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Show JURY TO TRY DHOW I1YJ1PLETED Seat No. -12 Only One Unoccupied Unoc-cupied in Box; Challenges About Exhausted. LOS ANGELES, May 20. Seat No. 12 In tho Judy box was the only unoccupied one when a brief' session of the Darrow bribery trial was adjourned thla afternoon after-noon after the special veniro drawn Saturday Sat-urday had been exhausted and a new one ordered. Adjournment was taken to Wednesday Wed-nesday morning at 10 o'clock. The eleventh Juror, Elijah B. Leflor of Los Angeles, was chosen soon after the trial was resumed at 3 o'clock this afternoon. after-noon. Several times It seemed that tho remaining Juror had been secured, but each time hopo was ended by a peremptory peremp-tory challenge. In tho afternoon the defense exercised seven challenges and tho state one, leaving leav-ing three remaining to the defense and two to the prosecution. For the first lime since tho beginning of the trial, only sworn Jurors were locked up for the night. Of the special venire of ten ordered Saturday only five qualified as talesmen and all of them went on challenges. Outside Out-side of the fact that tho first important witness for tho mate will probahly be G'eorge N. Lockwood. the McNnmnra 4m.. uvv!, .H jjuvi n uuu, iuo i.ii-ix uuiiii a, juror, jur-or, said to have been bribed, there ls little knowledge as to the other witnesses. It Is certain that Bert H. Franklin, the former McNamara detective, avIH testify testi-fy against Darrow. but at. the district attorney's office It was said today that no decision had been made as to using John R. Harrington, tho Chicago lawyer formerly associated with Darrow In the McNamara defense. Officers connected with tho prosecution also denied that Mrs. Ortle McManlgal, wife of the confessed dynamiter, would appear as a witness for the state. Between forty and fifty stato witnesses have been subpoenaed. |