| Show lj MAN WHO TALKED P L BARRED BARREDAS AS JUROR t t in McNamara Case ti Converses With Manager of Los Angeles Times i I IS EXCUSED FOR CAUSE Official Announcement Made That I Fourteen en Men Will Be Sworn Sworn Six Six in n Boa Bos B x Subject to Challenge r 1 i B By International News Service Ser Los Angeles Oct 21 t.-B t. B. B V. W Clark a at I t cc- cc coaler caer Jer In wood and coal ono one of oC the tho thol l 3 Salesmen tle men in tho the McNamara case brought down clown the wrath of oC the court upon I his Js head this afternoon a when he hei i R i tied on examination that he spoke of tho the case da day before yester- yester h to Harr Harry Chandler manager of or lie Times and son law of General fill Otis I I 1 told him I was a prospective Juror Fla Jn fn the McNamara 1 case a e. e said Clark to Lecompte Davis Is of counsel el for or tho the de defense defense de- de f nse who rho WitS was examining him What did he say to you ou asked Davis I He said he lie hoped I would qualify answered Clark Clarl That will do interrupted Judge an angrily rily What do you mean b by talking o ol of this ca case c when whon you ou were Instructed ll not to talk of ot It Clark said he had not considered that talking of the case CRe but the court excused excused ex ex- him at once declaring he did didI I not nn t a man on the j Jury who could be tc so careless as to talk tall to anyone of any anti feature of ot the case Y t Tonight ht tho attorneys rs for the dek de- de de defense de- de k tense are saying that Chandler Cht ought to Jt be e cited tor for contempt but it Is apparent ap ape parent arent tho the court does not r regard gard his I r to the juror as n Ie a a II serious h r offense i s i i to call n-ll n for for sl such c p proceedings c cd s- s s Clark had admitted a n leaning to to tho the I gas gns theory of the destruction destruction of tho the Times building a aThis based on a declaration This his son sora or had made that he passed the building on a street car the night of ot ottIc the tIc explosion and had smelled smelted gas as which apparently camo came from the build- build In Ing This son Is a teacher in the Pomona Pomona Pomona Po Po- mona schools school ar LP ard d doubtless less he will bo be brought Into tho case h bj the defense It kin In support of ot Its attack on the dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- mite theory of the prosecution prosE But four foul are arc left outside of or orthe the jur jury box hox of ot the original venire and there are three vacancies in the box as the result of or the afternoon examina examina- dons A new venire probably will be drawn the first thing thinK in th the morning F F. F J. J Mullen lullen who was yas challenged for tor tori i cause by the defense luring during the tho mornIng morning morn- morn Ing n session tho the challenge e being re resisted re- re Rifted b by the state is still in the tho box l T The e court withheld hl his ruling and aud probably proba l will give it tomorrow morn morn- 1 Ing Mullen admits he bt believes Mc Mc- McNamara Namara ea nary Is guilty and that tho the build building fn ing int was vas destroyed b by dynamite but he heUS heU'S heays fairl Juror Th The The- ays US he can act fairly a as aR a must decide whether whether to accept this stet statement and qualify the Juror In the meantime Cl Clarence renco Darrow In Introduced introduced In- In d as exhibits the report of the mayors mayor's os committee on the cause of the explosion lon and a copy of or confession son printed in the Los Angeles Examiner r. r two of the documents on T Mullen based his opinions opInion It Iti i R 1 Is the attorneys attorney's evident intention to claim error In this Instance as ground for an appeal for a new trial If Ie It be necessary In the event ent Judge Bordwell rules that Mullen is qualified and denies de denies de- de nies nips the challenge It was stated definitely today that fourteen men would hear the Mc r caso as Jurors This is If possible under the California law which pro- pro f Ides that In addition to tho the regular Jur Jury two additional Jurors may be Qualified in cases where the trial is isto likely to be of or great Importance and dur duration These two must must be kept with the other twelve having equal opportunities to hear the evidence and andin andin andin in case casc an any regular j juror furor uror is disqualified Jed fied through illness or death the name Mf if one ono of the thc two extra Jurors Is to be drawn from a a. bo box and he thereupon replaces the disabled one one- None Nono of or the thc fourteen seemed In sight tonight Six jurors temporarily accepted accepted ac ac- LC- LC b bv by both sides were in the box but all are ure subject and liable to peremptory per per- peremptory emptor challenge challenge- I |
