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Show IS GASJXPLOSION VENIREMAN IN MeNAMARA CASE HAD POSITIVE OPINION RE-CARDING RE-CARDING CATASTROPHE. Told General Otis' Scn-ln-Law That Gas Explosion Was Responsible for Destruction of Times Duilding and Loses Place on Jury. Los Angeles. Cal. A chance street conversation started by II. W. Clark, a venireman In the McNamata murder mur-der case, with Hurry Chandler, vice-president vice-president and nss'stant general manager man-ager of the Times Mirror company and rmlnlaw of General Harrison Cray Otis, publisher of the Los Ange leg Times, brought Clark's services as a prospective Juror to an abrupt end when he told about It In court late Tuesday. The talesman was censured by Judge Walter Bordwell for careless lies and promptly ex uned on a dial' lenge by the defeu-e. suggested by the court. Chnndler, according to Clark, had Buid he hoped tho tales-matt tales-matt would qualify aa a Juror. It was said that Chandler was held In no way responsible fjr the iccur-retice, iccur-retice, as fur as the couit was con certird. Chirk, who den's In co.il, recounted how he had pone to Chandler U few days after tiie explosion ntuibuted to .limn h B. McNiimara, which wrecketf the Tiniea building- mil cost twenty-one twenty-one lives. Clark Bitid he requested ! Chandler P) l" cureiul about making j hard and fnt siutements that It was I dune by dynamite and by enemies, as he believed the tragedy was the re- Bull of a gas expl i-ion, and Chandler I gavo him t understand "that they jltnew exactly what they were doing." |