The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1880-09-01
THE MURDER
W0LFGAKG HOFFMAN TRIED
FOR THE MURDER OF
HIS WIFEl
REPORT 0E TIE TESTIMONY.


Associates Stuff and Mussclman.
7 CoUNsEI.-F1- tic Commonwealth
y Gen. VI. H. Koontz. John II. Uhl
y. Hay, Esqr5., and John r. Scott
ESD Distric. Attorney.
s. Tor ~ DJ.ac w. J. and II. 7.
liaer, ESqrs.
Case WAS reached about > o'clock
The prisoner was brought from iail
and arraignod. At ; O'Clock Oh,
complement oi jurors was obtained
The following are the names OF tho
persons selected:
John Smith. Cormelious Tresslcr
r Robert Guthrie, Gabriel Good, Elijah
Holiday, n. l.. Hoover. Jacob Bit
nC Rufus Hay, John Rayenscralt,
John .'lakc John Mowry, Edward
Rhoas
Mr.. SCOT opened the ease on be-
; hd't Of the Commonwealth.
Dr. Henry Brubakcr, affirmed
tESomiued by Gen. Noontz. II live
in Somerset; am q practicing physi-
elan: nave been for twantv-nine
years: know Woligang Hoffman, the
defendant did not know his wife c:
WAS called upon in connection with
, Doctors Gcary and Krissinger. of
Berlin to make an examination OK
tha body of dead person in the
house of Nolf@ng Hoffman. The
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