Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16
A BLACK-HEARTED FIEND.
A So-Called Minister Of the Gospel First
Ruins and then Murders a Young

A SO-Called Minister Of the Gospel First
,, Ruins and then Murders a Young
Girl.
A special dispatch from New Haven
Conn. Oct. Sth says: Rev. Herbert TT
Hayden, OF Madison, whose recent tria]
IN Justices court for the murder OF
Mary b. Stannard attracted the atten-
ton of the whole country, was again ar
rested this evening in Madison bv
County Sheriff Byxbee upon bench
warrant issued this noon by Judge
.. Hitchcock, OF the superior court, upon
an information submitted by Judge
; Lynde Harrison, counsel for the state.
and signed by States Atty. O. Fl. Platt.
He was at once brought to this CITY and
now lies in the county jail. This new
step in what must become one of the
most celebrated cases in criminal an
GALS was not a surprise. Since Mr.
Hayden's acquittal by Justice Wilson
the case of the prosecution has rapidly
developed, and this second arrest is the
Jesuit Of the discovery of new and most
important evidence. Two eminent ex-
perts, Prof. M. G. White, of Yale medi-
cal college, and Prof. S. w. Johnson,
who holds the chair of chemistry in the
Sheffield scientific school of Yale, have
been at work upon Mary STANDARDS
stomach, and have found in it enough
arsenic to kill the whole community of
Rockland, where she lived. This, the
state claims, IS the quick medicine
which Hayden told Mary he had
bought IN MiddletoWn when he met her
at the spring Tuesday noon and told
her to meet him in an hour and q half
by the big rock, where her BODY was
found. 1t will be remembered by those
who read the evidence that on the wit
ness-stand Hayden testified that on that
Tuesday morning in Middletown he did
buy at Tyler's drugstore an ounce of
arsenic to kill rats with; that when he
got home he did not tell his wife he had
bought it because she was afraid of
poison, but put it on beam in his barn
under the hay; that he had used none
OF 1t, and that 1t must be there in an
unbroken package. The states coun-
sci have looked for that arsenic, but
cannot lind it, but the chemists have al
ready found in Mary's stomach mass
OF nifty or sixty grains of arsenic wholly
unabsorbed, to say nothing of what was
absorbed. Until Hayden, to account
for his visit to certain part of Middle
town, had to testify about buying this
arsenic, the state was at a loss as to what
poison to look for. They had decided to
look for powerful abortion medicines,
but in this we're hampered by the par
slmony Of the town authorities and lack
OF authority from the state officers; but
when they knew what he had bought,
their course was clear, and Judge Har-
r1son asked for delay in the Justices
court, to enable him to complete the in
vestlgatlon. Failing to get it, counsel
withdrew from that court, but not from
the prosecution Of the case, and the re-
suit shows their wisdom. The theory
of the state, il accordance with the
summary Of their excluded evidence,
which has been furnished the Times, is
that Hayden gave Mary huge dose of
arsenic when he met her at the rock, |
having told her that it was "quick med |
lclne" to produce abortion; that the in
trOductlOn into her system of such a |
quantity Of this poison soon put her in
agony; that sheshrieked with pain, and
for the first time seeing her destroyer's
intention, and that he must have given
her poison, she accused him of his
treachery, and started for home to tell
her friends before it should be too late;
that Hayden, fearing that she would
reach her friends and expose him, and
seeing that in his anxiety to remove her
from among the living he had overshot
the mark, felled her to the earth with
the blcod-stained stone found there, and (
then, cut her throat. Last Thursday,
under authority of the states attorney,
the chemists began their work on
Mary's stomach, which has been in
Prof. Whites possession ever since the
body was exhumed. They were in
structed to look for oil Of savin, oil of
tansy, ergot, and arsenic. Almost at
the beginning they discovered the COM
bination produced by arsenic and the
sulphureted hydrogen, which is result
of decomposition. and very soon the
grains Of unabsorbed arsenic were re-
vealed Usually such huge dose would
be thrown off the stomach Immediately
after being given, but in this case it had
remained. The states attorney was put
in possession Of the facts yesterday,
and when these discoveries were laid
before Superior Court Judges Hitch
cock and Culver they at once agreed
that a bench warrant should immedi-
ately be issued. 1t was issued, and the
sheriff went on the cars to Gulford and
| then by carriage to Madison. On his
way into the city Hayden was as smil-
ing and talkatiye as on any day of his
| trial. Counsel for the state claim that
now their case is sufficient for any
jury.