The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-05-02

but wrote her a letter, to come to the
Grove church.
Court adjourned.
BELvIDERE, Tuesday 25th.
SEVENTH DAY.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Eben Winton, sworn-Am editor
of the Hackettstown Gazette ia letter
shown witness) Ireceived this letter
March 9th. 1859; it was request to
publish the notice of the death of Mrs.
Harden, and signed s." Git was
identified as being in the hand writ
ng Of Harden Cross-examined-.
My paper went to press that time
"wednesday
The Prosecutor, Mr.. Robson, here
read long correspondence which
passed between Harden and his wife
previous to their marriage, in which
she accused him of neglect toward her
and of his paying attention to other
ladies.
Jesse F. Miller-Reside at Fair
mount, Va, 1 became acquainted with
Harden at that place on Friday 9Th
April, 1859, first saw him in drug
store; am an Ambrotype artist +; he
asked me if my name was not Miller;
said his name was JAS Austin; said
he had long desired to learn my buisi-
ness and asked on what terms would
take him to learn it said he was from
Mahoning County, Ohio asked him
to walk over to my room; asked him
to stay to dinner, he said he was an
orphan had only one sister and she
was consumptive, married and in bad
circumstances, that he was consump-
tive himself; that though he looked
very healthy, appearances were very
deceptive he wished to get into
some employment to maintain himself
and help support his sister / told
him on what terms I would take him:
and finally consented thar he should
board with my family he remained
with me until he was arrested on the
18th; we went to church several even
ings together; on Sunday, during
church, be wept freely, so much so as
to cause remark; on Tuesday / said
to him that here was something on
his mind besides his business, and was
not learning as he ought; he said there
was nothing; the next day / made the
same remark to him; he had two dou-
BILE likenesses and one locket; the
pictures 10 one of the double cases he
said were artists in Ohio.
He said if he had little farm in.
n. j. and little wife it would be all
he wanted said he had never been in
New Jersey, but had heard much about
it /; he was arrested when absent from
my rooms he sent note to me to
come to the hotel | went and he told
me he had practiced deception on me,
that his name was not Austin but
Harden, that his home was in New
Jersey, that his wife had died and he
was charged with poisoning her. He
was arrested on Sunday and taken
away, received note from him at
Wheeling requesting me to send to
him by next mail any letters which
might be in the Office at Mt Pleasant
and the Belvidere Intelligencer which
would be there, stating that he was
an innocent man. that they had tele-
graphed to the Governor of New Jer-
sey and he did not answer and there
was some rumor Of their letting him
go.
F. P. Sellers sworn Am editor
of the Belvidere Intelligencer, Ga let
ter shown witness,) received this let
ter before Harden was committed to
jail; sent one copy ofthe Intelligencer
in answer to it.
The letter was read. 1t enclosed
five stamps and requested the paper
to be sent to the address of Joseph
Austin, Mt. Pleasant, Va. If he
liked it as well as the copy he had seen
he would subscribe for a year.