A Jury Secured

Lansing, April 10. - Very unexpectedly to oourt and spectators a jury was found in the trial of ex-Secretary of State Jochim Monday afternoon. After a very few had been excused for cause and others barred out by the age limit both sides annouuced their satisfaction with the jury. Prosecutor Gardner opened for the state giving a S37nopsis of what it was expeeted to prove, which was, in effect, that Jochim knowingly and wilfully certified to the false record that it was not possible for au officer who had joined in the general belief and expression that the salaries aniendinent had been defeated and then to deliberately affix his approving hand without an examination. John Atkinson of Detroit opened for the defeuse and said they expected to be able to prove the entire innocence of the defendant and that he was simply the dupe of some designing persona accepting the assurance of his subordinates that the tabulation was correctly made and the result was an honest one. It was a physical impossibility for him, he said, to verify all the clerical results in his department and that he could follow the same rule in a case óf this kind without crimical offense as in any other. George Warren, the clerk who assisted Clerk Potter in eoinpiling the returns, testified that Secretary Jochim gave no instrnctions whatever in the coinpilation. Chief Clerk Presley was called to identify the official report as certified to be by the board and the court adjourned for the day.