The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-16
JURY COMPLETED IN
 NEW HAVEN CASE
 AFTER MUCH LABOR
Trial of Millionaire Direc. tors Is Adjourned Until Monday - Session Pro-
 lOnged Two Hours

New York. October 15.--The selection
 of jury to try William Rockefeller. Lewis Cass Ledyard, Edward D. Rob
 bins and eight other directors. past and
 present, of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad, on charge of conspiring to monopolize the transpor- tation traffic of New England. was completed today The I2 acceptable me represented the painstaking sIfung ol nearly 250 talesmen over a period of three days.
 The case was adjourned until Mon
 day after Judge Hunt. in announcing
 that the jurors would not be kept in
 the custody of the court delivered
 what was regarded by many as an
 unusually solemn warning upon the importance of circumspection" In their
 conduct. He told them they were ito allow no one to approach them on any phase of this case"
 The jurors are: Steven D. Hirsch-
 man, real estate dealer; Max Hartman, commission merchant; Albert B. Vel
 don, vault glass dealer Thomas N. Pell, insurance broker Frank s.
 Douglass, manufacturer; Fred c. Bon ny. manufacturer; James Carton, bust
 ness manager; Joel Krous, real estate
 dealer; Porter Wagner. builder; C. A.
 Flint, salesman; Henry c. Dater, real estate dealer, and Alfred L. Grayce,
 electrician.
 Session Long Drawn Out
 It was not until today's session had
 been prolonged for two hours and both
 sides exhausted all their challenges that
 the last juror was in the box. The day $
 work represented the elimination of
 seven of the tentative jury selected
 yesterday and nine more tentatively
 accepted during the day, not to men
 ton a score who disqualified them selves.
 Strong opinions as to the enforcement of the Sherman antitrust law, under which the directors were indicted. proved
 an obstacle to the selection of nearly a dozen jurors who otherwise seemed ac- ceptab ble. Several said that their objec- tions to the law were so fixed they did not believe they could render an impar- tial verdict Others who held similar opin- ions said they thought they could render a fair verdict nevertheless, but in each case they were challenged by the govern ment.
 Delaney Nico'l, of consul for the de- fendants did not fail to inquire of each talesman whether he had a prejudice against combination
 The government" he said to one tales man. alleges that the New Haven is an unlawful combination and was harmful to New England We are going to show you that it was lawful combination and beneficial to New England. One talesman was found, Frederick H. Bennett. who said that he had prejudice against the New Haven directors because his relatives as stockholders of the road, had suffered by the fall in It's stock. This drew from Nicoli the retort that the gov ernment might be responsible, for the losses of these widows and orphans. a remark which some took as indicating that the defense in presenting it's case. would lay the demoralization of New Haven securities during the last year or
 two to government inquiries and prose cutions
 Association with concerns connectel with the interests of the New Haven or its directors disqualified other 'talesmen and others said that they had prejudces either for or against the men on trial One proved to be stockhoder in the road.