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Show ANOTHER FORTY MEN ORDEBEDTO REPORT Five Venires so Far Exhausted Ex-hausted in Effort to Obtain Jury to?Try McNamara. THREE SWORN JURORS Six Talesmen Accepted as to Cause; Alleged Witness Is Spirited Away. LOS. ANGELES. . Cal., Nov. lS.Slx talesmen accepted as to causo and threa sworn Jurors were In the box at the, close of today's session of the James B. McNamara Mc-Namara trial. Five 'venires have been exhausted and another of forty men was drawn today and Instructed to report tomorrow. to-morrow. The list contain? the name of Mllosa. Baker, vlco president and superintendent Of the Baker Iron works, which Is doing the structural steel work of lite new Los Angelos Times building, and against which a. strike called by the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Is officially In progress. This Is the organization of which John J-McNamara. J-McNamara. jointly Indicted with tils brother, James P., Is secretary. Mllosa Baker Is a brother of Fred L. Baker, president of the company whose big house in the northern part of town has been under a special system nf outside lighting and guarding since a dynamite explosion occurred last December at another Iron works against which a strike had bcon declared. Talesmen Passed. The talesmen passed today were: Wlllett' Brunner. railroad engineer. T. J. Green, stock raiser. A. Grlbllng, retired harness maker. F. .M. Atkinson, president of a casket-maklng casket-maklng company, was excused late today after declaring that he believed the defendants de-fendants were trying to prevent tho state bringing from Indianapolis to 1-og Angeles An-geles evidence which he understood to be desired In the case, and were trying to keep Mrs. Ortio E. McManigal from testifying. tes-tifying. "Don't you know that the Indianapolis congest Is hclng waged by tho "Bridge and Structural Iron Workers and not by these defendants?" Attorney i,ccompte Davis asked Atkinson. "I bellove they are the same to all In-tcntE." In-tcntE." replied Atkinson. Qualified Over Challenge Talesmen Brunner and Green qualified after hrlef examination. Grlbllng was Qualified over a challenge preferred bv the state on the ground thnt he had Bafd he would not convict In capital cases on circumstantial cir-cumstantial evidence To Judge Walter Bordwcll. Grlbllng said he would so convict con-vict If the evidence were sufficiently strong, and the court denied the challenge. chal-lenge. A tall blonde man with an English hat and accent came to court today with Malcolm Mal-colm McLaren, operative of the detective detec-tive agency which brought about the arrest ar-rest of the McNaniaras and McManigal. P.eport hud It that he was a Scotland Yard detective. McLaren said he was a barrister. "Is he the man who worked up the London end of your case?" was asked. McLaren only laughed. Robert Bain. F. D. Green and Byron LIsk. the three sworn Jurors, remained in the jury room today under permission of Judge Bordwcll. Clark McLaln, Brewster C. Kcnyon and J. B. Sexton, tho talesmen tales-men accepted as to cause, were not allowed al-lowed this privilege. |