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MONDAY AND MARY IN COURT

OPENING DAY OF THE GREAT SHEEDY CASE.

Several Hours Consumed Over a Motion to Quash the Regular Panel of Jurors.

Nine Men Passed on the Challenge for Cause, Most of Whom Will Probably be Let Out on Peremptory Challenges.

Rather an Uninteresting Proceeding.
"State of Nebraska against McFarland and Sheedy."

So called Judge Field at 9:30 yesterday morning in the large court room of the county building. There were then not more than twenty spectators in the room. The prisoners and attorneys had not yet come in but upon the announcement the doors opened and the crowd of spectators swelled to a hundred.

Five minutes later Monday McFarland came in and strayed over to the south side of the judicial enclosure in an unconcerned manner, and took a seat near the attorney's table, where he crossed his legs and leaned back with the utmost composure to await the tide of momentous events soon to be surging around him. He wore yellow pantaloons and vest with a pronounced check therein, with a gray coat. One could search a year without finding a blacker darkey than Monday McFarland. His skin is sombre and smooth that it shines like a piece of black silk.

In another five minutes Mrs. Sheedy came in, accompanied by her two sisters, Mrs. Dean of this city and Mrs. Morgan of San Diego, Cal. The fair prisoner was looking not so unwell as rumors which have from time to time emanated from the jail would lead one to expect. She was very pale, but withal handsome, and her deep black raiment added that severity to her marble features which gives statuary its chief charm, Mrs. Dean was also in deep black, but Mrs. Morgan was attired in lighter costume with a touch of color in her hat.

"Mrs. Sheedy is certainly a modest-looking woman and not at all the sort of a defendant I expected to see," remarked a veteran court official, and his hearers agreed with him. She was perfectly composed and was in no way that was apparent to observers disturbed by the scene being enacted around her. Her calm and modest bearing undoubtedly excited the compassionate sympathy of all around her and no one could look at her pale face without experiencing the conviction that, unless she is endowed with supreme qualifications as in dissembler, there must be some terrible mistakes in the horrible stories related about her by Monday McFarland. To one unacquainted with her troubled past her fair, serene face would certainly indicate the strictest purity and piety. She watched with modest interest the entire proceedings of the day without indicating by so much as a smile or a frown their vast import to her.

The array of connsel seated about the table in front of the jury

MONDAY AND MARY IN COURT

OPENING DAY OF THE GREAT SHEEDY CASE.