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Show NEGROES MAY BE CALLED FOR JURY ! Mattewan Trial Exhaust LUt of White Prospects WILLIAMSON, W. Va.. Fb. S. The second w..k-md of the Matrwan trial found th ury as far from complete com-plete as at this time a wetk ago. Twenty-nine venireman were es-a es-a mined at today's two-hour session, but not one qunllfieij. Nearly all of them expressed opposition to capital cap-ital punishment. The eighteen tentatively accepted talesmen, contrary to expectations, did nut have to spend the week-end In the courthouse in the sheriff's custody cus-tody ss last week. They were allowed al-lowed to go home today by Judge Hubert D. liii iley with the admonition admoni-tion not to discuss the case. It was irenerally believed tonlftht that the possibilities of Mingo county coun-ty so far us prospective Jurymen are concerned will have been exhausted exhaust-ed by the middle of next week. Then I the case will ether be continued prob- bly until the end of nxt month, or the question of admitting negro veniremen ve-niremen will be taken up. J If the case is continued after further fur-ther futile attempts to complete a Jury it probably will not be resumed until the legislature has an opportunity opportu-nity to pass upon the law fathered by Judge Joseph Saunders authorizing authoriz-ing the recruiting of jurymen from another county when the resource of the home county have been exhausted. I |