Show At Mercy rial nat Mill ill Worker Replaces i Ninth Juror MANCHESTER rANCHESTER N. N H H. Feb 21 21 W A UPI A year old retired businessman businessman busi bus j named as the ninth juror in the Sander mercy killing trial was ousted Tuesday but a younger mill worker was chosen in his I place i While bile Dr Hermann N. N Sander sat quietly in the courtroom Louis C. C Cutter 38 of Hillsborough was accepted Earlier the prosecution challenged challenged challenged chal chal- a British-born British retired gas worker who had been approved ed the day before Counsel for Sander offered no objections to the dismissal of Alfred Baines 72 who left the courthouse after he was excused Baines a Presbyterian was one of three Protestants among the first nine jurors chosen Monda Monday Monday Mon Mon- da day to try Sander on a charge of murder for pumping pumping- air into a hopeless cancer patient to end her suffering Judge Announces After a conference of an hour and a quarter with defense counsel and prosecutors Judge Harold E E. Wescott escott returned t to the courtroom to announce The state has requested the right to challenge the last juror seated Monday The defense offered offered offered of of- no objections The request is granted An authoritative court source I Isaid said the juror Alfred Baines was rejected because it was learned a relative was employed by a firm that did some pretrial work for forthe forthe forthe the defense It was said the state was unaware of this when it failed to to challenge him yesterday Baines himself said he did not know why he had been unseated Leaked Out Earlier Atty Gen William Villiam L L. Phinney revealed that he was in investigating investigating investigating in- in the possibility that names of the prospective jurors had leaked out before they were made known by the court As the examination of venire- venire men resumed the first two examined examined examined exam exam- ined were ere excused With Baines' Baines removal remo eight jurors remained seated and five more were to be chosen Of or the eight picked six are Roman Cath Cath- olics I Another conference between Judge Wescott and counsel for both sides delayed the 2 pm p.m. session session session ses ses- sion for 21 minutes Then the slow questioning for jurors resumed The first venire venire- man of the afternoon an elderly Nashua carpenter was excused Dr Sander came back smiling for the second day of his trial on ona ona ona a first-degree first murder charge and greeted newsmen with a friendly good morning as he entered the red brick courthouse I |