The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-10
JURYMEN STILL i'll
TRIAL IS AGAIN
ADJOURNED
Two Days Lost This Week in
Mahan Murder Case
DOUBLE SESSION TOMORROW
Mark Sutton Of searsburs and Charles
N. Williams OF Dorset Still Con.
fined to Their Room,

The condition of the two jurymen,
whose illness caused an adjournment
in the Mahan murder trial yesterday
although somewhat improved this
morning was not such as would enable
them to take their places In the box
and another adjournment was taken to
o'clock Saturday morning.
Mark Sutton of Searsburg, who has
been suffering from the effects Of
bronchitis ever since the first few
days of the trial, was able to walk
about the room to day but Charles N.
Williams, who came down with the
grip Wednesday night, is still confined
to his bed.
IL the jurymen are all well enough
to be present tomorrow there will be
an all day session and when an ad.
journment is taken in the afternoon It
will be to 8 o'clock Monday morning
instead of 2 in the afternoon as has
been the custom during the Sunday re
cess. The attorneys have been mott
fed to arrange their business in &C.
cordance with this schedule.
| The long seige and the confinement
is beginning to tell upon the jurymen
and 1t is safe to say that they will In
future years give the court house
wide berth. The remuneration of 81
a day and expenses at time of year
when farm work Is light undoubtedly
proved temptation to some of them
to make an effort to secure a place
among the chosen IL, but experience
| is proving to them that q juryman
sometimes earns his money. One Of
them who is particularly anxious to
return to his own fireside is Mark
Sutton of Searsburg.
The illness of their companions
makes the confinement of the other 10
all the more close for with two In bed
it is necessary that the others shall re-
main inside the building. They can
not even walk about the village In
charge Of deputy as was the custom
during the first part of the trial. They
have the privilege Of the upper piazza
at the Putnam house where they walk
back and forth and look longingly at
the free people on the street.
Attorney General Fits arrived here
this morning from Brattleboro hoping
to go on with the trial and was consid.
erably disappointed to learn that there
could be no session today. Three at
PENDANTS at the Waterbury insane
asylum, where Mahan was under OBJ
servation for about six months, arriv.
ed here this morning but were sent
home with instructions to return Mon
day.
DR.. David A. Shires, the specialist
in nervous diseases. who is to give ex-
pert testimony in the case, has return.
ed to his home in Montreal but will be
in town the first of the week.
Thomas Mahan, German Mahan and
Stuart Hall of North Bennington came
over on the $3.50 car to attend the tri-
al, remained about the hotel for q
short time and returned home.
One of the amusing features Of the
trial is the conduct of the women at
tendants. Some have been as regu.
lar in their appearances in the gallery
as the rising of the sun. Some of
them arrive as early as o'clock In
order to secure the front seats. On
days when there have been no ses-
sions some of them have apparently
not been able to grasp the situation
and have remained in their seats for
over an hour waiting after all the men
had disappeared from the building.