The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-26
ID OBTAIN MORE TALESMEN !NCASE WORRYING COURT Last Venireman of Original 125 Is Examined as
 Court Adjourns WILL TERMINATE
 THIS MORNING It May Be Necessary to Summons a New Yenire Which would Mean Several Days Delay-Will
 Decide Today

Los Angeles, Cal, october 2o.-The last venireman of the 125 summoned for jury service in the McNamara murder case was under examination when court adjourned late today, and the problem of assembling more veniremen became immediate F. K. Easley was the last and his examination probably will be terminated tomorrow morning.
 More than any other cause objection on the part of the talesmen to finding a verdict of guilty on circumstantial evidence slowed progress in obtaining a jury to try James B. McNamara Tor alleged responsibility for the death of Charles J. Haggerty, a machinist, killed in the Los Angeles Times explosion a year ago.
 Just how to obtain more veniremen was a question discussed by opposing counsel tonight. It was said the de- fense might object to taking venlre- men from other branches of the su- perior court. The alternative seemed to be the summoning of new venire, which might take days This course was considered unlikely.
 Day of Work
 The days work with talesmen summed up as follows:
 r. G. Mullen, real estate dealer, ex- eused because the court doubted wheth- CT he would be able to givea fair trial. A. c. Winter, builder and contractor, challenged after he said he had a liked opinion as to guilt or innocence. Chal- lenge pending.
 A. II. Dunlap, farmer, believed de- fendant guilty. Challenge allowed.
 r. j. Foley, real estate dealer, ex- cused because of i'll health.
 W. L. Coward truck farmer, previ- ously accepted as 70 cause by the de- fense challenged by the state after he said he had a fixed opinion that Mo- Namara was not guilty, excused.
 w. L.. Williamson, rancher, excused because of difficulty in hearing.
 John D. Caldwell, car shop foreman, excused for non-belief in capital pun ishment.
 Wallace Gregg. real estate dealer, ohal- lenged after he said he believed the de- fendant guilty and responsible for the death among others Of A. c. Harvey, Times editor whom Gregg knew, was ex- oused.
 The defense opposed the release of Talesman Coward, who said, when inter- rogated by Attorney Clarence s. Darrow, chief of counsel for McNamara, that he had fixed belief that the Times was de- stroyed by a gas explosion, but was Will ing to convict the defendant if the state showed him to be guilty beyond reason- able doubt, and further would be willing to accept a demonstration by the state that dynamite caused the explosion.
 Judge Bordwell took up Coward's exam ination and verified his previous state ment that his opinion was formed after consulting with friend who knew about the results of dynamite explosions.
 Efforts to obtain talesmen satisfactory to both sides in the case of J.. B. Me- Namara, indicted for murder in connec- tion with the Times building here was continued today.
 Talesmen Willing to Talk
 The discovery yesterday of a tales- man, who while waiting as q venireman to be called to the jury box for examina- ton, actually referred to his possible jury service on the case while talking with friends, has illustrated in another way the difficulty that is being experienced in court daily in signing men who have kept their minds free from discussing the Times disaster during the year that has elapsed since it occurred.
 B. w. Clark. the talesman, wEo .ajkfsl with Harry Chandler, vice president of the company publishing the Times, and whom he met in street, mentioning only casually that he was drawn for jury duty and elecitng the comment from Chandler, that he hoped Clark would qualify, has been summarily excused by the court from serving, but stern warning has gone forth to other veniremen to maintain ab- solute silence on the subject involved lest they, too, be placed in confinement, as are the talesmen under examination.
 The conflict of ideas of the defense and of the prosecution as to the cause of the explosion, the former holding to the gas theory and the latter the dynamite opin- ion. it Is anticipated will draw forth the testimony of many experts, but neither side is overlooking opportunity to find persons who may have chanced upon di- rect information relative to the cause.
 With only four men left of the original nanel of 125. yeniremen, a new panel ready 10 be called and hardly the juror agreed up, II. as entirely satisfactory to either side, the chances for, an examination of possibly 5000 or more Venlrement before the jury finally is chosen was generally regarded today in the light of develop ment as possible. During the luncheon. recess of court what was said to be an explosion of an oyorcharge of dynamite occurred in the excavation on the new site of the Los Angeles Times building. for the destruc- ton of which the McNamaras are now on trial. Several windows in a build ing across the street were broken. Win drws in a piano and typewriter sales room were broken by rocks, boulder about Is inches long smashing an upright plano leg in the former store. The defense in the Mcnamara trlal an nounced that 1t would make an investiga- .ion of the accident
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