Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-03
SENSATIONS FOLLOW FAST IN THE GREEN CASE
(Continued from page one.)

Prosecuting Attorney T. L. Parnal is assisted by Deputy Prosecuting AL torney F.. WI. Brockman, while the de- fendant's case is being handled by At tornays, T. Havis Nixon, II. Kemp Toney and Alex H. Rowell.
 The jury was not secured untll 1 nearly Z o'clock p. m., and after two special lots of talesmen nad been summoned. Excepting six of the 39 men examined. all were excused TOT
 cause, having formed opinions thru ] information obtained from witnesses. i The six exceptions were excused py ' the state or defense, each side being
 allowed three challenges. In felony case the state is allowed ten challen-
 ges. and the defense twenty, but in i misdeameanor cases only three chal- : lenges are allowed each side. The po-
 cedure is to chose IS men who can 1 qualify as jurors, and then permit
 each side to strike out three. The SIX i men eliminated by this method were R. s. Cherry, Pinchback Taylor, O.
 F'. Tedstrom. w. L. Matthews, D. M. 1 Niven, and John Alexander.
 Prosecuting Attorney T. G. Parham
 began at 1:55 to outline the case the
 state would make. He spoke for Al
 minutes. Attorney T. Hayls Nixon
 presented the defendants side, con
 cluding at 3:20, when a short recess
 was ordered, after which the taking of testimony was started.
 ! Former Justice of the Peace, Cliff
 Brewster, now constable, WAS placeo
 on the stand as the first witness.
 Mir. Brewster testified that MT 1 Green had been constable for fou'
 years and went out of office on Janu-
 ary or 3.
 Hargrove Testiiies.
 MT. Brewster was followed on the
 stand by B. r. Hargrove. Tne wit
 ness testified that he lived in St
 Louis and had been employed by the w. ]. Burns Detective agency there
 since 1912, and then he had been i1 the detective business since 1900. He
 said he had first arrived in Pine Bluff on November IA, 1917, having beer i sent here by the St Louis office O. the Burns agency to meet another O their operatives. George l.. Converse J He said that he had not known Con verse before their meetins in Pln' l Bluff and that he had never eve, {, seen him before.
 When Hargrovc started to tell Q
 his conversations with Converse. th'
 attornevs of the defense entered al
 objection to the Introduction of hear
 say evidence. The court ruled tha
 such evidence was admissible,
 necess2:y to prove conspiracy. and i
 Converse was to be proven a party o the conspiracy. that the objection 7 should be entered on the record o , the court and that if the state fail l ed to show the relevancy of such evi f lence it should be stricken out. Tn l same exception was taken to testi mOnv of that character turnout. = Hargrove's testimony was as fol , lows:
 That Converse told him that thing were in such shape that he wa ready ito go ahead": that he hat represented that he was working fo Hargrove in a bootlesging scheme il which they split 'o0-50.' that he un
 derstood this was good field an
 that they wanted 'protection.' O. the second day after his arrival, liar
 grove stated, he got in touch witt
 James Reidinger, the deputy con l stable, and sent Converse to brn! ; him to the hotel. The three of then , talked in the lobby of the Jefferson ) hotel. according to the witness. and h ) asked Reidinger if everything wa "all right" and if he understood wha they were there for. Reidinger sug sested that they defer action. said tn, witness, because ''religious unheav al had upset things and everythn. was frightened up" and because O an election which Was to be hel( shortly after that date. and they hat , decided to wait until after Decembe ! l before going ahead With thei :, scheme. Hargrove claimed tha | Reidinger said that Chitf of Polic r Frank Stewart had first question o ; deferrinG the scheme
 To Sell by Case.
 | llarSrove and Converse. the testi | mony continued. were to be given i'm ; munitv for consideration of $500 ' which Reidinger said would be spli
 between Green Stewart and himself
 each taking S100. The witness testi ! fled that Reidinger went into the de tails of the proposed plan with them :, saving that the "booze" would b, brought ia by automobile and that h, 7 would help get "customers" wh, 5 would buy their goods by the case l When asked about other protection
 the witness testified. Reidinger stat , ed that there was no need of attempt l ing to approach the sheriffs office a they were too slow" to be of danger [ that he and Green were the mai, ! SuNs'. and could offer protection [, , sell whiskey and beer without prose
 cutlon or interference by the con
 stables office or police. Harsrov !, stated that Reidinser told him tha ? he was authorized to act for Gree 2 and Stewart in the transaction