elf; Mrs. Alice Freeborn, widow of a druggist; F. M. Christian, tent
and awning maker; Mrs. Sarah F. Brown, widow, working class family;
James R. Williams, machinist's helper, member of union; Mrs. Sarah J.
Timmer, wife of a union lineman, and T. J. Byrne, contractor. The two
alternate jurors, provided for under the "Extra Juror" law of
Washington, passed just prior to this trial, were: J. W. Efaw, furniture
manufacturer, president of Seattle Library Board and Henry B. Williams,
carpenter and member of a union.

Judge Ronald realized the importance of the case as was shown in his
admonition to the jury, a portion of which follows:

"It is plain, from both sides here, that we are making history. Let us
see that the record that we make in this case,--you and I, as a
court,--be a landmark based upon nothing in the world but the truth. We
may deceive some people and we may, a little, deceive ourselves; but we
cannot deceive eternal truth."

On the morning of March 9th Judge Ronald, the tail of his black gown
firmly in hand, swept into the courtroom from his private chambers, the
assembled congregation arose and stood in deep obeisance before His
Majesty The Law, the pompous bailiff rapped for order and delivered an
incantation, the Judge seated himself on the throne of "Justice," the
assemblage subsided into their seats--and the trial was opened in
earnest. Prosecuting Attorney Lloyd Black then gave his opening
statement, the gist of which is contained in the following quotations:

"You are at the outset of a murder trial, murder in the first degree.
The defendant, Thomas H. Tracy, alias George Martin, is charged with
murder in the first degree, in having assisted, counselled, aided,
abetted and encouraged some unknown person to kill Jefferson Beard on
the 5th of November, 1916.

"* * * As far as the state is concerned, no one knows or can know or
could follow the course of the particular bullet that struck and
mortally wounded and killed Jefferson Beard.

"* * * The evidence further will show that the first, or one of the
first, shots fired was from the steamer Verona and was from a revolver
held in the hand of Thomas H. Tracy.

"* * * As to the killing of Jefferson Beard itself the probabilities
are, as the evidence of the state will indicate, that he was killed by
someone on the hurricane deck of the Verona because the evidence will
show that the revolver shots went thru his overcoat, missing his coat,
and thru h