Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-14
TROUBLE FOUND
IN GETTING JURY
Out of 81 Called, II Remain
ed Monday Night as Tenta-
lively Qualified to Try Case
against Windsor Pastor Who
Is Charged with Disloyalty.

The trial Of the Rev. Clarence II.
waldron. who Is charged with attempting
to obstruct the operation Of the draft law.
was begun Monday afternoon in United
states court and the entire afternoon was
given over to the drawing Of jury. The
work was not completed when recess
was taken Mt FIVE o'clock until nine o'clock
Tuesday morning.
1t is evident that the trial will be n long
one. Mr.. Waldron has an array OF four
attorneys In his defence. They are r. f.
Brown and NJ. G. Leary Of this city. Fred
Bicknell of Windsor and C. f. Williams
Utica, N. Y. Mr.. Waldron was present
with his father and frequently consulted
with his lawyers. Following one such con-
sultation, Attorney Brown asked jury
man If he had sons in the army or OF the
draft age and on receiving an answer IN
the affirmative, the defence asked tnat
he be excused. At five o'clock. when the
recess was taken. the prosecution mad ex-
hausted all but one of its challenges and
the defence had only two remaining.
In examining the talesmen many ques-
tions were asked by the counsel on both
sides. Mr.. Billiard asked them to look
the counsel for the defence over carefully
and see If they had any business relations
with them. He also wanted to know OF
those being examined II they were men,
bers of the Holy Rollers or had any OBJ
jections to the prosecution Of the present
war. The matter Of religious prejudices
was also inquired into Mr.. Brown. who
questioned the Jurors for. the defence.
wanted to know II any one had been
prejudced by newspaper accounts OF the
former trial. He seemed to want to know
particularly whether they had any
religious prejudices or II they had rela-
tives in the army.
The first panel was exhausted by $3.50
o'clock and a recess was taken until four
o'clock to allow Marshal Carpenter to
draw more talesmen. These were in turn
exhausted shortly before five o'clock and
some talesmen were drawn who were
near at hand. These also were excused or
challenged. however. In all 81 were drawn.
Those remaining on the jury were
J. II. Dolan, F. 8. Lanou and Roy b.
Lamson of this city, H. H. Parker Of
Montgomery. F. c. jackson of Swanton,
Walter Hutchins Of Alburg. Clayton b.
Boyce of Montpelier. A. 1. Cheney Of
Morrisvile. c. 8. Howard Of Fairfax, n. j..
Roberts of Barre and w. s. Rublee Of
East Berkshire.
! Five were excused because they said
they were prejudiced and did not think
they could sit on the case. These were
George F. Hull of Montpelier. w. NJ.
Varney Of Vergennes, Perry r. Miles.
Van A. Nye and Frank H. Brown of
Burlington. Because they were officers of
the law, c. A. Smith of Middlebury. Victor
Hurlburt of Grand Isle. D. E. Rood of
Jericho. C. B. Evans Of Waterbury and
Leslie Pike of Isle La Motto were excused.
The defence challenged Harry l.. White.
F. T.. Perkins, John McCuen. R. c. Smith.
r. l.. Patrick and F. L. Lane Of Burling-
ton, NJ. F. Sullivan Of st. Adams. Fred
Fuller of Mortified and Frank Wright
of South Hero. Many of these were ex-
cused because they had sons in the army
The government challenged Frank Talcott
Of Williston and Lucius A. Bostwick OF
Burlington, H. w. Ballard of st. Albans
and John p. Murphy Of this city.
The law gives a wide latitude in the
case of a conviction for espionage. The
maximum penalty is 20 years imprison
ment with a $4,000 fine, or both.