The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-21

peculiar. That morning Mr.. Hayden took his
team, said that he -was going for some onts,
aud drove AWAY. He came home about II
O'clock. lay on the floor and played with the
children awhile. and then helped get dinner.
In getting dinner he opened some oysters with
told Mr.. Hayden that wanted TO tnke the
knife to peel some pears with. II Is the same
knife taken from Mr.: Hayden by the Deputy
sR shc III the sS MddG @ Sot nncrp PIT bc ac r i
with tho two older children, while held the
baby. and then he held tho bnby, while ate.
After that he rolled around on the floor playing
with tho ch ldrpn and somewhere about o'clock
said thnt he guessed that he wou III go up into
ihe wool ,ot, lay ont somc Wool ana md haul t u
out. While he was away my little boy cnmc IN
and wanted knife to ctt rumrkin with. and
] told him hc might take his fathers. He
brought IT g. me to open and didso; When
h" got through with il put thc. KNIFE back on
tho shelf and found it there thdnext morning.
Mr.. Hayden came in ON "Wednesday afternoon
and asked inc forit. sometime ago Mr. Hayden
and il was n bad wound. | dressed it for him.
Tho first we heard OF the murder was late that
afternoon. little girl came and told Us that
woods with her throat cut Mr.. HAYDEN was
Just coming out OF tho pnrlor, where no
had been writing postal caro- Tor ne; nc
MIR. stevens started for the place. and my hus-
band went. right along with him; He seemed
perfectly shocked 10y tho news. when he came
hack that evening asked him 70 stay with me.
for il did not seem ~ though could be left
alone. hut he said he must 10 up as neighbor
a little while. and hr did So"
Now. Mrs. Hayden hnve YOU ever seen any
thing In your husbands conduct that locked
like familiarity Of an improper kind.wlth Mary
Stnnnnrd ~ said Counsellor Jones.
No. sir. Mr.. Hayden drove Mary to Middle
town ut my own request. and to carry out
promise that had made TO her. | never saw
anything out of the way.
Have You perfect confidence In his fidelity ?'
Indeed | have, sir" Mrs. Hayden replied,
sohbing again. although she tried hard not to
do 90. We have lived II happy life. We have
had our own troubles. but never anything OF
that Kind has come up between us"
You never heard Of his conduct with females
at Carver Mass. at Middletown. or Rocky II III 2"
Never in the world. have perfect confl-
dence in my husband Moreover. believe that
Mary Stannard was trying TO live pure life.
for have had many talks with her. After her
first trouble she seemed to shrink from the
society Of men,"
To Judge Harrison. who conducted a very
brief cross-exam nation. Mrs. Hayden said that
after her husband left her ON the afternoon OF
through the potato patch. and he asked for a
basket To- pick NJ few potatoes.
Mrs. Hayden's testimony. especially In re-
gard TO the knife, and her expression OF absO-
lutte confidence in her husband. produced
a marked change in the opinion of
many OF the townspeople. She does not
clear away the mystery OF the fatal hour
story renders 1t probable that he was where he
told her he was going that afternoon. The
States prosecutors admitted that they believed
Mrs. HAYDEN was telling what she believed TO
he "A truthful story. Next Tuesday morning
Mr. Hayden Will testify