The Washington times., 1920-10-26
.AlLMEN UPON
.PANELCHOSEN
Eleven on venire, Picked to De-
eide Fate Of Accused Boy,
Are Married.
INSANITY TO BE DEFENSE
Government Opens Case With
Presentation Of Testimony
BY Police Officers.

An attempt to have women sit on
tho jury which is trying eighteen
year-old Edgar Randolph Perrygo
for the murder Of Mrs. Mary Emily
Faithful, his sixty-four-year-old
benefactress, was over-ruled this
morning by Justice Gould, presiding
over the case in Criminal Court,
No. /.
The attempt was made in a mo-
ton to quash the special panel which
had been called in from another
court and used in the drawing Of the
jury. Among the reasons cited in
the motion was this:
THAT no women were drawn and
the names Of women were not placed
in the jury box by the jury commits
sion."
JURY IS COMPLETED.
In support of that part of his mo-
tion which referred to women on the
jury, James o. O'shea, who made the
motion to Quash the special panel
cited Section 200. of the Code Of Law
for the District-.of Columbia, which
reads: F'
, "The jury commission shall write
the names on separate and similar
pieces of paper. which they shall 50
fold that they shall not be seen and
shall place the names in a box so
provided for that purpose
O'Shea called the attention of the
court that in said section no specidca-
! tion is made as regards sex.
Judge Gould ruled that there was
not sufficient grounds in the motion
for quashing the special panel, which
had been called in from another
court, and the jury was declared
completed.
ELEVEN MARRIED MEN.
There are eleven married men on
the jury, which is composed of: Joseph
IN. Thompson, automobile tire dealer;
Fenlon Sauer, barber; Edward II.
Smith, grocer; Angus Macdonald.
sporting goods dealer: Edgar Myers.
superintendent: Reuben Isdell, piano
teacher-single; Joseph A. Fisher,
caterer: Arthur A. Pack, foreman
Myer Rosenberg: Charles l.. Smith;
Harry E. Sprucebank. and Orville b.
Brown, insurance.
| Taking Of testimony for the Gov
eminent was started this morning st
| i X, l.
ant district attorney, prosecuting, had
given a detailed outline of the case to
the jury.
| One of the principal features which
| the defense will introduce in it's in
sanity plea is the fact that young
| Perrygo, who is charged with kill
ing Mrs. Faithful last February to
get money to marry Mabel Hill, his
sixteen-year-old sweetheart, was born
within the grounds of St Elixabeths
Hospital for the Insane, and spent
the first ten years of his life there,
according to John Sacks, who with
O'Shes and Bertrand Emerson, jr., is
defending the youth.
CALL YOUTH ABNORMAL.
Testimony will be introduced, ac-
cording to Sacks. to show that young
Perrygo's father, Elmer Perrygo. was
in charge OF the poultry farm at st.
Elizabeth's and that he and his wife
lived inside the asylum grounds when
Edgar was born and for sometime
prior thereto.
The defense will contend that such
surroundings during the early years
of his life may have produced in the
10y some OF the abnormal qualities
OF the persons with whom he was
constantly thrown in contact.
Harry T. Burlingame, official pho
tographer for the police department
and william Shoneberger, morgue
master were the first witnesses
called by the Government. Burlin-
game was called upon to identify
certain photographs of the various
rooms in the Congress Heights home
of Mrs. Faithful, where the crime is
supposed to have taken place.