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Show TIIrO-ItKK4Hiat Drawing the Jury Continued. New York, 6. At 11.1 this morning, morn-ing, Shearman, of Beecher's counsel, consented to go on with the case, not- , withstanding the absence of tho senior! counsel. The gallery and court room were crowded, and all the corridora , leading thereto. One woman, heav- i ily veiled, was present. Andrew Mackey, juror, on the stand at the adjournment yesterday, in answer to queaiious of counsel, said ho was a real estate breker and insurance agent. Hadn't read any ol the published pub-lished statements; had neither formed nor expresaed an opin;n; had no im-piediion im-piediion either way; knew no mor of the caso than a child unborn. At tho request of Beecher's counsel the court granted an hour's time to investigate in-vestigate MacKey's statement. Chas. B. Westman, dealer in telegraph tele-graph instruments, and liy. Thayer, employC in a alove foundry, were accepted ac-cepted as the fourth and filth, and W. Downes, retired tanner, and George Hall, a carpenter, as the sixth and seventh jurors. Mackey was rejected, and the court look a recess. |
