Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-04-17 | Page 6 | Hard to Get Jury for Ruef Trial

HARD TO GET JURY f OR RUtf TRIAL V Men Summoned for Jury Service Remember Long Thaw Case and Have Excuses Ex-cuses to Escape. SAX FRANCISCO. April 17. All but nine of the fifty veniremen whom Elisor Blggy was charged to summon as Jurors tn the Ruef trial were served by him, and thirty-five of these forty-one appeared ap-peared In court at the resumption of the case this morning. When Clerk McManus, by direction of Judge Dunne, directed all of the thirty-five thirty-five talesmen In the courtroom who might have excuses, to pome forward, twenty-six twenty-six men of various ages and walks arose and formed a long line reaching the center cen-ter of the room to the Judge's bench. At this a laugh ran through the crowd of spectators. Every one of the twenty-six was provided with a valid explanation of why he should not be required to serve, ami every one of these explanations was accepted. ' When the last of the lot had been excused ex-cused there was on Judge Dunne's desk a pile of doctors' certificates and upon his face ah expression of weariness. The nine jorprs In the box, passed as to qualification qualifica-tion but still subject to peremptory challenge, chal-lenge, were reduced to eight by the dismissal dis-missal of Juror O'Reagan. who was challenged chal-lenged by the prosecution on the ground that he had served as a petty Juror within with-in the last year. Talesman M. S. Ottenheimer, Joseph Goodman. Clarence Coleman and U. Friedman were called to fill the box. Special Spe-cial prosecutor Johnson made to them and the other five unexamined talesmen a brief statement of the case against Ruef. and the examination of Juror Ottenheimer Otten-heimer was begun.