The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-08
JUDGE EDWARDS
ISSUES o r D E K
DIVIDING JURY
Moues to End Quar-
rels: Trial Is Dry
Today.

Waukegan, ILL.,, June S.-(By the
Associated Press s)-Bankers had the
floor again today in the trial OF
Governor Len Small, checking up
and Identifying odds and ends of
documentary evidence overlooked
by the state in previous examina-
tions.
Two more Grant Park witnesses.
both directors of the Grant Park
Trust & Savings bank, added moth
ing new to the record; in fact there
was so little in the testimony of
one that Judge Claire c. Edwards
struck it from the record as use
less incumbrance.
Norman Griffin, cashier of the
bank, has been called for cross
examination by the defense this
afternoon.
Judge Edwards today issued an
order permitting separation of the
jury into two groups of six men
each when they cannot all agree
on what they want to do but the
order will permit half of the jurors
to stay out late at night or sit up
to play cards if the other half want
to retire, and also will prevent repe-
! tition of last Sundays quarrel,
when the jurors were forced to stay
/ in Waukegan because they could
not agree on where to go.
Yesterdays Tilts Lively.
Yesterdays hearing was the live
4 IieSt in the nearly seven weeks this
| trial has been under way. Edward
| Pree, assistant states attorney of
/ Sangamon county, conducting the
1 examination for the state, clashed
with c. C. LeForgee and other at
| torneys representing the governor
/ a dozen times or more and finally
wound up the day by being reprl-
manded by the court for the line OF
questioning he was pursuing.
! Werner w. Schroeder, cross-ex-
amining William Bailey, of Grant
Park. had asked him a number of
questions to bring out that the
witness did not know whether the
late Senator Edward c. Curtis, op-
Grating the Grant Park bank, had
been engaged in a banking bust
ness, when Mr. Prce. objecting tc
one of the questions, interjected;
For all you know, Mr.. Bailey
they might have been making flc'
titious certificates of deposit"
Court ReprOves Pree.
Sustaining a defense objection
! and ordering the question stricken
from the record, Judge Edward:
said:
That statement, Mr.. Pree
| should not have been made. l don
think counsel should make tha
sort of statement
/ 1T was just as fair as the ques
| ton" Mr. Pree protested.
Il know" the court replied, Du
= YOU have a certain duty to tn
: court, and if the question is unfair
then under the procedure OF TIL
} state of Illinois. it is for you Z
object to the court. l don't hk'
that kind of talk"
The jurors in the trial, who haV
been developing prima donna tenn
peraments under the long Confine
ment. were reported last night L
be preparing a new protest, thl
/ time against the hanging set for
week from Friday in the cour
house attic. The jurors protest l
that the execution chamber Sc
lected by Sheriff Elmer Green i
lust over their third floor bedroom
, and entirely too near to suit thei
fancy.
WOrkmen Build GallOWs.
Workmen began erecting the gal
lows yesterday and made so muc
: noise they interrupted the COVER
: nor's trial, replies of witnesses a
| times being inaudible because @
t the din above.
There is a possibility that tn
: hanging may not take place on IN
- date set, as lawyers for lgnat
! Potz, the condemned man, yester
! day completed the records for a
appeal to the state supreme cour
Potz, a Chicago man, was convicte
of killing a motorcycle policema
lof Winthrop Harbor, when tie OF
ficer pursued an automobile i
which the slayer and three Othe
men were returning from Wiscon
sin.