Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-21

the government. and the expci,ness of their tes- inoBy ars said tn h. such. leave no ground 1 for suspicion of conspiracy the part of the young physician. or scarcely rom for any theory except that Robertson had deliberately p!aiined I the death of his wife by these subt.e and dffeet means. The trial naturally excites great interest at Rochester, from the mystery involved, as well as from,ihe social standing of the parties and the witnesses. @
 ROCHESTER. Saturday. Jan IS, ls5s-Th. Robertson case was called a, g o'clock this morn- l ing The mother of the defendafr, was the frs, witness. She swore that she had lived wilh her son, more or less. since hp had been married, She had lived with him for the past two years, and nothing but harmony had existed between him and his wife.
 1 The surgeon who attended Mrs Robeftson was then called. He testified to the uniform kind al, ten'i"ns of the defendant to his wife, and descri- he'd the effet Is of the various medicines which the prosecution claims were procured of Biegler 1 by the defendant to poison his wife. some of which. he said, were simple and harmless. l One Witnrss testified that young Beiglpr had I said that Mir. Robertson had pressed him for the money due from his father but ,ha, ne had cords 8" tight around R"brrson's neck that the money would cnme from the other way ; also. that Beg- l Ter had said that if he could have his own way
 
 ant. MT Dunklee, the cashier of the Zimmerman Bank. was sworn. He said that the drtendan, was negotiating to raise sum of money and take the presidency of the said bank, and that the 90 80 and 70 days which appeared in the evidence of the proserutinn doubtless referred to Ethe time in which the defendan, aust raise the money.
 In the afternoon session the conversation of rnunU Rpi,rlpr ah.,lt hav |. J. fendani's neck" was corrrbor3Ied ny two wit. l nesses. By another witness it proven that the defendant was out of the ely one time Biegter swears he was at lis office for medicine to poison his wife.
 | Nothing further of importance eicited | Adjourned till 10 o'clock Monday MYsTERl"Us DIsaPPEARANcE Our readers will have observed nati.e published in the daily pa- pers caliirg fer information in r, gard to William H Russell of Detroit, who left that city on the l0lii of last month fer New York to purchase l supplies, since which time. nothing definite has | been heard from him. Every effort that fond friends could make has been made to discover his whereabouts, which resulted, as we have been credihy informed, in ascr,tnining that he Jeff the Ast"r House on the 18th uit and was seen to en- 1 ter d house of assignaion, a, which time it is supposed that he had in his possession one thou sand dollars. He was no, known to leave tha, house., and it was thought he was there murdered and his body cut 10 pieces. Two or three days af'erward large trunk Was mys,erieusIy convey. ed from ths house. which, it is thought, containe.l his mangled body, and efforts are now being made l to ascertain what became of that trunk If the | suspcInns of his friends correct. that he was brutaly murdered in that house, the guilty IT, ties cannot scape, as they are watched with a "alous care. and few days may develop one of the mos, fie"dish murders lha, has taken place in this city since the murder of Adams by Colt.
 P"lice Gasette
 WASHINGTON. Jan 4.-'Fhe Central Am-rican n Emigration Company has organized in this city, A New Yhfk capitaIi>, has I,een chosen Pr-sl- dent. Ihis is one of the fruits of the speech of Eli fhayer. who is active in fur,he:ing the ob. jrrts of the company.
 erably during the past week. The hundred dol tar notes are issued at the rate of one hundred thousand dollars per day. No larger dennmina. I lions have yet been received from the engfaveIs.
 GooD GRlr -iucy Stone and Me Tar Collect. or.-Th- Tax ColIec,"r a, Orange. New Jersey has levied upon the property "f Mrs. Lucy Stone and will sell i, d, public auction in few days she having refused ,o pay her taxes becanse sht has not the right to vote Lucy intends calling a public meeting the subject at an early day She does not believe in taxation without repre- sentation.
 A package containing s26o0 was stolen from the Teller s desk in of the Wall street Banks one day last week, and the thief has not yet been discovered.
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