Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-08
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
TRIAL OF Ggs. COLE.
interesting DEVELOPMENTS of the De.
Tense.

Interesting DEVELOPMENTS of the De-
Tense.
,From the Springfield (Msss.) Republican,
1t is not unlikely that the trial of
Gen. George w. Cole for the murder
of l.. Harris Hiscock, at Albany, N.
Y, in June last, which has been ap-
pointed for Monday next at that city,
will be postponed until March, in con-
sequence of the absence of one OF the
most important witness Tor the de-
tense, Mrs. Cuyler. This lady, rela-
tive of Gen. Coles. and for years more
intimate with his family than almost
any other person, and more fully cog
INFANT of the intercourse between Mrs.
Cole and her seducer, is an invalid,
aud will not be able to leave her home
in Syracuse for some time at least
Should the defense, however, consent
that her testimony should be given by
deposition, the trial would probably go
on as now appointed. District At
torney Henry Smith, AN intimate friend
of Mr.. HiscOck, will be assisted in the
prosecution by Lyman Tremain and
Attorney General Champlain, and VIM.
j. Hadley, Judge Amasa J. Parker,
and James Il. Brady, of New York,
will conduct the defense. Offers of
legal aid from Gen. Butler, s. s. Cox,
of New York, and Daniel J. Voorhees,.
of Indiana, have all been declined by
Gen. Cole.
The defense will probably take the
ground that the murder was commit
ted under temporary insanity, brought
on by sudden and unexpected contact
with the man whose wrongs were fresh
in the mind of the injured man. Since
the arrest of Gen. Cole the entire con
troll of the case has been left to Mr..
Hadley, who says that he has unearthed
some facts which will startle the public
when they are disclosed. Gen. Cole,
IN recent conversation with a CORE
spondent of the New York Tribune,
stated that he never knew. until he saw
the inside of an Albany jail, the extent
of the criminal intercourse between his
wife aud the deceased. Since his con-
| finement, facts have been given him
which have startled him, and convinced
him that his wife has withheld from
him many things she should not have
done. He does not think she acted so
with any intention of criminally de-
eeiving him, but to spare his feelings
as much as possible. Until this con-
finement Gen. Cole thought that his
wife was always the unwilling victim T;
but lie is now convinced that for time
she was fascinated by the deceased, snd
that their criminality extended so far
that Mrs. Cole had 10 go through the
perils of an abortion at the instiga.
ton of her guilty companion.
Gen. Cole claims to have no regret
for the act which rid the world of Mr.
Hiscock, and says that if it be allowed
on the trial it can be shown that the
| deceased practiced for almost lifetime
the same wrongs upon other families
that he did upon his; that not only were
the victims generally from the walks of
married life. but innocent young girls
confded to his care, to be escorted
from the church TO their homes, were
assaulted by him upon the street with
| the object of satiating his brutal pas
sions; and furthermore, that one of his
victims, the wife of once happy home
| in Syracuse. is now the inmate Of a
luuatic asylum, the result of his ac-
quaintance. Even some of those who
were at one time the most viDdictive in
this assault upon the action of Gen.
Cole have since found ont that they,
too, have been the victims of tie de-
ceased.
The prisoner has been made COM
Portable in the Jail at Albany by fire.
quent visits of his friends, music and
books, and excellent treatment from
the prison officials. Mrs. Cole has
been to see him only once, but the
General has given orders that she be
admitted whenever she request it. she
is not insane, as has been reported,
and but once has she ever given evil
dence of lunaey. She is now living at
the residence Of her brother, and with
her are her two daughters, II and ID
years old, whose pictures adorn the
cell of their father. Gen. Cole says
he is fully confident of acquittal, but
would prefer to have the trial take
place at Syracuse, where he thinks
public opinion is strongly in his favor,
although it was also the residence of
Mr.. Hiscock.