The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-16
HIS MEMORY BAD.

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instances and Judge Bordwe!l remark
ed that each case stood by 1tseI.
Then there are no rules by when
we are governed on this coast, is that
it % demanded barrow
There was a moments pause.
1.-THE question is improper and the
court declines to answer it," said Judge
Bordwell quietly.
Attorney barrow elected from Ross
the. statement that he believed the de-
PENDANT guilty and a challenge on
grounds of implied bias as well as act
ual bias was allowed Herbert f. Ives
an undertaken, followed Ross on the
stand.
The intention of Prosecutor Frank 2.
Baker of Indianapolis to try DetecLlNe
w J. Burns on a charge of KIDNAPPING
John B. Mcnamara before the present
trial of his brother, James B. Mona
mara was concluded gave rise TO-DAY 70
discussion here as to whether Burns
would be detained in Indiana whle ne
was needed here as an important VII
ness against the McNa1naras.
Burns will be here whenever we neeu
him. declared District Attorney Fred
ericks, when this possibility was sug-
gested to him It don't think that the
indiana proceedings will in any way
interfere
Los Angeles. Nov. 16.-Proceeding
in the Mcnamara murder trial gained
| Roadway more rapidly today. Judge
Walter Bordwe1I convened court at y
a. M, an hour earlier than usual and
did another extra hours work at the
opening Of the afternoon session the
| day was marked by the advent of the
seventh venire.
Talesman J. B. Sexton who was al
| lowed to go in care of a ba1liff yes
terday to visit a brother who is very
| ill was present when court opened,
but the situation and Judge Borrower
| action in releasing from service M
r1TT =n6 aN
| speculation on the possibility OF COM
! pleting the trial with the jurors and
| ta1esmen now in the box
| Men of Advanced Age
! OF these, T. H. Elliott, is IS years
old; Robert Balm and A Gribling are
| each 70: Byron I.isk is so; WiIlett
Drummer and Clark McLain are 66,- and
| c. A. Heath and F. D. Green, the
Youngest jurors are 81. The others are
! somewhere between.
| The Youngest man thus Tar 10 enter
the box was Henry G. Burbank, ~
| years old, who was excused because
| his name does not appear on the coun-
/ tv assessment roll. All OF the men
/ now in the bog were represented to-
| day as being in excellent physical con-
dition except perhaps Iisk, VINO coca
/ sionaIIy has trouble with his eyes IN
| terest conferred in what might happen
POSSIBLE candidates for challenge by
| the defense. Andre formerly belong-
ed to a union He said he believed the
Times explosion was caused by IN
| ionist bomb.
| F,lliott's examination developed nc
| particularly unfavorable view, but APP
peared not to satisfy the DEFENSE. vi
the others Brewster c. Kenyon IS &C
| counted a capitalist. He told Attorney
/ clarence S. Darrow, chief OF counsel
for the defense that he was not IN
| sympathy with the attitude OF the
Times toward union labor. and was
4 not an admirer of General Harrison
Gray OTIS its publisher
A. Gribling was challenged py t nt
state after he said at one time ina
he would not convict on c1rcumstanelA
evidence in case involving the deatL
penalty. Judge Bordwell denied tnt
i challenge after questioning Gr1D1ng &c
find lust what he understood by CIR
cumstantfal evidence.
TaIesman F. D. Green celepTatee
his 57th birthday anniversary las
night. At a dinner a big b1rtndaA
cake with 81 candles was served z
the talesmen and Green was allowed
to send a piece of it to his family
Speeches and songs en1ivened the oln
Judge Bordwell announced whei
court opened that he had looked al
the citations mentioned by the stat
relative to reopening the examination
of TaIesman Willett Drummer ana ina
he could not allow it.
Attorney barrow then continued M
| examination of Talesman Ross.