Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-15 | Page 10 | Boys on Trial for a Murder

BOYS Oil TBI FOR S MURDER Twin Falls, Ida., Nov. 14. Considerable Con-siderable difficulty was experienced here in the choosing of a jury to try the case of Harold and Lynn Lovelace, aged 12 nnd 11 years, respectively, held for the murder, August 15, last, of Professor F. T. Hamill at his ranch 40 miles south of Twin Falls. All day Monday and until 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the regular vonire of 30 men and three special venires totaling 95 men were examined beforo the 12 were finally Impaneled. General Gen-eral reluctance to serve on such a case was evidenced. The boys with their mother and stepfather, A'. J. Penewell, sat in court throughout. The boys were restless, but did not seem to un- dorstand the significance of tho proceedings. pro-ceedings. The boys havo been confined in the county jail since tho day of their arrest, ar-rest, August 20, six days after the younger boy at tho command of the older, shot Hamil at his homo, with his own gun, according to the confession confes-sion of the boys, whilo they were robbing rob-bing his home of provisions. Tho story told by them and the officers of-ficers who trailed them on their wild race of six days following the shooting, shoot-ing, with Hamlll's horse, wagon, provisions pro-visions and a dozon guns taken by them from houses along their route, across sagebrush, up and down almost impassable canyons, stirred tho community com-munity to its depths. Five witnesses, of the 26 subpoened, testified this afternoon, oo