Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-04

letter and certificate stating that Green was Methodist minister in good standing, offered to the witnessl. That letter and certificate wore written by myself. Was in Lima N. '. when wrote the letter. I own land in Texas A letter of the wit ness offered, in which he stated that he had sold his land in Texasl. I married an Irish girl in Utica about five weeks after my wife's death. Never saw her before my wife died.
 The defence introduced Sheldon Black man, C. c. Noble, Capt. Cad N. Smith, Charles Noble, Daniel Marsh, M. D. She-- wood, and Stephen Allen, all of New Mil ford, who impeached the character of Har- vey Tallman for truth. They also read the deposition of Henry Miller, confined in iail with Tallman, who deposed that Tall man confessed to him that his testimony q in Court on Greens first trial was false that he was put up to testify to the story.
 Frederick Ctiaenden After Tallman's s conviction he told me that he testified wrong about Green; said he was induced to do it on the supposition that it would help him lTallman) out of his scrape.
 Henry 4. Botsford testified substantially to the same language on the part of Tall man. ,
 In reply the State introduced Asa Heald, J. Lambertson and John Hills, from the vicinity of Centrevilie, where Green was known as G. w. Long, who impeached his character for truth.
 The argument of the case commenced on Thursday afternoon, and the jury retired at about P. M. on Friday. We are com pelled to condense even our brief notes. We cannot therefore pretend to give any thing like eer5aim report, but will try to give, i'll brief, the line of comment pursued by counsel and court:
 JOHN Q. ADAMS Opened the case for the prosecution After & few preliminary remarks he said.
 The death of Mrs. Green being admitted, sthe next question is whether sue died of poison. Her symptoms were strongly marked, and were those of poisoning by stryehnia: the convulsious; the curvature of the body; its rgidity; the froth blown through the teeth; the intermission during which the body was limp; similar spasms following each other in regular slccesslon till death Then We have the testimony of the learned professor that he found strvcii mia in the organs sent for examination, and who swears that, taking this presence of strychnia in her system in connection with the symptoms proved to have iul- mediate!y preceued Der death, he has no doubt she died of strychuia poison. Who administered that poison? Is there any ey- idence of snicile? Not an iota But there is evidence of.slow poisoning by arsenic, finally ending with the fatal dose of strych- nia. Her extremely pale and clear com plexion indicated the use of arsenic. How happens 1t, aiso that while she Was app parently at deaths door from consumption the examination of her body on disenter mcnt disclosed no extensive disease of the langs? Moreover, one Monday morning, after she came to Cornwall, she was seized with violent vomiting and purging Dr.. Sanford was called in. Her model hus- band felt obliged to go away to deliver a political speech. The doctor, suspecting something wrong, administered the anti dotes for poison from arsenic, and that time she recovered
 Now, who could have given that final dose of strychuia? Describes position of medicine standl. On the evening of Mrs. Greens death, Mrs Marsh saw Green go up to the medicine stand and there be stood when she left the room. This was ten miu- utes past six. Soon after, Green and his wife came ont to supper. For ten minutes the prisoner and Mrs. Green were alone to- gether In about half an hour she had her first spasm. How iong is 1t, usually, be fore the spasm follows the taking of strycll- mia From six minutes to an hour Just the average time, therefore, had elapsed. Green was the only person alone with her tho only person who could have admin istered the dose undiscovered. Recapit- ulates the history of the prisonerl. They gay he was gentle, affectionate, kind in his treatment of her. Could you expect the cunning llypocrite the evidence proves him to be, to act otherwise
 Did William II. Green ever confess the commission of this awful crime? We ad- init that the character of tue witness Tall man is bad But how could he have known all the minute particulars to which he swears, unless Green told him? How, es- pecialy, could he have known that Green was at Wheaton's store on the exact day, and bad exactly the opportunity to steal strychnine III exactly the way which the position of tho counter and the bottle l;l- beied "poison" and the stepping out of Mr Wheaton to change a bill, made pos- sible?
 Then, within four weeks and five days, this pattern hnehanA nsrr;---... Itisii Ser rant girl Then he is arrested, taken to 1AUciiileiu, SScttpeS, diiiltbSG SucC0ettS lu tl- king his own llfe; and he follows up a con- spir:lcy to overpowt.r the jaiier and escape agaip, with other attempts at suicide. Dan- siei Webster i'll q similar case, said that ''Snicide is a Confession" Had Green sue. ceetcd. should are have not so considered it?
 There is one feature of this defence that moves my dsgnst-the claim that Green could have ever really loved that innocent an,l confiding wife! Almost within sight of her dead body he was seen with his arms around the neck of a woman of uues. tionable reputation. And then, too, We have the testimony of the highly respect,,- ble yonng lady, who swears that on the Moratug after his wife's horrible death, as she was watching the corpse, t,ie bereave,l husband came in behind her, pulled her back iii her chair, and kissed her
 The motive for this terrible crime is dis closed by Tallmans testimony Green told him he WAS in trouble with other wo- men. His wives troubled him, and he had to kill one.
 SoLON E. JOHNSON.
 This has been one of the most relentless prosecutions ever known. The prisoner is a stranger: he has no friends r., .l i,