The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
MRS. CILLICAN #EEPS AS JURY
 IS SWORN IN Regains Composure When Counsel Takes Up
 Preliminaries. PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO MURDER CHARGE 142 Ta1esmen Examined Be- fore Twelfth Juror Is
 Selected.

charge of murder was secured today. The woman was then put to plea on the first count ' the indictment, which charges her with the murder Of Franklin R. Andrews of Cheshire by use of a poison, Each of the four other counts names a different person who is alleged to have died from poison while inmates of Mrs Gilligan's home for elderly people in Windsor. These were not read,
 Mrs. Gilligan entered a. plea of not guilty. This was supplemented when the court clerk read from the record of a preliminary hearing in which the woman had made the same plea Counsel for Mrs Gilligan asked Judge Greene to have entered on the record an objection of the defendant to the questions put by State At- torney Alcorn to talesmen, in which he introduced names of other deceas- ed persons who had been meitioned in the indictment, on the groun1 that they prejudiced the defendants case. The matter was taken under consid- eration for the t.me being.
 Mrs. Gil1igan, on hearing the jury sworn. lost her composure and for a time wept. her daughter, Mary Arch CT, comforting her as Lest she could. When the counsel took up preMminz aries Mrs. Gilligan- was quite com posed again.
 When court adjourned last night Il seats had been filled in the jury box. Juror Canfield had asked co be excused, and deputy sheriffs had of 40 talesmeQ. Today the first Ia raJlcd a tool maker. of Southington, was ac- cepted. He was the 131st man called. Canf1eld was excused on the ground that he was needed on his farm an this left vacancy. Samuel H. Williams. soap manufacturer of Glastonbury, the Hand man called was accepted. F The jury complete follows: S.. ! Edward J. Stevens, highway fore man, Rocky Hill.
 Roland D. Barnes, retired. Bris- tol.
 Frederick A Griswo4d, insurance agent, Wethersfefd. Leonard Dickinson, farmer. Hart, land.
 Arthur A. Moses. farmer. Buriinss ton.
 William A. Collins, IT., grain dealer Rocky Hill.
 Albert c. Griswold, insurance agent Wethersfield.
 Timothy c. Tiffany. farmer, Hart land.
 George Lyman, retired, farmer Manchester.
 Frank P. Cummings. farmer, Easl Hartford.
 Charles H. Brooks, tool maker Southington.
 Samuel H. Williams, manufacturer Glastonbury.
 James w. Canfield, who was excus. ed, lives in Newington.
 To MT. Holden's motion to have ar objection entered on the record MT Acorn replied that no objection was taken at the time the questions were asked.
 :. The first witness was George R. Johnson of Cheshire, cousin of An drews, and a farmer The questions of Mr. Alcorn were Ito establish the family history of Andrews. The wit ness said Andrews father died at "A and his mother of old age. Andrews was 60 years old when he died.
 MT. Holden made an interpretation here to have MT. Alcorn state why the questions were asked, claiming that they were irrelevant MT. Alcorn said it was intended to show that Andrews was in good health, of a long life family and there was no reason why he should not have lived many years longer. Andrews was we'll on the day of his death and had been in the field at work. MT. Alcorn said the state proposed to show that Andrews died of poison.
 A number of letters written by An drews to Johnson were introduced and questions were asked about them They were written from January 1913, to March 28, 1914. The sub- stance of their contents was that An drews was we'll, he liked the home and was content.
 A photograph of Andrews sent him from the Archer home was identified by the witness.
 One letter said in regard to the home that it was private, and jus like home. Andrews said he ha6 paid $1,0o0 and this assured him by contract of being well fixed fol life and a, decent burial. Another letter, of Oct. 13, 1913. said:
 ''I am quite we'll; better than wher came here.''
 In another letter he said IT per sons had died at the home, 10 olf men and seven old women.
 Several post cards were shown. Or these it said that Andrews was we'll The last card was of March 28, 1914 and said that Andrews was quite vel now.
 Johnson said he had planned to wis it Andrews and was greatly shocked to hear of his death. Asked. whether he had seen th' body, he said he had. How did it look?" asked MT. Ol corn.
 "In good flesh; as if he were asleep" the witness replied Ht had never heard that Andrews hat had stomach trouble. Under the questioning of MT. Ho1 (Contin1feds on Page 1S1