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Show SCOURING COUNTY FOR TRIAL JURORS Difficulty Being Experienced in Select ing Panel to Try Lynchers of Praeger. EDWARDSVILLiE, III:, May 14. Owing Ow-ing to difficulty In selecting a jury to try the eleven men charged with murder following the lynching last month of Robert Paul Praeger, deputy sheriffs were sent throughout the county today to pick up eligible talesmen from the fields and factories. So far sixty-eigth veniremen have been examined, and not one has been agreed upon by the state and defense. Three men have been tentatively accepted by the state and they are locked up. While John H. Lewis, a venireman, was being" examined today, the defense charged that he had been approached. Lewis admitted he had and gave the name of the man who talked to him. The man, Bernard H. Mueller, a barber of Collinsville, 111., admitted to Judge Bern-reuter Bern-reuter that he told Lewis that "this was a plain case of murder and the defendants defen-dants ought to get what they gave Praeger." Prae-ger." . The judge told Mueller he would attend to him after the present trial was over. . ' It was believed tonight that more than 1090 men will be examined before a jury is finally agreed upon. |