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GETTING READY FOR TRIAL

Probabilities That a Sheedy Jury Will Be Secured Today

HUTCHINSON'S VICTIM STILL ALIVE.

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LINCOLN, Neb, May 10. [Special to THE BEE]- It is deemed highly probable that by noon tomorrow a jury will be secured in the Sheedy murder case and that the taking of testimony will begin. There are already eleven jurors selected, and the defense and prosecution each only has one preliminary challenge. As the jurymen have been chosen ar the rate of about two per day, it is thought that another half day is all that will be necessary to fill the jury box.

The main topic discussed today on the streets and in the hotels is the action of Billingaley yesterday in preliminary challenging Joe Carter, the negro, passed by both sides into the jury box. The fact that Mrs.Sheedy was the first to take alarm , and that not her attorney, but Billingsley, the course for McFarland challenged the juror gives strength to the hints of conspiracy to sacrifice the negro to save Mrs.Sheedy. The action of Billingsley is further regarded with surprise for the reason that only the day before he had complained in the presence of the newspaper reporters that there were no colored men on the jury.

Only yesterday Judge Field warned the attorneys on the part of the prosecution to look out as the way things were shaping themselves there might not be a proper and fair verdict.

Detective Jim Malone, who unravelled the mystery of the murder and arrested McFarland and Mrs. Sheedy for the crime, is greatly put out over the persistent action of ex-captain Carer in prompting the negro Malone says:

"Carder is not satisfied with having attempted to help McFarland from making any confession after being arrested, but night before last he had a private interview with the darkey. Carder, I am positive, is influenced by jealous motives and is endeavoring to help clear the criminals just to spite me. I made a very strong kick to Justice Field about Carder, and I don't think the captain will get the chance to plug the captain anymore. He is no doubt working in harmony with Billingsly to keep the darkey off the witness stand. Now, I propose to drop what other work I have and camp by this case. It doesn't signify because I am no longer on the police forcethat I propose to let these criminals escape,"

Monday McFarland's mother in White Cloud, Kan., got wind of the rumors and sent an attorney named R. M. McWillia,s from that place to defend her son.