Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-05-18
POLITICS IS INTRODUCED
STATES ATTORNEY EXCUSES
vENIREMAN WHO BOOSTED
FOR EUGENE pE6s.
TAKES A CRACK AT TEDDY
JURYMAN SAYS HE WOULD
RATHER VOTE FOR A SOCIAL
lsT THAN ROOSEVELT.

Los Angeles, May 1S.-Ten sworn
jurors were in the box when the Oar.
row trial was adjourned at noon. The
venire was exhausted and 10 inore
names we're drawn from the Wheel
Counsel for both sides hope to com-
plete the jury when the trial is re-
sumed Monday at 1880 o'clock in the
afternoon.
District Attorney John D. Freder-
icks caused momentary sensation
in the Darrow trial today when he
sought and obtained permission to re-
examine all of the seven jurors al
ready sworn to try the former chief
counsel of the McNamara's for al
legged jury bribery, and then chal-
lenged one of them for cause. The
court allowed the challenge. thus re-
ducing the number of jurors to six.
The man challenged, M. A. Crayata,
declared he would rather vote for
Debs, the socialist, for president than
for Roosevelt and that one of the two
greatest men in tine country was Job
Hartman, Darrow's former assistant
in the defense of the McNamara's s
and the socialist candidate who poll
ed more than 10000 votes in the re-
cent mayoralty election here Senator
LaFollette was Harriman's only peer
! in greatness, Cravath declared, and
the district attorney then entered a
challenge for cause.
Darrow and his counsel, Earl Rog-
ers, vigorously resisted the challenge
of Cravath by the prosecution, but
Judge Hutton, after brief deliberation,
announced he would allow the chal'
s! lenge. Rogers demanded that the
right to re-examine all the sworn
4 Jurors be extended to the defense
but. after a brief examination, he
again passed the six that remained.
There were seven sworn jurors and
five talesmen in the box when cour'
adjourned yesterday, and the exami
nation of one of them, r. p. Golding
by the defense gave an unmistakaDle
Indication of one of the chief diff
culties which the prosecution viii
i find in convicting the noted labor at
torney of having bribed jurors who
were drawn to jury James B. Nc
Namara in the famous dynamitine
case last October
Although Goldlng said he was VIC
lently preiudiced against "unscrupu
Ious labor leaders, he declared tht
opinion that the arrest of Bert FRANK
lin. the former McNamara detective
, in the act of passing money t
George N. Lockwood, the veniremal
, for the alleged brihing Of whom Dar
row is now on trial had the earmarkI
Of a sframeup."
i Franklin recently pleaded guilty t
} having brfbed McNamara juror, AM
was fined $4,000. and is now tn
81 star witness for the state agains
; Darrow If the jury is complete be
|. fore adjournment today, the way vii
I be cleared for the beginning of test
mony Monday, and in that cas-
. Franklin. the first important witness
n may take the stand early in lh
! week. The states case, in all probi
! bility, win stand Or fall with himi an
the quickness OF Attorney Eacl itci
j ers. chief of counsel for Dar-ow, I:
seize upon the ''frameup" suggestio
i of Golding and in the hearings Of th
e seven sworn jurors, to emphasize thi
/ view, Indicated the kind Of attac
: the defense viii make upon the cas-
OF the State.