National news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1915-19??, 1915-10-22
SCHMIDT TRIAL
NOW ON At Los
ANGELES, CAL.
Sccacs in McNanara Case
b Be Rc.fIactcd in
-, Same, caglt Room
ellM's CHARGES DEFERRED

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 2O.-The
hal Of Matthew A. Schmidt on
! sharEs of murder in connection with
; dysami,ing Of the Los Angeles Times
oo0ding. October I, 1910. 10 now in
enssion before Judge Frank r. Willis.
rhe scene Of the trial 10 the court
-s~ whsrs Je. r. MeNamara
Dasaded guilty 70 the same charge four
ysars ago and his brother, John H..
= the charge Of dynamiting the
Uswellyn iron works.
nistrict Attorney Thos. Z. Z. We'd
vine will have charge Of the case srv
he prosecuting Of labor leaders at
( Indianapolis. Former Judge c. II.
fairall of San Francisco IL chief coun.
sel for Schmidt. He will be assisted
By Job Hartman. who was assistant
70 Clarence barrow at the Mcnamara
trial., and Frederick Moore.
A regular venire Of fifty y-one names
has been drawn for the trial. II is
expected two weeks will he required to
selec, jury. Various estimates OF
from one to four months are made as
to tn" length of trial.
Judge Willis Presidex
When Judge Willis mounted the
bench AT 10 o'clock, he found Mr..
Faifali seated at the table for coun-
Del IN the chair nearest the jury box,
with hIs associates. Job Hartman
and Fred II. Moore. alongside hlm.
District Attorney Wool~ine and his
assistants. Jas. W. Noel. Asa heyes
and A II. Van Cott, were standing.
|. The judge remarked it was customary
| Tor the district attorney and his aides
to have those seats.
ut Is only the custom, not the law,
said fairall, and sat still. The court
told him to move. He declined un-
less II vas made formal order.
Judge Willis issued the formal order.
and the counsel for the defense
moved to the other end of the table.
Preliminaries settled, Mr.. Falrall
fhallenged the venire. on the ground
hat I had been drawn before the new
aw went into effect, which makes men
bot on the tax lists eligible for jury
(ersic.. Judge Willis denied the chal-
enge. holding that as property own
fs the members Of the venire were
ot ineligible. and therefore. the
enire was regular. Fairall contested
bis point holly. II predict We viii
nd the venile made up Of men OF
rge MEANS" he asserted.
Attack Venire.
Fairall attacked the yenire on the
POUND that the prospective taiesmah
nd been interrogated by the agents
the District Attorney. to which Mr..
oolwine replied that the venlremen
Mad been investigated, but not inter
rogated. The court ruled against the
challenge. In the course of interro-
cation Of George Alexander the
former Mayor-an incident Indicated
that the defense also had made in
vestipations. lie asked Alexander If
his eyesight was not defective, since
he habitually wore colored glasses.
II do not wear them, and my eye
sight is good" said Alexander. Re.
Gently ! had cold in one eye. and
jwore colored glasses for few days.
y During q tilt over this question OF
investigation of veniremen Moolwine
declared Fairall was simply making
assertions to get into the papers.
and the court ordered both Woolwine
and Fairall to sit down.
Again, after the court had insisted
that Fairall must not ask questions
that had already been answered and
that reasonable speed must be made,
the special prosecutor commented.
"Someone is wasting time"
"You may 60 back to Indianapolis
q soon n you like: no one will OBJ
! lett" retorted Fairall.