that had been summoned included twenty two of the best men in the county,
but the prisoner’s counsel reduced it to seventeen, by challenging a
number who had too freely expressed their ideas in regard to the affair.
There is no doubt but that by continuing the same line of questioning the
grand jury could have all been found wanting, but it was not the intention
of the defense to delay the trial by reducing the number below the legal
minimum, but simply to refer the bills to as few men as possible, feeling
that the chance of their finding all of the indictments could be
materially lessened.
It took the jury but a very short time after they commenced their work to
find four true bills against the prisoners, and the evidence given by the
witnesses that testified before them, was but a recapitulation of what
they were entirely familiar with. In the case of the Swede, whom Cole
Younger was charged with killing, evidence was given by a man and a woman,
both of whom testified that they saw Cole shoot him coolly and
deliberately.