The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-12-09
Entire Day Spent in Selecting
Jurors-Venire of so Addi-
tional Names Necessary. 4
ONLY FOUR ACCEPTED
WHEN COURT ADJ0URNs
Defendant Sits Calmly Beside His
Wife and Shows No Express
sion OF Eemotion.

A motion by Attorney Phil Hile-
man, who is defending Harvey X.
Fields in his trial for the murder
of DR.. E. Z. Gordon on September
/, to quash the Indictment, was
promptly overruled by Judge w. w.
Duncan of Marion. who is sitting
in the. circuit court. The motion
was made on the ground that the
indictment, which contained the
words "the Alexander circuit court
should have read 'the Alexander
county circuit court" and because
there was no mention OF the size OF
the wound inflicted.
Twenty seven of the thirty men
selected as petit jury appeared
promptly yesterday morning anu
the process of elimination was be-
gun.
The first tender was made by the
state and included John Cartier. -.
s. Carter, John Grimes and Peter
Doud. OF these four, Cartner was
retained and the others excused.
During the examination of jurors.
so many were excused for cause
that it was necessary to send out
Deputy Sheriffs Ralph Qhildress
and Lee B. Davis with list OF %
names each as an additional yenire.
Many OF these responded to the sum
mons during the afternoon and the
examination continued.
The second tender, made By tha
defense, included Andrew Owens.
James Terry, John Cartner and
Frank Barbee. OF these, the state
excused Terry and accepted the
three others John White was ac-
cepted by both sides. a
Court Adjourns.
At about 5:30 O'Clock court adj
journed until this morning. with
the following jurors accepted An
drew Owens, negro. Cairo, John ".
Ea-tner, Tamms, Frank Barbee, ne
gro, Cache and John White, EIco.
Others who had qualified at the
preliminary examination, but had
not yet been accepted by both sides
were George Lawton, negro Futare
City, Henry Douglas, Thebes. II. B.
Atherton, Fayville, and II. L. Clay,
Cairo.
Harvey r. Fields is charged with
murder. in the first degree. OF Dr..
e. L. Gordon, as ne was about to
unite his horse preparatory to ,eav-
ing ST Mary's infirmary late in the
afternoon of September /.
Behind States Attorney Alexan-
der Wilson and Senator Reed Green,
who is assisting in the prosecution,
sat Mrs. Gordon and her darsehter,
| Miss Gladys, who was in the hos
pital for an operation at the time
her father was killed, DR.. Gordon
| had told his daughter good bye and
left the hospital Hearing shots
fired, she looked out of the window
and saw her fathe~ staggering Into
the hospital. He died at her feet.
Harvey Fields little boy ran into
the court room after school was out
yesterday afternoon Fields picked
the boy up and kissed him and then
sat with the lad on his knee until
court adjourned.
Temporary Insanity.
It is believed that the defense
will set up the insanity plea assert
ing that the defendant in early life
had been injured about the head or
spine which would be sufficient
cause in combination with story
alleged to have been told him by
his wife that Dr. Gordon. the mur-
dered man, had assaulted her IN his
office where she had gone to re-
ceive medical treatment to produce
temporary alteration OF the ntsnd.
this mental lapse occurring just as
| the defendant saw nr. Gordon
emerging from 81. Mary's Infrmary,
! whereupon Ne shot and killed him.
In consequence of this supposed
| defense there will be istfeancer
numerous alienists to whom viii be
submitted hypothetical ease
analogous to the present one and
fCnncluded or sixth Page.l 4