The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-14

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train Wednesday evening and immedi-
ately ordered the November term of the
District Court called. The officers of
the court are: w. M. Hyland stenog-
rapher. Spence Keller clerk, Ed. H.
Schenck deputy clerk, Sam Slower assist.
ant deputy; Sheriff John Burns is look
ing after the court room and on account
of the great crowd which gathers each
day to listen to tine Croftord trial Judge
Towner ordered two court bailiffs to
remain in the court room to preserve
order, A. ]. Allen and w. H. Albaugh
being appointed. Deputy sheriff II. l..
Tullis is doing the outside sheriff work.
q. A. Wood was appointed clerk of the
grand jury and j. III. Evans bailif.
Ex-sherif Geo. +. Wolever wa appoint
ed jury bailiff.
The grand Jury was %emraneled Tues
day evening and instructed by Judge
Towner, in the usual form. The seven
members drawn for this term of court
are J.. B. Adkins foreman; John Dale,
w. A. Irving, David Keown, w. e..
Adams, J. w. Logan, and A. S. Gardner.
The grand jury completed their labors
and were discharged for the term Satur-
day. They ignored the bills against
F. A. Greenland, Edith Oglesby and
Marion Jennings, and returned an
Indictment against Harry Ruble and
Harvey Wiley, the Garden Grove boys
who were arrested a few weeks ago on
the charge of resisting an officer.
Immediately after the trial jury was
empaneled at 3 O'Clock Thursday after
noon the task Of securing a jury in the
case of DR.. J. W.. Crofford accused of
murder in performing a criminal opera
ton on Maud Stone which resulted in
her death at his sanitarium on January
30th, was commenced. A special yenire
of 4S jurors had been summoned in
addition to the regular panel of "a
jurors.
The state is represented in the pros
ecution by county attorney A. T. Olsen,
Geo. w. Baker, j. w. Harvey & Son
and w. B. Kelley, and the defendant by
v. r.. McGinnis and G. w. Hoffman, of
this city, and NJ. l.. Temple, of Osceola,
and it can be readily seen that both the
prosecution and defense are represented
by the best legal talent in southern
Iowa.
A jury was secured at IL O'Clock Fri.
day morning after 40 jurors had been
examined, both the state and defense
exercising their right of %challening 10
jurors peremptorily, the other s being
excused for cause.
The jury as sworn consists of r. j.
Harmon of Davis City, AL Hubbard Of
Morgan, Frank Binning of Long Greek,
William Eddy, OF Franklin, Guy Adair,
of Woodland, J. w. Walker, of High
Point, Bert Graham, of Hamilton,
William Alcorp, of Garden Grove, Dusky
Gentry, of Bloomington. N. 6. Spencer.
of Long Creek. George Warner, o.
Franklin, and G. M. Shaw, of Garder
Grove. The first three jurors were Sc
lected from the regular panel and thu
other nine from the special venire
After the jury was sworn Judge Townel
ordered that during the trial they b.
not allowed to separate and were place.
in charge of bailiff Geo. F. Wolever-
County attorney Olsen made thu
opening statement to the jury, stating
what the state expected to prove in tn
case, in substance that Maud Stone
death was the result of a criminal abor.
ton performed on her by DR.. Crofiort
at his sanitarium in Lamont, which
occupied until the noon hour, and whel
court convened in the afternoon V.
McGinnls for the defense presented
their side of the case in which he claimed
they would be able to disproye all tn
claims of the state.
Friday Afternoon.
Mrs. Margaret Stone, mother of Maui
Stone was the first witness called by tn
state. She testified that Maud was 2
years, l month, and 2 days old at tn
time of her death. Ira Hammond ha
been keeping company with her fo
more than a year. She had been g
home tor several weeks prior to the tim
she left ostensibly to go to visit relative
near Mt. Ayr, and appeared to be i
her usual good health, doing househol
duties, and was we'll and hearty. Sh
did not see her alive after she left hon
and found her a corpse at DR.. Crofford
sapitarium when she got there at
O'Clock the morning after Ira Harmon
brought her a letter from DR.. Crotior
which read: Mrs. Stone, kind lady
Your daughter Maud is at my santa
ium, dangerously ill with appended
!: and colitis. She was taken from II
train very i'll and taken to my santa