Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 23 | Women Dodge [Illegible] in Old Bailey; 'Can't be hood [Illegible] like Men,' Says One

I ' WOMEN DODGE JURtgirE in OLD BAILEY; CAN'T BE HOOLMr) like men; SAYS ONE t : LONDON, Feb. 12. Excuses offered by women who for the rirst time have just been called to sit us Jurors In Old Bailey, tin- worlds most famous criminal crim-inal couri. excited a good deal of laughter in that usually sedate place. Twenty-four women were summoned for jurv service in criminal cases and mixed Juries wore formed with, in at least one case, h woman serving as forewoman. The charges included murder, arson and manslaughter. The women appeared quite as anxious anx-ious as men to avoid service on thc Juries. "I'm loo nervous," was the plea of one "I'm not strong-minded enough," said another. She was excused. Others pleaded inability lo lc;ie housework, shopping, business, care of, babies or sough) to evade service "nl M gi H i n oi '.hat do," lr women win Ung in fl i WigS Ht." wear clean fB H o di Hi tine lB r " laehold rou- shouljl refresh' courJH Jthe ' 1 d-fl H dfl vomeii telling luM'S without H i III during the H or ths Ik' both . T I men and women, and their counsel. seemed to b relut tant to bave women sil iii judgment in their cases. It was noticeable that men defendants in particular sought, through repeatod challenges, to prevent their being .it od as jurors. "Men know women can't be hoodwinked hood-winked und bamboozled so easily they are too likely to overlook technicalities techni-calities and go to essentials that's the reason they don't want us." said one woman who had boon challenged and excused. Women jurors soon will be called to !dc ide libel uctluns, breach of prOD-jUM suits, others for false imprisonment, and assault in the London law courts land also will make their first appear-fanes appear-fanes as jurors in the divorce court. They have been sitting as Jurors in lsbm of ih ountles in England for some mom lis