The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-19
Court to Pass on
Disputed Point
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KEGS eligibility later. Talesman Otto
Jenen, a farmer, said he had a strong
prejudice against corporations.
An instance OF its Investigation sub
sequent to q practical acceptance in
court Of q talesman on Monday was
that Of J. W. Roberts, information
having been obtained the following
day that Roberts once had some diff
eulty az an employer OF non-union
men. In Roberts's case, however. II
developed that he said he harbored no
prejudice against labor unions because
OF his experience and since then had
employed only union men.
IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES.
Two important principles have been
acknowledged by the defense in It's
examination Of talesmen. Any venire-
men who have fixed prejudices against
labor unions, both as to their organ
izations and their individual members.
will find themselves subject to chal-
lenge for cause and II not allowed by
the court, then they win be subject to
peremptory challenges later. Again.
any man who has handled dynamite or
who on investigation Of his own ac-
cord had reached an immovable
opinion that the Times building was
destroyed by dynamite whether felon-
IL
considered by the defense as hostile to
it's cause.
The prosecution has let It be known
that II will oppose talesmen being
sworn as jurors who are fixed in their
ideas that the Times disaster was
caused by a gas explosion. The prose-
cution, too, is preparing to weed out
talesmen who are unequivocal cham
pions of union labor and it's members,
REGARDLESS OF the individual case at
hand.
The prosecution intends. It IL said,
to learn from talesman to what ex
tent socialistic views would affect their
Judgment.
The trial, in fact, though based on
indictments for murder preferred
against James B. McNamara as an in
dividual has been outlined by the de-
Tense as chiefly q struggle between
capital and labor and is seeking to
learn the state OF mind OF prospective
turymen. Attorney barrow repeated
ly set forth that It is important to
know whether a mans previous
opinion against labor unions as such
would cause him to adopt the attitude
that the McNamaras caused the Times
building TO be destroyed because of
the newspapers opposition to labor
unions
The plan Of the defense is said to
comprehend first the contention that
the building was not blown up by dy-
Mantle but by gas, and when well
along with this variety Of testimony.
1t may move to quash the indictments.
WOULD BE A FAILURE.
THE case OF the prosecution be-
comes an utter failure II they do not
prove that the building was blown up
by dynamite and II appears that gas
did it." is the expressed view of Attor-
ney barrow, but the prosecution has
refused to admit this in court, not
considering fits case as Ringing on that
matter at all. The state repeatedly
has declared that the indictments
charge Mcnamara with murder grow
ing out Of an explosion OF the Times
building and that whether 1t was dy-
Mantle or not II not the main issue.
II was said on good authority early
today that Jas. B. Mcnamara probably
would never go on the witness stand.
The hint OF Attorney barrow that
the defendant could sit mute while
the prosecution attempted to show the
building was blown up by dynamite
IS held to be a forecast OF the plans Of
the defense to stand pat on the theory
that the Times disaster was caused
by gas and that the defendant knew
nothing about it McNamara himself
is taking an inconspicuous part in the
| trial. The battle between opposing
| attorneys. Of which thexa are i've on