The Salt Lake Herald

JURY SECURED
TO TRY SCHMITZ
Sheriff and Coroner Disqualified and the 12 Men Placed in Charge of Elisor Biggy.

WILL KEEP A CLOSE WATCH
NIGHT SESSIONS OF COURT PROBABLE.

San Francisco, June 4—The jury was completed this afternoon for the trial of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz on the first of the five indictments returned against him by the Oliver grand jury, by which he is accused jointly with Abraham Ruef of having extorted from Joseph Malfanti $1,175 as the first installment of a $5,000 annual bribe to secure to the French restaurant keepers of San Francisco their licenses to sell liquor.

Judge Dunne, upon motion of the prosecution and over the determined and spirited objections of the defense, formally disqualified Sheriff Thomas O'Neil and Coroner William Walsh as unfitted by personal bias to perform any court functions in connection with the trial, and appointed William J. Biggy an elisor to have charge of the jury until a verdict has been rendered or a disagreement reached.

Under Lock and Key.

Shortly after the adjournment of court Mr. Biggy—who for three months past has been Abe Ruef's jailer—marched the jury to the St. Francis hotel, where the "twelve tried men and true" will be kept under lock and key during all the time that they are not sitting in the trial. Judge Dunne has decided that the jurors shall have no newspapers to read until all articles relating to the case have been censored; they may receive no general mail, nor may they be communicated with by their families except under the scrutiny of the elisor.

Night Sessions Probable.

It is the desire of Judge Dunne, now that the jury has been completed, to hold night sessions, and tomorrow he will hear suggestions from counsel as to this. "I want this trial to go forward now," said the judge, "with as few interruptions and as much speed as justice will permit."

The state hopes to put in all of its evidence this week. Former Police Commissioners Hutton, Reagan, Drinkhouse, Howell and Poheim will likely be the first witnesses called.