The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
Directors and Ex-Directors Face Jury Who Will Try Them After listening to Examination That Takes More Than IT Hours.
One Point of Defense Will Be That the Government Was Responsible Will Hold That Monopoly Was Beneficial to New England

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 New Yorls Oct. 16.-William SRockefeIIer and mine of his compan- I ions on the board of the New Haven got tensely to their feet at 5:52l l E,cloc1x yesterday afternoon before Judge Hunt in the United States Dis frfcf Court to look into the faces of the Jurors before whom they will be X tried on charges of conspiracy to k1nonopolize the commerce. of New FEngland.
 For seventeen hours they had lis tened to the examination of tales \ men. when at 5:45 De Lancey Nicoll announoed:
 -sWe are content with the Jury :
 Tn the course of those seventeen S1aours the defendants had listened to fI1eI calIfng of the names of 2s6 out Of the 250 ta1esmen summoned. They had seen eighty-six Of these men called tenporarily to places in the fury box They had seen seventy four changes made in that company forty-four yesterday, twenty-five i .Tsls,sJssI.a:v and eigfat wednesday. They had heard declarations of synpa thy 4 for them and declaI Iations of pre1u- I dice When it was all over they Eexperfenced such emotions of relief as sent them hurrying from the court room like schooIboys at the end of a vexatioS1s day.
 Jury Grat1nes Defense.
 spokesnaen for the defense profess ed their gratfhcatdon over the char. acter of the jury, and whether it was I because of qualification or because of .a desire to end the preliminaries, only eight of the nine peremptory cl1al- a1enEes to which the defense was entt- stle were used. The government used All 1t had, and might have gone fur ther had Judge Hunt not cut the I Inuraber from eleven to nine, for 1 time-savtng reasons, an hour before adJoErnment was reached
 Ten men had been called sto the agreed on stephen D. Hrschrnan asl Juror No l. Daniel Ms F1anigan of No. 80 Manhaftan avenue, whose name had been tle 1Irsf drawn from the wheel Wednesday morning. held the place until he fell a victim to the defenssss fourth ci1aHenge- Arthur X sHaIer of No 219 West One Hun [ dredth strest an agnnt for The Amer 4can Loconn0tzve Conpanys Succeeded, MT F1ann1gsn until the governments sixth cha11enge removed him
 Two ta1eslnen were examined be- fore George " Herbert IT,, of Ma n1aroneck was arcepted for the place, but the defenssss 1astl exercised cha1- 1enge removed him. and five more had been called before Hirsch1nann's name was drawn After comparative- 1y brief exanaazla41on by Mir NicoI1 and R. U. Ba41s for the government he measured up to desires
 Max Hartman. In No. 2. and Albert tB. Weldon, in No. 3, both chosen ! aWednesday. kept their places to the end. and in No Ghar1es D. Gleason Of No s5s West Fffty1efgnth street the victim Of its fifth cha1Ienge5 Thomas N. Pel1 of No. 112 West Seventy street finally taking his place
 Two Gk1fxcdse Sherman Law.
 George B. Raynnond of No. 2s3a gHfaTaon aEende, fae Bronx. was re- placed by the eFnnaents second chaIlenges the first 0f khe day. He had the day before expressed an opinion t1aaa the Silez man lazy should l be a1zaeflded. and fals first man called fO succeed him. Ge6fge Whaatley Of No 1192 Franklin avenue, BfOnx. an EenDIoyee Of B. Altanan & Co. went even fuFtl1er by declaring that ethere ought to be no such law. 7 Frank s. lDoug1ass Of Nc. 108@ Nelson avenue, the Bronx. was finally Installed as No. 5
 WIdlia1n c. Tucker ef New Rochelle was taken from place Nc. 6 by the defenseys third challenge In the ex- ,aHnfnati0hs that preceded the final selection of Frederick c. B0nny of No. 249 West One Hundred and Twenty- street the defense seem ed to drop g hint of one of the prem ises upon which it wetIid base its Aght
 IT. seana4k Of the F. H. Bennett Biscuit Co., Nc. lss Avenue 5. was being qHestdoHed by AE. NicoI as to opinions he might have formed re- garding the charges against the direc- tors. Mr. Bennett neBIied that, hav- 
 had many relatives w11e were stock holders in the New Haven.
 tAndY he added, I've thought 8 | good deal about the responsibility of the roads management for the losses l the stockholders have had to bear.s
 Have you ever thought" demand ed Mr. Nicoil. that the government might be responsible for those losses 7
 Frederick F. Waters of Yonkers. who had gons into place No. T | through the defense,s first exercise Of it's right to challenge perernpteriiy, was taken from the chair by the de- lenses second challenge it's first of the day. James H. Carton of No 123J West Ninety-sixth street, the first man called after MT. Waters had stepped down, remained to Be sworn In.
 New Haven Buyer Quickly 0Htv
 Joel Krous Of No A Central Park Vest. who went into place Nc. g. Wednesday,. was not disturbed yester- day. Peter Wagner of Nc. 23s West One Hundred and Twenfy-first street, remained as No g, and James Fl Regnan, a former Part Warden. of No. 862 MaRida street, the Bronx, re- ualned as No 10 until the govern n1ent challenged for the seventh time Clyde A Flint Of No. 42 West Ford