Connecticut western news., 1878-05-23
THE GREAT TRIAL!
GUILTY !!
To be Hung Aug. 16'
From our speclal reporter. !

or the Jury began.
 WEDNESDAYS DoINGs.
 The crowd pressing on the officers on Wednesday for admission was even larger than on Tuesday, and full hour before the time for the proceedings to begin, all seats for public use were occupied. Ten Eyck was brought in handcuffed as usual, about quarter before 2, accompanied by jail officers l.. Scott and Wm. Root. He maintained the same undisturbed demeanor that has characterized him ever since his arrest. MT. Shores took seat near the dock occupied by him, for the purpose of prompting him in the matter of objecting to persons called as jurymen. Mir. Shores had a list. and so far as he could control the selection, had picked his jury and was prepared to promptly challenge objection able names.
 The Court came in at ten minutes past two, and immediately proceeded to the business in hand. The programme was opened by motion from the Attorney General that the jury be impanneled. The roll was called by the clerk, and all but two answered.
 The clerk then called up the prisoner, and instructed him that he could challenge p without assigning any cause, and as many more ss he had good grounds to challenge.
 The accepted jurymen were Dwight Rockwell of Peru; w. P. Beach, New A.heord W WY Drant;,e DooLo1, Erad ~ Brown. Cheshire; w. B. Brown, Williams burg; W. P. Buck. Clarksourg; Oren BeL- edict, Pittsf1eld; Joshua Pine, Lanesboro; Marshall Childs, Lee; Thomas K. Plunket, Hinsdale; DC. Smith, Dalton; M. M. Thatcher, Florida. All the jurymen ex- cept Mir. Childs of Lee, live north of Pitts field and remote from the scene-of the trag- edy. The Court appointed D. c. Smith of Dalton, foreman. J. A. Belcher of Shef- field and o. E. Calender of Stockbridge and J. B. Waterman of Williamstown was opposed to capital punishment. They were excused. Less than half the number summoned for the occasion were called upon. The jury was secured when 37 names had been called. The whole num- Der was S5.
 READING THE INDICTMENT. I The next thing in crder was reading the indictment. Ten Eyck remained standing, with uplifted hand, and listened to the reading unmoved, and without a tremor. The case was then opened by District Att torney Leonard, who sketched the eyi- denee it was proposed to introduce. and briefly rehearsed the story of the murder already familiar to our readers. | THE FIRST WITNESS. l The first witness called was MT, c. T. Rathbun, architect, of this town, who ex- plained blackboard map of the localities 1 and houses in the vicinity of Stlllman's which he had prepared to use in the case. using chiefly a proof of the excellent map gwen in last weeks NEWS as basis of h1s chart. He also made plan of the interior of the Stlllmau house. and his evidence in the ease was simply, explanatory of his drawings,
 DR. CAMP TEsTIFIRs.
 \ + should send you verbatim reports o1
 the testimony of the several witnesses, and
 the cross, examinations. you woQld need 8 very much larger sheet than the NEWS
 and l therefore give only the principal points.
 The next witness was Dr. Camp of Bar. Iington. He was called to the scene of the
 tragedy. and arrived about 9 o'clock Tn the
 morning, while the bodies still lay as they
 were found. He is the medical examiner
 for that district. He described the wounds
 on the head of the deceased, and showed just where they were, by exhibiting 8 skull
 with red marks upon it, where the wounds were located. A new piece of evidence was introduced here. It seems that on tho nlght of the murder Ten Eyck carried { |. trough cane. It came into the possession O
 Dr. Camp. who casually examined it ant
 laid it away in a drawer On Tuesday O this week he made further examination
 with 8 microscope. and discovered in thu grain of the wood, at the top of the cane , or stick, spots that
 ,t LOOKED LIKE BLOOD.
 He gave the cane to the district attorney and It was produced and shown to the ju ry. The ecross-examlnation elicited noth
 Ing new and only added to the details O
 the doctors doings. The
 BLOOD-sOAKED CLOTHING . of Mrs. Stillman had been buried, but il : about 10 hours it was dug up at the reuues
 sent to Dr. Treadwsn of Boston, for exam ination; the witness subsequently took t, - Dr. Treadwell the coat and pants Ten Eycl - wore on the night of the murder.
 DWIGHT BoARDMAN 0 testified that on the morning ofThanskg giv ing Day, Ten Eyck came to his house t, g thrash, but as it was stormy and the grail r damp. it was concluded to give it up, afte Ten Eyck had thrashed about an hour. H a further testified to letting Ten Eyck hay
 one dollar. half of which he owed him an, the other fifty cents he loaned hlm. Tel if Eyck sad soRething about wanting tn
 money to go to Winsted with. The cross 0 examination tried to prove that Ten Eye e had had fall in BOardman's barn abou :, that tune, which made hrs nose bleed. Blu r. that about . week before Ten Eyck hat ;. told hlm that he had been hurt In tha v way but he saw nothing of 1t and kne1 !. nothing about 1t. He did see Ten EYck' ], nose begin to bleed the day before Thank. giving. as he was taking lunch at hi e house, but 1t was very slight and Ten Fly C. n washed the blood off in a moment and re
 sumed his meal.
 o .... NAT. JOHNSON
 was the next witness, and he related a ,f length the story of Ten Eyck's doings 8
 bis (Johnson'sl house and elsewhere in h1 n morning of Thanksgiv1ng he was going t d the village and met Ten Eyck returnln o from Boardman's. where he had attempte D to thresh. That Ten Evck said he was & |. so going to the village, to Graham's black smith-shop, to get wrench made. At Mu a lens crossing they separated: Ten Eve Ie going to the shop and he Rolng on to Ll
 ties store. That he renamed at Little y about an hour. (the post office IS also ther, B. and then started for home. That about o. mile from tho village he met Ten Eye
 agaln that they then went to Stones y where Johnson was to butcher hog tn B. next day, looked at the doomed anima ' and thanca uuant hnmn Tan Eunk aconm