The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-11
Train Makes Siegel Charges Clear
So Farmer Jurors VIII Understand
The Prosecution Wins Two
Points at Opening of
Bankers Trial.
TEN CHOSEN on JURY
ARE TILLERS OF SOIL

pictured as the gold brick of high fl
4ucc' 10y Assistant District Attorney
ARTHUR Train in outlining the prosecu.
ous case to the jury late this after.
noon after the jury box had been filed.
You may have a chance with a
h.Ehwlyman who takes your watch"
sad the Assistant District Attorney,
because you may ho able to hit him
or the head. You may have n chance
WITH a burglar who breaks into your
U'uc and steals the money out OF your
trousers pocket. because you may seize
d revolver and blow his head OF hut
When a man comes TO you with smile
o' his face and a silk hat on his head
and says 4 am worth u million when
av has lost a million YOU have no
chance against him"
NJ" Train insisted the offence for
which SicEel had been indicted was
tot committed against the people Of
any particular locality but was a crime
against tho people ~ the entire State
OF New York. D.!
That the prosecution is stalking it's all.
so far As Siegel is concerned. in this
t;a. was announced In the opening
address. Assistant District Attorney
Train asserted that IL Siegcl IS ac-
Gutt"d The will hc acquitted for good
THIS remark was interpreted as mean
ns that the state had picked out
what was considered the strongest case
AMONG tn. fourteen pending against the
merchant and private banker. and IL
il should fail of conviction the remain
In indictments would not be pushed
TO trial.
Ten Farmers on Jury.
r" twelve jurors agreed upon are
EDWARD SWAMI, farmer. Of
Grov'land. foreman
ALBERT ORMAN. farme-. OF Avon.
STEWART RUSSELL. farmer. OF
$ j. MACY. coal merchant. of
Avon
FREDERICK NILES. machinis,, OF
Portage.
FRANK WILBUR. farmer. o.
ConrsuS
T.. O. sLIKER. farmer. OF Conesus
HARRY :. LINsNER, farmer, OF
G oveand.
JoHN PERRINE, farmer. Of North
Evansville
T. r. GREEN, farmer. OF West
Sparta.
FRANK MILLS. farmer, of Mount
EDWARD HERMAN. farmer, of
Eunda.
Most of them are married and have
children, and all of them have BANK ac-
counts and are more than 10 years Old
except Niles, who Is 2s.
Mr. Train began his address ut $40
o'clock this Afternoon. The jury was COM
p.et.d at 3 80, at which time "A hNe NM
...e recess was ordered by Judge william
w. clark, before whom the trial is being
h.ll in the Supreme Court OF Livingston
county. Then Mr. Train read into the
h..
answer 10 certain remarks made by John
3 Stanchtield. counsel-in-chiei Tor the
defence when a demurrer was entered to
the indictment yesterday.
First Tit Between Lawyers.
This action precipitated the hrst tlt
between opposing lawyers. Mr.. Stanch
fed protested that his languag" had not
been correctly quoted by Mr.. Train ana
Objected to the reading into tn" record
- tho statement by the Assistant Dis
riot Attorney. The court overruied MT
Stanchncld. who took an exception.
Immediately af;erward counsel ior the
..scucc moved To force the prosecution to
,nocifv which Of the two counts in the
Indictment SicSel was To he tried on.
Neain he lost. because Judge Clark re-
fused TO instruct the District Attorney
N elect his count.
-, Jury eminentlv qualified to pass
m this somewhat complicated case was
'he compliment paid to the occupants or
mo box by Mr. Train at the beginning OF
lie lecture" as he referred to his open
ing address.
lie explained the absence OF Governor
,,oct Whitman, who was guided by tho
decision of the Appellate Division II the
Supremc Court TO the effect that II would
hr luadVisablc for Mr.. whitman 10 attend
tuo trial, and regretted the loss OF the
moral effect OF the GoVernor-e'ects
ur'sonCe.
The crime this man at the bar -
charged with committing IL not crime
AGAINST the people of any particular To-
r,''ty,' avcrred tho Assistant District
attorney Every town and village ~
concerned to an extraordinary degree IN
wis case u Is not battle OF h"yerS'
hut "A battle Of right against wrong.
~ hcg Of YOU not to let the time and
80 oNpense occasioncd by the presen-
teton Of this case make YOU hesitate 10
a-r questions II anything is not clear or
$40 Witnesses are not understood
we shall cndeaVor to prove every
Ming stated IN tho indictment, which COW
cs 1o5 printed pages. and possibly we
shall proyc more. The Indictment can
10 boiled down to It's essence, and IN
MAIN English that Indictment charges
egcl with being a thief. But ne Is hol
'he kind of thief who waylays you IN
.r. dark breaks into your house or
l.ahs Won nv the throat and takes your
watch You might have some KIND 81
% chance with thief of that character
Flcsel is charged with stealing, not by
force. but by guile, deception and cum
ming"
Dr,vs Series Of illustrations.
We're Assistant District Attorney IRAN
began q series of illustrations, drawing
urou material familiar to the jurors and
blsiug them upon Hypothetical cases
aralogous to the Siegel case so far ~
'hc vital issues were concerned ne