The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W. Va.
Tuesday Morning, December 3, 1912

JUROR IN THE CASE OF
SIDNA ALLEN DROPS DEAD

Excused After Selection Because of Organic Trouble and Was at Depot Waiting for Train.

Wytheville, Va., Dec. 2. --The second trial of Sidna Allen, this time on an indictment charging him with the murder of Commonwealth's Attorney William M. Foster was begun in the Wythe county circuit court here today. A jury was secured at the morning session, the jurors coming from various parts of the state. The list follows:

S. Brook Pierce, farmer, Culpeper county.
R. P. Gill, merchant, Orange county.
Thomas A. Williams, real estate, Fairfax county.
G. T. Long, farmer, Page county.
James Madison, teacher, Orange county.
R. P. Dudley, merchant, Fairfax county.
C. H. Foard, merchant, Fairfax county.
C. E. Graves, farmer, Page county.
C. C. Greiner, farmer, Orange county.
Ambler Yowell, farmer, Fairfax county.
J. C. Hunter, farmer, Fairfax county.
E. B. Hopkins, farmer, Rockingham county.

W. C. Seibert, of Luray, who was summoned here as a prospective juror, dropped dead at the depot here today of apoplexy as he was about to take a train to return to his home. He had been selected as a juror, but later had informed Judge Staples that he was suffering from an organic trouble which might bother him in the discharge of his duties and the judge excused him.