The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-15
LOCK UP FRINGE George
JURY FOR PROTECTION
REFERENCE TO PLANNING
BANQUET" DRAWS PROTES.
Case of Depoecd Police Lieutenant
Porter of Hopewell Charged With
Bribery Again on Triai-Grand Jury
Wants Witnesses.

Prince George Courthouse, Va,
Sept. 1.-THE jury that will pass up
on the guilt or innocence of Lieuten-
ant John e. Porter of the deposed
Hopewell Police Force, In the case in
which he is charged with having Civ
en- S25 as Z bride to Supervisor o.
Nj. Reeves. of the Dupont Police
Force. is quartered in the courthouse
tonight, under the watchful eye OF
Sheriff Boisseau and his deputies.
That there may be no repetition OF
the mistrial from such cause as that
which made necessary the second ar
raignment OF Porter on the Reeves
bribery charge. Judge West this morn
ing announced he would take the
greatest measure of precaution. and
this afternoon when court adjourned
he instructed the Sheriff to keep the
jury together and to remain with them
until after the verdict has been re-
turned.
In making a short address to the
new jury this morning Judge West re-
ferred to the,court's action two weeks
ago in the case of E. L. Lucas. mem
her Of the first Porter jury. wko was
found to have been tempered with
by w. d. Henderson. A. II. Becesi
and others under indictments similar
TO the Porter charge. They were In
nicted after having planned to cele-
brate Porter's acquittal with pan.
nuet. Lucas was found in contempt
and fined $50 and sentenced to ten
days in Jail.
Prevent banquet Planning"
Judge Vests remark, during the
brief address. that there were to be
no planning for banauets at Hope
WE'LL called a protest from Attorney
n ~ r
err, Mr.. Mann declared that such re-
marks are likely to prejudice the
Jurors against the defendant Judge
West did not think so. however.
Little progress was made during to-
days session and 1t is probable that
the trial will last until Saturday night.
The entire morning was taken up with
the work OF securing the jury. Court
took the dinner recess at 1880 o'clock
with the following jurors sworn In:
C. n. Hatch. T. F. Clary l. s.
Baird. j. f. Cousins. j. s. Brockweil,
w H Eppes. F. Johnson. Jr.. N.
Cogle, A. DeCue, D. Burchard, F..
Cooney and T. A. Parsons.
His "Whack of Hush Money"
After the opening statements OF
counsel by George E. Wise. OF Rich
mond, for the Commonwealth. and
by r. n, Mann. Of Petersburg. for the
defense, were made, Supervisor Reeves
took the witness stand. He spent
pra ctically the whole afternoon testi-
flying and answering the questions put
him on cross-exam.nation. His testi-
mony was a repetition Of that given
at the first trial. He described the
money given him by Porter as two
tens and one five-dollar bill. The
money was given him, he said. as his
"u-bacr of the hnsh money! on the
gambling machines.
The first witness to be heard to-
morrow morning will probably be J.
NJ. Dallas. of the Dupont police force.
Special Officer Maraglia may be heard
also during the morning session
The grand jury reconvened this
morning, and though 1t was In session
all day no additional indictments
were returned. The grand Jury asked
the court to summon fifteen witnesses
whose names were furnished. 1t - ex-
pected that number of important
indictments will be returned within
the next day or two.