The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-08-16
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No objection was interpreted TO any question
Of her counsel, or to any voluntary statement
of the prisoner. Free from all outward ~
straint, unfettered except by her conscience
and her memory, she invoked that statute
which has 80 oiten proved shield 10 TIE inno-
cent, but to tho guilty ike tho flaming sword
Of the cherubim at tho Eastern este " Para-
disc. which turned every way against the trans
gressors. You saw the prisoner on the stand,
and heard. her testimony. Did she vindicato
her innocence by truth. md commute her accusers
by the frankness. completeness and copsistcscy
OF her answers Did her dlrect, statement
tend to diminish the awful weight Of The gov
ination elicit a single answer that did not
augment the intolsr,sble burisn I DID she not.
In every word. exhibit fresh evidence that "tho
way Of trahsgfessorsis hard 7" -
II was so dark, she says, when her husband
rude up aud alighted from his ehaisc, that sho
coull'nOt discern his form rs no sioSed about
embarrassing his horse, and Jet, 1t vns light
OF Plantation Bitters with which she ielled him
senseless To the earth. She only sought to
break the bottle by throwing it,agaipst tho
wheel, but she selected the wheel most distant
from her, when she might, without throwing
Il he NIL. have dashed 10 against the one within
her reach Tho Axe was hfed, not 10 brain
her husband, but Z" to stsvs IN his ofice door
in order to get SNUFF to kill red ants In the cul'-
board" The hoayy, oaken rule becomes =
blows on the Doctors head, which aroused
Mr.. Stevens and his wife, were oply moderate
correction. The wife OF o country physician
for . quarter Of . century, familiar with his
drugs, she had never suspected that morphine
was poisonous, nor even soporifc;- she sup
posed It's only effect Was to nauseate. Yet she
takes heavy dose on the morning Of his death
-. -. f.l he hal Innu inv
to live for"
"Oh, what tangled web We weave,
When fret we practice to deceive"
Convicted out Of her own mouth. she finds
too late that her attempt to explain her guilty
deeds upon the stand, Is vain effort to
.Oercrpss . current rparisg load.
On the unsteadfAst footing of . spcar."
Gentlemen, II the prisoner really wished To
nauseate her husband and nothing more, Why
did she not give him ipeoso, dose which Dr.
Gray had prescribed, whose properties she per-
fcct'y understood, as she admits,-a safe. ia
imiliar emetic, within her reach In her hus-
bands Officer .. H. ,-.r
But some superficial mind may ask, II the
prisoner com ,ass.d his dsAth by poison. Why
did she -. soon sfter Try 70 poison herselfi
Why not rather exult ut her certain anil speedy
deliyeHnce from m ojious burdent Whoever
questions thus knows little OF the human heart
and jts mysterious incOnsistencies. II
The prisoner Is not an incarnate hehd. Al
though you may be obliged 10 hnd that she IN
murieress. Judas, even. vert out and hanged
himself, wheu horror-etrickeu At his awful
guilt, he first realized thst his purpo.e WAS &C.
oomplished. Cain, the first murderer. found
his punishment was greater than he could
repeated abortive experiments With cup and
handkerchief may have led her to fancy that
her husband bore charmed life, When ut
last confronted with the appalling fact that no
whom in youth she had promised At Gods Al
tar TO love, honor and obey, 10 lying in the
letharyy OF impending dissolution, poisontd
by her hand, r. u strange, I ask, thst seli,af.
friShted, she should tremble 1t her SIN, tnss
tho woman and the vifc would mis- restore
tho .life sbs bad 90 ,r.Iorss'esay t re. ,hn
did mot recoil from the CHASTITY sight Of bis
ART ie.i Of blood, Who would not hare re-
csiIci hfs first murierous sSt..- No one, says
the Latin proverb, ever becomes monster at
onoe. IJuhappy VIENNA! DuulAIess when In
remorss aud despair she. attempted tho sidsd
crime Of suicide, she realized 10 tbs bitssfness
OF Der soul that to The guilty Conscience %.
.rhe kss, vibration Of bright truth \ hell"
7, has been observed that tho prisoner: avail
inc ber.elf Of her legal privilege bad the op-
portunity To review the eoVeInmeut teStihouy'
ara - syplsIn every inculpatory or even sas-
Mo-. sircu instance by the AID or her able
III i.sen;oss counsel. Bbc hes doeo NO such
,ss.s lint has contested herself with = naked
General denial Of all the evidence which Grim
mates her, opposing her bare unsorroboCated
"siL 10 nearly every government Wines. How
i. this TO be explained Upon the hypothesis OF
'sorely II cannot BE- pretended thai ths svk-
deneo gninst her 10 such that she can sdord 70
roai Il NTH contempt. She wH,thays under
hood how essential some rational explanation
On n vas 10 her acqnittai, and her counsel
new fdli well how eagerly you hung upon her.
words, h 1pinrto hear Il from tie npsof bee. who
,loss eouid. II abe wouh. ha,esxplainsd ssuy
Why then. We repeat. has she. withheld the
EXPLANATION Of single circumstances. and by
Ill her testimony added nothing to her origin
Al piea OF "not guilty Gentlemen. there
cal, be but ono answer: she knew that the evil,
ience OF the government vas true. she was
OF her own guilt, and she had no
explanations 70 give. Indeed, 'vhso on droes-
eIsminstiou, explanations were rspsstsiiy de-
usndei BY tho government, her attempts, ~
We have seen. only redoundsd 70 her .confasitn