Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-05-29
Bir crowd Grests Former President
at Depot.
MUCH CARE SELECTING JURORS
Jurors Have Been Chosen for tne
Case-Case VIII Last Two
Weeks.-Roosevelt Guest
of G. p. Shiras.

Theodore Roosevelt himself in
court. the trial of the libel suit
brought by the former president
against George Newett of the lsh-
peming Iron Ore, was begun at z
o'clock Monday afternoon. Newett,
with his lawyers and friends, was
already in the court room when
Roosevelt entered with his attorney
James Pound.
The case was called by Judge
Richard c. Flanagan and the clerk
read the roll of the thirty-six regu-
lar and fifty special veniremen sum-
4 moned.
NA Thousands of persons who have
poured into the city to attend the
trial, crowded about the railway
station to meet the former president
q Colonel Roosevelt arrived at
o'clock. The ex-Nresident was
cheered by the crowd at the station.
He waved his hat and shouted,
"Bully weather"
Before court Sheriff James Ma
loney issued orders to keep out the
general public. Only the principals
witnesses and newspaper cores
uondents were to be admitted, ac-
cording to his orders.
The Jurors will be guarded more
carefully than in any trial ever held
here. They will sleep under guard
in large sample room at the Hotel
Marquette. The entire community
has been stirred by the charges con-
tanned in Newett's article about Col
onel Roosevelt, and in Colonel
Roosevelt's complaint charging Ne
welt with libel and demanding $1O,-
900 damages.
III reply to Newett's editorial
charging Roosevelt "lies and curses
4 in most disgusting way" ana
that he ''gets drunk, too, and that
net infrequently," more than a
score of prominent men were READY
to testify. ~, zn4 +. - 'i't F.
The jury selected is as follows:
( Joseph Robear, teamster, IsRpem-
ing, %.
a Thomas Pryor, locomotive fire
man, Marquette, 81.
Thomas Howard, farmer, Choco-
lay township, 40.
Robert Bruce, lumberman' POW
ell township, Sc.
William H. Matthews, miner. lsh-
peming.
william Fassbender, teamster'
Marquette, %.
John Frederickson, miner, Ne
gaunee, 81.
William Garrow, miner, Ely town
ship. 26.
Andrew P. Johnson, miner, Hum
boldt township, 60, native OF Den
mark.
John A. Johnson, farmer, skan-
dia township. SO, married.
William Sharp, teamster, Ne
gaunee, 80, married, native of Eng
land.
Gus Polcen, blacksmith, Wells
township, married.
AS soon as the jury had peer
sworn, Judge Flanagan ordered tn'
furors locked up and kept in con
finement until a verdict is rendered
in court.
gentlemen of the jury" sale
the court, until you have rendered
: verdict in this case you will b
bent IN close confinement so tina
Won will be protected from any pos
sible influence other than the ties
timony which you will hear in TIM
courtroom. have decided on thi
~ see that you are not approaches
by outsiders.
"If anyone attempts to talk Z
Won about his case, want you U
report to the court, if possible, CIV
ing their names. I wish to caution
YOU against coming to any final con
clusion in your own minds as
the merits of the case until you ar
instructed to deliberate on a verdlc'
Don't talk among yourselves abou
IT. You may write to your fan
flies, but no letters will be delivere
TO you unless you agree that the
may be first opened by the court.
PATENTS MAY BE REsOLD