The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-01

she remained all night, not retiring al
all.
Witness described the lamps in the
house and the curtain OF the kitchen
window, which covered the upper sash
only, protecting the bird cage, which
hung there. Witness said that in the
| interval before the doctor came she kept
| sending her husband to look for help, to
see if it was coming. All this time the
witness was ministering to her mother,
bathing her face frequently, and using
her apron for this purpose This apron
Nh. Chase presented, and after it had
been identified by the witness it was put
| in evidence.
There was mortgage of $500 on her
husbands place, held Ey Mr.. Simon
Sturtevant. The interest was due every
seventh of May, and was paid last year.
had on hand twenty dollars and she had
some over five dollars. Her husband
worked for the Grand Trunk, getting a
dollar and twenty cents a day, pay day
being the twentieth of every month.
Witness was accustomed to see her hus-
bands ammunition box, and had often
seen one bullet there which had been
| there ever since she had been married to
| him.
Mr.. Chase here showed the bullet,
| which had already figured in the case.
Witness thought this looked like the
bullet although it did not seem to be SO
black
Her husband had always owned a gun.
| but only one. She had never known OF
his having another. He also kept dog.
1t was pup intended for hunter, and
not watch dog. This dog would bark
| when it saw another dog, but did not
bark at persons. On the night OF the
tragedy the dog was shut up in the barn,
| on the hay NOV. This barn the witness
| went on to describe.
In regard to the windows OF the house,
witness said that there were on theslower
sashes of all the windows, Including 1.-The
| kitchen window and the window OF her
mothers room, screens of s.ordinary cot
| ton mosquito bar.
| Prior to the moment when her mother
gave her the bag containing her money,
the witness. did not know that her moth
er had any amount of money on hand.
She had always had the idea, from what
| her mother said, that her money was
kept with her brother, John Meyer. She
knew that her mother had bonds and
| bank account.
and the Attorney General began ques-
| tioning fist in regard to the witnesses
knowledge of her mothers bonds and
money in the bank. When the will was
made witness had learned these facts.
Her mother had always spoKen.as If her
brother John had the money. She and
her husband never talked over her
mothers property.
The Attorney General then branched
off to the dog.
How old was that pup"
About year DID,"
"Was he not year old last June, Mrs.
Prawda."
"He might have been, we bought him
in September"
And he slept in the hay NOW at the
right of the barn door,"
aHe slept in the hay NOW. can't tell
! Just where
aYou say that you heard the noise out
side the Window"
"YeSh
"How far outsider"
| 81 could not say exactly"
| "It sounded howl"
Like an explosion"
"Of a gum"
II could not say"
"What did your husband say?"
"He said it sounded as if a stove had
exploded"
When you went up to your mothers
apartments after the third light was
lighted, did you go tirstF"
II pushed ahead as the match lighted
up
$50 you went first to the door of your
mothers ROOM"
"Yesn
what did you do?n
81 led mother over the doorway and
seated her in a chair by the table in her
| kitchen"
"She said what?"
go for Jacob and the doctor.
| The Attorney General then questioned
| briefly as to the cloth which the witness
! took down from the Darkroom window
which she opened.
Witness did not see her mother that
evening from the time she came down at
supper time until after she was shot.
She was accustomed to go to bed at vari-
Gus times from 7.30 O'Clock until 10.
| She usually brought her clock down to
be wound, but had not brought it down
| that night.
Questioned as to the conversation
which she had with her mother on first
coming home that day, witness said that
about all the conversation she had with
her mother that evening related to the
dog.
Mr.. Chase resumlng the redirect exami-
nation questioned the witness as to the
whereabouts OF her husband from the
time he returned from Gerow's until he
went to Carter's. The witness said
positively that he was at home all the
| time.
Here closed Mrs. Prawda"s testimony.
Mrs Blanche Moxcey was called next.
| She was at the Prawda house on the
| night after the shooting and was in the
| kitchen when WEIGH, the Yarmouth ex-
pressman, who had by this time returned
| from Yarmouth, came in. AS WEIGH came
in he went along to Prawda and said:
"Why Matt,
Could Not Understand Word
you said, and 1 told you to go back into
the house and get your wife to come out
and speak TO me-"
Witness remem bered the Saturday, two
weeks before the shooting, when her
| husband returned from the cunning trip.
| There was a lamp on the kitchen table
and she was at home up stairs. When
she saw her husband return, and in
stead OF, coming into the house, go down
the road towards Yarmouth and. her
| fathers she followed. AS she started out
she saw Mrs. Moxcey about the house, on
the culvert, standing there. Witness
was then just going down over the can't
of the hill. Mrs. Moxcey is her husband $
mother. and lives ON cross road. Wit
ness saw no one else besides Mrs. Moxcey
about the house. The light was between
two windows. The buggy was left with.
in twenty-five feet of the house, and
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