The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-21
No Testimony Before Monday.

remain for the state and defense.
No Testimony Before Monday.
1t now appears quite improbable
that the case will be so far progressed
as to permit taking any testimony
before Monday. On the contrary there
is a chance that the jury may not ac-
tually be selected until the first of
next week. 1t seems almost impossi-
BILE to find a man who has not heard
of the case and who has not, to some
extent, formed an opinion concerning
it, or who is not in some other manner
disqualified to serve.
Judge Robert Heizer has issued a
call for more jurors to report here
Friday morning. The witnesses have
beenf excused with instructions to re-
turn Monday morning. Altho great
difficulty is being experienced, it is
believed that twelve men will even
tually be selected to try the case. None
of the original seventy-fiye have been
selected for sure. If a jury has not
been obtained by Friday night the ex-
animation will be resumed Saturday,
it was said.
Much Interest In Case.
Interest in the case, which had
waned during the year of continu-
ances, is reviving as the hour ap-
spread attention the case is attracting
is expected to bring hundreds of per-
sons to Lyndon.
The star witness for the state prob
ably will be Maurice McNeill, former
assistant attorney general. 1t was
McNeill who conducted the investiga-
tions at Maple Hill following the find
ing of the bones of Reuben Gutshall
in a gunny sack in shed near the
liveryman's former home. MCNEIL
himself welded a spade in digging up
the earth around the old livery barn,
where the remains alleged to be those
of John Woody, a farmer boy, and
William Ringer, a peddler, were dis
covered.
Expect Some Surprises.
The defense is expected to spring
some surprises. 1t now seems doubt
full whether the testimony of Mrs.
Loretta Fowler. on whose account a
continuance was granted last spring
because she was confined in the state
hospital at Topeka. will be taken. Mrs.
Fowler was released from the hospital
June 80. 1t is probable that the depo-
sition of John Bolin of California will
be taken. The search thru several
states for Bolin, who is alleged to have
seen John Woody several months after
the farmers supposed deatn' was
spectacular feature of the case.
1t was learned that the foreman OF
a ranch in Arkansas City had been
asked by one John Anderson for job.
He gave as reference John Bolin,
whom he said he knew in Maple Hill.
The foreman did not have job for
him, so the story goes, and Anderson
went on down to Texas. Some time
later the foreman was talking to Bolin
and told him of the incident
That must have been John Ander-
son Woody" Bolin is quoted as saying.
Went to Fort Worth.
! c. E. Carol, one of Kings attorneys,
went to Fort Worth looking for Bolin,
returning the night before the case
came up in Lyndon. On the strength
of his statements a continuance was
granted. He then went to California,
where he took Bolin's deposition, it
was said.
Carol is claimed to be one of the
most efficient oSs-eXaminerS in Kan
sas. J. ]. Schenck, of Topeka, also an
attorney for King, is reputed to be the
best criminal lawyer in the state.
However strong the circumstantial
evidence against the former liveryman
may be, it is certain that no man
charged with a crime was ever more
ably defended.