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Delay In TrialHTASTS ©3* PA©|§ ©If* .......for next Wednesday.When Judge Goldsby indicated thatthe state, under the circumstances,was entitled to a continuance, Mrs,Clausen, in the courtroom with Mrs. Nellie Cammack, county jail matron-deputy, covered her face with a handkerchief and wept. In conference with her counsel, before the plea was offered by the state, she insisted that she wanted to be triedon Wednesday.Attorney Johnston insisted that the case be reset for the earliest possible day and Judge Goldsby ordered the trial for November 12. Judge J. Blocker Thornton will be sitting: in the criminal division during the weekof Mrs, Clausen’* triad.A apecial venire of 29 additional Jurors was drawn from the box by Judge Goldsby. They will be among the 100 from which a jury will be selected.Witnesses for the state and defensehad already been summoned for the trial Wednesday. Included in the list of witnesses for the defense is Austin Pharr, banker and executor of the estate of the late Foster Hale, Jr., attorney, who was killed by Mrs. Clausen. He is required to bring along a large number of letters, which were exchanged between the woman and Hale from the time they met many years ago until a short timo prior to Hale's death. The letters, it is claimed, show the relationship which existed between thecouple.
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Sunday News Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sun, Nov 01, 1931
Page 10
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