Litchfield enquirer., 1866-10-11

Sharon they lost part of their ticket. In Fairfield County matters look still worse for them. DanburY which went Democratic in the spring, now gives us l25 majority; Newtown was only saved by trick of the Democratic board and in Stamford, the only town in the State where the Johnson men dared to run a separate ticket, it boiled jasttsoelvt votes. .' 7
 At all events Johnsonism is nowhere, and with the prestige of. the tremendous victories we are winning over the whole North, this fall, Connecticut cannon Be in doubt next spring.
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 The Salisbury Murder Trial. s s4
 The Superior, Court last week disposed of the important case of State ys, Edward JoLn- son and George Jarvis Chief Justice Hin man sitting with Judge Loomis.3 | 497s., 't,'
 The jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to- Johnson, and were disagreed as to Jarvis. It appeared by the evidence that the prisoners, (who were negroes) with another colored man named Williams, started from Sheffield, Mass. :, on the 18th of August last, at about noon, to visit Salisbury .15a During the afternoon and evening they called at several places, Johnson manifesting quite quarelsome disposition and attacking different persons, Jarvis and Will Hams did not participate ia these attacks nor was there anything to show that either of these meditated injury to any particular. person. Not far from O clock in the evening, they called at the bar of Van Deusen and took drink
 They bad some talk with the bar keeper, Stew CT, which resulted in their being ordered f,om the house, which order was enforced on the
 part of Stever by the show of a club. After they had left the house some, words ensued and scme threats were made by Jarvis. but nothing was said or done which seems to have created any alarm at the time. The colored men went on their way towards She field. Some half an hour after theyshad gone, MT Van Deusen, Stover and one Seaman, also a colored man, started in pursuit, for whatreason the evidence does not satisfactorily disclose. They oyer took the prisoners two and half miles from Van Deusens Hotel. Stever testifes that
 when they came up with the prisoners Van Deusen was some five paces in advance of him and that he was few reds ahead of Sea man that he heard no words from any one, that he saw Jarvis down on one knee directly in front of :, Van Deusen,s aud that Van Deu, sen s left band was .on his shoulder; that he saw a. quick movement ofbJaryis' 8 right hand ; and that almost immediately Van Deusen cried out Ium stabbed, ]" II am dying" Van Deusen lived two or three minutes, ard on examination g. wound was found in his left groin more than aseveng inches long and an inch and aquarter in depth, severing the ex- ternal illiac artery, the femoral artery, and
 partly cutting off thefemoral, vein, ad 5,uau Williams, who was with the prisoners, test. | 6es that Van Deuaen came running upon them suddenly. and without word knocked Jarvis down with club that before Jarvis got fair ly on his feet Stever came up and struck him ! again, knocking him down. tstevet, also admits that he did 1strike ,JaIyis| that Jarvis iu get ting up and in defending against the attack struck out towards Van Deusen j that Jarvis had his knife--a5 small pocket knife-iu his I hands; that he aud the. prisoners immediately ran, and taking a very eircaitous route reached their ome in Sheffield after midnight Stever says there, was no club there, and none was found upon search,the nexttimornjng. Sea- man was 50 far behindq that he did not come up til Van Dspssn' had iallen,s, Considerable other testimony was;o offered but it all yields to the statements of Stsvsr and Williams of which we have given the substance !a,a
 1 The jury falling t0agFee as to Jarvis was discharged, subsequentlylths' States attorney entered oa nolls to the indictmetit for murder and fled an iniormation, for manslanghter to kwhich. Jarvis It thesargentl reqaestiof his coun
 sel pleaded, guilty, Judge Loomis sentenced lhin to foar mouths mo H the common enll jail, with a nominal fne adi nj a;sse4q qea q
 The facts ofthe case seem. in agreat meas ure, to be. shfouded with inystefy.I What pos slble motive Van Deusen and his companions hadn:in pnrsnipg these negroes, cap only be conjectured j. no adequate, hardly probable 1 one is suggested by the evidence. Tie case is also interesting as it, illgstEa,es. that dim and sometimes uncertain sline e which separates req sonable self defense from the confines or crime. t7aQS af3 Yal3 i8ifs leH2Gs & Sa &1AsS3slt Edt s-aag 5T I TIITt5s l-:- EZE TT5a d97en ,. E 16- Airemarkabie bbond robbery soccnEred fin Hartford somstims since underithe fellow. ing iaaa t m @ fis months M Loyal Wilcox. iona lsayins tAat place ofo1 Eu. rope, deposited dHithsths Hatusort Bank $2O,, loco in bonds. adohhis return :3the bonds were missing and the bank, oaceFs failed R to rensm. s Der thatsuch adeposikhsd been naae,s Rut;; ting the matter into the handsof the detectives, lthey were ensbled to trace some of the bonds into the possession of othe Bank Teller, a Mi
 Tnl'er.s He hasibesh asfested and held to tf;a ]
 6a' ap alI Nhough he acknosiedges having sold the