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Source: Pittsburg Post Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Jury Was Secured from One Original Panel” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 24 September 1901 Volume number: 60 Issue number: 15 Pagination: 1 |
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“Jury Was Secured from One Original Panel.” Pittsburg Post 24 Sept. 1901 v60n15: p. 1. |
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Keywords |
Leon Czolgosz (trial: jurors). |
Named persons |
Robert J. Adams; Silas Carmer; Walter E. Everitt; Richard J. Garwood; Frederick V. Lauer [variant spelling of first name below]; William Loton; Joachim H. Mertens [misspelled below]; Ben C. Ralph; Andrew J. Smith; James S. Stygall, Jr.; Samuel P. Waldo; Henry W. Wendt. |
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Jury Was Secured from One Original Panel
OF MATURE AGE and Consists of Three Farmers, a Contractor, Two
Plumbers,
Blacksmith, Bank Cashier, Manufacturers, Egg Dealer, and Foreman.
SPECIAL TO THE PITTSBURG POST.
BUFFALO, Sept. 23.—The panel from which the jurors were chosen for the trial
of the assassin was drawn two weeks before the President was shot. Out of the
36 men drawn for trial in the criminal term 12 were found who said they had
no opinions that could not be removed by evidence, proof of the fairness of
the trial for this murder.
On the jury are three farmers, Silas Carmer, William
Loton and Samuel P. Waldo; two plumbers, Frederic V. Lauer and James S. Stygall;
a street railway foreman, Richard J. Garwood; a machinery manufacturer, Henry
W. Wendt; a blacksmith, Walter E. Everitt[;] a bank cashier, Benjamin J. Ralph;
a dealer in butter and eggs, Andrew J. Smith; a boot and shoe dealer, Joachim
H. Martin; Robert J. Adams, a contractor.
Eight of these are native-born Americans, three
are German-American citizens and one was born in London. It is a jury of mature
years. If the ages were averaged the figure would be between 48 and 50.
Two of the jurors, fine specimens of the well-preserved
American farmer, are 65 years old. Henry W. Wendt, of the Buffalo Forge Company,
is the youngest member. Silas Carmer and William Loton are the oldest jurors.
It is a clear eyed, intelligent jury, and heard
the evidence to-day with judicial intentness. The judge and the prisoner are
the only clean shaven men connected with the trial. Two of the jurors wear full
beards. Bank Cashier Ralph has side whiskers and all the rest wear moustaches.