Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-30
YERR|N Jury HUNT
|SMORE HOPEFUL
Two Prospective Jurors Added
to Eight Already Chosen
in Massacre Trial
RESEMBLES 1897 INCIDENT
By a Staff Correspondent
Of the Erening Public Ledger

Marion. H.. Nov. 30.--Court for tie
Herrin trials stands adjourned until
Monday morning. The vcnire Of twelve
men reporting yesterday was exhausted
when Judge 1Iartwell called for nd.
journmeRt to extend over the holiday
week. end.
On Monday vcnirc Of fifty will re-
port for examinations. Bailiffs rcnrc.
s"nting counsel for both sides will scour
the countryside over the holidays for
fresh material.
Two prospective jurors were added to
the eight actual jurors BY tho eXam!na-
tion on Wednesday afternoon. One Of
these. Nathan Pendand. is Il farmer
and par: time non union carpenter.
The other. Jasper Rogers. is n farmer
and former school teacher. The de.
hnd ~ y go '" = Ut
upon these two prospective jurors rs
yet.
With only one unlor miner among
the eight jurors selected, II would an
rear that prosecution to date has the
whip hand. However. ii is believed
this one miner. at least. may give de-
fensc its margin Of safety.
The selection, Of eight jurors after
cnly two weeks and n half of eXamina-
tion is considered to be something of a
miracle in Marion. Angus w. k"rc.
chief counsel for the defnnse. In spite
of what has been generally accepted as
! intentional delay on the part of MS
| examining assistants, has maintained
: that the jury is being built with some.
| thing like unprecedented dispatch in
, Williamson County.
He points to the time necessary to
secure jury for that only other large
riot in the county ut CarterviIle in
! 'S0I. This ro' grew ont of the i'np"r.
alton of co'ored labor from Alabama
| work the old Hrush mine. whose op-
rator was n, indefatigable foe of or
-anized labor. One day a gang o.
med men red on six of the Negro
liners. killing five. 1t took six weeks
get Il Jury to try men indicted after
MS killing.
1t is because of tlis killing and OF
hat is known hereabout as the ''v'.
'a.ta' that the county Is called Bloody
williamson
In a quaint volume known to mos. o.
he inhabitants Of Williamson County
: Il history of this vendetta. From ISIS
1879 the county. which extends
wenty-four miles from east 70 west and
| eighteen miles from north 10 south. Is
a credited by the author with 30 as
'au!,s to murder and 495 assaults with
deadly weapon.
The vendetta. broken up in 1915
! consisted of cross Of family feuds
"armcrs were murdered in their beds
murdered when they sat at their tables
murdered along lonely roads. by assas
sins who refused to fight in the or"n.
"Alibs." falsely sworn. through ths
'ong years. and legal technlcaltes
sheltered these criminals from punish
! ment.
Casual discussion of the Uerrn riot:
invariably reverts To the ''vendetta.'
and. when Marion's ,nntrons are about
to fear that the ,:oting at llprrr
sorebodes only resumption of this kin,
II lawlessness. The past" William,
son County must own TO. and to whirl
doubtless is little worse than the past
of any other frontier county. Is III,
nightmare which drives many in thi
vicinity antipathetic toward the in
creasing power of the organized miners