The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY TRTAIL Al
NE W. YORK.

A TRIAL at New York of several days' durationhas excited
great interest in that city. Mrs. Clara Hayes, described as
an accomplished lady, was indicted for the murder of Dr.
Lutener, a physician. The Hayes and Lutener families
both lived at Haarlem, near New York, and had lleen for
some months on visiting terms. Dr. Lutener had afi office,
or chambers,. in Broadway, New York. The evidence in-
troduces the parties concerned on an evening about a
month before' the murder. Mrs. Hayes was ill and in bed.
Mrs. Lutener had been staying with her all• day. Dr.
Lutener came in the evening and brought some•medicine,
and he and Mr. Hayes played at dominoes in the room.
A dispute arose about the game; Mrs. Hayes, took the
doctor's part against her husband ; eventually the domi-
noes were put up, and the Luteners left. The next morn-
ing Mrs. Hayes sent a message to Dr. Lutener who then
went to her, and returned with her to his own house,
where she remained for some days. She informed Mrs.
Lutener that Mr. Hayes had told her to leave• the house.
Mrs. Hayes went several times into New York with Dr..
Lutener, with a view to some arrangment with her hus-
band. One meeting at Dr. Listener's office was fully de-
scribed. Mr. Hayes came there and said he wanted to
speak to his wife; she told him, if he advanced another
step she would jump out of the window. High words
ensued. He said he would " show her up, what she was ;"
she stepped up to him and slapped his: face, and said,
"take that for your impudence." Mr. Hayes talked in a
threatening tone. The doctor stepped forward and took a
revolver out of his pocket, and said, I al/treacly for you.'
Mr. Hayes also took a pistol from his pocket ; but eventually
he went out. Mrs. Hayes snatched up the revolver, and
was following him, but the doctor took her by the shoulder
and said that would not do, and brought her back. A
young woman of the name of Shipman, who was living with
the Listeners at the time, doing sewing work, and who
was at the doctor's office, said, " Mrs. Hayes, you could
not use it, could you ? " She answered, " Ah, see if I
can't." The doctor said, "If that was aimed at me, I
should be inclined to dodge a little' Two or three days
after, Mrs. Hayes told Miss Shipman she had had an inter-
view with Mr. Hayes, and she thought she should go
back to him. The doctor told her to do as she pleased,
.but that he had done all he could to protect her, and if
she got into such a scrape again she must not come to him.
She did go back, and on the same day Mrs. Lutener went
to Mr. Hayes, and demanded an apology for insinuations
he had made to the prejudice of the doctor ; whereupon
Mr. Hayes wrote a note, stating, that he did not believe
there had been anything improper between his wife and
the doctor, and handed the note to Mrs. Hayes, who gave
it to Mrs. Lutener. We hear nothing more of the par-
ties for some days, except that Mrs. Hayes was very
anxious to get back some letters she had given to the doc-
tor, or left with him, and said to be (or to include) letters
of Mr. Hayes's, written to her when she was in England.
The judge said of these papers, that it was very natural,
if they were the papers produced at the trial, (but not
sufficiently indentified), that she should plead urgently
for the restitution of them, to prevent their publication
by the doctor or transmission to certain parties in
Europe. On the Saturday before the murder Miss Ship-
man found Mrs. Hayes at the doctor's office, and, on
asking her if she was not ill, Mrs. Hayes answered that
she was very ill and miserable, and did not know what
she should do if she did not get the letters—that Mr.
Hayes would kill her. " Yes, " she said, " he would not be
satisfied with killing me, he would chop me up into little
pieces as small as my little finger. " She said, "to be
exposed as she should be, she should be ruined ; she was
a woman Mr. Hayes was a man and cared less ; he
could get away." She said, the doctor could not realize
how it was coming on her, but she could not blame him
because she had given the letters to him. Miss Shipman
observed, " that the doctor would not be forced to do any-
thing. " Mrs. Hayes said, " she knew that." Miss Ship-
man asked her, " what induced her to pursue the course
she had, as it led the doctor to think that she had deceived
him from the first ?" She answered, " I know it, but I
did not think of my children. " She asked if the doctor
had gone out of town as he intended, and on being
answered in the negative, remarked, " Well, he'll never
go." Miss Shipman said, "If Mr. Hayes had abused me
as you describe, I would not be afraid of any man." Mrs.
Hayes answered, " Before, I had no particular occasion to
be. " She was in the doctor's office nearly the whole day,
pleading with him, but in vain. On the Monday, also,
Mrs. Hayes was in New York all the morning, and when
she returned home she told her nurse-girl that the doctor
would not give the papers up, and she said he had nearly
killed her, and she would kill him. On the next morning
Miss Shipman, who had been away for two days, went to
the doctor's office ; she had occasion to go out on an errand,
and left the doctor alone in his consulting room ; when
she returned he was lying on the floor shot dead ; a small
pistol was near him. His own loaded revolver lay in his
drawer close by. Mrs. Hayes had gone out that morning
and said she was going to town ; she was absent from
home all the morning. She had a small pistol in the
house. Early on that morning her nurse-girl saw Mr.
Hayes with it in the yard ; he fired it off once ; the nurse-
girl did not think she saw the pistol after that day. A
woman, closely veiled, corresponding in appearance with
Mrs. Hayes, was seen to enter the house where Dr Lute-
ner had his office soon after the time when Miss Shipman,
must have gone out ; the witness who made this state-
ment thought it was the same woman he had seen a few
weeks before in company with Miss Shipman and Dr.
Lutener in the street. Miss Shipman, Dr. Lutener, and
Mrs. Hayes had been together in the street a few weeks
before, on their way to a police-office, to ask protection
for Mrs. Hayes against her husband's violence. On the
part of Mrs. Hayes evidence was given by a Mr. H all,
that for an hour, including the time of the murder, Mrs.
Hayes was at his office, a mile off. Two other persons
saw her enter his office. Several things tendered in
evidence were objected to and excluded, among them a
paper which the doctor wrote and addressed to Miss
Shipman the afternoon before his death. When the
evidence was closed, the counsel agreed to let the case go
to the jury without a speech on either side. The judge
therefore at once proceeded to sum up. The jury found
that Dr. Listener did not die by his own hand, but that
the evidence that was allowed to come before them was
not sufficient to convict the prisoner, Clara Hayes.

A NOVEL MODE OF BORILOWING.—A person named
Blake, who, from his military appearance, has earned the
soubriquet of " Capt. Blake," was indicted at the Middle-
sex sessions, on Monday, on a charge of robbing a gentle-
man named Mannock, of a £lO note, at the Imperial
Hotel. It appeared that Mr. Mannock had, just before
the robbery, lent him £6 ; and after he had departed,
missed the note from his cash-box. The prisoner admitted
that he took the note ; but pleaded that, he meant to regard
it as a loan. The prosecutor seconded the merciful recom-
mendation of the jury ; but the court severely deprecated
the prisoner's conduct, and sentenced him to ?ix Mont} s'
imprisonment 0

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY, Mey 23.

CHURCH PROPERTY.—The Episcopal and Capitular Bill
passed through committee, on the understanding that the
measure should be referred to the select committee.
DOG CLETS.—Lord LONDEBBOROUGH moved the se-
cond reading of the Dangerous Animals Bill, which
proposed to extend to the rural districts the provisions
now in force in the metropolis with regard to the use of
dogs for drawing carts.—After some discussion the bill
was negatived without a division.
LAW REFORM.—The house went into committee on the
Common Law Procedure. Bill, No. 2. Lord ST. Lzorriun's
objected to the bill for other reasons as well as on account
of the change which it proposed to introduce as to unani-
mity of juries. He was inclined to give way to some
extent on this point, but not to go the lengths contem-
plated by the bill.—The LOUD CHANCELLOR defended the
bill, which, he maintained, would be most useful, and
which had been prepared with care.—After some further
discussion the bill passed through committee, with verbal
amendments.

The Lordships adjourned at twenty minutes to eight
o'clock. ........,,..,,I

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY, MAY 26.
TILE VIENNA. PROTOCOL.—Lord CLARENDON stated, in
reply to Lord CLANRICARDE, that the treaty between
Austria and Prussia would be laid before the House as
soon as the protocol in which it had been embodied had
been received. With respect to Persia, the last intelli-
gence received by the Government was to the effect that
Persia had determined to remain neutral in the war be-
tween Turkey and Russia.

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RAILWAY TRA.FFIC.—The committee on the Railway
and Canal Traffic Bill was postponed, in consequence of
the absence of the Lord Chief Justice.
TENANT RIGHT.—The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland)
Bill, and the Powers of Leasing (Ireland) Bill were read a
third time and passed.
MANNING THE NAVY.—The Duke of NEWCASTLE
moved that the Hoase resolve itself into committee on the
Bill for Manning the Navy, and proceeded to explain the
objects aimed at by the measure.—A discussion of con-
siderable length ensued, in which Lords ELLEN/30E01:7MT,
HARDWICITE, and COLCHESTER took party after which
the bill passed through committee.
The Church Building Acts Amendment Bill was read a
third time and passed. _

The Dublin Port Bill was read a second time. Their
lordships adjourned at ten minutes to eleren o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMON'S-TUESDAY, MAy 23,

PsTrnorrs for the abolition of church-rates were pre-
sented by Sir W. CLAY, from Liverpool and Runcorn ; by
Mr. Prworra-ras, from the inhabitants of Over Dtcwen
and Blackburn ; by Mr. THOWNELEY, from the Unitarian
congregation at Birkenhead ; by Mr. JACKSON, From
Newcastle-under-Lyne; by Mr. HA.DFIELD, from the First
Baptist Chapel, Preston ; and; the Tippington-street
Chapel, Manchester ; by Colonel• BIDDULPH, from Wrex-
ham,' county of Denbigh ; from the parish of Gresford,
Denbigh; from the Protestant Dissenters of Wrexham;
from-Glyndwrdwy, county of Merioneth; from the Pres-
byterian congregation, Wrexham; from Pen-y-bryn
chapel; Wrexham ; from the Hope Paper Mills, county of
Flint;. from the parish of Brymbo; and by Sir GEORGE.
STRICKLAND, from Preston.
TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND, FIVAINCE AND TURKEY.—
Lord J. RUSSELL laid on the table the treaty concluded,:
between Her Majesty, the Emperor of the French, an&
the Sultan.