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Show NO JURY YET IN GILLETTE CASE All of 160 Talesmen Exhausted Ex-hausted and New Panel of 68 Drawn; Lawyers Are Blamed. BTEEKIMER, N. Y., Nov. 13. Eom days of the trial of Chester E. Gillette for the alleged murder of Mies Grace Brown have passed, and the work of selecting a iurv is still incomplete. The box was again full when court adjourned yesterday, but only eight of the twelve men- had been accepted by both sides. The remaining four, it is understood, will be challenged today. The panel of 160 talesmen with which the case was begun Monday has been exhausted and a new panel of. sixty-eight sixty-eight was drawn last night." "The witnesses wit-nesses in the case, who are all here, are protesting against the delay. A petition peti-tion to Judge Devendorf has been started, asking him to expedite the proceedings. pro-ceedings. In the petition the lawyers encairod ar hlamed. Harriet Benedict of Cortland, the so-called so-called present sweetheart of young Gillette, Gil-lette, reached here late yesterday. Under orders of the District Attorney, she went into seclusion. Ward hopes to prevent her from maKTng any public statement until she goes on the witness stand. |