The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-20

was found aitefWardsi lne lCe'DoA where Trus-
sell stood when the prisoner Game in was at
the back end of the room, perhaps twenty-five
feet from the front door; | do not think said
before the Coroners jury that told deceased
not to strike her, and don't think / said SO;
did not think he could strike her was so near;
i supposed he would strike her, because had
heard he had had muss with and struck her in
the street. (Breastpin eXhIbted.) have seen
that face; should say it was George Irusselrs;
| did not see the pin when II was plcked up;
when the first shot was fired Trussell was lean
ing his back against the west wall; When the
second shot was fred did not see MN;
heard he was walking; after tne nIst sn0t was
shot was 6red che was on his rlght-hand side,
but on the lefthand side of the door; the room
was full at the time; did not see anybody out
side; after they left the ice-box together was
behind them about foot; l did not see deceased
try to strike her.
THE TESTIMONY FOR THE DBFENsE.
Mr.. Assay, in opening the case for the defense,
made an earnest appeal to the jury. The fol-
lowing is q synopsis of his remarbs:-
MAY 1T PLEASE THE CouRT AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE JURY:-I am assured that you will have
reaching righteous result-a verdict for the
defendant. This woman (pointing to the
pTisoner), when an untutored girl, scarcely
fifteen years old, having let her mothers house
beyond the seas, was found by George Trussell.
She was then waiter-erl at a boarding house
"a girl whose child-lke beauty was acknow
lodged by all who saw her. George Trussell
marked her, but not for good. He saw her as
she waited upon the table, and her beauty fas.
cinated him. He sought the acquaintance of
this innocent girl, and won her love. | knew
George Trussen well. As l shall one day stand
with him in judgment before the God that made
us both, Will say that there were many things
about him that 1 liked. His smile was tas-
cnating, his powers GonderfHl. They were
fatal to this unfortunate prisoner. He had
inveigled men and ruined women, but she
-
foot uron the soil OF this country, when she was
called upon to weep over the burial of loved
mother She came to Chicago, and fell under
the eye OF T1ussell. She was then an innocent
Irish peasant girl, without a friend in the
world. To-day she is-what?
In less than hundred miles from here there
lives the fruit of the unholy alliance between
George Trussel and the prisoner, a boy len years
of age, the legal and acknowledged heir to his
dead father. From the time that this boy was
born, Molle Trussell has been an outcast. True,
he did not kill her, but he did worse he de-
stroyed her virtue, and forever blasted her re-
putatlOn. The thorns upon the brow of the
seducer are sharper than the agonies in hell,
He isl will not say where. 1t is enough to
say that he made this woman what she is.
There is another sad passage in the history
OF this unfortunate couple. George Trussell
would not give her up; she could not give him
up. He was all she had TO cling to. woman
thus abandoned, thus thrown out of society,
thus banished from every thing that is good
and pure, cliDgsi as ivy never clung to oak, to
the memory OF the man who has made her what
she is Such woman cings so tenaciously to
him as TO make it impossible to cut the last con-
Meeting link. George Trussell took this woman
with him from city to city, from State to State.
Her only sunshine was the smile of the man
who had destroyed her. The sad passage to
which 1 have referred occurred but year or
two since. The papers at that time teemed
with graphic descriptions of a brutal assault
upon the prisoner by the man who had caused
her ruin. George Trussell struck her down
upon the public street, trampled upon her
PROSTATE form, and covered her body with
bruises and blood. She. to day bears upon
her person the mark of his hand and of
his pistol. This was only cne beating. Time
and again he has thus assaulted, thus misused
her. The earnings OF this woman's infamy, the
price of her shame, have been shared by George
Trussell. Not satisfied with the destruction of
her body and her soul, he has filled his pockets
with the proceeds of the shame of the victim of
his lust. When l think OF this, my very soul
revolts with loathing, and the thought comes
irrepressibly to my mind, Is it possible that so
foul creature can be man? This defendant
bore the name of Trussell in street and in store
At hotels they were registered as man and wife
A few weeks before he was destroyed, he and
this GIRL the mother Of his child, went to Buffalo
together; they occupied the same berths in the
cars, the same bed at the hotel. She was treated
everywhere on the trip from Buffalo to Cleve-
land as his wife. When they parted at Cleve-
land, she made him promise that she would
be true to him.
Mr.. Assay here related the circumstances
which occurred previous to the tragedy, and
the bloody deed itself He said
Trussell seized her by the throat and struck
her. She bore the mark when the policeman
saw her. He struck her for the third time at the
door, and tore her clothing from her person;
and when she had been stricken to the floor
when the lnfuriated man was again approaching
her. she fired. When George Trussell struck
this woman he became guilty of crime which
entailed puIishment-a criminal in the eyes of
the law. From his former acts she had good
reason to believe that her lite was in actual
peril. If she had good reason to believe that
her life was IN danger, then she had right to
shoot. If you believe it is doubtful whether
she had or hao not fear, you must acquit her.
Even If you yourselves have doubt OF her
danger, if you have a doubt as to her belief,
you must acquit. All the surroundings must
be taken inte consideration.
The prosecution have introduced as a witness
one Seneca Wright. Who is Seneca Wright
If you do not know, will tell you. He is a
man who has been accused before the courts of
q most infamous act. He is the man who in.
structed his own mistress to murder his own
wife! This fact, and the character Of this man,
will be manifested beyond doubt before the
close of this case.
There is nothing but unhappiness in this
world for this woman and her child. She Will
go through the world marked. She Will De
stunned as an abandoned outcast. And this
bright, innocent BOY OF hers, when he goes
among his comrades will be pointed at by
them, and it will be said, "There goes the
bastard son OF George Trusscli, the gambler !n-
At this point the prisoner arose from her seat
her face assumed a crimson flush OF mortifca-
tion and shame, and in broken accents she
begged OF Mr. Assay to desist. Mr.. Assay did not
seem to notice her action, and proceeded
Gentlemen, should you say that this woman is
guilty, you will add felony to all her other sins
and crimes. She, too, will be cursed forever
with the taunt of that dreadful crime.
The testimony for the defense was to the same
purpoft as that of the prosecution, with the fact