The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-12

cussion in the class Waldron threw
down the work Of the Red Cross, he
said, and asked members not to support
it.
Court adjourned at 1915 with Lawton
still on the stand. Judge Howe stated
that the jury would not be locked up
during the trial.
Repeated challenges from both the
government, which was allowed SIX, and
from the defense, which was allowed 10,
rapidly depleted the panel of iurymen
at the opening session yesterday after
noon and made necessary the calling of
an additional number Of talcsmen, for
which purpose Judge Howe called
recess for thrcequartcrs of an hour,
this being at SIS clock
At the expiration of the recess some
20 more jurors were present and in sue
cessive challenges by the defense and
the government, the majority by the
former, this score OF summoned Jurors
were checked off the list Then the
courtroom was ransackcd Of all availa-
bic men and 10 were selected and their
names deposited within the box to be
read off by Clerk Plat.
When court adjourned at 5 o'clock
there was still one Juror lacking in the
box and there was but QUO challenge left
TO the government and two left to the
defense
The list as it stood at that time was:
j. II. Dolan, f. s. Lanou and Row B.
Lamson of Burlington; II. Fl. Parker OF
Montgomery; +. o. Jackson of Swanton
Walter Hutchins of Alburg; Clayton B
Boyce Of Montpelier; A. L. Cheney OF
Worthwhile; C. S. Howard of Fairfax
y. j. Roberts Of Barre, and w. s. Rublet
of East Berkshire.
Five men were excused because they
expressed prejudice, they being Gcorg,
r. Hull of Montpelier. w. NJ. Earncv O
ycrgenncs, Perry r. Miles. Van A. Ny,
and Frank II. Brown, all of Burlington
Because they We're officers of the law o
at some time in their life had been tn
following were excused: o. y. Smith o
Middlebury, Victor Hurlburt of Gran,
Isle, d. L. Rood of Jericho, c. D. Evan
of Waterbury and Leslie Pike Of Isl
La Motto.
Because of having sons or brothers i
the army the defense challenged Harr
o. l.. White, +. +. Perkins, John McCuer
r. G. Smith, r. l.. Patrick. and r.
+, Lane, all Of Burlington, NJ. F. Suliva
G field, and Frank Wright of South Here
I The government challenged Frank Ia
T. colt OF Williston, Lucius A. Bostwick c
I Burlington, II. w. Ballard of St A
bans and John P. Murphy of Burlington
g Murphy, who is one of the school con
!, missioners Of Burlington, was the fir.
l. iuryman to be called and had he T.
I NAMED he would have been foreman b
/ result of his call.
II After the challenging was done We
4 terday afternoon only FIVE Of the orr
N inal jurors first called were on the pan
y and none Of these were from Burlingtf
and no two from any ono city or tow
n 1t seems to be part of the scheme
e. defense to get the jurors scattered ov
N the state as much as possible.
Z Rev. Mr.. Waldron, accompanied
his father from Mexico, n y. W
10 present and were seated inside the RI
The former pastor of the Baptist chur
r, at Windsor took an active interest
Of the selection of the jurors and frequel
n. " asked Rufus Z. Brown Of Burlir
"A ton, senior counsel of his quartet
Id legal lights, to challenge certain jul
IS man. In addition TO Attorneys Bro-