Show E f fIVE MEN OF JURY 4 1 j r FOR SHEETS CASE GASE i i 1 i Both State a and d Defense se Are Arc r f Careful in Passing r r. r of oi ft i t FEW HAD FORMED OPINIONS i Trial of Former Chief of Police Charged h With 1 Accepting j Bribe J Progresses Well 0 t 4 t 1 t 4 M 4 H- H M m-H m 4 H iQ 4 4 IN IX SIl ITS CAM Sl CAMf f ff rt I f I it f Samuel Parry Parr farmer S Sandy ri Homer P. P Burt 4 Murray Murra r i H- H Francis H. H Dansie sheep man I II I 4 f wrest West Jordan f John James retired business IY f man S Salt lt Lake ij f Oliver r Dul Duke c. c confectioner f ft 1 Lake r t s Salt f t J t. t J t. t 0 I 1 t.- t. i f At the close I of the first day in the i trial of or George A. A Sheets former dIrer chief of police for accepting a bribe In con con- i. i n with Avith the l robbery 4 i In S September five e Lad had been selected yesterday upon the i jury to try Sheets Tho The case was tJ 4 iI i opened before Judge Charles W. W Morse r I sitting on Judge Armstrongs Armstrong's bench a It at ath Itt h t 10 o'clock yesterday morning and re remarkable ret re- re marl ble progress ss was made t All AU manner of or questions were wore asked f i. i the by both the state and 1 t d defense rens and It Jt was shown that despite T the thorough airing airIng- given b by live five Salt r- r 4 Lake newspapers not man many of tho men lIed called for Jury dut duty had formed opinions F 1 ions rc regarding the Sheets case The Thc five o jurors selected were horn from 23 3 IS voters of oC Salt tIt Lake county who were 1 F e examined The state and defense had 1 each used up four tour of ot tho the five challenges r the end of the tho day and several st d en had been excused for cause j f having formed opinions on the case g i 0 F Opinion Formed f f. f t Tho lino of questions put up by tho the f through S. S R. R Thurman show that no chances were to be taken on t t prejudice and It was this rigid system t L of ot questioning that brought out the fr i t. t fact that few tew real redl opinions opinion's have been I I formed in all of tho the discussion of the case Some of the said that they paid no attention to what tho they saw In Inthe inthe the newspapers news some said they rea read the headlines and weren't interested others said that they had re read d nothing at all and had bad heard the tho Sheets ease Case only slightly William McConahay a jeweler next door to tho the c bakery was f ne who ho said he had heard practically i L nothing nothing- of the Sheets case cage and he ho said that hat his proximity to the tho establishment would Influence his mind mindIn In no wa way However the toe state sute excused him hIm Robert W. W Nicol president of the Salt Lake L. Electrical Supply company compan 1 i said he had read all aU of ot tho the papers and J hadn't formed an opinion He referred to the Walker trial at Ogden Garden as the t. t t only one in which he had heard a Jury jur charged by the court In a criminal case ti 1 He lIe said ho he had heard about all thero there pr I I was to hear on the Sheets case That was the opposite extreme i r UI Stert When court opened yesterday mornIng morn- morn Ing e eight were drawn from i the box by Howard Toward A. A King King- deputy clerk of the court Of or this number F three wore selected as ns jurors juror Later five fi names were were drawn rawn aud and ono one was ac acceptable lC- lC to o both sides Again In three 1 were drawn and one was cyas as acceptable i The final three were being examined T r when court took tool a recess until this r 4 morning at 10 Thurman Wedgwood an and Irvine lne and andi i I X Christensen appeared with i. i Sheets and District Attorney Loofbourow Loot Loof- and County Attorney Hanson L i appeared for the the state Neither l-elther George George- 4 Raleigh former chief of detectives I. I charged with a similar crime nor or any of the witnesses for tor the tho state present in court t i |