Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — A Know-Nothing Jury. [ARTICLE]

A Know-Nothing Jury.

The difficulty of impanelling a jury in the early courts of Wisconsin may be seen from an incident related in “The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin.” Judge Irvin was on the bench, and a murder trial ws lading. G. T. Long, familiarly kndwp Long, was undersheriff. There was difficulty in getting a jury which knew nothing about the facta of the case. The regular panel had been exhausted, and a special venire had been issued, and was finally returned. “Well, Mr. Long,” asked the judge, “have you at last secured a sufficient number pf jurymen who know nothing about this case?” “Yes, sir,” replied the. polite officer. “Six of them know nothing about this case, and the other six know nothing at aU.”