The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-02-16

R,ovn and Shsffer promptly dep,eo
E1ller testified, also. That Isaac go
-. said that he was Innocent oI VI
.r;,ne charged, and that there couhi
~, he obrnIned any evidence agains
~, This statement is incorsisten
With the reported conversation at the
bed side.
The hour of II o'clock having ar
rived, Court took a recess for dinner.
Mr.. Burket resumed bis argument.
Before recess he had reviewed the
events that had occurred down to the
close of Friday of the week OF the
poisoning. On Saturday morning at
Ada, Mrs. Diefenderfer met Isaac at
the gate as he was passing with
pitcher of milk, and she inquired Of
him regarding the situation OF the poi
soned families; to which Isaac replied
that he had not heard directly that
morning but that bis wife had, and
that they were very sick-had become
worse since he had been driven away
from the house. His face, Mrs. Der
enderfer said, was flushed, and his
voice trembled. 1t was no wonder
that he was aRitated conscious that he
had been falsely accused OF most un
natural and heinous crimes. The doc
{ -. when Isaac had left bis brothers
house took from him the medicines
and afterwards snalyzed them, and
discovered that they were all right, and
had not been tampered with.
Counsel then required to the visit OF
defendant to the house of Elijah
Charles on Tuesday, 9th of June. Tht
visit had relation to a bargain for
farm. Isaac was anxious to perfect
this arrangement, and so remained un
til EIijah's return from Pendleton.
So there was nothing strange or uE-
natural in his remaining there all the
afternoon. As to his visit to the milk
house, there is nothing in that which
connects him with the alleged crime.
SeweIIa saw him there, but she DID not
at aby time see him there alone. There
was nothing in evidence to show that
the crock had been in any way disturb
ed. or that tue lid had been removed.
The fact that he was at Elijah's TO
consummate bargain highly bench
ciaI to himself is not consistent with
the assumption that he was devising
plan to destroy all the members OF
Eliiah's family. By effecting this
trade he expected to become relieved
of his embarrassments, and be enabled
to go forward with the hotel enter
prise referred to in the testimony of
Capt. Holland; and affords clear ex-
PLANTATION of the remark, ''if things 60
as / expect" Elijah Charles was
brazen and heartless. and his testimony
was in strange contrast with the evil
dence delivered by his interesting and
intelligent daughters. One witness had
stated that Isaac had said that except
the -four that was near the mouth OF
the sack, he would have no hesitation
in eating bread made from it. 1t is
unlikely that if guilty he would have
introduced the poison both into the
flour and into the yeast, yet one ale
CATION is as probable as the other, and
neither rests upon probabilities. De-
fendant made no issue with the doctor |
when the latter gave it as his iudg |
meDt that the poison was in the bread.
Counsel maintained that there was
not enough in the evidence given
against defendant to form a well
grounded suspicion. The whole sus-
picioD appears to have originated in a
dream which WAS delivered to Melissa
on a certain night which she had told
Mrs. Binkley. and by her related to
other women producing the frenzy
that resulted in bring into court this
suit. q
Mr.. Burket occupied about one hour
this afternoon, and then brought his '
argument to close, when Court ad-
burned till Monday. s