The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-10-12


Archie Beaver. the first juror ques
toned, was excused later.
State Finishes
The State finished the examination
Of the jury and tentatively accept.
ing it, turned it over to the defense
shortly before noon.
Inman examined one man only be-
fore noon adjournment.
The jury as 1t stood ut noon was
composed OF Lew Fenner. who had
not yet been questioned by either
side, Harvey Wall, Oliver New, L.
II. Durbin, Emmett Mendenhall
Charles Finely, John Rupe. Herschel
Hunter c. f. Lawer, Walter
Sturdevant, Elijah Rushton and
Theodore Wachstetter. All except
Fenner has been examined by the
State and passed once. When passed
twice by both sides, the jury is ac.
cepted.
The defendants, sitting behind
their battery of attorneys, watched
the States examination with great
interest. Stephenson, although he
has been in Jail more than six
months, is as fat and rosy as at the
time of his arrest, last April. He was
smiling and affable.
George Oberholtzer, Indianapolis,
father Of the alleged victim, sat be.
hind the State attorneys.
A jury to try the case will be OBJ.
tanned sometime Tuesday, it seemed,
as Kane did not ask many questions
Of each prospective juror. Remy
said he thought the jury would be
completed by Tuesday noon, and that
it would take four or five days to
present the States case.
Anxious to Serve
The talesmen who were examined,
for the most part, seemed anxious to
sit on the jury.
1.-THE fact that one of the defend
ants might he a man of social or
political influence and a man of
some wealth or reputed wealth would
not have any influence on your de.
cision, would it?" was one Of the
questions Kane asked each man ex-
amined.
The attorney also as';ed each man
if he knew the defendants or had
had any business dealings with them,
directly or indirectly" and If they
had any daughters.
Judge Sparks opened court shortly
after a. M, at which time the de-
PENDANTS were brought from the Jail
by Sheriff Charles Gooding.
Stephenson was in high spirits at
the prospect OF some definite conclu
sion to his long Jail Imprisonment,
and willingly posed with his attor-
neys and other defendants for news.
paper photographers from Chicago
and Indianapolis.
Nothing to Say
II have nothing whatever to say"
was Stephenson's only reply to what
he thought about the whole proceed
ings.
The first half hour was taken up
with preliminaries and argument
over which side should start the
questioning of the jurors. Judge
Sparks ruled that the State begin.
Defense attorneys announced that
John II. Kipplinger of Rushville,
Ind, had been added to the staff.
The First Twelve
The first twelve men examined
were: Archie Beaver, farmer, living
three miles east of Fisher, Ind; Har.
very Wall, manager of the Home
Telephone Company. Noblesville;
Oliver New. hardware dealer, West
field, Ind; e. II. Durbin, farmer,
living near Windfall; Frank Hunter.
coal dealer, Atlanta. Ind; Charles
Finley, farmer, one mile east Of
Strawtown; Emory Booth, farmer,
Fall Creek Township; Eliza Rush
ton, farmer, three miles southeast
of Noblesville; Walter Sturdevant,
former. living in the west part of
the county; c. F. Lawer, retired
farmer, Noblesville, Ind; Herschel
Hunter, farmer, White River Town.
ship; Court Irwin. farmer. east of
Fisher.
"I would try and decide the case
hy the law and the evidence alone"