Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-04-20

crime. l have known one OF the respond
enn probably longer than any one Of you,
gentlemen, and the other Is an entire stranger
to me. and am sure il will not be alleged
that / can have any feeling against them. i.
At the commencement Of the argument OF
the gentleman on the other sioe, he seemed
to intimate that the State had acted improp-
erly in not divulging evidence, had evidence
which might make for or against it. 1t was
its duty 10 keep its secrets. He says we have
had detectives. and benefit Of their testimo-
nv has been denied to the defence. Is the
Government authorized to take no measures
but open ones? 1t is always compelled to
resort to these measures, and to keep them
secret also, that the community may feel
itself protected and the innocent be secure
under the strong arm Of the Law.
We have done no more than our duty and
nothing Of which the respondents counsel
can justly complain.
These men are charged with the murder
Of Mrs Griswold done under the most at
rocious circumstances / hayebeen able 70 ind
in the annals Of crime done a. 1t seems 10
me, in this wise. The old woman alone in the
house, was awakened by its being broken
open and met the murderer in the middle
Of the floor with his open knife. De seized
her, twisted his hand in her hair and CON-
menced his work with the cut across ner
throat, inflicted as the surgeons say IN such
position. Then she endeayoring TO save
herself. be attempting TO strike her again,
the cut upon the chin is made, the knife
broken against the bone, and the murder
finished with the the other deadly weapon
whose marks are found. Adding indignity
to murder be conveys the body 10 the calf
stable where il was found.
The inquiry in such case always Is who
might lave q motive for such crime? The
body is found the instruments Of murder (;
who did the deed?
On Wednesday strange man appears at
" illistOn depot asking for Chas- Potter. Ii
was not toe most natural rOu te for one com
ing from this way 10 Potter's and shows that
be was stranger. He rides to the village
with Potter ostenslbly 70 buy horse or
horses But We hear Of NJ conversation IN
dicating such business. Horsemen when
they 90 to buy are always talking about
ho ses Did this STRANGER make any conser
ton about any particular horse No. unless
about the black mare which was motor sale.
and for thar be makes no of ?. nor for the
buckskin horse ii Mr.. Potter carries lin 10
the d pot and be disappears
Mr. Roberts did not undertake 10 comment
on the testimony OF one % The Witnesses
Mary sullivan who identities the respondent
beyond oubi did not even mention i. That
tile testimony OF the DO Cai! and % haIy Pot
ter are so almost Identical, coincidence 20
lizzie 10 be expected from children-indlc-t 5
that il Wa st0r5 cOncOcted Tor 4 certain re-
suit ! an sorry to have 10 say anything
about Katy Potter, for she stands In - very
unpleasant position. She SAYS that III ;le
men who came there that summer-this str4l
ger was the only one who had but fingers
Now we have shown that three weeks after
wards. there was a man - manned hat both
the children saw him. Now when she j.
asked who We're present when this Stranger
was there she describes all but her grand
mother, where she was she does mt know -
When the three fingered man was there three
weeks after her Grandmother was not pres rnt.
indeed. for she was not living. The story o.
these two children Is too finely drawn. they
have Oyershot their mark. II We have shown
thai Ward was there that Wednesday after
noon. We shall ask you 10 ind that the circum
stances Indicate that he was there upon Al un-
derstanding with 7. for al interview 10 carry
out their objects. And afterwards this stran-
ger disappears. unless the respondent be be-.
and is utterly swallowed up in oblivion and lost
Where was Potter on Friday and Saturday,.
HIS friends don't know. He Is q marked man
in appsarance,-eould he not have brought
witnesses TO account for himself, Vet. b.,
whole acts for those two days are also swal-
lowed up and lost. We find him driving 70
the Falls with q stranger. who also disappears
| Yet within SIX days be comes upon the stand
before the coroner and testihes that neither
on Friday or Saturday did he see any stranger
or ride with him 10 the ais. What be then
L. 80. srla
against him a. link Of the evidence Fol
lowing him along We find on sunday morn
ing a stranger again in confidential communi-
cation with Potter at Painesville walking be-
hind his wagon. Yet three days after Potter
denies seeing ANYBODY there. This j. an in
portant circumstance. The gentlemen on the
other side say We do not show that this stran
ger Is the same identical one, by the same
witness and therefore il Is Of little conse-
quence. Ii is impossible that We should 20
show. Fish does not swear 10 his identity
with very great particularly, but thinks he i
the same And upon the question OF ideniif-
cation. We are all liable 10 be mistaken il l.
true. and 80 such testimony must be taken
with care. Men generally cannot describe
the clothes or the cut Of whiskers Of a person
they meet, precisely, but any one Of you
would know Mr.. Roberts = year hence. in
Calcutta, though you could not then tell what
clothes be now wears. or describe his hair
You would k7sO,r him.
Men plying the burglars and assassIn's
trades carry suits with them for the pur-
pose of disguise. 1t Is no enforced con
struction to account for the differences
observed in this mans clothing IN this
way.
Mary Sullivan knew tins man when
she saw him pass the Grand Jury Room
Mr.. Bowman identifies hun with particu-
laniy. In country town, where every
resident Is known 10 all, do not lie and
every other man note a stranger they
mark him.
Bowman testifies with particularly
that shows he knew him to be the same
man. They ask Bowman, isn't there a
chance that you are mistaken ? he says,
there may be and they make use OF
II TO dlscredIt him a. man Of too lively
fancy. l think, gentlemen, that you be
heve that the man Bowman saw and the
prisoner are the same.
We have traced tins man to Essex june I
ton Sunday night; he disappears, and |
no one sees him again, unless he sits |
there. / shall assume that he Is the same /
man, and | do not understand the other /
SUI ~ ICY ~ -1b--AA--N A--AA- ming w D
ind him at the cars getting whers but /
one man would be likely 70 see linn. de 1
tells Kelly a story. Here Is a man who /
had committed murder, gone through the /
whole, slain his victim, dragged her out /
TO show the rest, perhaps, how vel his /
work WAS done, without tremor, who 1
now is unnerved. No man would Lave
told such a story as he did but a man Of
crime, unier the goadings Of consc.en
1t Is the working of human nature. Blood
viii cry out, and he must tell some sort
of story. He describes an affray in
which his clothes are saturated with blood:
he must have been demented; blood IL
such amount couldn't have flowed from
wounds by a revolver His story was
not true no such affray ever occurred
there no such men as he described were
there. 1t Is, therefore, a circumstance
against him Have you any doubt that
the man that did the murder was tn man
who so rode IN the cars
Here the Court adjourned till . 2. N.
AFTERNOON.
Mr.. ESGLEsBY resumed Accommodating