The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-10-17

it next day. Wehave heard that Che porte
t in the store confirmed Robinson's statemen
e in regard TO the conversation concerning
the hatchet-though nothing of this matte
! five remember right, was brought forwar,
: on the trial. The circumstances Of tn
} case were certainly strong against Robinso
and instead Of relying upon being
able to prove enough of his own state
. ment to throw doubt upon the testimo
ny against him, his able and experienced
council probably thought it safer to attemp
proof Of an ALtBI. which was done by lh.
testimony of Mr.. Farlong, who swore tha
: Robinson was at his store down town, AT
HALF PAST TEN o CLOCK that evening. This
evidence, being positive and explicit, wa,
held to impeach that Of Rosina Townsend,
who fixed upon half asteight as the hour
when Robinaon cameto her house. The
charge of the Judge instructed the Jury
that they must disbelieve either Rosina
Townsend or Mr.. Furlong. As a mattero
course they selected the former as the least
credible Of the two and acquitted R binson,
on the gronnd Of an .ALlBI. A Mr.. Wilson
has very recently declared. in published
ettef that he was in Farlong's with Robin
son, and that Furlong' testimony as tc the
time was entirely untfuth-that it was not
later than eight O'Clock. If this testimony
had been given at the trial it would have
destroyed the AIiBf, and would have com
PEELED the defendants councilto adopt an
other line Of deiense. We are not sure
that his defense would have BEEN weaken
ed thereby, in fact, although 1t might have
been less calculated to impress Jury,
there We're other circumstances il the case
which would have much greater weight il
The other course had been adopted, than
was actually given tothem. We viii brief
! y refer 10 some Of them.
- Rpsina Townsend testified that Robinson
entered Helen's room before nine O'Clock
that she saw him there al about eleven
O'Clock, when he was lying in bed reading,
and that she did not know of his going away
that night. At about 3 O'Clock next morn
ing she awoke and discovered light in her
back parlor--a room that ran across the
whole width Of her house, AMI through
which was the entrance to tie back yard.
She went to 1t and found a lamp--one Of a
pair lthe only oats~af the kind tn tha
house, one Of which was in Helen's room
and the other in the room Of a girl named
Maria Stevens, who occupied e room over
this parlor, and adjoining the room Of Helen
levitt. The back door was also found open.
Supposng that some one ha3 gone into the
back yard, she waited some time, dozed
little in her chair, fastened the door, and
taking the lamp, weat up stairs. She went
to the door of Maria Stevens and found it
locked. She then went 10 Helen Jewett's,
opened it, and was met by a volume Of
smoke. She shut the door, woke up Maria
who come out Immediately, and ran to the
door and called The watch Thomas Gar
land, the watchman who was first called,
said that on first accosting him, Rosina
told him there was girl murdered up
stairs--a fact she could not then have
known, as she mad not.entered the room,
but had only opened the door and seen the
smoke. Soon afterward other watchmen
came, and one Of them named Eldridge tes-
tfed that Rosina urged him strongly TO cx-
anime the back yard, as something might
be discovered there. She led the waygand
first found the hatchet. and ii was she W ho
first looked over the fence into the adioin-
ing yard, so that the cloak must have been
thrown there from the yard of Rosina
Townsends house, whether by Robinson or
somebody else was purely matter of co1jec-
lure.
Maria Stevens, the girl who occupied The
room adjoining Hslen's, and whom Rosina
first walked after discovering the smoke from
Helen's room had formerly enjoyed Rob
insons attention and friendship herself, un-
til Helcn's coming 70 the house had led him
10 form a new acquaintance, and eventually
to sever his connection with Maria. Under
such circumst .nces there would naturally
be good deal Of i'll feeling on her part to-
ward her successfulrival and as jealousy
often incites 10 revenge, i did not escape
suspicion that possibly Maria might have
had stronger motive for getting Helen GU /
Of the way than any which could be traced
TO Robinson, i was thought strange that,
occupying the room adjoining that in which
the murder was committed she should have
heard no noise. nor known anything about
the affairs until called byI Rosiney And
what made connection with The affair ,.stil
more mysterious. while i deprived The case
other testimony and of any light which
she could throF upon III was Che fact that
sHFprcosMrETRo q SUICIDE about 3 fortnight
before the trial came on. Y ~.
Ian lhese circumstances tend 70 show that
the evidence against Robinson was not fr,e
from, suspicion. which impaired its weight.
Il was clearly not conclusive. All the cir