Show I i NEW RECORD IN MURDER TRIALS Out of Fourteen Twelve Jurors Are Accept Accepted ed in Jones Case WITHOUT ONE CHALLENGE Taking of Testimony Will Begin Bagin Wednesday and d Legal Battle May End Before Saturday Twelve men were questioned and accepted as jurors to try John A Jones on the charge ch rge of murder in the first degree in little more than two hours yesterday In the of this t ls Jury a record has been set Ht In hi murder trials in Utah Only fourteen from the regular panel were called two were excused for cause ceass and the Jury was accepted without a peremptory challenge being bet exer exercised exercised exercised The jury and witnesses s were ex excused excused excused until Wednesday morning mornin end it Is thought that the case cue will wUl be con concluded concluded eluded before the close clo e of ot the week ie eEk k The unwritten law Jaw will be the main defense of ot the man nan who in the early arly morning hour of o July Jul 19 last Jut coming oo upon his wife in company with A P F i Sheppard Shoppard just after atter they had bad regis registered registered 1 at the clerks desk of ot the Well Wellington ington hotel shot down Sheppard The state will seek to sustain Its ite charge of ot murder on tho the theory that the murder was premeditated Scene of oC Tragedy The shooting of ot Sheppard by Jones who was a train mail mall clerk was the outcome of ot a home lu me broken brokeR up by the tho alleged enticements of ot the th murdered man It was claimed that Sheppard who had been a scenic i artist and had worked in Salt Lake and Ogden had through his fascinations fascinations alienated the affections affection of Vel Vet may Cowdin Sheppard On July Jul 18 U UIt it was told at the time of the shoot shooting shooting shooting ing Sheppard and Mrs Jones had gone to Ogden canyon canon returning to Salt Lake just after atter the midnight hour Jones coming in from his run on the Oregon Short Line as he emerged from the depot caught a glimpse of ot Sheppard and Mrs lIra Jones entering the Wellington hotel at the corner of Third West and South Tem Tern Temple Temple pie streets Following the couple into the hotel Jones arrived in time to see the two turn away from the hotel desk where they h d registered under assumed u umed name as man and wife With Hh an ejaculation Jones drew a agun agun agun gun and before Sheppard could re recover recover recover cover from his start of ot surprise Jones lOft had fired tired a bullet into his body bod Sheppard ran into the street with Jones in pursuit and firing a I of ot shots until Sheppard dropped mor mortally mortally mortally tally wounded Jones was arraigned in the criminal division of ot the city court July 21 1 and andI I pleaded not guilty to the charge of ot murder On August 5 he was given his preliminary hearing and bound over for tor trial In the district court Although charged with murder Jones Tones was admitted to bail bRUin in the dis district distrIct district court and on August 15 was re released rel released leased ased l from the custody of the slier sher sheriff iff under a bond of ot Septem September ber her 6 he be was arraigned in the district court and again entered a plea of ot not guilty His trial under this ar arraignment arraignment was begun yesterday with the securing of ot the Jury that will try him Jury J nry Accepted The jury accepted In the Jones Jone case cose includes three of ot the jurors who sat in the last Jast trial of or Thomas Vance completed Sunday night with the re return return return turn of ot the verdict finding Vance Vanee guilty ot assault with Intent to mur murder murder murder der his deceased wife The jury impaneled consists of ot H IL HB HB B Elder Alfred a S S Derrick Win Will Roes Reea Philip Finigan William M Egan Lewis Lewia T Cannon James N Adams James H ji Armstrong Orson Brown Bron William H Ingham Tony itu and William Allen Of at these Mr Hl B der Mr Sir Ingham and Mr Derrick par per participated participated in the trial of Vance The two excused for tor cause were Harry G cI Lawrence because he ha It had formed and expressed a fixed opinion in the case and Frank B lB Al Allen Allen Allen len because of his opposition to the tho infliction of capital punishment The principal prin points upon which the th jurors were questioned were ag aJ a to whether or not they had formed or l expressed an opinion In iii the case ant and andas antas amias as to whether or not they could waive their sympathy |