New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-08


BA2sls---aEs RI ABEE DEyREo PdsSTs SCANDAL IN
{ LOW LIFE--A CHAIN or CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH
Din NOT CONVICT.
The Buffalo Express. gives the following singu.
lar story, the scene Of which is laid at Lockport
New York. The woman was ACQUITTED:
The case of Sarah Ruhens, Indicted for the
murder ct her husband which has lust concluded
e the acqnittal 81 the defendant before the Mag
ara eyer and terminer, presents many features Of
pubic interest, and Will Justify your correspon
dent III presenting its details TO The readers the
express with some minutial The defendant and
ner mptaers Mrs. Henry, were tried at the May
term upon the same Indictment. the fury then lis
agreeing, ten standing for conviction and two fo,
acquittAL The glorious uncertainty of the law i
or perhaps it Would be better stated, the uncer
faintyo f the opinions Of jurors on The facts is
well Illustrated in this case Upon d separate
trial OF Mrs. Rubens, with hat slight change Of
evidence, an acquttal follows after only an hours
deiiberation BY the jury. The main facts proved
upon Doth trials are as follows:
Ihe deceased. james Rubens, was d laborer il
humble circumstances; and QUIET inoffensiye
young man. The defendant and her dauphfei
were both women in the humble walks of life
earning thear living BY going out to service ia fam
lies u this city and Its vicinity On the 18th q
July, 1866, Rubens married the defendant Sa
rah Henry, at Niagara Falls after d short no
qnaintances he being employed at the time il
some work about the paper mill. She was ther
eighteen years old. Shortly afterward he came
to Lockport, and lived with his wife and mother
ln-law in house on Caledonia street. Here on
me following september, he died, after an Illness
OF less team q week. The symptoms attending
MS last illness we're those which infably
y sryehnlne rs its causes. His death Has accom-
panedsbY an abnormal action of the whole ner-
yons system, spasns and cramps, and after the
last struggle, the body was left in a state 81
Flgldity and eontOftion the muscles generally con
Eracteds the arms drawn up on the body, feet
turned IN, and the corpse thrown in an arch upon
the head and heels A post mortem discovered
hsf1f Hal in,
stomach, liver and other organs careful anal
ysis by I'm. Hadley, Of Buffalo, developed consid-
cradle quantities Of the poison i'm the system and
left not the slightest doubt as to the instrument
sality which hurried the deceased into his grave
Traces Of arsenic we're also discovered, the rnu3
cous membrane OF the stomach and asophagns
being eaten away away inspots. Ihefatalresdlt
Suspicion Immediately pointed to those two fe.
males az the agents in the work. Mrs. Rubens
mad 5een heard to say that shedid not love her
husband, add her mother was known 10 have been
angered by the marriage. On The very morning
following the union, Mrs. Rubens had left him nj
Niagara Falls and returned to Iockport ana the
night after that Of the marriage she passed ct her
laothsrfs hotIse entertaining TWO young men un-
der circumstances which point alnosGconcIusively
70 the tact of criminal intimacy with one or
perhaps both of them. Some time before Rubensi s
death she spread thu report that her husband had
the heart disease and she feared he could not live
long During the whole of his last sickness. and
even While BE was suffering Reenly from the effects
of the poison, no physician was sent for. although
tie neighbors frequently urged III, and he finally
Bedside.
The defense sought to destroy the effect OF this
evidence by showing that Rubens had conceived
prejudice against the medical profession, and
would not have doctor to attend him. On the
way to the grave, the conduct of Mrs. Rubens
was anything but that of a mourner. She
laughed and chatted with companion and re-
marked that she tthe oompanionl was smart not
fl1Nn hear M t3fn A
Cold Springs Cemetery, the body was deposited
IN the dead.house, and Mrs. Rubens manifested
her feelings by mounting the fence and display-
ing her handkerchief to the passing cars. In BRIEF
she showed total lack OF ordinary emotion, and
the only tears shed for her husband, By her, were
those shed in the court house during the TRIAL
Nothing has transpired toshow when Of by whom
the stryehnine was purchased but 4 week nrior
to the death Of her husband, Mrs. Rubens pur-
chased quantity OF arsenic, declaring that it was
for the neighhors chickens, which destroyed the
tomatoes. This was put away in the house, It's
presence being known to the deceased
This. it will be seen, formed chain of eireum.
stantla evidence OF great strength, ana one which
was broken Only BIZ the theory which must have
prevailed with The jury, that of suicide. The /
presence of arsenic in the house was well knowft
60 the deceased, and he said nothing whatever
when his wife informed his neighbors ia his hear
ink, short time before bis death, that James
did not like doctors, and would not have one sent
for One of tito most curious circumstances In I
this anomalous case ~ that upon which the de-
Tense rested their theory Of suicide. 1t appears /
that the deceased had friend, by the name of I
Bowman, living in Cambria, and that both of them I
were believers III the modern Millerlte faith, hold
ing that by September, 1866, the world was to |
be completely purged of all Tickedness, and the |
Savior was 90 re-appear on earth, and reign over
the elect forever.
Prior To Bis Marriage Rubens had formed an en-.
gagement Of marriage with Louisa Rhodehouse /
BoTmgn's aisteg-ia-lsw which engagement he ter
minated upon contracting that with Sarah Henry. +
34tsna fsHa
hubens 6 letter. which reached him at Loekport
about Tie time that his aiekness first manifested
itself This letter Yves produced and read to the 7
jury. 1t speaks bitterly Of the conduct of Ru- I
bens, referred to his religious faith, and solemnly
warned him to prepare for immediate death, as he
had forfeited all claim to share in the felicity Of
the millennium. II was contanded that this warn |
ing working upon the sensitive imacination of /
Ruhens, drove him into self-reproach aud despon.
dency, and finally caused him TO take his own life /
The defense was purely Hypothetical, resting |
mainlyupon thisssingular theory.
The New Orleans Crescent OF the lgtinst gets |
OF most excellent leader in regard to the consti-
tutional amendment. Il opposes any idea of
erlnging Or crawling back into Congress- and
thinks there is nothing to ba gained by being |
nominal Eefnstatea on terms thst are degrading /
to the South; that, aithongh representation fl 1
Congress- is desirable 1t ID not worth tile sacrifices
whinhthe radicals demand for il We admire the
tone of t1e Egeaee leader IT il honest, digni
He'd ana tisIn. Tie Crescent viii never get below
ak feet ia itssbeets ID anybody. ii vas never
made 70 81 oasli fours even IL adversely. and
tho colonel il right We would rather see the /
Southern people without representation in Con
gIess ct al, than that they should dig their way
in under the mudstlls. We admire the Greseent's
md straightforward articles.
PLANTERS Banner
Butler has been nominated for Congress in
AEassaB husetts. tx.
"a fttey man to represent Massachusetts, could
hardly have been found. Massachusetts, the mo. i.
theF Of dssens0n and radical hate, ia well typi.
fed by Butler the public robber and private
thief. He viii represent her well. Ali the mean
ness Of that Infinitely fnean section and State will
find q proper Medium for dts outlet through She
craven heart Of Beast Butler, whose fingers will
handle her interests and his own at The same
time. II is eminently proper that the State aud
the man should be connected pabiiciy and pri. B
gately for Ia a this broad land there is no State
and no man who have such an appropriate pre- \
iiieotion for each other as these two. By all
means put Them together. Massachusetts, the
larlotof dissensions and Ben. Butler, the robber
md inaulteF of WomenS
Ipen; Psnn9 Ygasehlaea,
CREscENr CRY MusEua Opens, Wednesday, /
october 10Th. Ten thousand ouriosities wild
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