Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-15
TAKING TESTIMONY
 IN HUGHES TRIAL Jury Was Completed Before Noon Yesterday
 Sister Testiifes.
THREE ON THE STAND
Jurors Refuse to Examine Blood, ! Shirt Filled With Bullet Holes
 Hughes Defiant.

Memphis, Tenn., Feb. l4.-lhe twelfth juror in the trial of J. T. Hughes, the wealthy Arkansas plam- CT charged with the murder of Jockey Tommy Dolan in the CNrdova Hotel last July, took his seat in the jury box shortly after noon today and at the opening of court in the after noon the taking of testimony was be- gun The twelfth juror is B. A. Echols, aged 54, contractor.
 In qualifying Echols for service, Judge Edgington was formally mo- tified by Governor Patterson that tile defense challenged. This was done in acco1 dance with the law that the
 The selection of the jury has con- to the defenses motion Monday fol change of venue.
 When the jury was completed Hughes smiled and appeared as though happy that the long ordeal in selecting the jury was over. He sat with his wife, son and daughter.
 The selection of the man has con- sumed ten days. During that time 225 veniremen have been examined. Fifteen men have qualified, two have been excused by the court for ex- pressing opinions and one on account of sickness.
 When court opened in the after noon the first witness to take the stan,1 was Mrs. Schneider, sister of the dead man. She testified merely that her brother was 30 years old, weighed about 40 pounds, at the time of his death was employed at tlle Orpheum Theater and gave his resi- dence. On cross examination by the defense, she stated she did not think her brother was a strong and athle- tic man.
 The second witness of the day was w. c. Gilberson, an embalmer. A shudder passed through the court room when Gilberson exhibited the bloody sAirt. and collar wcrn by Dolan. Doans sister cried and cov- cred her face. The jurors refused to handle the shirt when it was pass ed to the jury box for them to ex- anime. Particular stress was laid by Attorney General Estes on the col lar. for in the center at the back, just near the button hole, was a round hole. Through this hole the state claims, went the bullet fired by Hughes that snuffed Out Dolan's life. There were two holes in the breast of the shirt and undershlrt, also introduced as exhibits while Gill person testified that there were four bullet wounds on Dolan's body. One. he said, was in the kack of the neck. near the center, one on the right arm and two on the dead man breast.
 Patrolman Soefger, who arrested Hughes at the time of the shooting was the third witness of the day.
 Hughes attitude and appea! ance in court seemed a strange mixture Of steady defiance and phlegm.
 He came into court Tuesday after noon carelessly picking his teeth Hughes had enjoyed a good meal ill downtown restaurant under guard of a deputy. The whispered word went round as Hughes appeared and the grand jurors stared hard as he brushed by them. Hughes looked anc bowed as if in greeting Then h. passed down stairs into the "coolsr.' When court opened at 2:3O o'clock Hughes smiled, greeting his wife children and relatives. He kissed th' women members of his family in turn apparently unmindful of the fact tha he was the exposure of all eyes i'll crowded court room. Then n' ! straightened up and stared steadil! for a full minute, his eyes sweepln, ! the rear of the court room.
 All during the proceedings he SC close to counsel and dictated chal tenge,s. He was apparently annoyed i when one venireman, accepted by tn state, was subjected to such grillln' 1 by the defense that the court excus < ed him. The venireman had veal eyes and was we'll along in years conditions which seemed in the es timation of Hughes to augur well.