Hart Jury Completed

              yML-^l  X  T4HSA CtTY-COUNTY LIBR  RBfmm wtww  By SUS^NWITT  Of The<3fl^M Staff  PRYOR — Six men and six women  are seated today, ready to decide  the fate of Gene Leroy Hart, the man  accused of murdering three Girl  Scouts at a camp a few miles from  his mother's Locust Grove home.  Anticipation filled the courtroom  late Thursday as the last juror was  selected — spectators suddenly realizing the group of men and women  soon would begin hearing the case so  many had been waiting for.  Jury selection had dragged on for  10 days of tedious questioning.  Hart, 35< is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Lori  Lee Farmer, 8, Michele Guse, 9, and  Doris Denise Milner, 10.  The small girls were raped and  beaten or strangled, and dragged  from a tent where they were  sleeping.  THE CRIME SHOCKED the rta-  com  tion andliaunted people in this small  rural county.  For nearly two years, people here  have talked and wondered and  thought about the murders.  "I think it was the brutality of the  thing that stood out in my mind,"  said one prospective juror when defense attorney Garvin Isaacs asked  him what he remembered most  about the reports of the crime.  "The fact that they were small, to-  taUy^defenseless children," he  continued.  All of the 113 persons questioned  as jurors said they had followed  news accounts and talked about the  case with friends and neighbors.  Many of them were excused after  admitting they had fixed opinions a-  bout Hart's guilt or innocence that  Would be nearly impossible to  change.  All of those persons called as  jurors who lived in Locust Grove  were excused.  Most of them knew Hart, a former  high school football star.  Others knew members of his  family.  Testimony in the case is expected  to begin Monday after alternate  jurors are selected today.  THE JURY PANEL will be housed  at a Pryor motel for the trial, which  is expected to be lengthy.  The jurors are mostly housewives^  and blue collar workers. Their ag^s  range from about 30 to 55.  There are no Indians on the jury,  or none who are recognizable as  Indians.  Hart is a Cherokee Indian, and his  attorneys concentrated on that point  when questioning jurors. 4  They objected when two Indian  women tentatively seated on the  panel were excused.  One woman was challenged by  prosecutor S.M. Fallis Jr., the other  i  I  See HART, page 4A  S