The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-17
ONLY 3 ACCEPTED
May Take Weeks to Impanel
Murder Case Jury.
Court Dismissed 1873 of First
List of Veniremen.
nppET WILL IAKE THE NIAMn
ORPET WILL TAKE THE STAN[
Parents of Victim Face Accused
Student in Court.
Men Not Opposed to Capital
Punishment Are Wanted.

Waukegan. ILL.,, May 17.-Selection
of a i,rv in the trial of Will H. Or
net. former University of Wisconsin
student. charged with the murder OF
Marion Lambert, Lake Forest mgh
school girl. continued today. Ihree
tentative Jurors have been selected
from the first Venire of 1876 men anu
a new venire was called TO-DAY
The most important developments III
the case since it went to trial occurred
Yesterday when~Orpet's attorneys an
nounced their client would teSuly III
his own behalf. Orpet was the oAiS
witness to the death OF the glIl' an
other evidence to be considered being
circunstantial. States Attorney H. M
Dadv announced that Miss Celeste
Youker, the Deia1b, ILL.,, schoolteacher
to whom Orpet said he was engaged
will appear as a state witness
More Than $50 Witnesses.
His father and mother sit on either
side of him and every now and then
the elder Orpet makes some remark.
He smiles a good deal. The boy, as
though trying to respond to these evil
dent attempts at parental cheer'
flashes the facial twitch that passes
for his smile.
There are about 100 witnesses for
the prosecution and over half that
many for the defense. Yesterday
good part of the venire, the farmer
end, were excused. More must be
summoned and their excuses heard
and possibly needed. When finally
they are set there will be the
lengthy choosing of the IL men who
are to judge Orpet.
Weeks to Select Jury.
Some say it will take three weeks
to select the jury. Others scott and
wager on two weeks. Others go
further and say more than a month.
- he is
to be a sharp fight between state and
defense The state wants men WHO
are rot opposed to capital punishment
Irr CINE the bitter challenge of tie de
fensc to that!
Marion Lambert's father and III 'th-
er were in court and say they are not
avcrse to coming all during the Sc
lection of a jury. Mrs. Lambert, in
her sitting black-for it is. warm IN
the court 9room-looks well fleshed,
but there is a droop to her eyes and
mouth that friends say was not there
last spring.
Console Girls Parents.
Frank Lambert, the father, in his
old-fashioned suit of shiny black,
looks much the same. There is the
familiar bend of his shoulders, 4his
awkwsrd gestures and bearing and
that wistful smile that made him so
pathetic during that first agony last
winter
Paulson, Verne Jackson, Mary Mar
shall and the others-cluster close in
the courtroom about these two people
and whisper their comfort or whatever
bulletin they think may have escaped
eyes that droop away so often from
the excitement of the trial and brood
on memories.
They were attentive yesterday when
Orpet, with his parents and a deputy
sheriff walked into the room and
called the Lamberts' notice to him.
Mrs. Lambert tried for a look at him,
but crowd sitting before and group
of officials and reporters standing in
the way prevented her seeing him.
Whats the difference" she said,
sinking back.
Neither group, Orpet or Lambert,
has anything to say. But there is
everything in the attitude of both that
bespeaks the strain of waiting, the
breathless attendance upon what is to
come, the doubt and the hope and
fear as the case may be.