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Show DARROW TRIAL TO LAST ABOUT THIRTY DAYS By International News Service. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 21. Nine permanent per-manent jurors, a tenth sworn but facing a peremptory challenge, and two vcnlre3 totaling "00 names exhausted, is tho progress mado during the first week of the second trial of Clarence Darrow, charged with jury bribery in tho Me-Nnniara Me-Nnniara case, in which lie wa? chief counsel for the defense. The first official estimate of the length of time tile trial will consume was rnado today when Judge Conlcy asked the opposing op-posing attorneys as to their opinion, stating that It: was nocessary for lilm to arrange for the setting of cases In ills own court In Madera county. "The last caso look throe months," replied Assistant District Attorney Ford, "but I believe tliat all tho evidence evi-dence that was put in in that case can be Introduced in this caso in one-third the time." Both Darrow and Judge Powers of Ihe defense thought that a month would be a fair estimate. The court then set the date for thej close of the trial for about February 2" and the attorneys assented. |