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Show JURORS PROTEST. The long-suffering jurors in tho case of Gaston B. Means, on trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Maude A. King, after listening to the arguments of the lawyers for two solid days, sent up a request to the judge that the "talk festM be speeded up. Five legal lights were waiting to be heard when the jurors, in the midst of their torture, tor-ture, appealed to the court. Guilt or innocence cannot be established estab-lished by having a great array of lawyers law-yers talk against time and it is not right to inflict the jurors beyond the limit of human endurance. Anyone ! who has been compelled to listen to a long-winded speaker can well understand ! the feeliug of disgust entertained by j the jurors in the Means case and will sympathize with them in their tame of ; affliction. Unfortunately there is little : protection in such cases, although courts j have the undoubted, right to limit the i length of time to be used in argument. |