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Show EVIDENCE IS BEGUN III Ml CASE EDWARDSVILLE, Til.. May :$. With a jury accepted for service after eleven days of examination, the prosecution presented pre-sented its first evidence today against the eleven men who are charged with the murder of Robert Paul Prager, Ger- i man enemy alien. Mayor J. H. Siegel I was the first witness. He was present at the city hall when the mob clamored' for the death of Prager. He was followed fol-lowed by former Mayor R. G. Kneedler, present city counsellor. In cross-examining them the counsel for the defense asked three questions. These were: "Do you know who hanged Prager?" "Were you there?" "Have you ever been to see the piace?" This scorned to indicate that the defense de-fense would seek to place on the Mate as heavjly as possible the burden of prov-in prov-in the actual details of the lynching. Roth witnesses answered "No" to all questionF. T,. O. Monroe, editor of a paper at Col-linsville, Col-linsville, who also testified, was on the (Continued on Page Sixteen.) face was badly cut, but he proceeded with the prosecution. That Robert Paul Prager, alleged German Ger-man spy. met his death at the hands of a mot, of 150 persons, was the testimony of Harry Linoitunn, 15 years old, a service ser-vice car driver. linemann said he and Edward Mattel were sent to a road house, two miles west of Colllnsvllle, to get tar and feathers. feath-ers. They were unable to procure the taj- and feathers, he said, and when they returned Joseph Riegel, who is said to have told tho coroners jury that he took a prominent part in the lynching-, took the rope from Lineinann's car and' threw It over the limb of the tree to which Prager was hanged. Nagel's testimony was simitar to Linc-mann's. Linc-mann's. John Bruso, foreman of the coroner's Jury that investigated Prager's death, testified Uiegel told the coroner's Jury that at least 150 men participated in the lynching and that all had hold of the rope. EVIDENCE IS BEGUN IN LYME m (Continued from Page One.) coroner's jury which charged six men with murder, out of which grew the indictments in-dictments of the eleven present defendants ly a Madison county grand jury. Sheriff Jenkins, who at t ho beginning of (he Lrial was dWuallfted from aum-morilng aum-morilng prospective jurors because of an ' alleged prejudice for the defendants, en-gaged en-gaged In an altercation in a restaurant with Slate's Attorney Streuber, who made the motion for his (lis missal. Streuber's |