Show THE BINGHAM KILLING Bond and Taylor on Trial for Murder THE STRUGGLE FOR A f JURY A XJttle Sensation in Court Ac to the Uutlea of Jurora The Evidence Today Another murder case is on in the Third District Court This time it is that of the People etc vs John Taylor and Philip Bond who it will be remembered occupied the county jailthev having been committed i com-mitted without bail since the 7th of July lest until a couple of weeks ago when they were arraigned on the charge of murder in the first degree and removed to the Pen Both men are miners but there all similarity between them ends Taylor is a shortlegged bigbodied man with a foot that for shape and size is unrivalled un-rivalled in thi3 section of the world He has blonde hair a meek blue eye and a peculiar gait Bond is a rather larger man dark swarthy complexion and a black moustache mous-tache He has a rather romantic air about him and dresses neatly The defendants are represented by Dickson and Hoffman and the interests of the prosecution are being looked after by Messrs Peters and Clark The entire en-tire day was occupied in an effort to obtain a jury and it now appears as though the case would last a couple of days longer at the least THE CRIME for which the defendants are being tried was the murder of James Osborne which is alleged to have occurred on the 3d day of Jily last at Bingham Both defendants appeared cool and collected while the juries were being secured save that Bond was noticed to flinch a little when the prosecuting attorney put the question to each juror as to whether he the juror had any conscientious con-scientious scruples against finding a verdict where the punishment might be death At least fiftyfive jurors were examined before the required dozen was secured and during this there was a little sensation in the court Frank Sheldon was being examined as to his qualifications and in answer to a query ot the prosecution he said yes he had conversed with people abmt the case I The question with whom was answered by The gentleman is present in the room This seemed to satisfy the prosecution but when the defense demanded the name of the individual with whom he had talked about the matter he named a fellow juror Mr Fabian who had been examined and excused afew moments previously tHE JUDGE sternlyIt is a very improper im-proper thing for you to do and you lay yourselves liable to punishment I want you to understand that you must not talk about cases that may come up even among yourselves MR SHELDON did not want to compromise com-promise Mr Fabian Whatever he P had said to him S was before he F I went on the stand THE JUDGE That is even worse YOU MUST BEJIEMBER what I have told you or puniahjaent may follow At noon only nine jurors hd bstn secured and twenty names were drawn from the jury box with instructions to return as many of them as possible by 2 oclock At 2 oclock most of the gentl men sent for were present but this list was exhausted long before twelve had been secure i and another draw on the box used up all the jurors within easy reach I Here was a state of things but it was promptly met r > y Mr Lficksons suggestion that the box might be tilled by the open venire system The prosecution had no objection to this but Judge Zane suggested that the personal consent of the defendants might be necessary This was readily given and the deputies were out scouring scour-ing the town tew seconds laterfor six the number thought to be required i The six gentlemen responding however how-ever were not satisfactory either to nrosecution or defense and ten more were sent for finally after the entire day bad been spent and fifty five persons per-sons examined the b x was filled THE JURY then stood as below William Grim Samuel E Allen A S Lineback Samuel M Barlow Nephj Bowthorpe A H Caine W H Cilrt well John Rydalch Albert Shaw Ezra Thompson Samuel E Baxter Samuel I L Carlisle The indictment was read to the juror who were turned over to the tender mercies of a couple of bailiffs end locked up Evidence in the case will be taken this morning |