The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-26

torney True. He was much older man
than the preceding witness, with gray
hair, gray full beard, and mustache,
bright blue eyes and an earnest, positive
manner, raised voice and direct manner
of statement that attracted amused and
pleased attention from the audience. RI
Your full name?" asked Mr.. True.
Augustine Hannibal Burbank
replied the witness.
Your residence?"
yarmouth.
Occupation?"
"a country doctor" daughter from
the audience.)
aWhere were you on the 2sth of last
November?"
7" At home"
Were you called for?"
"I was. -
What did you do?"
went there
.Where?n
Mile and half to one Prawda's in
umberland."
"Whom did you first see?"
Don't remem Der" az
"What did you do?"
went up stairs, and found the pa
tient on a bed"
"What was her condition."
at seemed to be one of DEATH"
what did you do?"
"Tried to avert death by rendering her
condition more comfortable"
"What did you see?"
"Saw a wound on the left side of the
face and another on the right side"
After few more questions Mr.. True
turned the witness over to the defence,
and Mr.. Chase began the cross examina-
ton on the line which he had already
developed at some length in the case of
the Other witnesses, and the object Of
which seemed to be to develop doubt
as to the angle at which the bullet en-
tered the room and struck the patient.
DIR. Stephen Fl. Weeks,
of this city, was next called. He had
been present at the autopsy, which was
made by DR.. John F. Thompson, of this
city. The witness described the condi-
wounds in tine face.
| When the witness was turned over to
| the defense Mr.. Seiders made the cross
examination, dwelling at length upon
| the problem of the DETECTION of bullet
when it strikes and passes through por-
tions of the human body DR.. Weeks
| said that bullets might be DETECTED, the
| round musket bullets being more likely
| to be so detected than rifle balls, and
| spent ball more than bullets going with
| great velocity. The witness thought that
| the bullet would not be likely to be de.
| fiected much in passing the short dis
tance through the woman's face.
Gun shot wounds do not bleed so much
I as wounds made by Il sharp instrument
! The bullet tears instead of GU tting, thus
| tending TO clot the lood No large bioo6
vessels that would be expected to bleed
much, were broken.
A person wounded as Mrs. Myer was
might or might not have fallen wher
| the bullet struck her.
| DIR. John F. Thompson,
of this city, the physician who per
formed the autopsy under the direction
of the authorities, YVES called next tt
autopsy. Although the subject is on,
| involving a high degree of technica
| skill and information, DR.. Thompso,
used plain English, which the jury ant
spectators could readily understand
| The general results Of this autopsy
which had already been referred t.
more or less by the physicians who wer
present, were related ia detail. All tn
| important organs were Iound IN norma
position and condition. After a lucit
and very interesting description of TIL
condition of the victims body, DR.
Thompon expressed the positive opinion
that death was caused by the gun sho
wound
Mr.. Chase cross examined at consider
able length; but no new points of impoI
tance were developed when the hour TO
| the noon recess came.
The forenoon having been devoted t
the medical testimony Mr.. True gave i
new turn in the afternoon by intro
ducing Mr.. Almon A. Srout a young ma
who lives about seventy rods from
Prawda's house. Strout works at Var
mouth but was at home on the 2Sth G
November on account of the illness @
his wife. He was lying in the front roor
of the house when he heard gun sho
from the field i'll the direction Q
Prawda's. His wife also heard it and s
did her mother apd his little boy Wit
ness could fix the time of the shot With