The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-10-14
MARY STANDARDS MURDER.
JUST WHAT STATES COUNSEL WILL
CHIRGE AGAINST HAYDEN

CHIRGE AGAINST HAYDEN
The Minister TO be Taken before the Grand |
Jury To-dny-Nvhnt states Attorney Plntt |
will Try to Prove about the Ar-enic Found. |
NEW HAVEN, Oct l3-The Rev. Mr.. Hay |
den will be brought before the Grand Jury in
| this city tomorrow to answer a charge Of KILL
ing Mary stannard, in Madison. in September
! last Mr.. Hayden. who Is in the New Haven
| County Jail. spends most Of his time in reading
| the newspapers and in studying the Bible. In
accordance with his own request, he sees no
/ visitors except members Of his family and his
/ lawyer. He maintains the stolid indifference
/ that has become SO noticeable since his first
arrest Hero in New Haven his actions and mp
pcarance tend to make people say; " He's the
coolest man under such circumstances that |
ever saw" HI takes his confinement as cheer
fully as possible and the Jail attendants say he Is
one OF tho best prisoners they have had. He
satisfies himself with tho meagre faro that is
dished out to all the prisoners, and has refused
to allow his father to furnish food. He appa-
rently cares little for the incoming OF the Grand
Jury tomorrow. He Is certainly an enigma
that Is hard to solve and Sheriff Byxbee. Sam
uel F. Jones. his senior counsel. and all others
who know about him. agree as to this.
To the Grand Jury States Attorney Plat will
present. tomorrow. a story something MS fol-
! lows; I'm the hUernOOn OF luetOhy, c6pdulpeI
3. at about O'Clock. Charles s. Stannarh went
into the woods about a quarter OF milo from
his house, and found lying, IN an unused high.
Young NV woman Of % gears Of age sSo lay on
her back. with her hands crossed over her
stomach. her throat cut. the angular VEN and
pool Of cloited blood. in which one OF her
elbows was resting Charles stannard sum
monel the ncghbors and took the corpse 20 his
humble little cottage The father returned 10
tho spot where the. body had lain. and found
,tx1 -, Q. .tatNf half n
DOZEN other men arrived. among u en- tho Rov.
Mr.. HAYDEN. pnstor o. the, church that Mary had
suicide but the others seemed inclined to scout
H. After some talk q messenger WAS despatched,
south Madison. Twelve niles distant, Tor grand
Juror who. in these littlo towns. does double
duty rs a prosecuting on cerand Coroner. This
! Jurors IN Rockland. whore Mary Stannard lived.
When the Coroner arrived jury Of twelve men
was summoned. and a hearing was begun at an
carly hour in the morning o'clock the body
being viewed by candleiiSht and the jury hold
ing their sessions in the little dingy best
room" OF the howell that stannard called his
Mary went to this house on the Saturday
previous from Guilford. where she had heen
emr2yed ip the dairy o. An, Mr; Stndlsy. WIN
half years and to her. father she said that che
came home because Mr.. studley objected 10 hav-
sRs the s6 5oS an srSnnq o Tan story
And this story was first made public before the
C9Tr2ner's lury,siiting az sunrise.
because she was encein,e. and in order 10 com
pei the Rev Herbert II Hayden 10 support her
10 have him take her To New Haven and have an
, operation performed. So on Monday morn ne.
as e M HSeea IN s sSa 59a F0% Nsn 10
him and ted him OF her tropbies' anl
. sSS si' to '1 give % Rsr adding ddf 5s
H. would e. to Middletown nan ~ M,s9nd.y e9at
= ! dletown on Tuesday morning. telling his vile
o that he was going to get a bag Of meal. On his
. way homo he stoIp,,;d AZ The house q the stan
: sac gave it him, and he complained that it was
4 warm To get cold water she wentto the spring.
~ nsris aud that Of the REV Mr. Hayden. Thcre
: studio, of Guiiforl and her sister. Susan Haw.
tod susan that she had seen HAYDEN. and INIT
he told her 20 be Of eood, couraee: as he hal
medicino' WHEN would relieve her without
trouble or danger ,she further said she had
- agreed to meet Hayden at Big Rock az hal. pas
in the afternoon then 70 receive the melicin. e
Al that hour she started. telling her father sh'
y sister that she was going to get the medicine
y, sne bade her sister eood-hy. and said she shoul,
- r@sy,rn IN n snort ume. Ihis was the last seer
!. N2o'cock. tie Rev Mr.. Hayden went from
! ,he swamp To- get out s6ms wool. IL W.
q away ami that was all that was seen Of him unit
% The drecton ii INK " swami" He sad that Il
the two hours that ne VAS there he was throw
]
4 easily get al Il g. drnw II up 70 The house;
4 The state urges that IA the two hours he pre-
q tended TO bee 10 the swamp he was keeping hii
"a appointincni with Mary StHnnarl Ih.s IL i
ii proposedio prove by showing tnat Serino ) ran
u ton. in ton minutes, handled all the wood thA
,r Hayden SAID lie handled II is further pro
~ posed 10 show by witnesses who have wake
Is the distance that a man could go from tn
,s swamp. unotserved, 10 the rock where the muir
A., der Was committed and return in less than hal
r. an hour; and could pass between the two poinu
49, 50 as to be unobserved.
AZ gave the girl some arsenic-ior he had pur
:. chased an ounce in Middietown on the morn
BIZ KILN; rdis-tc.ling her II WAS tho med enc sh
le was eXvectins; Ai'er he gave L 70 her me
N position as 10 this point that she wa
- thrown into Commissions. and began TO cr
q and accuse him Of foul play, and started 1
a., run away. and tARt h. caught m II ston9 an
"A hit har on the bend. and fsed her to the earth
,o Then fla Ing that she was seriously and per
er haps fatally injured. and fearing that she nigh
-, MAKE disclosures as 70 what he had done. h
re took OUT ms pocket knife and coolly. cut he
'ss indctt the Rev Mr.. Hayden. ''' ''''' 49,
Al 4, ina defiance Is not allowed to put in an
that they Viii ind a true bill by either Mondn
90 M -sht OF on Tuesday. and then the Rv. Nj
ev Hayden will be put Oh trial before judge Hitch
be criminal side. The state Is ready 10 procee
with the case NJ once.
Tia true BIZ is found Hayden's lawyers wi
insist IN an immediate trial. Many wtncs,e
have been summoAed. and sreai care has bee
nm Anon. tho witnesses, clerk IN Mr.. Tyler
drug store in Middletown. who sold arsenic I
Mr.. Hayden has been summoned. The cler
he says be DOES not know Hayden. but he doe
os know that the purchaser OF the arsenic thi
a. morning when he went ont OF tne store stoppe
nj on the corner and talked with Or. Bailey.
he The snnctity Of tue Malls.
rk Prom NJ C'iolso Tr'u,
yn a. ccntloman n one Of he interior towns
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