The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-14
Nineteen Veniremen Are Quail
flied to Sit as Tentative Ju-
rOrs, With Three Needed to
Fill the Temporary Panel.
VENIRE OF ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY EXHAUSTED
Mrs, Logan SWOpe, EStranged
From Her Daughter Weeps
as She Sees Her in the Court
With Accused Husband,
JURORS ARE LOCKED UP

II ANSAS CITY, April 13.-Three
1urNmea were needed 90 com
piete the temporary panel OF for
ty-seven when the Hyde murder trial
was adjourned after ) o'clock tonight.
Hoping he would be able 10 fiU all
OF the places in the jury box tonight,
presiding Judge LutshaW held court
until the entire yenire OF $50 men
which responded this morning was ex-
haUsted.
Adjournment WAS taken until
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and a new
panel of thirty men WIS ordered sub
DOcnHed for service.
Attorneys believe they viii be able
90 fill the three vacancies out Of this
body of taiesmen.
In ease the jury is completed, court
viii adjourn over Friday. and the
names of the final jurymen Will be
made returnable Saturday morning.
Nineteen VeniFemen qualified as ten
tatiVe juFymeR today.
After sitting with fixed countenance
and apparent unconcern, for two days in
the 20 1rt room, Mrs. Logan O. SWOpe
gave way to her emotions and wept bit
terry as she talked with newspaper men
soon after the trial Of DR.. B. e. HYDE
opened today. Recalling her home. when
Colonel Thomas h SwOpe was alive and
no serious fractional strife was apparent
in the SWOpe family. the gray-haired
woman COntTasted il with the present
lonely residence.
The old home is no longer the place
that it was in the days when Colonel
SWOpe and Miss HuntOn were alive, she
said Those were happy times. There
was life and happiness in the old indie
pendence homestead then. But now the
rooms seem cold and bare since my be-
loved friends have gone away.
Il am not in this court room by choice.
Ny presence here is due only to a desire
TO see that justice is done and the guilty
IS convicted It is not pleasure to sit
here and undergo this ordeal. But it is
my duty and will suffer much TO per
form it properly
While Mrs swope talked. her daughter.
Mrs. Hyde, sat a Few feet away laughing
and joking with her husband. She did
not know her mother was crying for she
could not see her. In the midst Of her
tears, Mrs. SWOpe stopped speaking for a
moment and silently regarded the defend
ant and his wife. 1t brought back to her
mind the days Of their courtship. Sob
bling violently, she began to tell Of the
time when DIT. Hyde came into her fam
lily circle. She spoke few words on this
phase OF the case and then, supported by
the arm of her attorney, she arose and
left the court room.
The cause Of the insurgent VeniTemen I'm
the Hyde murder trial who yesterday
questioned the constitutional right Or
Judge Ralph 5. Latshaw to remand them
to the custody of the marshal until
jury is obtained and were released. was
lost today. The court announced that its
reason for granting them their release
last night was on account OF the small
number of talesmen present and not be-
cause OF any question as to its legal right
to hold them
All veniremen will be in charge of the
county marshal from this time until
finally excused" said the judge.
Although DR.. Hyde is still as affabis
and smiling as he was when the trial
opened, he expresses discontinue today
at the slowness with which jurors are
being obtained.
IT hope this is the last day Of ques-
tiOning Veniremen." he said II want 10
get through with the trial as soon as pos
sible"