Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-11-17
PATH0L0GIST SAYS
SHOT CAUSED Death
Mrs. Helen BOldt Is Only Wo-
man Chosen For Jury Duty
Early This Week

Possibility that the Richard
Farmer murder case might 90 to
the jury today (Friday) was seen
yesterday as testimony and pro-
cedures moved along rapidly in
Judge Tom StahIS Common Pleas
Court after two days had been
spent selecting the jurors.
Five men were called to give
testimony when the trial got un-
derway Wednesday. They were
DR.. Thomas l.. Ramsey, Toledo
pathologist, DR.. II. O. Beeman,
Port Clinton, Deputy Sheriff Myron
Hetrick, and Port Clinton police
men William Robel and Russell
Shinevar.
Chief of Police Jack Shelter was
on the witness stand Thursday
morning, and was being examined
at press time.
Other witnesses were to be call
ed by Prosecutor Rosentreter and
defense attorney Meyer before the
NuoS Soto w iiiS Jul
Deputy Hetrick, one of the first
persons to find Mrs. Noble after
she had been shot, testified the
fatally injured woman stated she
had been shot by Richard Farmer.
Patrolman Robel, who was with
Hetrick when Mrs. Noble was
found lying injured in Madison
Street, told of the circumstances
Of that early Sunday morning of
September "a.
Patrolman Shinevar testified he
had taken photographs for the po-
lice department when an autopsy
was performed September 20 in
the Robinson Funeral Home, Oak
Harbor.
Prosecutor Rosentreter attempt.
cd to enter these photos as eVi-
dence, but the request was denied
by the court after the defense
counsel objected.
DR.. Beeman testified that when
he first examined Mrs. Noble in
Magruder Hospital, she was in
very shocked" condition.
Pathologist Ramsey, WHO per-
formed the autopsy, declared that
death was caused by passage of a
bullet through the vital organs
of the body, and by shock and con-
tinual hemorrhage.
DR.. Ramsey testified that the in
jury was such that the deceased
had no chance of recovery. He
said the bullet entered the left
side of the body, just below the
lower margin of the left breast,
barely singeing the breast about
nine inches below the shoulder
and travelled through the body
slightly downward.
After two days of examinations,
the jury tor the Richard Farmer
murder trial was completed at
4:30 Tuesday afternoon when the
18th juror was selected.
Numerous prospective jurors
had been excused during the first
two days of the trial. The 36th
person examined was chosen as
the 18th juror.
Farmer, 29-year-old West Perry
Street resident, is being tried on
a first degree murder chsSge and
is accused of unlawfully causing
the death of Mrs. Helen Noble, 81.
Madison Street.
Mrs. Noble passed away in Ma
gruder Hospital four days after
she had been shot while walking
in Madison Street with the de-
fendant, on September "a.
Seated as jurors are: Wilbur
Long, Harry FoSs, and Dry Bittner,
Graytown; Clarence BahS. Helen
Boldt and Earl Van Rensselaer,, of
Port Clinton; Earl Pfeiffcr and Os-
car WindiSch, Oak Harbor; Carl
Fader, Elmore; Harold Weppler,
Genoa; Carl Nelson, Curtice; John
l.. Terry, Millbury, and Daniel J.
Pepa, Marblehead.
The trial is being held before
Judge Tom D. Stahl, with Prose
cutting Attorney Myron Rosentre-
ter representing the state and Atty.
Leslie E. Meyer having been ap-
pointed by the court to represent