Lt. Carl L. Cook Promoted
Raised in Rank: Lieut. Carl L. Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Cook of 26 Grand Street, Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], has been promoted from second to first lieutenant at Camp Dix. He also has been transferred from Army Signal Service to Air Corps Signal Service. [MHD notation: Jan. 1942]
James Conklin is Arraigned on Murder Charge
Trial Opens at Norwich of Man who is Accused
of Killing Horace Woodward
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Jan. 20 [1918]: The trial of James Conklin, indicted for murder in the first degree, was called before Justice Row, of the Supreme Court, at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Conklin and Lucy Lewis, the woman who accompanied him on his wanderings through this section, are accused of shooting Horace N. Woodward, a North Afton farmer, on the night of Aug. 18. A panel of 150 regular and special jurors has been called from which the twelve men who will decide Conklin's fate will be chosen. The following men are among the jurymen: Michael Cahill, L.D. Brown, Fred Welch, Charles P. Scully, George Waters, E.E. Wilsey, William Smith, Frank Thorp, Fred Grover, Edwin Lawton, P.L. Brooks, L.J. Siller, Curtis Rathbun, Archie McNeil, Lathan Crandall, Floyd Fowlston, Oscar Stewart, Luzerne Shattuck, Harvey Stoddard, W.B. Slater, Herbert Salisbury, Edward L. Nash, C.D. Ames, John J. Fern, N.D. Werkheiser, Harvey DePew, Mortimer S. Dimmick. The people's witnesses will include a number of prominent people of this city who heard the confessions made by Conklin and the Lewis woman at the residence of the sheriff. District Attorney David F. Lee, who devoted two weeks, day and night, to the apprehension of Conklin and the woman, appeared for the people, and H.C. Stratton of Oxford will act as the defandant's attorney.
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