The Lambertville press., 1860-05-09
TWELFTH DAY.
BELvIDERE, Monday, April 80.
MORNING SESSION

DELN1DERE, MONDAY, April 81.
MORNING SESSION
Mr.. Shipman, counsel for the prison
er, resumed his argument by saying, |
have 10 congratulate you that we are
again permitted to meet again and
continue the investigation of this case,
after having been permitted to rest for
one day. | have attempted to show
you that the motive was the main
spring of every human action. /
shall now show you that this young
man treated his wife as husband
should treat his companion. | shall
now show you that it was not possible
for the prisoner to have visited his
wife, even if no i'll feelings had ranked
in the bosom of this nlother-in- law
There were bat seventeen weeks be-
tween her marriage and her death. -
We have the testimony of Mrs. Ram
sey that she was at Ramsey's some
half dozen times, staying one week
at time. She was to his fathers
house two weeks, and she was visiting
with hiIn among his congregation at
least two weeks more of this time -
We now have ten weeks out of the
seventeen that he was with her. show
ing that he was an attentive husband
as a man could be, actively engaged
in business as he was It is needless
to go over the testimony of the forty
witnesses produced by the defence to
prove his uniform kindness towards
her. If there had been hatred and
malice in his heart, it would at times
have developed itself
The State have charged against the
defendant that he procured the at
tendance Of his wife at Dewitt RAM
sey's for the purpose of taking her
life. He had been very unwell, 80
that he had no comfort, and could not
sleep. Under these circumstances he
sends for her to come there. When
she came there she was unwell and in
low spirits, she complained of pain in
her side, and did not eat much supper.
That night she was taken sick about
IL O'Clock at night. The State would
have you believe that very night he
administered to her poison which caused
her sickness. There is not q circum-
stance. there is not a presumption to
prove hat he gave her even cup Of
cold water.
The condition of Mrs. Harden will
explain his kind OF treatment. She
was moi considered very sick. 1t was
thought by Mrs. Ramsey that her
sickness came from being in the family
way. MIR. Harden urged her to have
"a ply ysician, and offered to send fer
her fathers fsu lily physician, but she
refused. This overlhrows the theory
uf the State, that he was willing to
see her languish and die without any
medical aid.
The spoon and glass in which the
medicine was mixed was allowed to
stand until they were taken away by
some member of Rams Us family to
be washed; do you suppose if he had
administered arsenic he would have
been such tool as to allow these
things to stand around until they were
removed by some other person the,
have paraded The powders then before
you, aud they have placed Mr. Herr
upon the stand, and II appears that
Mr. Harden was taken by Mr.. Herr
10 Dr. QulmbyS Office, Ill Morristown,
aud got some powders If Mr.. Herr
had never taken bin to a physician, it
he had never obtalned any powuers, II
would have been damnlng evIuence
but this position ot the Safe lalls
harmless ~ his feet when it was
iouud that she Was dying, lie mauitest-
Cd all the feeling that husband could
exhibit On the death ot lie: do
you suppose II he had been The cause
ot her death be could have wept any
-put hypocrltical tears; the feelings oI
the heart Will be uppermust aud can.
not be concealed
Ine lime Oi the funeral was pot fixed
until bis ialher-in Law came there and
hxen upon one o'clock. Ihe State
insists tnat Harden was the guilty
party, by . hich the arsenic was bought
and brought TO Ramsey's. Mrs. RAM