Show OLE L HANSENS CASEIn CASE-In the Toils of the Law for Unlawful Cohabitation A Jury Secured ami the Taking of Testimony Commenced It Might Have Been but I Cant Jlemeinber In the District Court this morning the case of Robert Lavin for inducing females to enter a house of prostitution was brought up District Attorney Pickson asked that on account of the absence of important witnesses upon whose evidence he hoped to make a case the matter be continued A motion on the t part of counsel for the defense that the case be dismissed dis-missed was then argued and overruled The case was finally continued until the latter part of the term This and some other preliminary business being disposed dis-posed of the case of OLE L HANSEN Indicted for the crime of unlawful cohabitation cohab-itation was called The jury box was then filled from the regular panel and the defense opened by asking the usual questions regarding knowledge of the case bias for or against the defendant feeling in regards to such cases etc No difficulties were met with and the jurors were passed to the prosecution The existence ex-istence of belief in the right of a man to have more than one wife at one and the I same time thinned the ranks and only five jurors were left when they came from under the fire Further numbers were then called and the same process of questioning was resumed Juror Shields afforded considerable amusement by his answers or rather nonanswers to Mr Dicksons questions ques-tions He was very doubtful about the revelation concerning polygamy thought that the m fact nf IIIH imn irnptiff > of nnlvfl ainy was sufficient proof of his disbelief i I in it as he was accustomed to practice whatever he believed in thought that under certain circumstances provided a man could not remain virtuous without it and provided there was no law against it and provided a man believed it was right that it might not be very bad for a man to have more than one wife After considerable badgering and interrupting i the juror in several orations Attorney Dickson thought he discovered a leaning lean-ing toward the defense and challenged the juror The challenge was objected to but was sustained on the grounds of the jurors evident desire to evade the questions put to him Mr Groesbeck believed most emphatically i emphati-cally that a man had right to have more than one wife if he desired to do so Excused Ex-cused amid laughter The regular panel being exhausted and there being only nine jurors in the box a special venire was issued returnable return-able at 2 oclock and court adjourned till that hour |