The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-04
NJ 'NAMARA TRIAL IS
WEAR|LY DRAGGING
Eleven TaleSrnen So Far
Passed for Cause, Only One
More Being Needed.
VENIRE IS EXHAUSTED
Judge Orders Another List;
Peremptory Challenges Ex-
pected to Deplete Panel.
VENIRE Is EXHAUSTED

Los ANGELES, Cal, .Noy. %.--TlTough
N variety OF insignificant and unimpor-
taut detail the Mcnamara trial YEARLY
yawued it's way today and adjourned
until Monday. with the status quo un-
changed-eleven talcsmen passed for
cause aud one still needed before per-
cmptory challenges can be exercised bN
either side. James y. Mcnamara. ON
trial on indictments for fatalities result
Ing from the explosion Of the Los An
.eea Times year ago. was himself an
indifferent auditor.
Practically tho entire days session
was occupied with determining the eligi-
Diliiy ur talcsTan. IL {. BlHnklron
and the state Woye a ianGle about him
AZ To whe lhcr he owned Mt the present
time property listed on tn" last assess
ment roll and whether disposal OF it has
disqualified him. In the afternoon soS-
sion even the court was so weary with
tn. ramficatious OF the property qucs-
ton ;hat tho state turned abruptly TO
the uiestion OF belief in circumstantial
evidence and caught Blcnkiron In a
maHr OF varying answers. which gave
the court ground 10 allow chaleuge
against him.
Suggestion by Court.
II was while tho argument Of the
state on the property qualification was
being made DE Attorney u. 1kUN iip'lpll,
who read from Nolumin"us decisions.
| that Judge BorGwoll yawncd and oc-
casionally closed his eyes. finally sus-
eesting that tho talesmen In the box he
given u little airing while the argument
was going on. II was a hot. murki' day.
and The sun beat reIentlessly through
| the brown shades Of the chamber Into
the half empty room; E,enklron was was
Imedlatcly after IL had been pointed out
Lthat he did mol know his own mind ON
Pwhether Inc would convict II the evidence
| I'm the case were wholly Circumstantiai
| After RIenkiron was disposed Of, W
! II Andrews, The last ven,remam, occu-
pied the twelfth seat in the jury box
He finally "as challenged by the de-
| fense for actual bias on tho ground That
| he believed the defendants guilty and
that the Times building was dynamited
by labor unions CT strikers.
Question by State.
! He was under cross examination hy
District Attorney Frcdericks at adjourn
ment time. the state attempting to- show
that Andrews had formed his opinion:
ION public rumor, public journals auo
the penal code which does not disquall,
} " talcsmcr who have formed opinions
providing the latter were procured by
any OF these agencies.
With Andrews 10 be examined further
and the venirss Of POS thus far called cN
y hausted Judge Bordwell ordered another
vcuirc or forty today and will hear pre-
llminary excuses tomorrow.
CurlousIy enough. Harry Chandler
son IN law of General Harrison era,
OILS, proprietor of the Los Angelo
Times and himself the vice presidcn
ot The company thxt publishes the Times
I nnpears on tho latest Noulrr. Whcth"
e he Will be excused in preliminary cX
b animation tomorrow for business reasons
= or any other of the excuses whicl
usually have been offered In tho pre-
illmlrary examinations or be subjected T.
examination by counsel aud dlsqUaltfic,
because hc was affected personally 10,
: tho disaster. was a theme for common
tonight.