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Alonzo Douglass. of Gorham. was &C.

next, had formed an opinion and was
excluded.
Charles CLAY. of Windham, was chal-
lenged peremptorily by Mr.. Seiders.
Roger A. Foss, of Westbrook, was chal-
lenged for cause by Mr.. Soldiers and
stepped aside.
Samuel Rand, of Standish. was accept
ed. He had not read of the affair in the
papers.
accepted.
George E. Merrill, of Gray, was chal-
lenged peremptorily by the defence.
Albert M. knight, of Windham, was ac-
cepted.
Frank W. Winter, of New Gloucester,
was challenged peremptorily by the de-
Tense.
Daniel Merriman, Jr., of South Harps-
well,was challenged peremptorily by the
defense
Walter K. SWEET, of Falmouth Foreside,
was challenged peremptorily.
Lewis Mcclellan, of Gorham, appeared
to pass muster satisfactorily, hut was
challenged peremptorily by the defense.
was accpeted.
George B. Thurston, of Scarborough,
was accpeted by the defense, but chal-
lenged peremptorily by Mr.. True on be-
half of the State.
Edwin 7. Bowker, of Brunswick, was
accepted.
: James Smith, of Brunswick, was
Hebron Mathew, of Westbrook, was
challenged peremptorily by the defense.
Elbridge o. Tyler, of Pownal, was
challenged peremptorily.
Thomas Fisher, of Portland, was ac-
ceptable to the defense. but the State
challenged him, and he stepped aside.
Charles Moors of OtisfieId, was chal.
lpnOQd ,rtp s1u Nv
Thomas } .Somers, of Portland, passed
muster all right SO far as the defense was
concerned, but the State challenged per-
emptorily.
Simeon l.. Clough, of Cumberland. had
formed an opinion, and II positive one,
about Prawda, so Mr.. Seiders challenged
for cause.
J.Scott Jordan, of Cape Elizabeh, was
satisfactory and took his seat as the
tenth juror.
George A. Jordan. of Westbrook was
accepted.
Seward M. Latham, of Falmouth, was
challenged pereemptorily by the defense.
William E. Bucknam, of Yarmouth
Foreside, had talked about the case
with people of Yarmouth, and was
challenged peremptorily by the defense.
John M. Freeman, of Deering, was
challenged peremptorily by the defense.
Alfred B. Snow, of Harpswell, was
challenged for cause by the defense, as
he had formed positive opinion.
John W. Merchant, of North Yarmouth,
was challenged peremptorily by the
defense.
Andrew J. Wheeler, of Cape Elizabeth,
was acceptable to both defense and State
and made the long sought twelfth juror.
After the counsel for defense had con-
suited and examined the list selected
they decided not to use the two perem-
fNux, III L.. L
Prawda. The jury was therefore accept
Judge Bonney appointed Juror Kicker
foreman. Then clerk Libby began read
ing the indictment, which accuses
Prawda of shooting Mrs. Waldburg Myer,
on November 2Sth, 1853
The proceedings having been brought
to this point
County Attorney True opened the case
for the government.
After definition Of the legal meaning
of the word murder and a description of
the Prawda house and premises which
are in Cum berland near the Yarmouth
line, Mr.. True continued as follows:
In this house three persons were living
on the evening of the 2Sth day, of last
November, Wa1dburg Myer, woman IS
years Of age, Annie, NJ Prawda and
1t had been quiet day in that house
hold, the quiet which preceede the
storm. The day was rainy Novem Der
day. Night had come, night which
| two mem bers of the family would nave
occasion to recall distinctly and remem-
Der long. Mrs. Meyer was native of
| Switzerland and had resided in this
| for bn
death of her husband in 1891, had re-
moved from East Cam BRIDGE Mass, to
Maine. She had passed her time since
coming to this state alternately with her
son John J. Meyer, a resident of Var
mouth, and her daughter, Annie NJ.
Prawda. She possessed what was for a
| woman in her circumstances in life a
considerable amount of property, and
| was in the habit of having considerable
sum of money by her, and this fact must
have been known to him. She ne yer
went away from the house, saw nobody,
had no callers save her son John J..
Meyer and his family, and occupied two
rooms in the upper, story, her bedroom
| being directly over the Kitchen and her
kitchen over the dining room of the
Prawda family. She boarded herself
and paid certain compensation to the
| family below for the rent of rooms.
Annie M. Prawda, one Of the other in
mates of the house, the wife Of the re-
spondent, married him two years ago
and from the time of her marriage to
the present has resided in this house.
| The respondent has been in this country
| for five or six years. First he obtained
employment in the pulp mill at Var
mouth, and after working there was en-
| gagged for time with the Eastern Forge
company in Deering, and for the six
months preceding the murder of Mrs.
Meyer and up to the time of his arrest,
had been at work for the Grand Trunk
Railroad company of Canada as section
| hand. Prawda was man who was ac-
quainted with guns and their use, having
owned several during the past few years,
keeping a hunting dog, snow shoes and
all of the usual equipments which are re-
quired by man who is at all interested
in such a pastime.
There Has Been Difficulty
of more or less Importance between Mrs.
Meyer and Prawda the Sunday preceding
the shooting, and arrangements had been
made for the removal of Mrs: Meyer te
the residence of her son in Yarmouth at
or about the time when the murder was
committed. A will had been made by
Co. l. Il.