Show MORRIS JURY SELECTED Took All of Yesterday to Get Eight Suitable Men SEARCHING EXAMINATION Judge Powers and the Tribune and News Editorials Martin Haykcn Will Testify For the Prosecution Probably This Afternoon After-noon Prosecution Expect to Convict Con-vict on His Testimony Properly Corroborated Defense Say Ilnylsens Testimony Wont Hurt Them Sensations Expected To iliiy Tlie Defendant Morris Slim owed The case against exSelectman Joseph R Morris for receiving a bribe from Martin Hayken was called in the criminal crim-inal division of the Third district court yesterday morning with Judge Rolapp on the bench The entire day was occupied oc-cupied in selecting a jury and t14 first witness for the prosecution was just sworn and ready to testify when court adjourned till 10 oclock this morning By noon the regular panel of jurors was exhausted and a venire of fifty more jurors had t be issued County Attorney Whittemore is leading lead-ing counsel for the prosecution and he is being assisted by Attorney C S Varian who although able to be in count is far from well and Attorneys Nye Pratt and Waite Messrs Pow the ers Straup Lippman represent defendant The prosecution have a great deal of confidence in th3 result especiaJiy now as announced in The Herald of yesterday morning they will have the advantage of Hayken as a witness forth for-th state The dtTencant and the others oth-ers similarly implicated however show a very bold front and assert that everything every-thing is lovely and Judge Powers leading counsel for Morris says that Haykens testimony will help his client rather than otherwise EXAMINING JURORS When the case was called yesterdky morning the names of eight jurors were cabled and the gentlemen took their seats in the box and were individually indi-vidually subjected to a strict and searching examination by both Judge Powers and County Attorney Whitte > more Judge Powers was especially oa the alert to get rid of all talesmen who had read editorial comments of the Tribune and News on the jury which disagreed in the Hayken case A ques tion he never failed to put was whether wheth-er the proposed juror would be afraid of the roasting he w likely to get from one or both of those journals which wanted a conviction on general principles in case the verdict did not princples ce meet their approval and whether wheth-er or not this fear if it existed ex-isted would influence him in deciding the case The jurors so interrogated i inter-rogated appeared to be absolutely indifferent i in-different to anything those papers might say and in that regard thought hey could without fear or favor render ren-der a verdict according to the law and the evidence By noon the following talesmen were excused for cause F W Jennings J H Woodmansee L M Earl S H I Auerbach O P Miles H S Margetts I C Bleasdel T Knudsen Causten i Browne jr F E Schoppe George A I Lowe and J M Whittaker FIFTY MORE JURORS A venire was then issued for fifty more jurors returnable at once as follows fol-lows who are liable for service on any cases that come up but the understanding under-standing is they will only be required in the boodle cases S F Walker J E Edmunds E W Duncan George Curley George H Brown Joseph Geoghegan W Pickering Picker-ing L A Copeland W E Halm W T Johnson W A Wilson Frank H Hyde J J Stewart Frank Shandler W R Foster W H Bird Charles Holbrook Hol-brook A S Post Phillip J Stone Joseph Farron H J Shimmings Frank Webb 1 J Starbuck Henry Siegel Phillip Klipple J Bam rger F L King B L Little W T Vincent Vin-cent Fred Simon H 1 Cardell Charles Gilmore J I Bidwell J L Franklin J M Chamberlain William Keeting Ross Armhurst George H Lashbrook W G Timmons W S Clawson B T Murry Martin Garn William Cooper John T Lynch Dan Griffin J B Farlow Ernest Cox T P Evans D R Allen J F Keeth William Everett John Gallagher jr G S Holmes W B Rippets George H Golden Court then adjourned for luncheon with six men in the jury box AFTERNOON PROCEEDINGS On reassembling at 2 oclock fifteen of the new venire men were on hand and J F Heath and William Everett were the first called to the box and the examination was continued W R Foster F L Kent William Keyting William Cooper J 111 Biddle and Fred Simon were called in he order given as one after another of those in the box were excused The prosecution exercised three peremptory challenges their full quota those so excused being J E Edmonds I J Starbuck and T D Evan The defense it would appear were better satisfied for they excused only one William Cooper peremptorily JURY SECURED I was 435 oclock when the following I follow-ing named eight men were accepted by both sides and sworn to well and truly try the issues S F Walker Frank Webb Henry Siege J F Heath W R Fowler F L Kent Edward Picker in and Fred Simon I The indictment as returned by the grand jury on October 1 1895 was then read The charges that on August Aug-ust 1 1894 while the acceptance of the furniture for the countys half of the city and county building and making the appropriation for the payment of the same was pending Joseph R Morris Mor-ris being then and there a duly qualified fied and acting selectman of Salt Lake count an executive officer did receive re-ceive from Martin Hayken the agent of Andrews Co who supplied the furniture a bribe of 5000 to influence the vote of said Morris in favor of accepting the furniture and making the appropriation The witnesses before be-fore the grand jury on whose testi mony the indictment was found were Edwin D Weary R R Anderson W S McCornick Frank Knox L C Davis Da-vis A B Jones C M Dupont H V Meloy and A C Reese A ACCOMPLICE AS A WITNESS Attorney C S Varian made the opening statement for the prosecution which in substance was that they expected ex-pected to prove that Hayken had pail Morris as a bribe 2000 on May 9 1000 on August 3 and 2000 on December 3 1894 Counsel thought i was not nee Iec i > Yk essary to go into 3 fuller statement than that by the testimony of an accomplice ac-complice properly substantiated the prosecution expected to prove the truth of the charge made in the indictment in-dictment I JUDGE POWERS OBJECTS I H V Meoy was the first witness called for the prosecution When he took the stand Judge Powers interposed inter-posed an objection to the introduction of testimony in the case on the grounds that the indictment did not charge a public offense that the indictment was not found under the proper statute that i being alleged in the indictment that in February 1894 the bids of Andrews Co were made by Hayken and accepted by the selectmen and that in August 1894 the bribe of 5000 was given therefore from the face of the Indictment it appeared that no public offense was committed because the contract with Andrews Co was completed before the alleged bribe was given and hence Morris could not be influenced thereby as charged in the indictment Judge Powers made an argument in support of his objection which was briefly replied to by Mr Varian The court overruled the objection ob-jection and adjourned until 10 oclock this morning SENSATIONS EXPECTED TODAY In todays proceedings there will be several sensations sprung In fact the day will be replete with sensations and surprises One of the members of the firm which is counsel for Hayken said last evening that there was going to be more fun at the trial of the cause today than anyone could imagine that no man knew what was comingnot even himself but that the proceedings would go down in history as one of the most remarkable on record This was all he would say in connection con-nection with the case THE DEFENDANT SHADOWED The prosecution must have had doubts as to the intentions of Mr Morris last evening for from the time when he left the courtroom until he sought the shade of the curtains which surround his downy pillow he was I watched by detectives There was a I detective in the front doorway of the place where he played his favorite game for the cigars and a detective across the street There was a detective detec-tive on the corner above and a detective detec-tive in the alley behind One would have thought a branch office of the I Pinkerton agency had been established estab-lished in the city Morris knew of it I all the time however having Informed friends that he was being shadowed |