The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-31
Election Knocks
 Out Interest In
 MCNamara Trial
Jurors Rush to Polls Before Court Opens-Counsel For Defence, Leading Candidate For Mayor, Likely to be Chosen
Especial from United Press ]

Los Angeles, Oct. 31 Interest IT
 the primary election over-shadowec | today's session of the McNamara trial the jurors now in the box .beina rushed to the polls and permitted to
 vote before court opened. There are now seven men in the box who have been passed by both sides and an eighth against whom the defense tried to get peremptory challenge which is considered almost certain to fa1l. Those who passed for cause are:
 S. B. Manning, rancher. Robert B. Ain, carpenter. F. D. Green, capital ist Walter N. Frampton, farmer George W. Mckee, retired builder. A. C. Winter, butcher. Samuel F. Men denhall, farmer.
 Challenged for bias but likely to re- main:
 George W. Johnson, retired mould
 When court reconvened, today, the state was trying its hardest to elimi- nate Frank Frakes, a farmer, who had been passed by the defense for gas destroyed the Times Building and the state. hoping to impeach, demand ed whether he had not told R. B. Cameron, on September IS, that he did not believe that dynamite ha d anything to do with the Times ex- p1OSlon. FrakeS a hard headed far mer, insisted:
 "Mebbe I did, mebbe I didn't. Cam eron talks too much. I'm likely to tell him anything any time in order to get away from him.
 Attorney Darrow is trying his best to keep this juror, as Frakes insists he had no opinion and had not read much about the case. His brother Is a member of the plasterers' union of San Francisco and for this reason the state is striving desperately to keep him from being seated.
 Yesterdays late session was mark ed by much wrangling between at- torneys and severe rebuking of the defense by Judge Bordwell. This was especially noticeable when the defense was trying to get rid of Venireman Johnson. who characterized all union had conscientious scruples against hanging a man on circumstantial evil dence alone, the defense challenged. The challenge was ruled out by the court. who held that the defense could not challenge for this cause, that be- ing a right exclusively retained by the state, Darrow was angry and said that was the first time in his life he had ever known there was one kind of law for the state and another for the de1enSe. lie cited the co0e ana insisted that such juror should not be permitted or compelled to serve," and declared Bordwell had committed a reversible error by his ruling.
 The defense planned, today. to re- new its effort to impeach Johnson, but the defense's detective, Fitzgerald. made an unfavorable appearance on the witness stand for the state, yes terday. His story that Johnson de- tended General Otis and said the Mo Namaras undoubtedly were guilty was challenged. The defense managed to land Venireman Menden Hall on the jury, he insisting that he could be fair and resisting all efforts of the state to dislodge him. He is a bitter personal enemy of District Attorney Fredericks, making it certain the state will have to waste a peremptory challenge to remove him. The pres ent indications are that the defense will have to use four peremptories and the state two to remove men from the box, leaving only Manning and possibly Green.
 The state has ten. the defense twenty peremptories.