The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-16
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served, on jury within the last two
years.
OF the nineteen selected the follow
ing jurors were chosen for the case:
Silas H.. Curry, John Pople, Jr.. Thorn
as E. Tetrick, ]. E. Ault. T. ". Beall,
VIII Mercer, Leonard Curry, A. w.
Smell, Isaac Bell, Webb Amos, F. NJ.
keener and c. S. RIGGS.
All other jurors and ali witnesses
in any OF the other cases excepting the
May case were then dismissed by
Judge Lowe until Friday morning at
g O'Clock. 1t is the plan TO end tn.
May case by that time and start an
other case on Friday morning. Judge
Lowe announced that every effort pos
sible would he made to complete all
trials which required Jury this week.
The jury t5ok their seats in the jury
box and after being sworn were then
addressed by Prosecuting Attorne,
Haggerty who first read the law re-
garding the case ard read the lndict-
ment charging murder.
Prosecuting Attorney Haggerty ex-
planned wha, the state would endeavor
to prove. He said that evidence would
show that Mrs. May had been going
TO dances TO which her husband OBJ.
Jected. She took his revolver and in
order to get the revolver back, William
May had taken a part of her clothes
and locked them in the safe That
night after she had returned from the
dance she went home and upon dis
covering thather clothes had been TAX
en-. demanded May to return them,
whereupon he told her that he would
return the clothes when she returned
his revolver. Later she went I'M stair,
to her room and came back down
stairs and fired three shots ut May
who then followed her to the door.
She came to the river bridge. threw
her gun away. cross the bridge to the
SINNERS tavern where she took a taxi
and went to the home OF Robert Crow
der, where she hid until she was ar
rested. Mr.. Haggerty explained that
she had said that she shot him be.
canse he had taken her clothes. which
he claimed to be deliberate and will.
full murder
Attorney Harry Shaw then ad-
dressed the jury and said that plea
of not guilty had been entered by the
defendant and that self-defense would
be proved. He said that Billy, as he
was commonly called, was more than
restaurant keeper; that he had mar.
ried a woman who is no moro than a
girl, less than twenty years of age and
weighing less than 100 pounds, while
May was man of so years Of age and
very large. He told how the girl had
come to Fairmont from Alabama, that
May had induced her to work for him.
later getting her to go to Clarksburg
where he married her on March IS,
1918. just one year from the date of
the shooting. He went on to tell how
Mrs. May had come to the restaurant
that night from the dance and how
they had engaged in a checker game
and there was apparently no trouble
at all between Mr.. and Mrs. May. La
ter Mrs. May went to change her
clothes and then discovered that all of
her clothes had been taken. She went
to her husband who toll dher that he
would not return her clothes until she
told him where his revolver was. She
went up stairs and got his revolver,
came down TO the restaurant and May
then started after her with a butcher
knife. one foot in length. She fled and
in self-defense shot three times.
The first witness to be called to the