St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-01-26

Selecting The Jury.
Choosing a jury to try the case was
the first task and it has been many
years since so much time was given
to selecting II men to try a case.
Thirty-five men were examined be-
fore the jury box was filed and it re-
quired from nine o'clock Thursday
morning until 1920 Friday forenoon
to weed out the men. Nineteen were
excused for cause and the state and
respondents counsel each challenged
two men. The regular jurymen were
exhausted and several talesmen were
summoned. The men finally selected
were:
A. w. Coffrin of Groton, Levi P.
Dean of Sutton, David Frechette of
st. Johnsbury, H. H. Fyler of Burke,
Edwin A. Gray of st. Johnsbury, F.
L. Judkins of Barnet, Conner E.
Moore of Peacham, AFRO M. Peck of
St. Johnsbury, f. G. Richardson of
Waterford, Calvin Clark of St. Johns
bury, Claude Watson of Lyndonville
and L. E. Johnson of Waterford.
THE STATES EVIDENCE.
States Attorney Norton made a
very brief statement of the case for
the state. The first witnesses for the
state were George B. Burgess, archi-
tect, who gave a plan of the pool
room where the shooting took place;
H. w. Randall, owner of the building,
described the premises and stated that
Mr.. Burgess plan was correct. He
also told how he was in the store over
the pool room on the evening of the
shooting and heard the shot. He ran
out of the store and around the cor
ner of the building and saw man
fall on the sidewalk but said on cross
examination that he did not know
who the man was. He also stated
that he could hear conversation in
the room below from where he was
standing at the time of the shot but
had heard none that night.
w. H. jerks identified photographs
he had taken Of the pool room some
time in August, the photographs |
showing a revolver lying on the floor
Thomas c. Wallace, a member of
the ST. Johnsbury police force. said |
he was at the Central Fire Station at /
the time of the shooting and reached
the pool room about five minutes
after the shooting. He described the
position of Browns body and the re-
volver on the floor. He took the re-
volver which had five cartridges in it |
and one of them was empty. He had |
kept the revolver since the shooting
and produced the weapon in court
1t was shown to the jury and then
unloaded He told of going to the
house of James Hatch in East Barnet ,
the night of the shooting in search of
Harlow w. Hatch. The first trip he
made he reached the house about one
O'Clock in the morning and Mr.. Hatch |
was up and his kitchen was lighted. |
James Hatch had on rubber boots,
pants and a vest. He visited the /
house several hours later in the
morning and it was dark at that time.
On cross examination he said he
did not see the body of Brown car
ried into the pool room and that he
was about the room until about 1c
o'clock that night. Asked to Identity
some of the persons he saw there he
pointed to some of the other witness
ses and said he remembered seeing
them.
At this point the state requested
that the jurors be allowed to visit the I
pool room where the shooting took
place and they in company with court
officials. the court and one attorney I
on each side visited the place.
Three Nearest Witnesses.
The state then called Arthur w.
Goodearl of West Acton, Mass, who |
said he was in town on the night of
the shooting In company with Ar
thur Liberty and Clayton Stone he
was walking down Eastern avenue
and when about half way between the
pool room and the Y. M. c. A. build
ing he heard a shot He turned
about and first saw a man staggering
out of the door of the pool room. He
cried as he came out 81 am shot and
fell forward on the sidewalk. He
rushed to the man and took hold of
his head to assist in carrying him
back into the pool room The body
was laid on the floor and he saw the
revolver lying on the floor and told of
its position He did not see Hatch at