Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1916 — Only Took Two Hours to Fill Trask Jury Box in Frankfort. [ARTICLE]

Only Took Two Hours to Fill Trask Jury Box in Frankfort.

The trial of Giles W. Trask, wealthy Slcircleville farmer and elevator owner, charged with the murder of Mrs. Minerva Alice Evans, a fortune teller known as Mme. Rand, opened in the Frankfort circuit court Monday. Trask is alleged to have killed the woman with a hammer on the night of May 3, after she had repeatedly blackmailed him. A special venire of 110 men was called into court, as difficulty in obtaining the jury was expected. Oniy 34 veniremen were examined and the jury box was filled in two hours’ time. In its opening statement the state said it would e.ndeaver to show that the murder was unprovoked and the most brutal ever committed in the history of the county. -