Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-25
M'vAY JURORS GAINED IN WEIGHT Pared Well During Their Eighteen Days "Im-
 prisonmsnt."
SOM K ST ATISTICS S
How They Have Passed the Time What They Did and How
 It Was Done.

The McVay jurors, Judge Graee's S judicial jury, who have been held by deputy sheriffs for eighteen days awaiting the trial of John M. McVay, under indictment for murder in the first degree, charged with having been one of four persons who sho'. and killed J. w. Ethridge, of Fall Back, Miss, in the court house in this city on November 20, the day on which Ethridge was arraigned to an- swer the charge of having assassinat, ed Albert McVay in this city on the night of July 5, 1908, will end thejr eighteen day Imprisonment tonight at midnight The jurors will go into the jury box tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock and it is expected that the taking of testimony in the case Will commence without delay. The trial will probably take up all of the week and before the final verdict is ren- dered the jurors will have been in judicial harness for more than a month
 Despite this fact statistics prepar- ed by Deputy Sheriff R. H. Williams, who has had them in charge, show that they have fared well and have gained in weight and are all enjoy ing good health. Whether this has been brought about by the good treat ment of the deputy sheriff or is due to the excellent snsnnu@,at the Hotel Jefferson, where they have enjoy ad the best, has not been shown. Never theess the figures of Deputy Will
 Hams do not lie The scales have been used to corroborate the figures and the jurors themselves admit tsa, the summary is correct.
 When the jurors started on their eigheen days of easy living each O, them was weighed. Yesterday they repeated the performance and in each case the scales showed that each juror gained from two to eight pounds in weight. This record might have been broken had it not been | for the fact that two of the jurors were i'll a day or two and slipped back" pound or two. The average 1 increase in weight in the eign+een days for the jurors is shown to be | four pounds. There are seven mar ried men, four widowers and one lone bachelor among them. The | average weight on February 5, when | when Judge Grace ordered them to l be held until he returned from Stat- City, Lincoln county, where he held 1 a session of cour., was 147 1-2 pounds. On yesterday the average weight was compiled at 151 1-2 pounds.
 The jurors, it is said, are glad the l end cf their service is near. Twelve men, active in everyday life, have found it most difficult to amuse | themselves since being Hooked up' and to while away what finally got 10 be tiresome and monotonous hours
 They have played 5000 games lof
 cards. have taken forty-one walks in-
 to the country and about the city
 played 24 games of checkers, discuss sd 3.551 issues, political and other wise, attended nine theater perfor-
 mances, witnessed one championship
 basketball game and read 112 up te
 date magazines and nine novels.
 1 In addition to these advertisements the jurors have talked to their fela- tives, with the exception of R. E
 Butts, who admits he is 37 and with out wife, conversed with theii wives many hours over the telephone
 It is estimated that the jurors smok- ed more than a thousand cigars and
 nine cans of tobacco in pipes. It is
 not stated how many baths were talk
 ell, but the suite of rooms included 3
 we'll equipped bathing apartment.
 l Some of the jurors have really
 been in service for more than twenty
 days, as two or three of chem were
 sent to the jury box several days
 before the jury was completed. Judge
 Grace ruled that they should be he.t
 for eighteen days because of the in
 ability of the court to complete ths
 McVay trial before the date of tho
 opening of the Lincoln circuit court