The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-25

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gun. We shall satisfy the jury before we
have finished the evidence that the gun
from which the bullet was fired on this
night was twelve gauge gun.
The house, which is located next,
easterly from the Prawda house is in
habited by man named Clarence Moxey,
who in the neighborhood Of a fortnight
before had been cunning. He possessed
twelve gauge gun, aud at the conclu-
sion of his days sport he took the gun
apart and put it in his wagon, placed
his dog upon it and started home. On
reaching home he put his horse in the
barn and leaving the gun in the wagon
started to the house of his father-in- law,
Abram G. Geroux. Passing by the
southerly end of his orchard he saw a
man standing about seventy-fve feet
from the road. He spoke to him and as
certained that
1t Was Prawda.
Thence going directly to Geroux's
house, he returned inside of twenty
minutes, and on looking for his gun
found it was gone. The same night he
received polite invitation from the re-
spondent to go cunning with him, but
stated that he was unable to do so owing
to the fact that his gun was gone. There
which will later appear in the testimony.
Two wads which viii fit the shell used
in twelve gauge gun, and which had
evidently been fired, were found, one un-
derneath the kitchen window and one
fifteen feet from that point, by the
officers the day after the shooting. In
Prawda's ammunition box were also
found box of ten gauge shells and
several Goose wads which would fit a
twelve gauge gun, and further bullet
of exactly the same size, weight and
character as the bullet which was shot
ON the night in question. The bullet was
evidently run in hand mould, and such
a mouldsswas at least formerly owned by
the respondent. The murdered woman
was undoubtedly standing between the
window and the shelf at the time when
she received the injury, and from the
position of the lamp and the location OF
the chimney evidently had the lamp In
her hand at the. time. She was short
| woman, and it was SO 10 inches from
| the sole of her foot TO the angle of the
mouth where the bullet entered. We
| shall show the jury where are blood
stains on the floor of the chamber be-
tween the shelf and the window, and
| how the blood is present around the foot
of the bed in the cham Der and on certain
of the pillows and clothing. We shall
also call their attention to portion of
| the muscle which was blown from the
| cheek of this woman and affixed to
| picture which rested on the shelf just
| mentioned. Two days after the shooting
| the woman was removed to the lower
room on the first floor where,she died. The
| wound was in very difficult position
| for treatment owing to the destruction of
| the tissues and to the large amount of
| inflammation which was occasioned by
| this brutal, cruel tearing of the flesh and
muscles by the, bullet, and TO the great
| shock done to her system, and was in
place where the formation of pus almost
| Invariably follows. The doctor who was
| called was constant in, his attendance
| from that time out, but noticed very
| soon indications which plainly show a
| formation of pus and the introduction
| of this poisonous element into the
woman's system. The stitches which
| were taken in the wound on the right
cheek broke out in two or three days,
| there was constant and in creasing flow
of pus, and shortly thereafter indications
| followed which proved conclusively that
blood poisoning had set in. 1t became
necessary in the course of a few days to
remove the broken pieces of the jaw be-
cause their presencethere simply afforded
| better opportunity for the secretion of
! pus. Nourishment was given by the
mouth so long as the patient was able to
endure it, and afterwards by the rectum,
| but in spite of all care which common
professional knowledge and skill could
afford the woman failed steadily and
| after great suffering and agony, on the
| 18th Of Decem per Of last year, died. An
autopsy was performed upon the body of
| the deceased which disclosed the fact
that every organ of the body was in a
/ normal, healthy contion, and which es-
| tablishes the further conclusion that the
state will draw the in premises that the
injury and the injury alone, was what
| l. = l. Dec Il
| from the water closet on that fatal night
/ he says he saw what he took to be the
| figure of man, which afterward proved
| to be telegraph pole, located some 1870
| feet from the point he saw it, namely,
| the end of the barn. Diligent search was
made by the people who came to the
house that night for
Footprints or Tracks
which would indicate the presence of any
person on the premises on the night in
the same side of the road on which the
house is located, was a large plot of
plowed ground. Snow had not fallen at
this time Careful scrutiny was made OF
this spot, but no tracks were observed on
that pIowed ground that night. On the
other side of the road is a wide open field
and no obstacle of any kind IS there to
interfere with human vision for several
hundred yards in every direction.
We shall demonstrate to the jury the
fact that whoever fired the shot must
have been standing within short dis
lance of the house, and discharged it
with deliberate design, and of course
that the killing was unlawful; and also
that the respondent was outside of the
house at the time the shootingshappened,
and on the side where is located the win
dow through which the bullet went on
it's cruel mission.