Show JURY SELECTED i IN SNYDER CASE a Opening Statement Made by City Attorney Folk 4 t DAY SPENT IN ARGUMENT 4 EMHT EMILE CAPTURED IN INDIAN TERRITORY C C T LOUIS Mo oo Oct 1 IThe The selection selection selection ST tion bf of a panel of Ju Jurors jUrors torn from whom twelve men will willbe willbe be selected to try Robert M Snyder the banker and promoter on the charge of bribery was resumed at to days das session of ot the criminal court Former Councilman Fred G will he tb leading witness The rM direct charge upon whIch h s 10 to tobe be tried Is that of ot bribing by bythe bythe bythe the payment of for tor his vote ote on the Central Traction bill The Jury of twelve was completed and the state began the presentation of or Its case at 1235 Circuit Attorney Folk read the indictment and outlined the evidence to be Introduced by the prosecution to show that the defendant became interested in the tho Central Traction bill and bribed Dele Dole Delegate Delegate gate to vote for it Edwin F Goebel the first t witness certified to the election of and aid his colleagues to the city council In 1897 1891 Thomas Quinn deputy city reg registrar regIstrar registrar followed with similar testimony The defense then moved to discharge the Jury on the ground that Juror An Anderson Anderson Anderson derson had asked preliminary to the testimony whether the Jury would have to fix the penalty In case of ot conviction contending that the Jury JUI could not try the case fairly The Jury was sent from the court room and an argument on the point raised by the defense oc occupied occupied occupied an hour The motion to dis discharge discharge charge the Jury was finally finaU overruled by Judge Ryan and the trial proceed proceeded ed The balance of the afternoon was taken up with arguments by the de defense defense tense against the north and south traction bill being mentioned to the Jury or anything regarding that bill being admitted as evidence |