The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-02-09
Jury Was Secured
This Morning in
Quick Time.
WIFE CASE FIRST
Defendant is Very Certain
That He Will Get
Off.

zsick Bostic, on trial today for the
murder of his wife and her lover, Joe
Spadafore, is clean-cut little man,
with sharp .shrewd eyes. He waited
quite patiently in court from nine un-
I'll. eleven this morning for jury to
be drawn from panel which quail
ned within an ohnr from only "a ju-
rors. After q little delay on the part
OF the attorneys, who each Struck OFF
four names, the following men took
tehtr places in the box: @. L. King,
ID. L. Vincent, G. s. McElroy, George
o. Tate, q. i. Ice, j. Fl. Bainbridge,
l.. a. Prickett, William Fast, e. +.
Huibert, A. A. Vincent, w. E. Michael
and @. M. tSturm.
The court room was well filed with
spectators and the assembly compris-
ed an assortment of all hypes of hu-
manity form the mildly curious to the
Intensely interested from near rela-
lives TO friends and strangers. Among
distinguished visitors woh appeared
as audience were Attorney Charles
Powell Frank Raymond and Postmas-
ter Holt.
Tailor Buckley, who at first kept the
Lowe caleld for the man indicted by
the grand jury for the murder and
Bostic walked briskly up to the desk
and stood at q respectful distance
Ord peladed Mot Guilty" He was
Then seated next his attorney, NJ. M.
Neely, and soon was engaged in close
conversation with him. Attorney
Harry Shaw and Assistant Prosecut-
ing Attorney Charles e. Miller sat at
She opposide side of the big table and
also engaged In conversation.
It's conceded by most persons who
ere interested in bringing o proper
verdict from the lips of an especially
HteEn hiking jury that Bostic,s trial
IA be ono Of unusual interest, owing
. She faet that two Of the cieyerest
l11yers in this state will battle their
N1t5 ag1tnst the man already con
damned 70 the death chair by the gem
pEa1 public. Attorney Harry shaw
WI aid the State and the State will
be 1epeeSented by Attorney Miller in
the absence, due to sickness, of At
4rney HaggertE. While Bostic is
Ngutte confident taht Attorney. Nicely
VII BEE him through successfully;
for Bostic says he did not commit the
crime Intentionally or with premedi-
tation. but in self defense. az did not
shoot my wife at an. She run in be-
tween me and the gun when defend
edmyseh from Joe, whoy say he have
money enough to have me killed out
right Then say words back and he
try to kin me right then and have
to.shoot or get killed" So says Bos-
tic over and over again.
Nick Bostic shot his wife and her
lover in December, following his re-
turn from the army. According TO
most Of the stories in circulation,
Bostic and his wife never got along
very well, and Joe Spadafore and
Bostic's wife formed an attachment
for one anotehr which could not be
Sbroken. Even before Bostic went to
war the couple had separated and the
wife was living at Montana, presum-
ably as housekeeper for Spadafore.
That Bostic shot his wife and her
lover through jealousy is not consid-
cred possible by court house officials.
as Bostic was enamoured himself with
a beautiful Italian girl named "Ro-
sie," and more concerned about Rosie
than about his wife.
In fact a divorce Of the Bostics had
already been arranged by Bostic and
Suadafore. Rosie has visited Bostic
several times in the county Jail. but
only twice was she admitted under
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