Show FORD TRIAL ON ONCE MORE Six Jurors Subject to Peremptory Challenge in the Box Ques Question tion Put to Masons San Francisco Oct 17 The first day dayot of ot the second bribery trial of ot former At Attorney Attorney Attorney torney General Tirey Tire L Ford chief coun counsel counsel sel sd for tor the United Railroads compassed the examination of ot sixteen of o whom six were wen accepted subject to per peremptory peremptory peremptory challenge and ten were dismiss dismissed ed mostly for tor declaration of bias Though the day was without sensations it was not devoid of ot incident Chiefly no notably notably tably among the questions asked by As Assistant Assistant District Attorney Heney who con conducted conducted conducted ducted the examinations for the people was a query Quer as to whether the was sas wa willing to vote for conviction on cir circumstantial circumstantial circumstantial evidence alone alone provided It I satisfied him of the defendants defendants guilt As Asit AsIt Asit it has ha been made plain that Abe Ruef is the one witness who can transform the theFord theFord theFord Ford case from a purely circumstantial Into a direct case this reiterated question of ot may mean that Ruef is not to tobe tobe tobe be called caled The failure to call cal him in the first trial of Ford Is thought to have pro provoked provoked yoked a mistrial mistrial The defense elaborated a bold line of ot in inquiry InQuiry started by b Heney when Masons among the were tested as to whether Fords membership In that order would Influence them in his favor One thought It would and another declared t would not The work of ot selecting a Jury wilt will wi be re resumed resumed resumed tomorrow morning The prosecution prosecution prosecution tion is entitled to five arbitrary chal chat challenges challenges lenges the defense to ten Nono None will wi be exercised until twelve men have passed the statutory qualification tests and the box Is full ful |