The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
800 READY TO
TAKE STAND IN
MURDER TRIAL
RushyiIIe Farmer Accused
in Poisoning Death of
Third Wife.
DEFENSE SUBPENAS $50
Additional Venire May Be
Necessary to Obtain
Jury Today.
DEFENSE SUBPENAS ESQ
BY CHARLES CARLL
Times stan Correspondent

GREENFIELD. Id, July Posi-
bility of calling of an additional
panel Of talesmen from which TO
complete a jury to try George Kolb,
Rushvilie farmer, on a first degree
murder charge, was seen in Han
cock --cuit court here today as the
Initial panel dwindled to thirteen
prospective jurors.
DefepSe attorneys we're to resume
uuesv.oning of talesmen this after
noon and said they hoped the pres
ent panel would supply a jury by
adjournment of court this after
noon.
Kolb is charged with murder of
his third wife, Mrs. Edna Dagler
Kolb. For the crime the state is
asking the death penalty.
Trial of Kolb, who also is charged
in the Rush circuit court with the
murder Of his second wife, Mrs.
Maggie Kolb. in 1927, is expected to
take two weeks.
So witnesses for State
!, The state will produce fifty wit
sssses to support the charge that
Id administered poison to his
d wife in quinine capsules dur
n Illness.
~ On the other hand, defense attor-
neys will build up a case to show
In what various other manner Mrs.
Kolb might have been a victim Of
the poison that was found In her
body after her death last fall. and
$50 witnesses have been subpenaed
10 get to this point and testify to
Kolo's character in the community
in which he lived
Kolb, 55, is a heavily-built and
heavily-featured man with iron
gray hair and dark, bushy eyebrows.
He is smooth shayen and wears a
neatly-pressed gray suit.
His only interests seem to be in
moves OF his attorneys, and states
counsel and the dOings of his two
sons and daughter as they sit be-
side him. He converses frequently
With John H. KiplingeT, chief de-
tense attorney, and leans forward
when states attorneys raise a legal
question in the examination Of pros
pective jurors.
Children Beside Him
Seated beside him are his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Bessie True of Spiceland,
and his two sons. William, 10, and
Raymond. Is.
In questioning jurors, the defense
stresses the question of whether the
veniremen would vote for acquittal
if they were shown Mrs, Kolb died
by any other manner than her hus-
bands hand.
Defense counsel promise ''sensa-
tional developments" in their case
and indicate they expect to reveal
Mrs. Kolb's death was due to some
action far from the states conten-
ton.
The third Mrs. Kolb was employed
st Kolb's home as a housekepeer
shortly after the death of Kolb's
second wife. She is said to have
been a domestic type of woman,
nearing so.
Married Five Months
They were married five months
before her death. NeighborS will
testify in the defense case there
was no inkling of trouble between
the couple, and her death came as
a complete surprise to Kolbs friends
and associates. The defense will
show, too, that Kolb was broken in
his grief over his third wife'S
dealt.
Kolb, a regular church attendant,
admittedly was in poor financial
condition prior to his third mar
rage, and his eighty-acre farm,
eight miles from Rushville, was
rnortgaged heavily.
The defendants first wife, Mrs.
Louise Kolb, mother Of the children
VINO are supporting their father in
his fight against the electric chair,
was found dead in bed seven years
ago. Her death has been under in
veStigation.