Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-17 | Page 5 | Prosser Murder Trial Has Begun

PROSSES MURDER TRIAL HAS BEGUN BUTTE. Mont, Aug. 1G. A dis-1 dis-1 atch from LIbby states that a jury was secured today in tho case of Mrs. Vera Trosser. charged with killing her divorced husband, Reese D. Prosper, Pros-per, a Seattle automobile salesman, aboard a Great Northern train near I lbby, and the introduction of tosti mony begun. George R. Glenn, train auditor, who was on the train when Trosser was killod, was the first witness. wit-ness. He told of finding Prosser In tho compartment with a bullet in his temple, from which he died shortly afterward. Prosser was found shortly short-ly after tho train left LIbby. He also told of Mrs. Proseer's actions on the Irain and of her apparent great attachment at-tachment for Prosser. C. C. Arlington, the prosecution's ptar wttnosE, and who gave sensational sensation-al testimony at the coroner's Inquest, lias not put In an appearauce, and Judge Erickson has been requested to doclare his bond forfeited. E W. Llndsey, porter of the car occupied by Prosser ami his traveling travel-ing companions, Schafer and Miller was the next witness. Ho told of tho reconciliation of Prosser and his divorced di-vorced wife in tho former's compartment. compart-ment. Some of his testimony Is unprintable, un-printable, as it related to the conver-tatlon conver-tatlon In tho compartment between Prosser and his former wlfo. which the portor overheard while working lu an adjoining compartment.