Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-27
PRAWDA TRIAL.
Testimony Against the Prisoner
Friday at Portland.
Mrs. Prawda Has Presented a PitabIe
Sight Throughout the Trial.
Mrs. Meyer Supposed Her Wounds we're
Caused by Lamp Explosion.

PORTLAND, Jan. 26.-In the Prawda trial
Friday morning DR.. II. H. C. Hanson was
recalled and said he gave pieces of the jaw
bone removed from Mrs. Meyers mouth to
Constable Blake.
John Welch, expressmap, testified that
he passed Prawda's house On Il e night of
the shooting. Prawda was walking up and
down the road crying. Prawda said his
mother had been shot and he wanted the
witness to 20 up stairs, but he would not.
Charles w. Gerow testified to going to
The house with DR.. Hanson and searching
for the bullet, and being present when it
was found in the next room having passed
through the partition. The bullet was pro-
duced in court and G row identified it.
That evening he went t. get DR.. Burbank.
On his way he nearly drove over man
whom he did not know at the time, but
whom he has since as ,ertained to be Mr..
Kinds. This man had paper 10 his hand
aud gun over his shoulder.
Kinds has since moved away from Yar-
mouth and witness did not know his where
abouts.
Thi, sclosure made decide sen sation
in the court room, since it was drawn out
on crosse examination.
George E. Carter and John II. Carter,
brothers, testified to being at Prawda's
house that night. Geo. Carter found the
bullet and gave it to Dr. Hanson.
John j. Meyer, son Of the murdered
woman, testified that he was called to the
Prawda house on the night Of the shooting.
After he was admitted to see his mother
he gave him two packages, one containing
s44D and the other $l2. She took these
packages from un Ter her pillow.
These packages were exhibited in court.
T ey were two small bags about six inch ,s
.quare, made of bed licking canvas, and
have long strings. Witness said that on the
Sunday before the shooting bis mother had
arranged to leave Prawda's house and come
10 live with him. She would not have been
1t the Prawda house on the day of the
shooting if the weather had not been rainy.
After the decease of his mother, the wit
ness was present when her trunk was ex-
.mined. There was q bank book with
$1,000 on it, three government bonds, each
If $3.50, and various papers. Mrs. Meyer
vas in the habit of keeping considerable
money by her, and was accustomed to con-
suit witness on money matters. She had
given witness various sums at d,ffere mt
times to take care of. When he talked
with his mother the next day after the
,hooting she told him she did not think she
could recover. His mother had formerly
lived at Prawda's house, but had left there
N December, 1892, because the house was
700 cold. -.-
At the afternoon session John J. Meyers
examination was continued, but the only
lew fact brought cut was the fact that Mrs.
Meyers never knew she had been shot, but
continued in the belief that a lamp had ex-
ploded up to her death.
Calvin l.. Lennell described his vi.it to
the Prawda house on the night of the mur-
Ter. He is brother-in law of John J.
Meyer, the preceding witness. He had,
,bout week before the tragedy, found two
cartridges, one loaded and the other empty,
.cross the railroad, not far from Prawda's
iouse. He carried them into the house on
lsked Mrs. Prawda if her husband had any
Use for them. They were ~ gauge shells
The witness had seen the cartridges on the
sindow sill before and after the shooting
Mrs. La,inia Lennell, wife of the pre-
.eding witness, testified that she was at
Prawda's after the shooting. Prawda swore
md told her TO wash the lamp the one which
aad blood on it. When Prawda was ar
rested he threw Ii, cap on the floor and
,aid II have never had days luck since
came into this family"
Mrs. Catherine Carey, youngest daughter
# the murdered woman, testified that her
mother told her it was the lamp that ex-
lloded. She identified the cash bags as the
property of her mother. She said her
mother wore them between her skirts.
Thomas d. Carey, husband of the pre-
ceding, was the next witness. This is the
nan whom Pfawda accus of being the
murder rer. He had asked Prawds about
he shooting and Pfawda had told him the
same story he told to others. Pfawda said
,e '.wouli like TO find the man who did 1t
and he would mark him as he had marked
his mother" After that, Prawda said: "If
[ am arrested, don't swear on me-" On
ross examination the witness testified that
he had ouarrelled with Praw da, because the