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IjSJ. $?- n t - - -yr- 'CS -" ...; 1 j't ' IW tut that it is impossible for him, to limit the examination of veniremen as long as the law per mits extreme latitude along this line. ' Gen. Otis' action yeste'rday af ternoon in dedicating a monu ment to the victims of the Times disaster has complicated the sit uation. Attorney Darrow ap peared in court today with a copy of,the Timds containing a picture Of the monument, on which is in scribed in "big letters : "Our martyred men and mur dered victims of a .dynamite fire, the crime of the century." It also contained Rev. Robert J. Btirdette's latest remarks, in which he declared the victims J'died for cause" and that "the crime was committed by the red- . hand of arfarcfiVV also that'' the victims lost their lives in the '-'cause of industrial freedom." ' Burdette's appeal to God to "mete out his judgment and his 'justice" Was also interlined in the papeYs Darrdw carried, and he only declared that he would here after ask men who say they are readers of the Times, whether they read this in today's paper. He will argue that if they did, they are disqualified from serving as jurors in this case. In order to hurry the trial along 'Judge Bordwell opened fhe ses sion today an hour earlier. Dar row immediately proceeded to try o disqualify J. A. Ross, a Pasa dena painter. Ross admitted he is a life-To'ng opponent of union ism and that he believes the Mc Namaras guilty after reading qf their -arrest because he personal ly had been kept from working at his trade as a painter because ne did nothave a union card. ' However. Deouty District AN tnptiair.iTTnrtnn r1arn.d to hold lUlUrj.AUiVJi j.. - -vL Ross-by getting him to admit ne could and would, if sworn' as a juror, lay aside all prejudices and tijy McJNamara solely on tne law and evidence. Darrow, as a re sult, proceeded carefully to dis qualify Ross under tne law, as previous experience had shown that the' court consider jurors who admitted a prejudice were fully competent when they assert ed they would lay aside these prejudices. Brunner told Fredricks frankly that he opposed circumstantial evidence as a.concrete proportion, but the latter bad a report from detectives that he owned several houses and, that he was inclined to oppose labor unions, and Fred ricks personally qualified him by a series of framed questions. Later Fredricks discovered that Brunner holds the strongest union views and is a former chief engineer of his local of the Brotherhood. Late yesterday the state tried to get him out pt the way oy consent 01 me court, uui Tud?e Bordwell ruled thathe 1 WQuld not reopen the case.. The only concession he made was to make note of the authorities cited by Fredricks and to say if he found himself wroiy he would re verse his ruling later. Shohld Bordwell stick to his position the state must perempj torily challenge Brunner.