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Is tbe recent* trialsof /Thomas . Lamand Israel Mongold. charged with capital offenses,, on'y one venireman of the panel had formed anv opinion of the guilt nr innocence of the accused, and three was the limit of those who had conscientious scruples against the infliction of the death penalty. The jury, as sworn, is composed of Worth Phillips, R. M: Ewdnrds, Homer P. Hillyard, Daniel H. Clioe, Henry M. Henkel J. M. Caldwell, J. P. Brown, Jacob Layman, L. C. Haney, Charles R. Layman. Abram W.. Koontz and B. Frank Rolston.The facts on which the prosecu-tion is based were outlined to tbe jury in a brief openiog statementbv the Commonwealth’s Attornei’. Mr. Conrad said that although a targe number of witnesss had been summoned by both sides, yet tbe main facts at issue would be established by the testimony of a few only. There were present, he said, only three or four persons, in addition to tbe dead man, on the Caldwell premises, where the murder was committed, on Christmas night, when Philip Ritcbie received tbe stab on the left side which ended his life.The Caldwell premises, the home of Ritchie’s daughter Eva, wife of Hinton Cad well, are located a few miles south of Fulk’s Run in a mountain hollow. The bouse is asmall ftwo-story building, with two rooms on tbe first floor, and is enclosed by a paling fence. At tbe front of the bouse, which faces east, is a porch, From the porch a path leads to the yard gate and at some little distance from the^gate crosses a drain. Philip Ritchie’s home was located half a mile southeast of that of tbe Caldwell’s.On tbe night in question Philip Ritchie, accompanied bv a friend or .two, returned home in an intozl-
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Harrisonburg Daily News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Tue, Feb 05, 1907
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