| Show MURDERTRAl BEGUN Seven Jurors Secured in the Sheep Ranch Crse I DEFENDANTS SHOW NERVE James Lynch and B L King the Men Accused of Murdering Godfrey I Prowse at the Tlnio of the Haiti on I His QamhllngHouse Baad Masa zIncs While Juror Aro Being Chosen to Pass on the Question of I Life or Death for Them Names of 1 Jurors Chosen 1 The trial of James Lynch and R I L King alias Martell on tile charge of murder In the first degree for killing I kill-ing Godfrey Prowse In tho Sheep 1 Ranch gamblinghouse on the night of Tanel ramblnrhouse September llth last was begun In the I criminal division of the District court i I yesterday with Judge Booth presiding presid-ing County Attorney Putnam and Assistant As-sistant County Attorney Van Cott prosecuted and Attorneys Will F Wan less and F C Lea represent the defendants de-fendants who are being tried together The entire day was Occupied in examining ex-amining talesmen to sit as Jurors In the case and at 5 oclock when court adjourned seven had been accepted by both sides leaving five more yet to be obtained The names of the accepted ac-cepted jurors are R W McAllister William Sellcy Arthur Winter John B Shorten Thomas Stokes Bernard I R Anderson and Oscar Evans The rejected talesmen were L E Hall William Gordon Henry Smith Isaac Ferguson Jr T H Woolley E C Baffle Henry E Bassford Warren War-ren P Bradley F L King T C Lewis I Lew-is Henry J Heywood Le Roy Mansfield I field Isaac Weant and George W Barrows I Bar-rows The general ground for the rejection II examined that jection of those cmmlnet was they had already firmly made up their minds as to the guilt or Innocence of the defendants Both defendants looked as If I they were disinterested spectators of the proceedings They sat together behind be-hind their attorneys and occupied themselves a large part of the time in leading magazines I The case will ho resumed this morn ing i |
