The Somerset reporter., 1903-11-26
SECOND TRIAL.
STATE vs. ALEXANDER
TERItIO.
In the Supreme Court, Judge
Frederick Powers, Presiding.

The second trial Of the celebrated
case, state against Alexander Terrio Of
lockwood, charged with the murder ~
Matthias Pare of Canada began at the
Court House here, tuesday morning.
the 9th instant.
The first trial of Terrio upon The
same indictment occurred In November.
1901 and the jury rendered a verdict Of
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The counsel in the case are the same
as before, Attorney Gen. George VI.
Seiders and County Attorney George :"
Cover for the state, and NcGncuddy
q Morey for the defendant The sec
ond trial was granted by the law court
in June last on the ground Of newly
discovered evidence.
A large number of new jurymen were
summoned by special venIres and these
with thu Sc who served at the September
term aggregated 70 from whom to select
the necessary II men, good and true, to
decide the fate Of the prisoner at the
bar.
The selection of the jury proved to be
work of time. There were but a few
absentees reported from the list of rs
and these were excused because of sick
ness. The principal difficulty encoun-
tered in securing the jurymen was the
preconceiyed prejudiees or opinions
formed by the men in regard to the case
The questions of the court were com.
prehensive and searching, and those by
the attorneys for the state and respond.
ent were brief and to the point. 90 men
were examined to complete the panel
The following were selected during
the morning session: G. d. Perkins,
Madison; +. l.. Morse, Palmyra; Percy
II. Kicker, Fairfield; Alexander Robb,
Pittsfed, and w. r. Morrow, Fairfield
AS soon as these had been selected they
took their places in the jury seats and
from that time all the rules and regula.
tions governing murder trial juries gov
erned them.
The seven men needed to complete
the jury were drawn in the afternoon
out of 43 examined These we're: P
F. Emery, st. Adams; Roscoe l.. Heath
Skowhegan; E w. Farrar, Ripley; John
W. Cole, Cambridge; Calvin R. Pierce
Edwin b. Tinkham, Norridgewock Her.
bert c. Groves, Smithfield. After the
panel had been completed the defense
challenged Mr.. Emery and he was ex.
cused, Burnham T. Fox of Athens, being
substituted, The court appointed MI
Fox foreman.
The case was opened for the state By
County Attorney Cover, Wednesday
morning. He occupied about two hours
in making his opening.
Thirty witnesses were called by the
State and the oath was administered tc
them by Clerk of Courts Seekins. They
were nearly all witnesses in the former
trial.
Hon. Turner Boswell was the first
witness and took the stand just before
dinner, Wednesday, He made the map,
of Asquith, and contiguous territory aut
explained the different localities, giving
distance from place to place according
to surveys made by him from which
maps were made.
Officers of the court are in attendance
as follows A. Il. Lang, sheriff; Or
lando Bracket, Starks; Fred Lucas, st
Adams; Wallace Emery, North Arson
F. c, Holt Norridgewock; w. Priest
Pittsfeld; Fred Horne, Canaan; c. f
Dunbar, Madison; George Aver, Athens
Charles Duren, Fairfield; J. F. Dur
gin, The Forks, deputies. Bracket and
Lucas have charge of the jury; Emery
and Holt of the prisoner.