Show THE CONNELLY connellly CASE tile OF A JURY juny DRAGS ITS SLOW LENGTH alono along the case of the united states Vs john connelly indicted for bigamy I 1 was called at about 1045 a in ta today to day the intervening time from the hour of 01 10 being occupied with setting betting the civil calendar connellys connellis Con nellys case being reached the em paneling of the trial triai jury was wag begun and proceeded with twelve names from the venire ventre of thirty six petit jurors lor the term were called from slips of paper in the possession of the clerk and on taking their se seas its in the jury box we were challenged by mr rawlins Raw ilos llos wild who with mr sheeks represents the tiie defendant on tile the ground that the slips containing their names name s were not put in the box and drawn as provided by law the court sustained the ch challenge leub lent and the jurors vacated the bo box at their places were filled tilled by twelve men whose whole names were wens drawn from the bon bon box the slips having havin previously been placed there another challenge was made to the new panel by mr air rawlins kawlins on the ground that th the names were not placed in the box at the time timothe the venire up upon on which they were summoned was returned and kept there till drawn judge zane denied this challenge r remarking 1 witha with a bland smile that the th legislature seemed to be somewhat technical tn in the provision requiring the names to 0 o be put in a box and kept there as the defense claimed was ae legal at and pr proper to bo be done in the premises examination of jurors as to their qualifications then went on but was s soon oon interruptedly interrupt edby mr J ing ng for the prosecution who begged ton tov to inform the court that they had been told by the clerk that there had not been any arraignment in this case the defense replied that they thought the defendant had been arraigned and had pleaded not guilty and the tre judge jud coincided 0 neide I 1 from the memorandum in n his is possession os session the clerk said he had ho no record acor of it and was asked to look again ng ina among on his papers he did so but ut was una unable ae to and it A delay of a few minutes occurred nad and it was vas then decided that the defendant be arraigned mr connell Connel lr accordingly stood up and the cleri cieri clerk read kead to him the indictment he was asked to plead guilty or not guilty to the same and responded not guilty the examination or of jurors was then resumed the defense agreeing to take no advantage of the irregularity in the arraignment A discussion next took place as to the qualification of juror george W V richmond who was challenged by the desense defense on the ground that he was not a taxpayer tax payer the court overruled the objection holding that the possession of taxable property was to qualify a juror so far as that particular qualification was concerned con concerned cernes D W V bc scribner was challenged by the defense for implied bias the challenge wa was 8 confessed by the prosecution they had probably had bad enough of this juror who was ono of the four who stood out for acquittal in ln the first trial triai of rud rudger rudder mer ger clawson and mr scribner was excused george al M turpin turpia was excused for a similar cause I 1 in ii the crucial test as to polygamy etc william C winder george E hill george W earl and carl ia C asmussen asmo Asro were challenged by the prosecution and excused for fr declining to answer the question as to their belief in its rightfulness mr rawlins denied the challenge oil op the ground that the edmunds law where VI h re it provides that if a person shall shall shail decline to answer refers to persona sona living in the practice of polygamy an 1 lly ily instead of believing in it the el court ourt ruled that if a juror declined to answer the question on any ground he should be rejected as incompetent silas 1 pack and louis oviatt vere were excused for declining to answer and george hardman ardman II to for r answer answering ing g in the affirmative 1 C booth was peremptorily emptor ily challenged by the defense and excused this left two jurors thomas sappington and george W richmond who were sworn they having with booth the questions as to polygamy and cohabitation bailiff hurd was sworn to take charge of the j jurors u bors and end the court took recess till 12 pm i 1 4 J 2 ay iy pm m at the above hour the em paneling proceeded roce eded and in littleover litt littie leover over half aa an hour the petit jury pavel was exhausted and only two more jurors obtained making four in all secured thus far those obtained this afternoon ivere lvere were J J farrell and M W davis an open ve venire ire lre was asked for and issued for thirty thirty names ana the last we heard from the courtroom court room it had not been returned the court took a recess meanwhile |