Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-01-11
SCAN JURORS CLOSELY
Attorneys Are Going to Find Out
Who's Who, What You Are
And Why.

4 If you are one of the goo mef
drawn on the panel in the Fedora
Court yesterday, today there are mer
trying to find out everything possible
about you. says the Evening Telegram
The possible jurors who are to try the
/ Blue Mountain forest reserve case
with Binger Hermann as defendant
are being closely scanned. Both pro-
secution and defense are striving to
get line on you. Your name and ad-
dress they have, but that is only the
start. Your political affiliations, your
connections in business. your personal
habits, tastes, likes and dislikes are
set down on typewriter sheet If
you ever expressed an opinion on the
land-fraud cases, the investigators
want to know. If you have participat-
ed actively in politics, there is a thirst
! for information as to what faction of
the party you played with, and if you
have held an appointiye office they
want to know how the appointment
was obtained and through what polit-
ical or social influence.
There is a separate sheet of paper
for each of the yenire men. and on
this sheet is set down everything that
can be gathered on tnat particular in
diyidual. The system is as well organ
lied as the credit department of
bank or a department store. If your
wife's uncle was once on speaking
a. A. T..
intimate friend Of one of Oregons po-
litical hangers-on, this fact, if it can (
be unearthed, will take its place on
the sheet set aside for dope on you.
While it is comparatively easy to get
4 line on venire men drawn from Port
land, it is n little more difficult to
study the men drawn from the coun-
Try. Even these, however, will not be 4
unknown when they appear in the
courtroom this morning. Defense
md prosecution have friends scattered
the state and through
hese channels it is possible
o obtain data which will be valuable
alter. A mans opinion in the country
nd his record are known to his
eighbors. so that the only trouble
ONES in finding the right neighbor.
AT the Federal building there are
averal men who are poring over the i
enire and Hermann's attorneys have t
cen scanning the list to see whom
ley know. This is the same system h
hat was in vogue during previous e
'iais and II has been reduced to a a
ne point. The main advantage it pos t,
,sses is that il gives the attorneys an
lea of the men who are to be ex- =,
mined as to their qualifications and u
lables them to excuse those who are =,
lown to have decided opinions on Ia
e land fraud prosecutions or who G
e on intimate terms with either
ie.
All the assistance that Francis ]. .,
aney wants has been promised by a,
lited States Attorney General Wick
sham and the Department of Jus
e. The expense of the Hermann
al will be heavy on the Government
d the defense if witnesses are tn
ought from Washington. To avoid OF
Is expense, Colonel Wickersham for m,
srmann, has asked Heney to agree la.
the Introduction of testimony given ev
the Hermann trial held at Wash i'm
;ton. ID. C., as the testimony. in in
rewritten form. is the same as sh
uld be given on the stand There we
four bulky volumes containing co
testimony in the Hermann case at tn,
'shington, the case in which the ex- a
mmissioner of the General Land for
Ice was acquitted of destroying TIL
'i'o uo'uihehts IN his private letter bui
ks. These volumes are now being the
mined by Heney. ad,