Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-04
YESTERDAY ADDED TWO
MORE JURORS TO LIST
Eleven Men Accepted 10 Try Coo
pers and Sharpe for Murder
Of CdrmaCk.
CITIZENSHIP QUESTION PUZZLES
After Venire Exhausted, Case Of Juror
Whitworth, to Whom Defense OBJ
ieeted. is aiken Up-Ev'denee Is
Conf,icting-Sheriff Deputies Fined
$40 Each
lRx AssOriatrl PrcSS.l

After securing two new jurors. max
ing II NV IN the box. the trial oi
Colonel Duncan II. Cooper. Robin j.
Cooper and John ID. Sharpe, was
lbrurtlv interrupted tCday because o.
a lack II vcnisrmcn.
\ nth vcnir" OF 500 men was
ordered in court on Monday. AT which
time an rnori will be r. sumed ~
complrtc the Jury. Tho hearing Of
the charges against juror Whitwortl'.
accused OF having prejudice. was
taken MP but not completed. 1t Will
be resumed in the morning.
A few minutes after CONT oGened.
J. 4 Woodruff. the tenth man OK
amined, was selected as juror Mum.
Der 10
Knew latte Of Case.
Woodrur was not examined by the
defense. He testified on questions
by the State that he had read moth
ing about the case aud merely knew.
Carmack had been killed.
He said he was friend Of John
Sharpe but would consider only the
~Stt$o9kIN5.
Jacob Frutiger. another talesman.
came to this country from Switzer-
land when II years old. He had
never been naturaHzed. but his
father had. This precipitaSed a dis.
pu,e as t. whether he had TO take
out papers.
Naturalization Law Puzziino.
The lawyers on both sides display.
Cd abb clute ignorance OF lie na,urar-
cation Laws and had to send out for
the code.
He was moi opposed TO capital
punishment, II a man wanted it, He
was accepted by both sides As juror
number H.
The panel of fifty was exhausted
before recess for luncheon. and no
other additions to the Jury were made.
This left only 80 talesmen Of the
fourth venirc and the panel requir-
Ell ~ names. Hence the fifth OF
800 names was ordered drawn to re-
pct at . a. m. MONDAY.
As i, was not possible to proceed
further with the examination Of pros
Dcctjvc jurors. the case CT juror
Whitwor;h. whom the defense seeks
to have removed for cause. was taken
up Immediately after luncheon
Court Was Insistent.
Judge Hart announced that he be-
lieved IL best TO have Mr.. Whitwoatn
present TO hear the charges. The
defense objected but the court was
insistcnt and G. W. Mitchell! was re-
called and told 10 repeat his charges
that Whi.worih. after the Carmack
killing. at a blacksmith shop. had do
clared that every damned one CT
tho descendants should have been
hanged
Tho Stale objected to. any tCsii-
mony c--csTDiag whether the feeling
ioxa:d Governor Patterson rad chang
Cd
The court passed the objection AMI
asked tn" Juror 70 proceed
whirworth asserted strcnuousiy
that he had never ma6c the remarks
attributed 10 him by Mitchell cen
corning the hanging of the defer-
dsnts. bu admitted he said some
thing about paiicrson's having iost
gri.1ds through the killing OF Car
mack.
DEPUTIES Are Fined.
During N71hs orths Statement, the
,hrungs crowded inside the bar again.
whcrcuT"r tho couri fined the four
deputy sh"rias ton dollars each for
falling 80 obcy orders. and the orders
cf tho court were thereafter carried
uui strcnucusly.
TwI other Witnesses Who
wore in tho blacksmith shop the day
tho hanging s;aicmcai IL alleged to
have been made. svoTc that they DID
ut hear IL
After q number 81 character WI
rcsscs for Mitchell we're intrOduced.
,b- court said IL would recall juror
whitsor;h 20 ini.rrosaic him abost
his statements concerning 6oscruor
Patterson. bu, would p7sipcue sbr
hearing to tomorrow TO which time
court adjourned