Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-27 | Page 7 | Fight Averted at Trial of Newberry

FWBTE01T TRIAL OF ilEffl Attorney Takes Exception to Remark of Judge; Room Is Jammed by Attaches GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 27. Snowbound trains operated to delay until after noon the process of jury selection In the trial of Senator Truman Tru-man H. Newberry and 123 co-defendants when the big political case was called in the United States district court here today. A dozen of the respondents re-spondents failed to answer at the roll call just before court assembled and although most of them reported by telegraph that they were on their way to Grand Rapids, no word had come from half a dozen men. A motion by the defense challenging the array of tho jury panel was entered en-tered and denied, the process bringing a sharp spat between Judge Clarence W. Sessions and Martin W. Littleton, of New York, one of tho senior counsel for the defense. The court said the language of the challenge was untruthful untruth-ful and added: "Documents filed with this court must be truthful." "My integrity Is just a.s precious as the court's," said Mr. Littleton, and he promised the judge "a general battle" on tho point. Tho engagement, however, how-ever, failed to develop beyond the skirmish skir-mish stage. One of the half hundred or more defense de-fense attorneys objected to the seats assigned to newspaper men, saying that the press had been favored above l tho bar. Judge Sessions assured him that arrangements had been passed on In advance and that they would stand. The opening of the much-heralded , trial lacked spectacular incidents. The , defendants, attorneys, newspaper men, court officers and jurors packed the corridors of the building, but specta- ', tors were notably absent. There was no room for them in the court room and not more than a dozen used the , standing room in an open doorway after the proceedings started. Members of the Judge's family had , seats in a corner near the bench. - oo .