The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-11-22
Kehulnieyer
On Trial for
{ kellogg Murder

Monday was the hrst day Of the
November term OF the Fremont coun.
ty district court for the trial of cases
and the jurors were summoned to ap-
pear at 10 o'clock. Court was con-
vened a week ago. but IT was not until
yesterday that the jurors. thirty-thrce
in number. were ordered to present
themselves for service. They were
Richard Appleby of Howard. Harlan
Hockett, of Orchard Park; J.iC Brew
er. Lincoln Park H. H. Frey. Canon
City; Fred II. Sartor. Canon City; w.
c. Black. Cottonwood; Z. o. Van
Eaton. Florence: Richard, Houle. Can
on City; Louis John. Florence; Char
les. Gilray. Coaldale; ]. d. Williams,
South Canon; Ben o. Halsted. Lincoln
Park; w. A. Harvey. Florence; Chas.
Nash. Rockvale: w. q. Hillmer, Pen
rose: Dave Salmon. Florence; Henry
Smith. Florence Frank Lamb, Coto-
paxi; j. C. Croft. Penrose; Charles
Bates. Florence: H. NJ. George Canon
City: Clinton Hockett. Orchard Park:
Claude Quiniey. Florence; Charles
Griffin, South Canon; Clyde Gates.
Florence: Eugene Mccormick. Hill
side; H. s. Cosby. Canon City; Clyde
Bowen. Canon City: F. J. Bacon. Con-
crete; L. ]. Runner. Canon City; C. A.
Grove. CotopaNi; William Dunsmuir.
Portland and John d. Hall Canon
City Nine of these Jurors were ex-
cused from service for various rea-
sons.
The first ease taken up for trial was
the People versus Edward o. Kehul-
meyer. charged with the murder of
Luther Kellogg in this city on Novem-
ber 29th. 1916. The case was taken up
for hearing Immediately after the
close of applications by jurors to be
excused had been made and their Pc
titions disposed of by the court. Sew
eral of the jurors were excused on the
ground that they were indirectly en-
gagged in TIE war service OF the gov
ernment ,..s
District Attorney T. Leo Witcher
appeared as attorney for the prosecu
ton and Orion w. Locke as counsel
for the defendant. It was found to be
impossible to procure a.. jury out of
the original panel and the court or
dered q special venire of Eye men to !
be summoned by the sheriff to COM |
plete 1t. This number proved to be in
sufficient for the purpose and another
venire of six men was, subpoensed.
At O'Clock the following jurymen
were agreed upon and were sworn In:
Richard Appleby, H. S. Cosby Henry
Smith. Louis John F. J. bacon. Hsr-
Ian Hockett. Frank Lamb. Charles
Gilray. Charles Nash. w. c. Black. e.
E. Williams. w. w. Sullivan, =
The Introduction OF the Peoples
testimony was begun at once after, the
district attorney had made his state
ment of the case and had outlined the
evidence which the state expected to
produce. Mr.. locke. attorney for-the
defendant, reserved his statement In
relation to the prisoner until te the
prosecution had rested its case.
The frst witness called to the stand
was James Bunten. county surveyor.
who testified regarding the accuracy
OF plat he had made OF the premises
surrounding the scene of the shooting
in the vicinity of the Canon Crystal
Ice company'a pant in the Santa Fe
Railroad company's yards On South
First street.
The second witness was Or. Royal
c. Atkinson of Florence. county cor
orner who testified as to the examin-
at.un made by him cf the wounds of
the deceased. Luther Kellogg. about
four hours after the shooting. He
described the wounds inflicted upon
the person OF the deceased by the de
fendant
The next witness was Sheriff w II.
Newcomb. who testified as to the ar
rest of the defedant. and the circum-
stances as he found them at the scene
of the shooting upon his arrival. At
the conclusion Of the sherifrs testi-
o'clock this morning.
Other Witnesses spbpoensed for the
people include Harry Tripiett. veta
Bolin, Grace Wallace s. A. Tyo, Eu-
genia Hopper, Irene Riley. M. r. Lew
is. c. Herman Graves. Charles McKis-
sick. and Ray Banta.