The Lambertville press., 1860-05-09
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FOURTEENTH ny
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MORNING SESSION

Mr. Dayton resumed his renort.
He alluded to that portion of the do
fence in which they allege that suicide
Is sometimes caused by an infatuat;va
impulse, sudden Madness. The med
zeal evidence and the authorities show
that under the influence of this cause
no person was ever known to destroy
himself by-a succession of acts never
oy ANYTHING like gradually wearing
away life, by taking arsenic from dav
TO day. II is assumed by the defence
thar she was Of a sad, gloomy and mel.
ancholy temperament, and thi. ia
state that leads to sHicide. II Vas
conceded that she was not a ta'kat;va
lady. Perhaps she was not gifted with
the lively talkative disposition of most
young ladies.
But this had long before healed up
ana is in no way necessary to account
for the pain in her side. She is said
to have exhibited indications of trou.
ole OF mind, sometimes leaned upon
her hand and was Seen in tears. A
young lady's tears are easily start d.
The fountain lies near to the heart and
dod forbid that the tears Of a Young.
amiable, aAEeetionate, tender hearted
girl. one who is away from her friends
and surrounded by strangers, should
De evidences of a suicidal tendency
II is only when this natural chance Of
relief is frozen up and tears refuse to
to how. that spirit Of desperation
se'zss the heart and drives the person
to suicide The visit of the Hsrdens
to the porland family and the letter
OF the deceased woman, anything but
supports the allegation Of tacfturnity
aud melancholy She invites them
down because she knew she would
mnch efj " their visit. wanted to see
them very much and anticipated "fun
by the yard. +" When they came she
did according to all the evidence. en-.
joy the visit and so far from being
habitually gloomy, carried the fun and
the romping to such an extent as to
faint upon the ffoor.
1t is certain that she died of poison:
did this defendent do the deed. or did
she die by her own hand? il must
be one or the other; she died like a
resigned christian woman, affectionste.
ly desiring to see her parents and
friends, and leaving word TO them TO
prepare to meet her in Heaven: ac-
cording to Harden himself, she died
with clear hope; this is not the man.
ner in which suicide dies.
According to the theory Of the de.
fence. she took the arsenic from the
vial on Thursday, but the evidence
shows that she was recovering from
that time to Monday night, when Har-
den returned home and doSed her again
During all this time she must have
had the arsenic in her possession; her
death was not very sudden and was at
the close of day in which she is said
to have been as cheerful as she had
ever been.
There was no time during the last
evening of her life at which Mrs Har-
DIN could have revealed the secret of
her suicide. Mrs Ramsey says that
she went to bed about the fine the
rest took tea, soon after Mr.. Ramsey
came up and went into Harden's room
minnie to see Mrs Harden; then
cine into her rom. At the same
tine of Ramsey's coming out of Hsr.
denis room, she heard Harden say to
her husband. don't wait for me -
then went down stairs and she heard
them say that he had gone for the but
termilk.
Harden swore before the inquest
that il was between 8 and 9 o'clock
just after Ramsey had left his room;
it could not have been after he came
home from getting the buttermiIk
Mrs s NTH testifes that she was in
Mrs Ha1den's room when he returned
AMI did not leave it until the neighbor
women were called and Ramsey and
his wife were called.
The usual time having arrived, and
the counsel being at a convenient point
the Court adjourned to 2 o'clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Judge Dayton took up his line of
argument.
The learned counsel for the defence
came to the conclusion that the con-
duct of Harden at the time of the
death Of his wife considering the cir.
cumstanees in which he was placed
the State think it exactly contrary:
Harden himself says he fact that she
had taken the poison between 8 and 9
o'clock Immediately after he quietly
takes vessel. starts off some six or
seven hundred yards for some butter-
milk then be sat down. and as he
says having nothing particular upon
his mind" he staid there about an
hour; after he returned he did hot ten
NJ Smith nor any other person; he
did not even then cab Ramsey and his
vie; all he did up to the moment of