New-York tribune., 1915-10-16
Jury SELECTED
TO TRY N. H. MEN
Case Opens Monday with
Two-Day Speech by
Chief Prosecutor.
ROCKEFELLER WINS
TALESMEN'S PITY
One Man Out Because financier
Reminded Him of Father
Nicoll and Osborne Wrangle.

NNlAtiA ot0 CRbNf -
The Jury box was hlled yesterday
.fternoon for the trial Of the eleven
past and present-director' OF the
I.w York. New Haven & Hartford
Railroad who are charged with con-
.,i,;,o % violate the Sherman anti
rust law.
The next session Of court will be
,eld on Monday morning. when K. l.
Rats. Special Assistant Attorney Cen
.ral o. the United States. will begin
his opening address 70 the jury
,neecb he believes will consume close
% two days.
The members Of the jury are;
Stephen D. Hirschman. real estate
800 West IO9,h Street.
Max Hartman, commission mer-
chant. Is East Thirty-third Street
Albert y. Weldon, builder Soo7
Bainbridge Avenue. -,
Thomas \. Pell. insurance broker
7 West Seventy-second Street
Frank s. Douglass, contractor
1850 Nelson Avenue
Fred c. Bonny, flax hore manu-
facturer, 100 Broadway $40
James H. Carton, salesman 10
Yves. Ninety-sixth Street.
Joel Kraus. retired cafe proprietor
l4s Central Park West
Peter Wagner. builder $50 "es'
e 4 Flint. electrical heating en-
ginoer. % Fordham Road west
Uenry c. Dater. real estate e22
West 18Th Street. - ooo
Andrew l.. Grace, electrician SV'
West 10th Street.
These men are in FOR task that Will
.onsume not less than TWO nouns, nm,
md. probably, three months lheS
rill not be locked up during TINS tiihe'
sympathy for Rockefeller
Tho delav in deciding on jury was
bortened considerably yesterday ai'sI-
,oon bv an announcement by Juoge
William J Hunt. Of the United states
oi,+rict Court. before whom the case
! being tried, that he had cut Gown
he peremptory challenges perm''I,eTI ,T
.acb side from eleven TO nine; AZ
bese challenges we're exhausted oeIoio
NAL selection was made.
One feature of yesterdays proceed
,gs was that several talesmen' VINO
were excused from service
,vnressed sympathy for william "
one Of the Defendant
iris was especially pronounced IN the
Of Charles +. Wright,
.arnenter. He had answered sa'is-
'sctorily most Of the questions put 0y
Do Lancey Nicoll, Of counsel Tor me
defence. and was in a fair way 10 De
'ccepted. when he was asked II he
new of any reason why ne could not
IL as a juror. It'd e1
lon't think Pm competent TO sit OF, "
ase as complicated as this und0uDt-
Al will be. haven't had high
ehool or q college education.
"I think you 90 yourself an, inlus,
ice" remarked Judge Hunt, who had
,sd plenty Of opportunity 70 notlce
hat few other men up to Mr.. virgins
nentelitv had been modest enough on
@Well then" said Mr.. Wright, Il
,ril, railroad station and nave
'uiit houses for railroad presidents
The Court refused 10 admit that as
whereupon the tales
III ! had the power Of concentration
,ecessarv to case OF THIS klnd
wouldn't be a carpenter.
Wouldn't Convict financier.
yours is an honorable calling MI
Nicoll said.
Mr.. NicoN.
Still Judge Hunt could see no reason
10 excuse him. .r
thMk that q man of seventy-nVe or
eighty years Of age land he looked az
Mr.. Rockefeller, who is seventy-four)
who has spent all his life building up
railroads and helping the country de-
serves consideration. When ! picture
sending a man like that TO Jail / think
Of my father in his place
Mr. Wright was excused.
Sol Newmark, Of 56l Broadway, failed
TO qualify. he said he was prejudieed
against railroads because he failed to
yet sufficient damages from railroad
corporation on whose line in the West
he sustained INJURY.
Another Sol-this one Sol Friedus-
said he was opposed 10 combinations.
"Whyi" Mr.. Nicoll asked.
Because" Mr. Friedus replied,
"every time get in combination /
get the worst Of H."
V. Hugo koehler, an architect, OF 4Se
Fifth Avenue, who did work for the late
J. ?. Morgan and who designed the
Children's Theatre and the Sheepshead
Bay Speedway, said he felt he WAS not
mentally qualified.
Two men were excused because they
held New Haven stock One Of them.
Harry ID. Lewis. said he had bought 100
shares al SO yesterday morning.
And i, is now 49," observed Mr..
Nieoll.
Osborne and Nicoll Clash.
c. 6. HammerschlAg, OF Garfield. "
j.. was excused after responding as fol-
lows 10 whether he had such stock:
NO. and I'm glad Of IT,"
A number OF tslesmen, In expressing
their belief that they could not render
n just verdict. hinted that they were
AFRAID theN Woulc be discharged. In the
event OF conviction. By their employers.
whose business was allied. sometimes
remotely. with railroad companies.
Occasionally talesmen explained tha,
they could not sit because they be.
lieyed corporations were prosecuted
under the Sherman law solely because
they were big
In the course OF the examinations b,
Mr.. Nicoll the questions and answer,
were not uttered loud enough 20 sui
James W. Osborne. who is associate,
with Mr. Bats in the prosecution. Mr.
Nicoil became annoyed by Mr.. Os
homes numerous requests that th,
questions and answers be repeated. anC
he lost 10 opportunity 70 deliver 1
thrust az Mr. Osborne.
In the questioning Of Frank s. Doug.
lass by Mr.. Nicoll the talcsman was