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Show RECORDER CAMOX'S CONTEMPT. He Das an Examination Before Judge Zane and is Discharged. County Recorder George M. Cannon was arraigned before Judge Zane this morning to answer the Court's charge of. contempt in the matter of his alleged influencing in-fluencing Juror N. H. Greene. The clerk read the statement setting forth Mr. Greene's version of the interview, and Mr. Cannon was asked if he desired to interrogate inter-rogate Greene before making his own answer. , Mr. Cannon expresssd a de-eire de-eire to do this, stating that Greene's statement state-ment was incomplete, and the latter took i the stand. He was asked a number of i questions which brought out the facts j that the conversation relating to the j Morris-Mammoth suit had been suggested sug-gested by Greene's own remarks on the j merits of jury trials. Greene had stated to ! Mr. Cannon that he himself had a case coming up in court, and this led to a discussion as to respective merits of submitting sub-mitting civil cases to a jury or to a judge. Mr. Cannon, it seems, referred to the Morris case as an illustration of how un-t un-t satisfactory jury trials sometimes are, stating that one juror in this instance, the trial last year, had stood out against returning a verdict, and the voice and judgment of the other eleven were thus I unfairly silenced, and it transpired after-j after-j wards that the party who hung the jury was interested in protecting the defendants. defend-ants. Mr. Cannon denied having brought up this instance after he knew Greene' was a juror, and insisted that i when he (Greene) told him he was on the panel he offered no further remark, more than he did not wish to influence any juror. He had said to Greene, when speaking of the Morris suit, that he had been very much interested in it, because of being a son-in-law of Mr. ' Morris and believing that if a verdict was not obtained for . the amount sought to be recovered that it would probably ruin Mr. Morris. Mr. Greene was questioned by the J udge as to whether Mr. Cannon had expressed ex-pressed his views on the Morris matter before or after he had been told of Greene's being a juror, but Mr. Greene was unable to remember exactly regarding regard-ing the point. He acknowledged to the Judge that in his opinion Mr. Camion had not spoken of the matter with any intention of influencing him as a juror, and the Judge concluded that he would give Mr. Cannon the benefit of the doubt and discharge him. Before Be-fore doing so, however, he took occasion to impress on Mr. Cannon's mind that an official of experience should, know better than to approach a juror, on subjects before the court, whether or not the latter was drawn for any particular case. It appears that Mr. Greene's statement state-ment and your own fail to agree as to the point at issue viz : whether you onered your remarks on the Morris case before or after you had been told he was a juror and I am disposed to give vou the benefit of the doubt. Mr. Cannon conducted his own case and appeared to tell a perfectly straight story. |