The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-30

&bSh Day-Afaey DO0m Session.
hfE1iAL REPORT yOa THE herald.
BgLyIDzRR, NJ J., Aprn rs, 100
number OF Witnesses we're recalled and examined
Juose valennss map Of The locality was offered IN evi
dtnce.
Tho State here rested In case.
THE OPENING OF THE DEFENCE
Mr. snPxAxS, leading attorney for he defence, said
Nay please the Court gentle Of the Jury, my oo
leagues have teputized me 70 INFORM you upou WIS,
grounds hey rely for the aequi.tal Of this defendant
ahan content myself with giving you briefly, the facts Of
this case. Never has there BEEN Q case 30 peculiar
Scarcely had the eyes Of that unhappy adyover whose
grave would gladly stop 70 drop tearclosed in death
scarcely had the hight Of the morning broken upon his
eyes, when Ramsey returned from Anderson with the In
tegence Of foul suspicious which deepened and wdened
ana shouted from every hill top and whispered in
every vale. Aye, upon his return here, year ago,
;hs same s,,. .uspcions greeted him. and c.cula:
tho press, poisoned all mAds, a. you
saw when your fellow jurymen disclosed 30 openly IN
place, trust INTO which this foul suspicion cannot
In his sacred temple Of justice, and In this Jury
box, al minds are calm, and no sucn calumnies 81
loved 70 projuoicc your minds You will look as tho
Of simple justice, with her pure robes you will de-
eide rightly and oonscientously and may rustfully
SSs fhs.. are some o. ~ the $ S
young nsAa wonderful that no wished 10 occupy hs
wuss coffin, and lay beside her In the tomb II would
perhaps have been better for him he had rested his
young limbs there. wnen you acquit him, il win be
cold and thankless w0rlo he will have fAce Now for
year. be he's been obliged 70 rest in SON, unable 70
collect that evidence for bis defence TO which the law gives
hun . right 30 has been obliged TO depend upon hs
friends Who also labor under peculiar embsrrassmen-
upon mn issner, VINO unkno~n 70 TINS community,
The counsel then recspuated the points Of Mr. Robson
opening speech, already published Now have the State
proven this ferce opening, 90 we'll calculated prejudice
and mname your mindsS Did he send for his wife to
murder her. when they have themselves proven
cane y a. r. N which sns nsa
evidences q hs marriage, when he was preparing 70
commit her to the grave In ordinary habments, and tho
wedding dress was suggested and procured through an
oher agency Did procure the arsenic, when have
that already in the house, and for quite
d ali me DINER points raised BY prosecution and re-
fer them here NOT To comment opon the evidence but TO
eounteract the nnemmasory opening Of the State
svaence and AK you have the State made out case9
have they presented single circumstance which s not
Upon this evidence OF the safe We shall establish hy
posness stronger and better In keeping with the proof
before you Than that Of Hardens guilt And that hopothe
that she died by Harden's hand she died an un
natural dealh. This we shall endesvor TO establish II
not necessary that We should prove that she committed
mat, from evidence, the probability that she di IT, We
shall show that abe had the will the opportunity, the
power 70 do this. We shall show that Harden had
motive either supposable or proven BY the STATE to com
NIT his fearful crime We shall shos that 10 every trou
bic abe thought Of death looked TO that
In the sravey ard for rest that her reputation had been
assaed and she said that she had rather be dead than
ahvs that her kind but misguided friends led her
s mat .ss was Per o. SS s
men between her mother and hus oand that she
creased In mind in regard TO this matter and used 70 seek
retirement got up In the night and M and cry by the win
dow and thus shall show that the declaration made
10 her husband was simply true that being In this coad
ton Of mind and seeing the mea ,s Of death within her
tn Wa
shall show that this disposition 70 suicide hereditary
that Of her relatives had committed suicide, after
spIshed the thing We shall prove before you
that such disposition 10 hereditary, and may run in the
blood lying dormant for generations and then suddenly
breaking when the OF tho deed supplied by
chance circumstances Thus she took tho arsenic
ceang it from her friends and her loving husband
d. could BE- applied In regard to the sickness Of this
dy The ate makes tho serious charge that Harden a.
tempted, by Destinations and wrinngs, 10 pre-
point / need not say word, esnsle
men, for The State have answered these allegations
~ soy ,hss abe said that sns had seldom seen well
day thss she declared that suffered droadfuy, but
did want her kind mother to know it, and that when
70 Rsmteys she said she wss 30 sick that she
scarcely expected to alive That thus always sick
unweh, she did not always reveal it, but that It was
true No can with her afflicted
friends than do but is not wonderful that they
do not remember many OF the little circumstances which
will prove this state Of facts There was motive, gen.
n,
assnst society and against his own rights BE had
promised to love her. and he did love her. From the mo-
msDt Of their marriage there was entire happiness and
harmony between them. We shall prove that Harden
wrote home 10 his friends telling them OF his marriage
and Of the happiness he anticipated We shall show what
happy meeting it OF bis fathers and Ut kamseys,
where there was lie and merr ment and unaloyed
happiness He vshed love upon her as far az ner quiet,
reserved and tacturn nature would allow In regard
70 her coming Ramseys when the State says Harden
die not want her, shall show that he did want her,
but that under the circumstances would not have been
pleasant her mosher wanted her IT home and could
moi spare her We shall sno1 that before "a Alter
rage Harden prepared for usekeepng and was en-
gagged making the necessary prepara;ons and that he
nos less than wife, wished for homo add its domestic
enjoy ment We shall that at his fathers house,
where State say he deserted her, she stayed Of her
own accord seIrps TO zee his 1fones ana SISTER
ing and the duties Of hts profession, and therefore, could
NOT come her home and that she was satisfied
with her CONDUCT Their were but few months
between the wedding robe the winding sneet but
shall show tina. during this time no visited
with her in his congregation, aud every WHARF
treated her with kindness, attention and respect.
In regard those powders mentioned by Mrs. Ramsey,
We snail sweep entirely away the circumstances upon
which the State relies and which it attempts 70 msgny.
We sba show you that Mr. Hurr persuaded Harden TO
70 Dr. Qunby and that the Door-And sn unnAtural
tina. he cannot recollec, I'D give him powaers and
true In regard 70 the ginger we shall prove tnas Harden
vas accustomed use it Mr5 Fishers and other board
ing places 70. cold. About Mr., Hetch-and cannot
ihnk thas twelve such rely upon suon doubtful
1A1tmony 70 convict man or capital cr1me-we enali
show You that he was talked 70 BY persons running
10 him. ana that before Grand Jury he could not
identity Harden and could itentHy this likeness as per
feet a any ever taken Of the human that IN desco
Inc Harocn he said his hair ~ light as hts own
which You win observe very light that when two or
three kencsses shown to him BY Me- Teae, ne snd
he could identify Hardens portrait; that IN boxing az
Hdens likeness he said he hal seen 30 macy, aod that
40 many descriptions had been gyen him. inst ne cood
not tell whether the impression upon his mind was the
result Of these conversations or of hs own
We should INSIST upon this gentlemen, even we had no
conradir,ory evcence Tnen her refusal to have
Dr. wilet, her own physician, 'or any other doctor
ehoved that she had purpose accomplish and that she
Vas d. Y 10 succeed that she knew the poison
was working within her and h.t she was determined 70
have vors out her life We shall insist before you that the
open conduct is the most satisfactory evidence
OF his innocence, and tina. you cannot reconcile u WITH
the IDEA of his guilt In regard TO his attendance upon
his vfe,s funcra a, shall showwe have snown-tnA'
no AIDE every preparation to attend the iay before
and had q man to drive him, but that In tne
meantime came the post morten. Bore the Dream naa
lefl his we's body suspicion was deep moutnei
him. Put yourself in his case, and tell ms an older
stronger nerved man, would not be prossrated and mol
in condition to leave his Add, then, IS unlortu-
lo- Tho n