The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

Frank E. Roberts, OF BrunswlcK, was
accepted.
william D. Libby was challenged per-
emptorily by the defense.
Ernest G. True of New Gloucester had
not read the newspaper accounts extern
siveiy and was accepted.
James S. Hannafofd was challenged
peremptoriIy by the defense.
Archie S. 'Corseley was peremptorily
challenged by the State.
RueI A. Dodge was challenged perenp-
torily by the defense.
Charles H. Young's opinion would
affect his Judgment he thought.
Horace g. Jordan was challenged for
cause by the defense.
Charles P. Morrison, OF Harpswsll was
accepted.
Reuben Higgins was challenged for
cause by the defense.
Frederick Winslew, of Portland, was
challenged for cause by the defense.
[ Albert A. NiekersoB, OF Portland, had
not read the newspaper accounts thor
ushly nor formed any opinion. He was
accepted.
Ira F. Tibbetts, of Deering. was chal-
lenged peremptorily by the defense.
Fred A. Clongh, of Falmouth, was &C
cepted and the jury WAS finally COM
plete.
But after a brief consultation Mr.. CHASE
annouced that the respondent challenged
peremptorily Lyman B. True. who was
told to step aside. Percival Greeley, of
OtisfieId, was accepted in his place.
The respondent offered a peremptory
challenge to Royal E. Hudson.
Albert. Orr was peremptorily challenged
by the defense, but Judge Bonney OBJ
iected and stated that the law ssof 'S7 al
| lowed 90 peremptory challenges during
the empannelling of the jury ard two
afterwards. The defense had already
challenged two that had been accepted.
County Attorney True said that there
could be NO question as to Judge Bon
| ney's Interpretation of the law, but the
prosecution would offer no objection to
| the challenge, and Albert Orr was told
| to step aside.
Charles M. Chase, of Freeport, does
| not take daily paper and had formed
| no opinion that would affect his judg-
ment. He was accepted. The jury thus
being finally madelconiplete the Judge
appointed as foreman Mr.. Roberts of
/ Brunswick. The jury is as follows:
Freeman ". Plummer, of Brighton; Ed
mund S. Walker, Of Harrison; Charles
NJ Chase, of Freeport; Albert r. Hawkes..
of Windham; William E. Winslow, of
| Falmouth; John E. Church, of Harps-
we'll: Percival Greeley, of Otisfield;
| Frank E. Roberts of Brunswick; Ernest
| 6. True of New Gloucester; Charles 2.
| Morrison, of Harpswell; Albert A. Nick
erson, of Portland; and Fred A. Clougb,
| of Falmouth.
| In all fifteen men were told to step
| aside by the Judge or were challenged
for cause by the defense; fourteen men
were peremptorily challenged by the
| defense: two men were peremptorily
challenged and one for cause by the
State.
During the empanelling Of the jury
Lewis occupied himself in chewing
toabcco and paying the str:ctest attention
to the proceedings. During the recess
that followed he perused one of me stat
ute books with much apparent interest.
| After the recess County Attorney True
opened the case for the government with
a concise explanation of the nature of
| the crime with which the respondent is
| charged. 1t was intended to prove that
| the killing in the present case was muir
| der.
| He desert bed very infinitely the Coburn
house, the rooms on the ground floor,
| the shed extending toward the barn, the
tie-up, on the side of the barn next the
house, and in which Mr.. Coburn was MUIR
| dered. He showed to the jury several
large photographs of the premises. He
also described the Lowell house and FAM
| iIv and Edward Graffam's connection
with them.
The incidents of the day of the murder
and of the murder itself were briefly mar
rated, all of which facts the newspapers
| have repeatedly disclosed to the public.
He closed with the statement that it is
| always the duty of the government to
| state the facts fairly and frankly to the
I
jury.
| One thing. he said. is ap-
parent above all others and that
| is the fact that the murder was
| committed by some one familiar with
| the customs of the household and with
| the premises. There can be no manner
| of doubt but that the death of Byron 6.
| Coburn was cruel, brutal and deliber-
| ate murder. When he entered that tie
| up the first blow was sufficient to have
proved fatal but you will be obliged to
conclude that over his PROSTATE body
with uplifted ak the murderer again and
| again brought down its sharp edge upon
the head of his defenseless victim.
1t has been many years since so horri-
| BILE murder has been known within the
| confines Of Cum erland county. What
must have been the dark thought of this
RESPONDENT as he entered the barn that
uiaht. He goes into that tie-up, starts back