The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-30

Constable Blake was called and con-
firmed this testimony as tc' the weighing
| of the bullets.
Mr.. L. r. Cook, of Yarmouth, who
weighed the bullets, was called. He
said
He Weighed the Bullets.
The round, perfect one weighed Troy
ounce, or 4S0 grains. The other bullet
weighed forty grains less, or 40 grains
The silver (Which was found in Mrs.
Meyers manteD weighed just seven
grains. Thus the perfect bullet weighed
thirty-three grains more than the other
bullet and the silver. The scales, wit
ness said, were sensitive to tenth of a
grain. William H.Soule, of portland,
a gunsmith for fifteen years, was called
rife balls, etc. Mr.. True first handed
to him the bullet found in Prawda's am
munitlon box, and he describedsit as a
twelve-gauge ball, apparently cast in a
twelve-g gauge mould, although showing
evidence of hard usage. 1t could be fired
out OF twelve-ga uge breech loading
shot gun easily. The difference between
that the latter would be eonical, and
after firing would show creases made
by the firing of the rifle.
Then the witness was shown the bull
let which killed Mrs. Meyer He said
it was not rife ball, but musket ball,
and had apparently been shot out of
gun and through some hard substance.
The ball, although it had seen hard
usage, looked as though it might have
been like the other bali originally. Then
the caps found in Prawda's ammunition
box were shown. Witness said they
could be used either on a ten or twelve
gauge shell. The wads found IN the
yard were then shown to witness, and he
said that they had evidently been fired
out of a gun, and were twelve-gauge
wads.
The wads found in Prawda's ammu-
milton box were then shown to the wit
ness, who said they were 12-gauge wads,
but of different material from the other.
The next witness was Samuel Winter,
OF Falmouth, the bullet maker whom
Prawda had described as Sam Wintern in
speaking to Sheriff Bucknam. Mr.. Win
ter said that he had let Prawda have
some twelve-gauge bullets about two
years ago. Witness had cast them in his
own 1nouids, which he then produced
and showed to the jury.
Witness said that it was about two
years ago in his shop in Yarmouth that
Prawda got the bullets, saying that he
wanted to go
Cunning After Raccoons.
Prawda took several bullets, but not
many.
Ellsworth L. Kinds of Yarmouth, who
was living on the Tenney place in Cum
berland, last Novem Der, was next called.
he is the man who was seen with
gun on the road from Yarmouth to Cum
berland by DR.. Geroux on the night of
the tragedy. Kinds is a young man
who belongs to the Yarmouth Rifles, the
local military company. On that evening
he had been drilling, and after the drill
had gone to Joyce's store, whence he
went home, meeting the team carrying
DR.. Geroux, as before described. He had
his rife with him, but did not have any
ammunition and did not fire his rifle at
all that day or night.
Captain Frank A. Hale, of the Var
mouth Rifles, was called and testified
that Kinds, who is color sergeant of
the company, was present that evening
at the drill, and with others received
permission to take rife home for the
Thanksgiving shooting. This establishes
an alibi for Kinds.
Clarence e. Moxcey, who lives near
Prawda's house, testified that last fall
heowned astwelve gauge, smooth barreled,
breech loading, double barrelled shot
gun. A few days before The shooting
of Mrs. Meyer he went cunning at
Princes point with friend named Freye
When it came time to go home he put
the gun in it's case and put it into the
bottom of his wagon. On arriving home
he put his horse in the stable, leaving
the wagon in the yard with the gun
Witness then went to Geroux's for his
wife, who is daughter of Mr.. Geroux.
AS he went along the road, which would
take him past Prawda's house, he saw
a man standing in the field twenty-five
yards from witnesses orchard. He was
standing back to Witness. Witness re-
membering that his buildings were
open, spoke to the man, who replied,
nze prswda whtness then e 60 S
on to Geroux's. Returning from
Geroux's witness went to his wagon to
get his gun, and found it gone. Some
time LATER as witness was passing Praw-
da's house, he saw Prawda. The wit
ness described the interview which took
place as follows: "Prawda asked me if
would go with him. said guessed
s some one ea hooked ii it's said I t sh did
not know. Later, on another day, Praw-
da spoke to witness about the gun, say
ing that he (Prawda) saw him (the wit
ness) on the night the gun was lost.
Prawda explained his presence in the
field by saying he was coming from
work.
Pending the cross examination of the
witness the court adjourned suntil 10
O'Clock this forenoon.