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lt;1I-(iaJURY FINALLY SECURED IN MURDER CASE1I!No Women on ArrayTrying William Rodgers ^ft is expected that the taking of testimony in the Garret'* Run murder rase will be completed late this afternoon, At noon today nearly all the wit nesses for the Commonwealth had been heard. /Work of selecting the jury was completed about 9 o’clock Thursday night j Only eight Jurors were accepted from the original panel and that evening J 25 talesmen were called in from which , four were selected to complete the ' jury.The defendant i* reported to have expressed hi* strong objection to the selection of any woman on the jury and when the twelve jurors were final i iy secured all of them were men. They are as follows:■ 8. 8, Wttfard. Plumcrek.Waiter MUIcr. Pine. »j iDavid C. Coleman. Dayton.R. F. Stivason, Leechburg,JWilliam Craig, Cowanshannock. ,W. M. Gerhoim, Red Dank.J, W. Powers, Cowanshannock.11. A. Wylie, Kttannlng. tV, H. Schuyler, Kittannlng.J. M, McCoy, Kittanning. ,S. E. Martin. Kittanning. 1John Janies, Kittanning.After the jury was sworn District Attorney Blaine Mast opened the case for the Commonwealth. Court wa* adjourned at 9:30.At the opening of court Friday morn lug the taking of testimony was begun. it was shown by witnesses that Mrs. Rodgers was shot by her husbandJame-t Rodgers, as she was ascendingtie* steps in the yard of Mrs. Ayres, u nlt; Ighbor, on the afternoon of March 14. He had called to her to return to rh* house and when .*-he refused toed Rodgers who wan standing belowthe lower side of the Rodgers home fired five shots at his wife at a distant** of about so re* t. one shot striking her in the calf of the right Rodgers, following the shooting, under took to tarry his wife to their home but -tumbled and fell on her. The woman was assisted into her home by n* ighlors and after being given firstaid treatment was moved to the Kittanning hospital. After leaving the hospital gangreene developed in the wound and the limb was amputated at the knee on April 12 Mrs Rodgers died the following day. death being due to the effects of the gunshot wound and shock.
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Kittanning Simpsons Daily Leader Times
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jun 29, 1923
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