The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-24

could be seen in the furtive glances
she cast in the direction of her hus-
band, the accused man, who sat behind
his counsel at the opposite side of the
trial table almost with reaching dis
tance.. At one of the recesses during
the proceedings yesterday afternoon,
while the judge had left the bench and
the four attorneys in the case had
retired to the ante-room, leaving the
accused and accuser alone in the trial
rOstrum of the big room, Mrs. Dan
ner's face registered positive fear,
while her eyes were cast in a stead
fast glance across the table at her
husband, and her body poised for
ward on the edge of her chair as if
she felt herself in an insecure situa-
tion and was making ready to run to
safety in the event of an attack. This
sense of fear evidently wore off during
the course of her direct examination
under the friendly questioning of Mr..
Rankin.
Evidences of preliminary coaching
of witnesses by the attorneys on eth
er side, were noticeably absent so far
in the progress Of the present trial.
Danner a Human Sphynx
Although Danner shows none of the
emotion of an innocent man unjustly
accused of the commission of a crime,
his stole demeanor and apparent iassi-
tude, even while he was examining. at
arms length, the skull of Mrs.
Sprouse, one of his alleged victims,
when it was shown to him yesterday
afternoon by his attorney, is one of
the mystifying features of the in
teresting trial. He registers neither
anger, resentment nor even interest.
and retained his composure in the
face Of the damning accusations and
appelatiOns hurled at him at close
range by the attorney general in the
course of his opening statement to the
jury yesterday morning. The only
outward manifestation of the strain
under which he must be laboring is
an occasional excessive sweating of
the hands which he unconsciously
wipes during the introduction of the
testimony Of any of the witnesses hav-
ing to do with the actual commission
of the crime and the manner and place
of burial in the wet and shallow grave.
This action of the accused man,
the only evidence of nervousness he
has yet displayed was particularly
apparent yesterday afternoon while
the battered skull of one of his al
legged victims and the lower jaw of the
other were physiologically discussed
from the witness stand by DR.. C. S.
Smith, and displayed individually to
the members of the jury by Attorney
General Rankin. At this time Dan
ner's thin, compressed lips appeared
to be more bloodless than ever, and
his eyelids blinked necessarily.
Tuesdays Proceedings
Court opened Tuesday morning with
the opposing attorneys still striving
to fill the jury box, the state still hav-
ing two peremptory challenges to ex-
ercise and the defense four.
By IL o'clock the twelve men had
been helected from a total of AZ tails
men called and examined, as follows:
Burton Thompson, Willow Greek,
married, farmer; c. L. Watkins,
Maudlow, married, farmer; Ralph
Bates, Manhattan, married, farmer;
A. B. Carter, Salesville, married, farm
er; Ralph Newkirk, Belgrade, mar
ried, farmer; w. J. Booher, Manhat-
tan, married, farmer; w. J. Heaston,
Logan, married, teamster; L. w. Wat
son, Bozeman, married, contractor and
painter; A. F. Dawes, Trident, single,
shipping clerk; E. Fl. Dean, Bozeman,
farmer and dairyman, married; E. c.
Watwood, Reese Greek, farmer, mar
ried; Leonard Hinson, B0zeman, farm
! er, married.
q The opening address was then de-
q livered to the court BY Attorney Gen
: eral Wellington y. Rankin, who ont.
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