The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-15
JURYMEN OUT
PLAYING FOOTBALL
Adopt This Method of Exer-
else While Awaiting Re-
cOvery of Ferris
j. w. ALEXANDER
is ALSO AILING
Judge Butler, Who Presides at Long
Murder Trial, Has Hard Cold-Folks
Think Long Is notwithstanding
Attorneys Worried.
Especial to The Reformer. J

MIN Ii OcllO.
The Long jury was out in the court
yard this morning playing football for
exercise Some of the 70-year-old boys,
however, were satisfied with looking on
Juror Ferris was better at the hospital
this morning, his temperature being near
" normal. His physician said this morn
ing he wonld probably be well enough to
be in court Friday.
John W. Alexander, another juror, has
headache but is not what might be
called sick. One juror sent a deputy out
this morning to pay his life insurance
Judge Fred NJ Butler, presiding Judge,
hasa hard cold but is able to be out of
doors and attend to court duty
Deputy Sheriff Dennis Donahue, who
was commissioned to have personal charge
of Ferris, will stay at the hospital day
and night, and all four nurses who will
attend the case were sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, specially obligated by the court
as jury officers.
The court took the precaution to elm
mate the possibility OF mistrial, mas
much as it was necessary to separate the
jury. Clerk of Court Lewis c. Moody
made trip to the hospital where he
deputized the four nurses, Misses Rose
X. Hopkins, Mildred H. Spooner, Hazel
Danbroke and Bertha NJ Low, matron,
the first time such thing has been done
n this county.
| Meanwhile the other jurors will he kept
together. Every day will be a holiday for
them. They will receive the regular jur-
ors pay of So a day, their board at one
| Of the best hotels In the city, and lodging.
| They will also be supplied with reading
matter and can do about as they please
so long as they do not come in contact
with outsiders or be placed in a posi-
ton where they may get any external inn
presslons of the murder case.
! If Juror Ferris's illness should turn out
worse than now seems likely it opens
up possibilities that are apt to cause con-
cern. The court in all probability will
be inclined to keep the present panel to-
gether as long as is reasonably practicable
without enfiangering the health of the
men, since to go through the ordeal of
selecting another jury at this time would
| be almost an impossibility
! While the prosecution has not vet
reached the meat of the eocoanut in its
case, enough has been introduced to give
the public general impression of what is
coming.
George A. Long, the prisoner, who is
standing trial for the murder of Mrs Lu
Gina c. Broadwell at Barre on the night
of MAY last, does not appear to be dis
pleased with the complications that have
arisen. Long hasn't many close friends
but what few he has think he is wearing
horseshoes.
Attorney General Archibald and States
Attorney Davis. in charge of the prose
eution, are visibly concerned about the
way fortune is taking hand in the case
First came the illness of Juror John l.
! Baird, who was laid up one day with in
i digestion. When he recovered and the
] case started again, the lightning struck il
an unexpected quarter, and a second juror
came down with what has many of the
eafmarks of influenza.