Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-01-11
TRIAL To
Be RESUMED TO-DAY.
SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES
BUSY YESTERDAY SUM.
MONINC MEN.
ATTORNEYS BUSY ALL DAY
ATTACHMENTS BRINGING IN
WITNESSES ASKED FOR IN
DEFENDANTS MOTION
FOR CONTINUANCE

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MEMPHIS. Texas, Jan. lo.-This
has been day of quiet, and shapl!
in contrast with the first part oil
the week. Sheriff J. +. King and MS
IDENTITIES have been very busy durins
the day summoning yeniremen 10
renort here at . O'Clock Saturday
morniag. As they have been com
pelled TO 20 into the outlying u,s-
,r,c,s In an endeayor 10 get men VINO
have heard little or none OF 'n'
avents surrounding the trial he'e
,bps far their task has been marc
ope but by 6 o'clock all had report 10
ana il is expected that full paEei
viii no in court when ii conVenes
Saturday morning. ,
Tho two jurymen selected thus
far are I'm charge of Major McOahh'
and have spent the day In a room oh
the second floor OF the court house'
The attorneys on both sides nave
snent the day In different manners.
senator Odell and Hugh Cooper o'
counsel for the state has been loon
inc nm different law points that are
Inselv 10 come up when the taking OF
,as,imony begins. Judge Fires OF
Childress and Marvin Brown OF IA
dpcab defense attorneys, have pu'
in a busy day looking up legal ques-
,ions and consulting different Wiz
nesses Vim. Mclean of Fort worth
was ont early for cross-couh'ry
hike and In his rambles picked up
on the road horseshoe OF enorm-
ous size. and it is now adorning the
head of his bed at the stephens no
70, and among his close acquaintan-
ces he is already known as super
stitious Bill"
Attachments were issued by the
court for all OF the witnesses named
in defendants motion for 'on''hu
ance and they are arriving eacu
day. ]. O shook OF Fort Worth ap-
ueared in court and stated that he
had been attached and put uhdei
$1,000 cash bond to appear here and
asked permission OF the court 70 Dc
excused until Tuesday, at "hlch
time he promised to return.
Attorney Wm. Mclean tried 10
get an agreement from senator
Odell that the witness might return
to his home in Fort Worth. where
ne Is employed by the Parker Drui
Store. bu, Senator Odell replied tha'
he would agree to nothing as to the
witness: that defendant had filed an
application to continue because VII
ness could not be located, and no"
tha, the state had located anc
brought him before the court, the
states admissions as TO what TINS
witness would testify would b'
withdrawn Thereupon Mr.. McLear
stated he would be personally re
sponsible for the appearance OF th'
witness when wanted.
Sheriff McCandless of Dallan
County arrived with the witness, Jo'
Barr. who IL was alleged in the ap
plication of continuance, resided II
Tucumcari y NJ II happened tha
Mr.. Barr had gone to Dalhart OF
personal business. and was imme
d.ately attached and brought here
win Boyce and Henry Boyce lef
for their homes in Amarillo an'
Dalhart respectively, and will return
Monday. j. T Sneed, Jr has like
wise departed for Amarillo, and }
y Sneed and his uncle. J. "
Sneed Of Waco are In Paducah oi
business with J y Sneed's planta
ton there
one reason ot disqualification Do.
so many Of the venirfmeu summon
"a in a disinclination 20 serve on
case of this nature where they will b'
closely confined for two or thre
weeks As both state and defend
ant want jurors from the country
they can be secured, and II being
busy season with them, II will b.
seen that the task OF securing
Jury will be hard one
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