven men in the
Ford jury. eight OF these had been
finally accepted, three had been tenn
Iporarily accepted and were subject to
Iperemptory challenge by either side.
All the regular panel had been eN
hausted, and all of the special panel
of forty-nine men had been exhausted
at 4:30 o'clock when court adjourned.
Assuming that the three who are tenn
porarily accepted will be finally ac-
cepted. only one more is needed 10
| fill the jury. but both attorneys agreed
that it would be useless to try to get
Linn from Cairo, therefore Judge But.
Ter ordered another yenire for twelve
men to be brought today from the
county
Yesterday three men were finally ac
cepted, Harry Russell John Thompson
and John j. Brown-all from the coun-
TRY The three temporarily accepted
lare J. l. Critic, j. w. Palmer and John
Miller. also from the country. When
court adjourned the defense had exert
ed twelve peremptory challenges and
the defense seventeen The tormc.
| has eight remaining and the latter on.
Ily three There is reason to believe
that the defense will exercise one OF
these upon one of the three men last
named
1t is still an open question among
court attendants WHY the defense ac.
icepted Robert ThornDerry who was
on the Nellum jury They rejected
every member of the jury eperemptor
lily, as fast as he was offered by the
prosecuting attorney, excepting Thorn
berry, and why they We're willing L.
/ take him alone although some of tn
others qualified quite as well as he
1 is being commented on more or less
freely,
| The monotony of the proceeding,
was varied somewhat yesterday by
several incidents that bordered on
| the sensational The first occurred
/ soon after the opening of court. judge
Butler had warned the men from tn
country on their first appearance IN
court that they would be expected t.
conduct themselves decorousIy while
in the city and report promptly and in
proper condition in court every morn
meaning that they must not &C
on sprees. 1t appears that one of tbs
men. named Houston, Of Elco, disr1
garded this instruction and appeared
In court yesterday morning consid
erably under the influence of liquor
hand on the witness stand, asking hin
whore he had spent the night. Houston
answered hippantly. Again the at
toney asked the question and re
ceived for reply That is hard tC
! say" A third time brought the an
Iswer; ooh! all over town, with som,
other remarks that We're out of orde-
The court felt that an example had f,
w maui vi lltio man anu ne W dN sui
to jail for "a hours and then ordere,
home without his fee.
Little occurred out of the usual ron
tine during the remainder of the fore
moon. The usual questions were aske,
and answered and men were dismiss
ed and others took their places in tn,
box and on the stand. In the after
noon several little ripples were notice
1 able. A man named Mobberly of Mil
/ Creek passed the examination of the
states attorney satisfactorily and At
torney Green for the defense SCENE.
also to be getting very satisfactor!
answers. Mr. Mobberly is mar
above the average intelligence; h;
understood the questions which wer,
some times long and complicated. an,
gave prompt answers. Mr.. Greer
seemed ready pass him back into tn,
jury box for final critical considera
ton, when he came to the question
I Have you ever been interested in Z
+ homicide case" Mr. Mobberly's coun
itenance at once assumed more ser
/ ious expression and he answered in
low voice. Yes, | had brother kill
| ed. He thought he could give thu