The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-31
NJ 'NAMARES COUNSEL
TRIES TO PRy EX-PONTIAC
MAN FROM JURY BOX
Venireman johnson, Molder,
Characterizes All Union
Men AS Tramps.
DARROW AND COURT CLASH
Attorney For Labor Man Insists
Such Juror Should Not Be
Permitted To Serve.
DARRoW AND COURT CLASH

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. S1.--In
terest in the primary election over
shadowed today's session OF the Nc
Namara trial, the jurors now In the
box being rushed to the polls and per-
mitted 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 de-
fense has tried to lodge an impeach-
ment challenge. which Is considered
almost certain TO fail.
Those passed are:
S. b. Manning, rancher, Robert
Balm. carpenter; F. d. Green, capital
list; Walter n. Frampton, farmer
George w. Mckee, retired builder; A.
denhall. farmer.
Challenged for bias, but like to re-
main George w. Johnson, retired
moulder, formerly OF Pontiac, Mich.
When court re-convened today, the
state was trying its hardest TO elm
mate Frank Brakes, a farmer, who
has been passed by the defense for
cause. He inclines to the theory that
gas destroyed the Times and the state
hoping to impeach, demanded wheth-
er he had not told r. b. Cameron, OF
Lancaster, on Sept. Is, that he didn't
believe dynamite had anything to do
with the Times explosion. Frakes In
sisted. "Mebbe did; mebbe | didn't.
Cameron talks too much. I'm likely
TO tell him anything anytime in order
to get away from him."
Attorney Darrow is trying his best
to keep this Juror, as Frake United
he had no opinion and had never read
much or talked about the case. His
brother is member OF the plasterers
union OF San Francisco and for this
reason the state Is striving desperate
ly to keep him from being seated.
Yesterdays late session was mark
ed by much wrangling between attor-
neys and severe rebuking Of the de-
fense by Judge Bordwell. This was
especially noticeable when the defense
was trying to get rid of Venireman
Johnson, who characterized all union
men as "Tramps." When he said he
had conscientious scrupies against
hanging a man on circumstantial evil
dence the defense challenged. The
challenge was ruled out by the court
who he'd the defense could not chal-
lenge for this cause. thSt being a
right exclusively retained by the
state.
Darrow was very angry and said
that was the first time that he had
ever heard there was one kind Of law
for the state and another for the de-
fense. He cited the code and insisted
that such a Juror should not be Per
mitted or compelled TO serve" and
declared Bordwell had committed
reversible error by his ruling.
The defense planned today to re-
new its effort to impeach Johnson,
hut. the defense's detective, FitZger-
aid. made an unfavorable appearance
on the witness stand late yesterday.
His story that Johnson defended Gen.
Otis and said the McNamaras un-
doubtedly were guilty was challenged
and his failure to remember anything
gave the state an advantage which II
promptly seized.
The defense managed to land Ven-
ireman Mendenhall on the jury. he
insisting that he could be fair and re-
sisting all efforts of the state to dis
lodge him. He is a bitter personal
enemy OF District Attorney Fred
ericks, making it certain the state
will have to waste peremptory
challenge to remove him. The pres
ent indications are that the defense
will have 10 use four peremptory chal-.
lenges and the state two to remove
men from the box, leaving only Man
ming and possibly Green. The state
has ten. the defense twenty peremp-
tories
After the most exciting campaign
in the history OF the city, the muni-
cipal primary for the nomination OF
for mayor is being held
here today. Under the law. any can
d,date receiving a majority OF all
votes cast at a primary is elected
and need not be voted upon at the
election Owing to the fact.
however. that there are four prom
inent mayoralty candidates in the
field. il is not believed that any one
will get a majority today. This will
make IL necessary for the two lead
ING candidates to stand before the
people on election day, Dec. 3.
Il was conceded on all sides today
that the mayoralty battle was really
AVht between George Alexander,
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