The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-11-16
ONL Y THREE JURORS QUAIL
IFIED LVllcNAlNARA CASE
Prosecutions Still Attempts to Pack Jury With
Men Unfair to Labor.

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! Los Angeles. Cal, Nov. III
Three Jurors have been selected in
the Mcnamara ease They are:
resident of Los Angeles. carpen-
ter. C. A. Ta veteran. re-
publican and reader of the Los An
geles Examiners; byron ss.Lisk, aged
iG1, feed and flou1s mercnant4of Pas
adena. republican, not regular at
tendant any chur Eli. reader of Los
Angeles Times is,if3says he doesn't
believe anything it prints; and r.
D. Green. aged "a q years. resident OF
Pomona, and orange grower. Il =nrot-
estant, republican, and reads the
Tribune.
All OF the, newspapers mentioned
are reactionary capitalist sheets
which have carried stories $calculat-
ed to bias the fairest mind.
Slowly. but with great precision
the prosecution is wearing down. the
chances of the Mcnamara defense
getting a jury that will give them
q fair tria!.
Five of the precious pre-cmptory
challenges held. by the attorney for
the defense have been used in get
ting rid of some men SO palpably
biased that nearly everybody in the
court room was shocked when they
We're allowed to go IN the jury box
Those challenger by the defense
We're George w. Mckee, George w.
Johnson. DR.. Case, Walter N.
Frampton and a. + C.sAVinter. The
latter Two are the ones which the
defense made bitter fights against.
These men declared they read the
! Tunes. they We're convinced the
building had been destroyed by dy.
Mantle and that the defendant was
guilty OF the crime charged. In
I the face Of this the8 men we're held
despite most vigorous. challer ges for
cause. 'T'+> 49, >s5 -e.e
1t has taken four weeks hard
work to get three jurors. At this.
rate four months would be required
to fill the box but it is believed
much better time will be made.
During the time the trial has
been in progress Otis has been as
sidiously circulating his infamous
pamphlet and doing all in Ills power.
to bias the mind of every potential
juror in Los Angeles county.
BY National Socialist Press.)
Los Angeles. Cal. Nov. 13.-
Judge Bordwcll shocked the attor-
neEs for the defense and the spect;.
tors in the court room when h..
supported the prosecutions cbal-
lenGe for cause and discharged
George NJ. Whorton. a socialist and
veteran Of the Civil war under the
assertion that the reuireman wa.
not mentally competent to serve.
Horton harrassed the old yetera II
FOR two days. His opening remark
I when the vcnireman entered the
box was: You're Il socialist. aren.,
you@' Morton parried with Horton
Tor hours and brought many 4 laugh
at the expense of the young attor-
reT Mercilessly, hour after hour
Horton baited tho venireman until
the spectators, rewspapermen and
attorneys or the defense We're boil
ing with Indignation at the prcce-
durc. Frequent Interruptions by at
torneys for the defense Over and
over again objections came to
rausht and the prosecutor went OIL
and on with his cruel work.
Morton's admission that he was a
socialist and read socialist and
labor papers seemed to have caused
the prosecution to work itself into
Ia frenzy of hatred for the man.
! Time and again the old man sharply
rebnked his tormetor for injecting:
poliC!cs INFO the case but he was
forced to sit and listen to a volIey
icf most Insulting questions
You read the Socialist-Democra.
and che Appeal to Reason. don't
YOU suppose YOU are against ths.
governmcnt?"
The old mans head straycd up
to bronze button on his coat and
tears welled in his eyes Then i,
;; Strengthened UP as mem mories rush
ed over him. In thunderous tones;
tSiat- made the little lawyer shrink
into his scat:
You. You ask NE that: Me who
fought to save this government:
40. l am not against the govern
mcnt,''
The snecr came back into the
tace OF the little lawyer and he
irtarted in again:
But, because you hold the views
*ou do about capital and labor. you
incline TO the gas theory. don't
you?"
Attorney DAVIS. Tor the defense
s3rane to his feet livi.i with rage
las ta exclaimed:
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