Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Jurors Selected in H.C. Winnes Trial, 1921, Harlan Co. Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:32 AM Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 24, 1921 3 Jurors Needed To Complete Jury To Try Dr. Winnes Up To 2 O'clock This Afternoon Only Nine Men Had Been Accepted -- Another 50 Talesmen May be Necessary. Special to The News. Harlan. Jan. 24. -- At 2 o'clock this afternoon a total of nine men had been accepted by both sides and further efforts to try Dr. H.C. Winnes, former state veterinarian, charged with the murder of Miss Lura Parsons, Pine Mountain Settlement school teacher, were again postponed. The entire morning was used trying to secure the four additional men needed with the total of eight that had been accepted up until Saturday night. It has been reported that nine had been accepted up to that time, but this was an error caused by a misunderstanding. It is thought this afternoon if the special venire of 100 talesmen, summoned Saturday is exhausted without the three jurors secured needed to complete the jury it may be necessary to go out of the county for another venire of 50 talesmen. However, this is only a conjecture advanced by several county officials who declared such an emergency possibly might arise. Because of the delay in securing the jury hearing of evidence in the case my not start before late Tuesday or Wednesday morning as it is figured it will require the balance of today and part of Tuesday to secure the jurors needed. Old and Young Appear for Service. Old men and young appeared for service on the jury with W.S. Kelly, aged 80, as the eldest. There were a number of youths just past the eligibility age. Mr. Kelley was excused because his age exempts him under the Kentucky law. The best legal talent available in Eastern Kentucky is participating in the trial. Special Prosecutor Byrd, employed by the Pine Mountain Settlement School through a fund raised by public subscription to assist District Attorney J. Grant Forester and his brother, County Attorney J.R. Forester, is the man who is credited with breaking up the Breathitt county feuds through his prosecutions of the feudests and who sent Curt Jett, Beach Hargis and Tom White to the penitentiary for life. ______________________________