Evening star., 1933-05-08
Indy IS AWAITED,
|GEMS GLITTER At
TRIAL
D. c. Court Opens Sensation.
al Case Against Means
and Whitaker.
SEVEN WOMEN PICKED
| FOR SERVICE ON JURY
Flying Colonel Due to Take Stand
Tomorrow-Rich Mclean
Jewels to Be Seen.

COLUMBUS. Ohio May 8 CP.-
Favored by clearing weather over
the Pennsylvania mountains, Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took
OF from Port Columbus at 2:55
Eastern standard time this after
noon.
Backed with an array Of witnesses
headed by Col. Charles A. Hndbergh
and such startling exhibits as q daMling
pile Of rich gems belonging to Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean, the Government
today opened the sensational trial Of
CASTOR B. Means and Norman +.
Whitaker. charged with lurid con-
spiracy growing out of the Hndbergh
kidnapping.
Col. Lindbergh, en- route here by
plane from the West, Is due to take the
stand in the District Supreme Court TO-
morrow to recount grim details Of the
abduction and murder Of his first son
more than year ago-in support OF the
Governments contention that Means
and Whitaker had no inside knowledge
Of the kidnapping COL and Mrs. Lind
bergh were in Columbus, Ohio. today.
waiting for the weather to clear before
contnulng tner tr1p mere.
Seven Women on Jury.
Election of a jury was completed at
IL AS O'Clock this morning after q num-
ber of prospective jurors had been ex.
cused by the exercises Of challenges Of
the prosecution or defense. The jury,
seven of its members women, consists
Of:
Mrs. Celeste Baum, Mrs. Margaret
Louise Brown, Mrs. Ernestine Scott
Coe, Mrs. Nettie K. Fleming. Mrs. Lois
M. Lewis, Mrs Harriet Roy. Mrs. Amy
Gertrude Smith, j. Harper Hether1ng-
ton. L. Wakefield Nichols, Joseph G,
Potts. John J. Scheuring and G. Lea
Stabler.
The court asked each Of the Jurors
whether he or she was acquainted WIN
any of the defendants, attorneys OF
prospective witnesses In the case
Names Of the Government witnesses
States Attorney Rover. The jurors also
were asked II they knew J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the United States
Bureau Of Investigation. under whose
supervision Means and Whitaker were
apprehended, or John M. Keith, one Of
Hoover'S assistants, who was IN per
sonal charge Of the Means-Whitaker
Investigations.
At the head Of the list OF witnesses
read in court by Rover were the names
of Col Lindbergh and Mrs. Mclean
The latter waited in the marshaPs
ONCE for her summons to the witness
stand. She graciously posed for news
paper photographers.
Others Also Named.
Others named on the list Of Gov
ernment witnesses included Fathers
Francis J. Hurney Of the Immaculate
Conception Church and Robert 5
Lloyd Of the Georgetown Preparatory
School, who were taken in on the
negotiations at Means suggestion;
Elizabeth Nelson, nurse tn Mrs. Nc
Leans household; George w. White
president Of the National Metropolitan
Bank, who turned over 500, 900 to Mrs
Mclean during the negotiations: r. E
Woodward and Charles L. Taylor, en-
ployes Of Mr.. Whites bank; Miss Eliza
beth Poe Of the Washington Post staff
who aided in arranging for prosecution
Of Means; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F
Fleming, former neighbors Of Means
through whom Means was introduced
to Col. M. Robert Guggenhetm, friend
of Lindbergh, with whom Means IS al
legged to have carried on independent