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Show " I'll I IMWi '11'iHHiiH H'lMIIPIM "Hi I II JURY CHOSEN TO . HEAR SEflRLE CASE Husband and Wife Charged With Murder of Mother and Trial Begins DEADWOOD, S. D., March 26. A jury of ten fanners and two laborers was selected yesterday and taking of testimony begun in the trial 'of Mr. and Mrs. George Searle, charged -with the murder of Mrs. Hilda Neamy, mother of Mrs. Searle, whose charred 'body was found In the Neamy apartment apart-ment furnace at Lead, December 7, last. Dr. V. R. Hodges, county coroner, was the only witness examined and his testimony was to be continued today. I The body of the woman was found in the furnace, head foremost, with the arms folded over her breast, he said. Tho woman's clothing had been neatly folded nnd laid away on a chair In the basement. He said the waist and skirt had distinct blood stains. In the base-j mont also was an axe which the wit-nses wit-nses said Mr. Searle had told him he had used to kill chickens. The face of the woman, he said, was not contorted. The woman's scalp had been burned away and examination examina-tion of the skull, he said, showed a blood clot beneath the skull which he declared could only have been caused by a blow from a blunt instrument before be-fore death. He said the Inner surface of the- skull had been stained with blood and that the heat of the furnace could ,not have caused this. The body was found by Mrs. Searle, the doctor testified, and said Mrs. Searle had called the officers and had expressed the opinion her mother had committed suicide by crawling into the furnace. oo |