The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-11-01
Gbe Ginres, Mem BLOOMFIELD, ])a.

truth, he was thinking more of the corpse
of the murdered girl than of his own des
perate situation, and, drawing himself up
proudly, he asked that she might be cared
for.
Whatever may be your purpose with
me-" he said, "at least see if there is not
life remaining Take your hand off, and
let me see if my skill can be of any avail.
I am surgeon"
Scowling brows and cenched fists
were the only answer he received. They
paid not the slightest attention to his
words, except it might be to grasp him
even more firmly than before, and hurry
him before a neighboring justice to be
examined and exhibited as a monster
1t was even more unpleasant situation
than he had anticipated, and the chances
were desperately against him; but he re-
tanned his coolness, and prepared to make
the best possible defense
The evidence was given with the ut
most Internationally given, perhaps,
but without the slightest leaning toward
the side Of mercy, and with the morbid
desire on the part Of the majority to see
man hanged, for such thing had never
happened in that neighborhood And
what could he say to rebut the sworn
statements of dozen witnesses? What
were his assertions against the evidence
Of their own eyes and his bloody hands
and clothes.
But he had the satisfaction, if, indeed,
it could be called by that name to learn
who the supposed victim of his murderous
knife was to learn that her name was
Ethel Loring-that she was comparative
ly stranger upon a visit to an old uncle
who lived near the scene of the tragedy
that she was an orphan, and rich in
her own right-that she was known to
wear costly jewels, and carry with her
considerable sum of money - all of
which was missing -, and that she had
gone out to take walk alone, and was
found as described. These facts, togeth-
er with his having been detected bending
over the body with knife in his hand,
the out-of the-way place, the provocation
for the deed in u pccuniary point of view,
the almost certainty of remaining undis-
covered, that he was poorly dressed, a
stranger, had been seen lurking in out-of
the-way places for several days, and that
in his pockets was found about the same
sum of money, and Of the same description
as that known to have been in the pos
session of the murdered girl, were dwelt
upon by the prosecuting attorney with
remarkable force, and the prisoner saw
that it was next to useless to attempt a
defense.
TO all questions he replied in a simple
and truthful manner, stating that his
name was Alfred Martin, his age twenty
five; that he was by profession surgeon,
unmarried, possessed Of some means; that
a love of geology had led him thither;
and that those who had accused him of
lettering in out-of-the, places would
have seen that he was innocently study
ing the formation Of the earth, if they
had given proper attention to the matter.
AS to his being the murderer of the
girl, he denied it in the most emphatic
manner, and explained how he come to
be bending over the body with the bloody
knife in his hands.
You will deny next" sneered the at
torney, that you threatened to kill all
your enemies in the same manner"
81 believe l did use some thoughtless
words to the effect that | could, with
such a weapon, kill all my enemies, and
make myself rich, but none such as you
would put them into my mouth.
81 heard him distinctly volunteered
a strong, rough-looking man, who was
said to have been among the first, if not
the first, to discover the murder, who had
guided others there, and had been the
most willing and strenuous in his testi-
mony against him.
Martin turned his gaze upon, and no
ticed him more closely than he had done
before; caught his eye, and thought that
he shrank back. 1t might have been
mere fancy, but he become more and
more convinced that the fellow had some
object in getting him convicted, and
tried to remember if he had ever been as
sociated with-ever met him before, and
given him any cause of enmity. If such