Litchfield enquirer., 1870-04-21
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 In the Superior Court. last week. Ellel Root was tried for the murder of Emelin' ! Parrot. and acquitted. The facts wer, these: The deceased was the wife o , Frank Parrot. of Harwinton. and hat lquarrelled with and left him. and he hae
 taken counsel with reference to obtaining l a divorce. After living for time with he1 1 mother in Massachusetts. the deceased lwrote letter to her husband, desiring
 him to take her back. He.' thereupon
 went for her, and brought her back te Harwinton to the colliers' cabin. where be-
 several other men, and the prisoner, were living at the time. On the night of hel arrival, Mrs. Parrot was taken sick, finger. ed three or four days, and died. The sus. picions of the attending physicians were aroused, and there was post mortem ex' animation of the stomach and other or. gans, which were sent to Professor Barker of Yale College, for examination. He found arsenic in sufficient quantities to have occasioned death, and the prisoner was arrested on charge of having commit. ted the crime
 On the part of the prosecution, it was proved that the poisoner had used lan- guage indicative of ill-will against the deceased, and that there was rat poison, composed of about one quarter arsenic, in the cabin, which she might have adminis- tered to her. On the part of the defence, it was claimed that Mrs. Parrots illness commenced before she reached the cabin, and that the symptoms, decided ly indicating poisoning, occurred before the accused had any opportunity of com hitting the crime. Above all, they claim ed that the husband of the deceased wo- man had equal opportunity, and strong CT motive, for administering the poison. There is no doubt that @ murder was committed, but the proof connecting it l with the accused was too weak to justify conviction. The case was ably presented on both sides: Catlin and Sedgwick for the State; E. W. Seymour and Andrews for the prisoner.
 = On Wednesday evening of last week, General Charles F. Sedgwick delivered to very full bar. and to large audience, his lecture upon the bench and bar of a former generation of Litchfeld County lawyers. Inasmuch as the lecture will soon be published, we attempt no report except to say that the sketches given of the old lawyers and judges were consider ed fair, discriminating, and judicious, by all who knew them. After the lec- ture, we proceeded, on invitation, to a SUD- per, at the residence of B. W. Seymour, Esq. :; and taken altogether, the evening of the thirteenth of April, 1870, was an unu- sually gay and festive one for the Litch- field County Bar.
 - The chancel of the Episcopal church was beautifully decorated on Sunday, Eas- ter) and an unusually large congregation, considering the bad state of the weather, attended morning and evening. The mu- sic illustrated the advantage of constant ] and careful practice better than any mu- sic we can remember to have heard on any occasion of similar importance.
 - William H. Braman and Julius Dem ing have entered into partnership, and the new firm have added an extensive car- pet department to MT. Braman's former establishment. The rooms lately occupied as the Sentinel office, are soon to be filled with carpeting of all descriptions, and at the lowest prices. See new col. adv't. / -- The Sentinel office has been removed to the building next west of the United States.
 The first of about forty liquor cases was decided to-day "Wednesday. It was regarding liquors of Walter Bristol seized at Norfolk. They were decided not for feited.
 l Patrick Fitzpatrick has bought of the heirs of the late A. Q. Smith, the place on the west branch of South St., just below the old Phelps place.
 l - Attention is called to the new adver. vertisement of Mr. T. E. Baldwin. He sells large amount of valuable stock al auction at his farm. on the Both inst. 1 CORNWALL.