The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-03

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which is two-thirds the distance fror
Yarmouth to Prawda's, Prawda was i
Carter's yard DR.. Hanson must hav
arrived at Carter's about 500 This tim
is further established by George Carter
testimony. Bewteen Prawds's arriva
home from Gerow's until he reache,
Carter's there was thirty or thirty-fiv,
minutes. WEIGH says he was in front O
Prawda's house talking with him ten o
fifteen minutes. Calling it ten minutes
that would leave Prawda twenty O.
twenty-five mintes. But he had to ge
his horse and saddle itrfand get Carter
which must have taken five minutes
So
Prawda Had Only Twenty or Fifteen Min
/ utes
of time at his disposal. But he had
other things to do in that time. He had
to get water, light a lamp, talk with
Mrs. Meyer, as related, go down to the
road to listen for the doctor, etc. How
much time, after all this had been done,
would he have had to go to a distance
and hide gun?
AS to the shooting itself F, Mr.. Seiders
argued that it would have been impossi-
bic for man to have stood as the State
claims Prawda stood and to have fred
the fatal shot. That bullet NAV have
been fired from the lower ground, hit
some hard object on the ground and
thence glanced up through the window.
true, such an occurrence would be a
strange one: but there are many facts
which Gtra ncror hon Gots
Mr.. Soldiers closed at five minutes after
eleven O'Clock, with a comprehensive
summing up of the case for the defence.
In all he spoke five hours, covering with
great thoroughness every portion of the
testimony which could be OF advantage
for his client.
After a short recess
Attorney General Powers
began his argument for the government.
This is not the first time that Mr. Powers
has appeared before an audience in this
city. He took prominent part in the
Republican State convention of 1883,
which met here; but was not largely at
tended by Portland people. There was
general interest to hear him yesterday
in the address which, as afterwards was
shown, was not to fall short of the high
expectations of his friends.
Mr.. Powers began by congratulating
the jury upon the approaching close of
the long trial. The State had done
what it could to limit the proceedings,
dwelling only upon the material points,
This was serious matter, and should
be considered in serious way. For
what were the mem beers of the Jury
brought here from various localities?
Not that this man should have or lose
his liberty. Not that the attorneys
should gain petty professional triumphs
object was to find the truth. That was
what jury. trials were for. In his argu-
ment he should not cover all the ground
passed over by the defense. Through all
that maze of irrelevant matter brought |
in by the defence, the good sound sense
of the jury would go straight to the |
marrow. of the matter. They of course
prisoner, but they should be mindful |
also of the duty they owed to society. |
The prosecuting counsel are not the |
State. The State is the entire body |
polite, your neighbors, your families at A
home, yourselves. You sit here, gem
tlemen of the jury, to enforce the laws
that you yourselves have made through
not seek to punish the innocent, but to
bring to justice
The Man of Blood and Violence
hat the innocent, the aged and weak
nay sleep in peace. Since the State has
been represented as arrayed with all it's
your attention to what the State does.
n the first place man cannot be brought
20 trial until grand jury of his country
men have decided that he should be
ried, he is then entitled to see list of
III who testify against him before the
,rand jury; he is allowed $150 towards
laying for his counsel and the payment
# all his witnesses. When the Jury is
icing selected he has, twenty-five peremp-
DRY challenges. Moreover, the moment
le is put on trial the State throws about
i'm the presumption of innocence. 1t
S also presumed that he is of good char
cter, and the State cannot attack it so
ong as he is content to rest upon this
resumption. Moreover, if the State
links any mistake has been made ii
he trial it has no appeal If you fire.,
his man he goes for all time so far a {
his proceeding is concerned. But if thi
risoner conceives that he has bee
in any particular, he may tax n
is case to the Supreme Court of til e
tate, and if three of the eight juds lis
ecide that he has not had his RICH ses
hey will order new trial u.s.
Speaking of circumstantial eyiden
IL. Powers said that murderers never ce,
ended to leave traces. But the euer in.
TVS of truth were always against tn. ma
human witnesses might err; but em.
ever could. Every fact was conditio act.
n those that preceded and succe, Jne6
!. Whatever conclusions edeC
elders may have come Mr.
) to the effect of circums t.
al evidence in the case of Knight itan
life murderer, l have no doubt that thu
night himself, after thirty-seven Mr.
thin the walls of Thomaston ha year
1ubt whatever of it's binding ef IS M
here are but two questions in this feet
as Mrs. Meyer murdered; and did case
'isoner at the bar do it? Around tn
vo questions cluster every ma thes
ct, and when Won have found til terra
yer to one you have found the e an
, the other. If this act was deli .nswe
berat
the prisoner did it., it was deli
Mr.. Powers said he had been peraCe
know what the theory of the luzzle'
as. Apparently they believed t deIenc
bof