The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-27

and continued in this belief Mr.. Meyer
was very intelligent witness.
Calvin l. Lennell of Yarmouth, was
called and described his visit to the
Prawda house on the night of the
tragedy, in company with Mr.. Meyer,
whose brother-in-law he is. The witness
had worked in Prawda's wood lot before
the tragedy, and about a week before
the tragedy had found
Two Cartridges,
one loaded and the other empty. The
place where he found them was across
the railroad, not far from Prawda' s
house, and back of it. Witness carried
the cartridges into the house, giving
them to Mrs. Prawda saying "Are these
any good for Mat?"
On cross-examination witness said that
the shells which he had found were
twelve gauge. They were in the path
way going into the woods. He had not
found both on the same day. The
loaded one had mark, on the paper, a
pencil. The cartridges were brought in
to the house and kept, first on the win
dow sill and then in Prawda's ammuni-
t1on box. Witness had seen the car
tridges there both before and after the
shooting, but had not noticed their con-
dition.
Another she'll was brought to the
house on Thanksgiving day by Mr..
Meyers son. 1t was ten gauge, paste
board and unloaded. The shell was
given to Mr.. Buckn am.
Witness also stated on cross-examina-
ton that he met John WEIGH, the ex-
pressman, as he and Mr.. Meyer were go
ing towards the Prawda house on the
night of the tragedy. WEIGH had said
to them: "There is something the mat
ter at the house, but can't tell what it
is. That Dutchman is out there on the
street
Running Around Like a Mailman.
He says that mother is shocked or
mother is shot
Mrs. Lavinia Lennell. wife of the pre-
ceeding witness, was called next. She
went to the Prawd a house, the day after
the shooting. Soon after she got there
Prawda said to her with an oath, s" Will
you wash that lamp" Witness replied:
blood on it. Again in the afternoon
Prawda asked to have it washed and
Mrs. John Meyer did it.
There was dog in the kitchen behind
the stove when the witness arrived. She
had seen that dog there before, and it
had barked at her. She had seen it bark
at teams, also.
Witness was in the house of Mrs. John
J. Meyer the day the officers arrested
Prawda and brought him there Prawda
threw his cap on the floor and ran into
the sink room saying with an oath, II
have never had days luck since I came
into this family" On cross-examination
witness said that the dog sometimes
barked at people who were passing and
sometimes did not.
Mrs. Catherine Carey of Yarmouth, the
youngest daughter of Mrs. Meyer, the
victim, but a very different looking
woman from her sister, Mrs. Prawda, was
next called. She is very intelligent,
good appearing woman, who told her
story of the tragedy with force and
directness She went to the Prawda
house the day after the tragedy, and
went directly to her mothers room. One
glance showed the mother lying on the
beG terribly wounded and despatched
with blood The witness gave her
mother one glance, then turned and
went to her mothers kitchen, where
she crouched behind the door and
Gave Way to Grief.
Her sister (Mrs. Prawda) asked her to
control herself as her mother had just
got quieted and the sound of grief would
disturb her. Then the witness went into
another room where her brother was,
and there paced the floor.
While at the Prawda house the witness
had very little conversation with
Prawda. She talked with her mother,
who told her of the affair, the dialogue
being in part as follows:
"Mother, do you think it was the
lamp"
ooh yes, Katy, it was the lamp"
This visit to the Prawda house was
the first the witness had made since
August II, 1892.
The two bags or packets of ticking
were shown to the witness by Mr.. True,
and she identified them as the ones in
which her mother had kept her money,
and which had been worn between her
outer and inner skirts. Witness had re-
paired the strings on one of these bags
at the request of her mother, while the
latter was lying wounded, and had tied
it around her. The bags had previously
been cut off of Mrs. Meyer on the evening
of the shooting
Recurring to conversations with her
mother while the latter was lying
wounded, witness said her mother had
described the event. The mother said
tllab Sue WAS SGduuiuS U6UWeou Ule D6Q
and the mantel with the lamp in her
hand. Suddenly there was
A Blow and Flash,
and then all was dark.
Thomas D. Carey, husband of the pre-
ceding witness, a laborer at the works
of the Forest Paper company at Var
mouth, was called next. He is the one
whom Prawda spoke of as having fired
the shot. He testified that after leaving
the mill on the night in question he
went home. After supper he went to
Parsons store, whence he had gone
directly home. The next day, having
heard of the affair, he went with his
wife to the Prawda house. Fifteen
months before he had lived there
but had ..sbeen back but once, and
that on Sunday, since leav-
ing. When witness reached the Prawa
house on the morning after the tragedy,
he said to Prawda: Where were you
and your dog?" Thereupon the latter told
how he was in the privy when the shot
was fired, and running into the house,
met his wife and said: Annie. for
Gods sake, what is the matter? Is
someone shot, or has stove exploded, or
a lamp busted?