Arizona republican., 1919-04-29
FAIL ID GET JURY IN NE EM|NAN MURDER
 TRIAL; TRY TODAY

Failure of the sherifrs office ,o make a return on the 50 names drawn for jury duty Friday in anticipation of the need of g new panel in the case of J. D. Newman. charged win inc murder of Frank Hector. resulted jD the entire panel being challenged yes terday by- counsel for the defense in the most notable criminal case on the docket. Judge Stanford sustained counsel in their objection. calling only the old panel ill the jury box. When court adjourned at , o'clock. 2s had qualified as jurors, with two remaining for examination and one short, Ii was necessary for names to be drawn. and under the new law the veniremen can not be served forthwith, d lapse of 24 hours being required before the iury is called. This occasioned the court 10 take a recess until 4:3O o'clock this afternoon and it is believed that by , o'clock the state will be ready to strike it's seven names and the defense it's ten and the matter of selection for q jury in the case determined.
 The sheriffs office lost it's original list from the clerks office and made q return under their own certificate after qn hours recess in the morning. The trregularity was not acceptable for Newman and the court held with coun- sel. The sheriffs office will be kept busy this morning if it means to serve i the names drawn later in the day. I Every section of the county appears to have been reached in the list drawn l from the jury box in open court. i The veniremen who were examined 1 yesterday were seated 13 in a row in l each of the two rows. The "ogerflow' 1 occupied seats outside the box the backs of their chairs touching the raj of the jury box. All were in view oi the wealthy sheepman defendant who is being represented by George J Stoneman, George Purdy Bullard ant Francis Crabel of Flagstaff. County Attorney L. M. Laney and his assistan i Harry Johnson are prosecuting for tn. state.
 I.aney identified the case by readin: ! the information against Newman charging him with the murder of Hoe
 tor on January 30, a few miles thi
 side of Hot Springs Junction when tn
 two men passed in opposite direction
 on the desert highway. After briefl
 outlining the charge, the county at , torney read the qualifications of juror and commenced the examination. H
 questioned every juror closely relatiV , to their willingness in pronouncini
 the death penalty.
 HI ave you any conscientiou
 scruples against a jury pronouncin
 the death sentence?" he asked eac man in turn and not one of the pane disqualified by an answer in the af ! fiTmatiFe- Lodge and church affilia
 tions were elaborately gone into an
 both sides made a point of askin concerning if the families were at a. intimate
 : The court room was crowded whe
 the case was called. Among those wh were in attendance throughout the da
 were the widow of the dead man an
 her little daughter. With them Sd
 J. A. Hoctor and Nj. H. Hoctor, wh
 came here from Washington for tn
 trial of the case.
 The Newman family was represente : in Newmans wife and attractiv
 daughter, Pearl. The accused man , sister, Mrs. Frank Leslie of FTagsta1 was with them and his brother L.
 Newman, former sheriff of Naval
 county was in the court room. It