The Washington herald., 1913-08-10
PERSONNEL OF
JURIESPROBED
District Committee Takes Up
Question Of Condemnation
of Lands.
FEW MEN SERVE OFTEN
Statement Made that Some Selected
Are Directly or Indirectly Con-
neeted with Realty Movements.

The Investigate tion by the House District
Committee took new turn yesterday
and a probe of condemnation juries was
begun. The committee, with Third Az
sistant Corporation Counsel Smith and
former Assistant Corporation Counsel
Marshall on the stand. sought some eS-
PLANTATION Of the apparent practice af
picking much the same men for con-
demnation juries. The committee WIS
told that the ofice OF the corporation
counsel had nothing to do with the Sc
lection OF condemnation juries. that the
United States marshars office attends to
this. and that they would have to make
inquiries there.
1t was brought out. however. that. sl-
though dissatisfaction frequently has
Teen expressed with the awards Of con-
demnation turies, almost no objections
have been raised to the selections of tile
marshars Office in this respect, or TO
the fact, apparent to people in Gloss
touch with real estate movements. that
such juries in the last five years have
been largely selected from a compara-
lively small coterie OF men.
Interested In Real Estate.
The committee empha sized the fact trat
many OF the men who have thus been
sele tied are directly or indirectly cSn-
cerned in real estate movements. No at
tempt was made at yesterdays session.
however, to show that any members OF
such juries had been interested in prob
erty involved I'm condemnation proceed
ings on which they sat.
The following compilatio made by th,
committee, was read in the record:
During the last five years there have
been 1il condemna ton juries in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Only l52 different
men made up these lH juries. The same
twenty-five men composed more than s.
per cent of seventy-three juries out OF
Ill The same twenty-five men composed
~ per cent, or more. of 112 juries out OF
ln. There were only ten juries out of the
1n upon which no one OF the favorite
men did serve.
'"Practically all OF the twenty-five IA
vorite jurymen are either directly or in
directly interested in real estate trans
actions.
There respective interests are as real
estate dealers, builders, lenders OF money
on real estate. sellers of lumber, sellers
OF brick. sellers of building hardware.
sellers of paints and glass, sellers of in
surance. &C."
List Of Jurors Submitted.
The names of all jurymen who have
served on two or more juries as pre-
sented by Mr.. Johnson's compilation are
as follows:
William T. GallIher. 80: John Mitch
ell. 21: Thomas NJ Harvey, 1s: c. J.
Walker, 10: Charles Werner IS: Will
lam +. GUIDE. IS: Philip Larner. 16;
John II. Nolan, Is; William +. Lips
comb. builder. Is; William p. Van
Wrinkle. Is: F. W. PiIling. II: N II.
Shea. L.: F. b. Metzerott, IL; Thomas
- III ~ r.
Schneider. 10; a. p. Clark. tr.. 10; b.
s. Adams, .: ]. S. Swormstead, 9; II.
X. Simpson, .; r. 7. Andrews. 7: Ralph
Gait. Z: Carl Gran, Z: r. n. Harper.
Z: William v. Cox. Z: s. y. Darragh.
s: Thomas Gordon. s: +. c. Graham.
s: f. C. Graves. 6: W. II. Harper, s:
Washington Topham. s: s. II. Walker.
6; s. II. Walker. S: Charles Baynes.
:: James II. Crawford. :; 4. n Marks,
3: J. Tillman Hendrick, ;: Frank c.
Henry, -: James r. Lamhie. ;: T. c.
Dulin, 5: Samuel Ross. 9; W. T. May
field, 3: Percy $. Foster, .: James W.
Dawson. s: James B. Henderson. s; n.
]. Kaufman, s: William 4. Mearns, s:
William s. Ramsey, 5; William f.
Schaeffer. ;: ]. II. Small. tr.. 5: Thomas
W. Smith. s: Conrad Becker, 4: Ralph
W. Lee 4: A. C. Moses, 4: James F.
Oyster. 4; r. W. Guy. 4: D. S. Porter.
4: George w. Ray. 4; S. S. Shea, A.;
John F. wilkins, 4.
The following served on three iuries:
George c. Altemus. William A. Church.
Charles J. Corby, Brooks Cross, A. W.
Francies. Daniel Fraser, Ezra Gould. AL
bert +. Marsh. L. l.. Mersheimeir, George
W. Moss. J. P. Herman, John f. Her
rell. William W. Hecker. A. G. Johnson.
Hugh Reilly, A. G. Sinclair. Thomas r.
Stevenson. Z. S. Thompson, and Eugene
Tilden.
The following served on two Juries:
Henry +. Blount. L. f. Breuninger.
Charles c. Bryan, ID. JrCallahan, Daniel
Dineen. Norman T. Elliott, George f.
Flemming. Robert I. Flemming, Isaac
Cans, A. Lisner C. II. Livingstone, S. II.
Murray, T. c. Noyes, b. s. Graves. A.
d. Hazen. J. Fred Kelley, N. n. Lamar,
E. S. Parker. G. II. Rudolph, G. L. Tar
bell. Edward Thompson, T. p. Townsend,
f. l.. Turner, w. r. Turpin, f. ]. Walsh.
Sidney West, w. d. West, Charles H.
Wilcox.
Forty others We're given al having
served but once on condemnation juries
in the last five years.