Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1916 — First Day of Contest to Bar Sunday Shows Exhausts Jury Panel. [ARTICLE]

First Day of Contest to Bar Sunday Shows Exhausts Jury Panel.

Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 28.—The city's tight against the opening of ' Sunday shows here opened In the circuit court today when attorneys commenced the grind of obtaining a jury to hear the case against M. Rubinoff. Prosecutor Roy Street has called all the managers and owners of motion picture theaters in the city as witnesses. The first panel of veniremen was exhausted this afternoon and it Is probable that a jury will not be filled before Wednesday. Mayor Bauer and the ministers of the city are fighting the opening of the ’’movies" on Sundays. Tliq trial will bring out several phases of the matter, Including the right of the shows to be run on Sundays by a Jew, who observes Saturday as his Sabbath. Rubinoff Is a Jew and was acquitted by a jury recently in a similar case In city court, his defense being that ho observed Saturday as his Sabbath and should bo permitted to pursue his usual avocation on Sunday.