The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-14
cale.burs Physician Is on Trial In
Federal Court, Charged With
Mann Act Viola
ton.
JURY IS EMPANNELLED
Taking Of Testimony In Case is Be.
qun When Court Reconvened
For Afternoon
Session.

Judge Martin j. Wade, this after.
noon, ordered the marshal TO exclude
all mon under twepty-one years of
AGE from the court room during the
trial Of the Maiey case. There were
a number Of young men under twenty
) one in the court room, judging from
the exodus which followed the courts
order. Some Of the boys who were ex-
cIuded were high school students.
Judge Wade Interrupted District At
torney Porter In his argument, saying:
"Mr. Marshal, don't want you 20
admit any young men into this court
room who are under t~enty-one. And
want all young men now in the roof,
who are under twenty-one to leave.
There was some hestancy about
leaving and the court repeated the
order, pointing out individual persons
where there seemed a tendency to
.vade the order.
ANY one under twenty-one who re-
mains in this room, and 10 found lat.
er, will be punished" Judge Wade con.
cIuded.
When the noon recess of the fed
eral court was reached today, Jury
had been secured to hear the case Of
the United States VS.. DR.. George E.
Maley of Galesburg. DR.. Maley is &C
cused Of having violated the Mann
act. This is his second trial. the jury
last fall which heard the case having
disagreed Taking of testimony was
commenced this afternoon when court
convened.
All of the petit jurors were called
and some of the grand jurors who
were able to stay, were transferred
to the petit jury list before the twelve
men who will hear the case were
picked. District Attorney Porter exam
ined the witnesses for the govern
ment, and F. F. Faville examined for
the defendant.
The jurors who will serve in tho
case are: Albert Ford, Mount Pleas
ant; s. d. Onstott, Mount Pleasant;
EW. Cartwright, Mount Pleasant:
Theodore Wilton, Wapeiio: G. B..
Fisch, Muscatine; G. w Workman,
Birmingham; Abraham Parsons, Wap-
clio; j. w. Wilson, Mount Pleasant;
Harry Beers, Keosauqua; J. NJ. God
dard, Davenport; Joseph Harrison,
Winfield; n. NJ. Pickell, Des Moines
ASK ABOUT HreJUolce.
The government asked the jurors If
they had any prejudice against the
white slave act, or If they had any
prejudice against its being enforced
on men who transported women for
private use immorally. The govern
ment inquired into the religious and
fraternal organizations OF the prospec-
tive jurors.
had any prejudice against indicted
persons, in general.
Katherine Chesley Is the prosecut-
ing witness in the case against the
Galesburg doctor. The government
charges that Maley brought her from
Monmouth to Burlington in violation
of the Mann act. In the former trial
Maley sought to establish an alibi.
Will Keep Jurors Together.
The jurors who will hear the Maley
case will be kept together during the
entire trial of the case under the SUI
pervision Of bailiffs. This was an
nounced this afternoon by the court
Usually the Jurors are not kept to-
gether except when they have been
given the case for consideration. This
trial is considered Of enough import
ance to keep the members of the
Jury isolated during the trial Of the
cause.
o-.~s-r statements.
District Attorney Porter orened the
case for the government this after
noon, stating what the government
hoped to prove. and giving history
of the case He was followed by At
torney F, F. Faville, for the defense.
At one point in the district attorneys
argument he was interrupted with OBJ
1ections from the defense.
Mr.. Porter said that the girl In the
case, Katherine Chesley, had been en-
ployed in the Maley family when she
was fourteen. He told the jury that
she had been enticed into intimate
relations with the defendant even be-
fore the time relied upon by the gov
eminent in this case. He spoke OF
her having been an inmate of tho
Geneva school, and that she had been
paroled from this institution He
then outlined what the government ex-
pected to prove-the trip which the
girl is alleged to have made to Mon
mouth, the arrangement alleged to
nave been made for the Burlington
"Trip, and the alias the government al
reyes the girl said she was to assume.
and the letters which will be intro
duced.
ME-. Porter said that the girl was
an unwilling witness. and had eluded
tne government agents several times
he said that she had even made al
ndavit that some Of the things she
was testifying to were not true.
Attorney Faville in his opening