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lively. 'Tf so, you will please
raise your hands"

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lively. ''If so, you will pleas,
raise your hands"
Panels Exhausted Quickly
Five hands went up. The judge
booked annoyed.
How long have you entertained
such scruples?" he demanded
One by one they said, For Ions
time" or "All my llfe," and tbs
judge finally excused them.
The box was emptied a short time
later without juror being selected
and IL more talesmen were sworn.
The rows Of press seats were hall
deserted. Nearly all the expert
talent - authors, psychologists
preachers and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
aconspicuously absent.
Grays mother, Mrs. Margaret
Gray, and her daughter and son-in
law we're in court today, sitting a
short distance back Of Mrs. Snyder
Challenges followed excuses in rapid
order, and again the jury box was
emptied without single juror hav
ing been chosen today.
With the process Of examination
Of talesmen speeded up by the
Judge, there was every indication
today when the fifth day of the
trial of Mrs Ruth Snyer and Henry
Judd Gray for the murder of the
woman's husband opened that the
complete jury will be selected be.
fore court adjourns tonight.
If, not, Justice Townsend Scudder
has informed lawyers in the bitter
three-cornered legal battle, court
will be held Saturday.
Action Due on Monday
AT any rate. the telling from the
witness stand of the story of the
killing of Albert Snyder. art editor
Of the magazine, Motor Boating. will
begin Monday morning.
Court opened at 1905. Mrs. Sny-
der, in black, as usual, came into
the courtroom as the judges gavel
was descending upon his desk. Gray
followed quickly. He seemed cheer
full and shook hands with his law.
yers. Mrs. Snyder was . little paler
than usual.
Twelve new talesmen were sworn
in and the dreary questioning was
begun again.
Justice Seudder's attitude toward
the new panel of $50 summoned for
questioning this morning was firm.
When the first IL talesmen were
sworn in, the Judge, In his power.
full voice, warned them that tales.
men excused would not be relieved
from jury duty the next term Of
court.
''All talesmen who are dismissed,
for any reason" he said, will 70.
port to the clerk in the next room.
The clerk will note a change on
date in the jury service of such
talesnlan and he will return for duty
the first Monday in May"
Attorneys for the blonde woman
defendant have indicated in their
questioning OF talesmer that they
Intend to admit that Mrs. Snyder
entered q murder conspiracy with
Gray, her lover, but backed out
before the crime was committed.
Gray's lawyer indicated he will
throw the blame on the. woman,
saying she dominated him and
forced him to beat her husband to
death.
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The state, 1t is said, will produce
q witness who actually saw Gray
hand Mrs. Snyder two weeks before
Snyder's death the sashweight with
which the husband was bludgeoned
The prosecution will seek to prove
that the crime was long premediatea
and deliberately carried out,
The jurors selected so far are;
William e. Young tforenaarl, press
agent married. IS.
Charles B. Meissner landscape
gardener, married. IS.
Harry Arnold. clerk, unmarried, %
Herman Rallweg. retired saloon
keeper. married 6S
Albert r. Kramer, plumber mar,
ried, SS.
John Schneider, florist, married
John Connolly, engineer, married
3d.;
All Of the Jurors except one ara
well-fed. notwithstanding individuals
seemingly capable Of enduring i
long trial. It is predicted that ths
trial will last three weeks. perhaps
longer, II Mrs, Snyder takes tbs
stand.
She has indicated, however, that
she win not,
Widow Sneera AT Gray
An open and angry enconter he
tween Mrs SNYDER and Gray oc
CURED In the courtroom.
1t was when they we're entering
the court for the afternoon session
that spectators saw the dramatic