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Show CROWDS ATTEND COPELAND CASE Jury to Be Selected for Trial of Murderer of Anti-Catholic Anti-Catholic Lecturer. Galveston, Texas, Oct, 23. Marshall Mar-shall citizens with and without opposing op-posing counsel, crowded the district court here today for tho opening of the trial of John Copeland of Marshall, Mar-shall, In connection with the killing of William Black, an anti-Catholic lecturer lec-turer in a hotel of that city February 9, 1915. George Tier and George Rayan, two other Marshall citizens, were indicted on tho same charge as Copoland. Harry Har-ry Wynn and Frank O'Loary, who wero among those first held in connection con-nection with the killing of Black, but subsequently were cleared, will be witnesses for Copeland. With a vonire of 500 men summoned, summon-ed, selection of a jury probably will occupy the first few days of the triaL The killing of Black, whose home was formerly at Bellalre, Ohio, took place at Marshall a year ago laBt February. Feb-ruary. Black, with Clarence F. Hall and a 17-year-old girl, Sadie Black whom he had just adopted In Pul-asklo Pul-asklo county, Arkansas, went to Marshall Mar-shall to deliver lectures entitled "Romanism; "Ro-manism; a monaco to civilization." , On tho first night Black directed his talk against tho confessional. He had advertised further to deliver an address against what he alleged to be an oath of tho Knights of Columbia. In tho afternoon of tho second day, February 3rd, four men, Copeland, Tier, Ryan and John Rogers, all said to bo members of the Knights of Columbus, went to his room to ask him not to speak again. A scufflo ensued in which Black and Rogers wore killed and Copeland badly wounded. Testimony at the examining trials showed that both Black and Hall wero armed when tho viBit took placo. Hall appeared boforo the grand jury, but never was indicted. Those cases against Copeland, Ryan and Tier were brought horo on a change of venue. |
