| Show no new V jurors i n the 11 Morten if seri case men needed to complete the jury in the Mor tenen trial must he secured from a legion of picked up at random by sheriff naylor and lus deputies in all parts of salt lake county the list of regular jurors waa exhausted yesterday and alio draft begun until the purpose of alie open venire is accomplished no male citizen over the age 01 21 acara will be safe it will not do to get gay with the officers either for the court has given orders to have any person who refuses to give lua name arrested and brought into the of alie tribunal where various and sundry things will be done to him the owners of the last eight names on the regular jury list were disposed of yesterday morning in linof an hour they were william J kemp audolph knudson J 31 green albert smith robert E fowler II 11 S schofield jaa king and Epli raim footer mr schofield was challenged and excused because he did not believe in the efficacy of capital punishment and the others because they had in growing opinions some of the reported that they had more trouble getting rid of persons who wanted to get on the jury than they did in summoning reliable men the applicants were generally men out of work who thought more of the 2 per day and board alian they did of the responsibility eliat will devolve on the jurors those parties were put aside on one excuse or another and the selected so far as possible men of weight and standing in the community in one respect the open venire was an improvement over the closed venire alie latter never brought in more than two thirds of the names drawn while the first open venire of fifty jamea brought responses from fifty one anen when court was called to order at 2 p m the room waa full of what looked like the finest kind of jury making material the first of the open jurors examined on his voir dire was F F frisbee the officer who got him guessed wrong because alkhis mining interests arc in nevada and he has no property taxable in utah mr keith could hardly wait till the statutory questions were asked to offer his excuse when he got the car of the court he said judge I 1 have made all arrangements to leave the city on business that I 1 cant very well put off judge morae referred the excuse to the attorneys who held a whispered conversation mr keith and agreed to excuse him mr offered as his excuse that he was already serving as a juror in the federal court regret was expressed that the united states had seen liim first and he was permitted to go his way in peace albert bennion the first man exam inca was promptly excused on the ground of actual bias alex S campbell said he could fay aside ilia opinion but was successfully challenged because he had visited the scene of the homicide joseph M roberta L G hardy george T bourne A IL parsons john 11 horlick and A 11 crabbe excused for bias john mcarthurs Arthurs Mc hearing was not good and he was bias let out C W miller L II 11 farnsworth J W jenkins ernest L penrose fred S luff louis M cannon james II 11 brown T Cartwright IL alex W dye and L J brown j two of the aurora 11 ll that Y lial been friend i of jamaca II 11 ilay whereupon district attorney eichnor suggested to the detent that they be challenged 1 I anh to bay now nor that the state will not resist any challenges where jurors answer that aliey have been friends of the late james 11 iray no close friends of mr hay during hia life should bit on the jury henry hulbert was excused for cause and J L was examined ho is an accountant in the office of the presiding bishop of the stake and said he had not formed or expressed an opinion as guilt of the accused lt have you read and heard enough evidence if it were a true to on vince you that the defendant is guilty asked C B steward who was examining for alie defense the answer was inthe in the negative and stock went up with the defense all his answers seemed free from bias until the revelation proposition was sprung 1 I believe it if james sharp said so mr we challenge the juror for implied bias announced mr stuwart wart the state does not resist said mr eichnor and the juror was excused J F claby and J C Bov cring admitted eliat they were biased and were excused henry W lawrence said he had formed no opinion but stated in to the third question that he would under no circumstances vote for a verdict that would involve the death penalty and this excused liim charles W symons the photographer lie had absolutely no opinion and he would have been sworn as n juror in order but for the revelation question which lie answered in almost the same words aa mr 1 I believe eliat if james sharp paid he received it he did receive it william B lavielle and elbridge L thomas were cucu ed for bias fred II 11 meyer was excused attha suggestion of mr eichnor because of his intimate acquaintance with camei R hay joseph J daynes frank E margetts and frederick langdon were excused because of pronounced opinions frank knox the banker had great difficulty in convincing the defense that he was biased dis qualified and an al torether unfit person 1 to sit as a juror the attorney like a woman convinced against her will seemed to be of the same opinion still and passed over answers eliat would have settled the average juror in a flash mr knnox said it would take evidence to change his opinion that lie with detective sheets about the case and that he had areat confidence in mr sharp none rot these responses seemed to jar mr stewart I 1 do you believe in the old maxim of law that it is better for ninety nine guilty men to escape than for one innocent man to suffer 1 I dont know about that replied the banker 1 I thinly alie greatest good would come by punishing the ninety nine still mr stewart was unruffled if it should appear that the defendant biad been deserted by his wife would that you in deciding this cabet ac 1 it would cert have its effect on my mind if she not here whether the evidence showed a desertion or not said mr knox 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