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sdy aoyy" "'''i away and it is doubtful if he realized the importance of the joutcome to him. Attorney Darrow, for the first time the trial opened, showed the effect of the strain. His face was drawn and haggard and almost ghastly in its whiteness. Above, on the bench, Judge Bordwell concentrated his attention on both groups of attorneys, waiting. The quiet was finally broken by District Attorney Fredncks de claring" the law was absolute; that both sides must exhaust all chal lenges against the twelve men in the box in turn before any new names could be called. The de fense objected and was overruled. Fredncks challenged Frank Frakes and the defense quickly eliminated McKee; the state ex cused McNeely, the retired tailor and union man, and the defense Johnson. There was a lengthy pause, and then Fredricks, with the air of a man behind the larg est stack of chips fin a poker game, almost shouted, "we pass," and sat down in his seat. The frown on Attorney Darrow's face ated Dr. Case and Frampton, and hen stopped. There was a pause of ten min utes for a conference, and finally Darrow walked back and con ferred with Mrs. Frank Wolfe, wife of the biggest Socialist leader in this city. It was the "woman's hunpb," as she knew the members of the Winter family intimately. When Darrow. resumed his seat he chal- teng-WJnteiwbalthough-he j had worked as. a strikebreaker in the butchers strike, was still be lieved to be secretly in favor of unionism. By this time it was aK most dark, and Darrow asked the court to adjourn until today so that the defense could confer over night. Bordwell so ordered. As, exclusively "stated by thes United Press more than a week' ago, 4the defense will-next week renew its motion for a change of judge. .Both McNamaras will re peat 'their original affidavits and add thereto the action o Ihe court in "refusing challenges against Talesman Frampton, who said he believed -McNamara guil ty, but was willing to acquit if he were proved 'innocent, and Tales men Winter, McKee and Case. THey also' "insist that it has been proven by the record that the best' attorney for the state is not Fred-.,, ricks', but Judge Bordwell himself. The defense lawyers are so worked up that they openly as sert they are willing to go to jail for contempt if Bordwell forces the issues, so that they can get increased and' he quickly elimin- Lthe supreme court of the United States to pass'on the questions in volved, which include the consti tutional rights of a defendant They will cite Bordwell's rul- " ing on the Morton case yesterday, where he eliminated the veteran, whom, they say, was obviously in ' full possession of his mental fac ulties, because he admitted he was a Socialist, and kept Tales man Case, whose answers were almost parallel, because he is a member of. the iame fraternal or-r j