The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-14
MARY STANDARDS MURDER.
TIES TIMONY THATMiKEs THE PASTORS
CASE LOOK BLACKER.
Stains on his Knife Proved to he OF Human
Biood-The Corpuscies the same those
Found ON the Murdered Giri's sun bonnet.

Stains hi. knife Proved TO he OF Human
Biood-The Corpuscies the same those
Found On the Murdered Giri's sun Bonnet.
MADISON, Conn, Sept. 13.-When the court
that is to determine whether there Is a proba-
blity that the Row. Mr.. Hayden murdered Mary
T.. Stannard opened this morning a salow-
complcxioned man. with thin hair and bushy
side whiskers took the stand. He had pre-
viously placed carpetbag on the floor. 1t
held a jar containing section OF the carotid
artery iuguar vein. and esophagus. which
showed the clean cut that killed Mary: also
the sunbonnet that Mary wore. and the big
stone which is believed to have been tho one
with which Mary was struck upon the head
The witness was Prof White OF Yale College.
who has been peerng through n microscope
that magnihes to 800 diamcters. or 10000 times
the size of the object for four days. at stains on
the stone. sunshade and pocket knife.
Prof White carefully drew from his pocket
something wrapped in brown paper. and taking
of the paper. hold between the tips of his
thumb and foreflnger back-handled pen
knife. Wththe utmost caution nc opened the
little blade. which was about az inches long.
and very narrow ana sharp.
" Do not let that knife 20 out Of your possess
sion. Prof. White" said Judge Harrison. You
may let the prisoners counsel look at It, but
they must not touch it,"
We'll. don't know about that" said Coun-
seller Jones. jumping up. Il don't think tho
counsel for the State can tell US how we shall
examine the knife"
" | do tell you" said Judge Harrison. not to
let it go out Of your possession"
That will be as the Court says" said Mr.
Jones. and IL the witness don't obey the Court
| he will be committed for contempt"
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whispered to Deputy sheriff Hull. and when the
Deputy nodded his head. Judge Harrison said
knife to tssS o % Pr Wh@ n SaSds o d
not propose to have II tempered with before n
| trial before Jury could be had.
counsel. Justice Wilcox. after hearing Prof
White. decided that It would not be- well TO have
| the knife 90 out OF the Professors hands.
Prof. White said that he had submitted the
knife to about twelve hours microscopical ex-
OF the blade that looked like blood. but by hp9
| plying a solution OF potash and sulphate Of
soda to TIE groove into which the lnger-nai
he obtained certain substances which
were revealed by the microscope 70 bo
| OF them; and. after prolonged exam
| ination. he was satisfied from the shape
oithe corpustes that the blood was that Of an
| animal which sucklcs its young. 1t then be-
| came necessary to determine what animal. and
| thisis done by mcasuremcnts, Of the diameter
|
| age one three thousand two hundreth part Of
| an inch. These corpusces met this require
| doubt that the blood that he found was human
| hlood-in fact. was us positive rs he ever had
boon in any case in which he had testified as an
rhen the Professor took Mary's sun bonnet.
| one sid" OF which was bloody. and said that he
had Obtained some Of the blood from that and
oohnined from the bonnet and knife agreed.
Thon he took the large stone which wns found
4 hfl1 10 htAI - h.ls
bc the one with which the blow on the
head was. dealt. Tho Professor said he had
| examined the stains on this stone and found
them TO be- blood stains. the eorpuscles Of which
agreed WITH ne specimsns taken rom the knife
| the Jar. Prof. White. showed tho Court Just how
| the wound was made, and he sad that the blade
Of the knife on which he found blood was one
| which could have made Just such n cut.
| Tho Roy. Mr.. Hayden supported his face in
| his hands. and never took his eyes from Prof.
might get close view of the piece Of Mary $
To Mr.. Jones Prot White snid that II tho
| blade of the knife had cut finger a few weeks
| AGO. the blood might have remained in the
| groove, Mr.. Jones then said that he would
| White Will testify that the blade also had tho
| appearance Of having been recently wasls,d.
The state then traced the knife from Mr.. Hay,
| den. from whom 1t was taken by Sheriff Hull
| when tho arrest was made. into Prof. White
| hands.
! Although Justice Wilcox had excluded all tes
| imony Of what Mary Stannard had said rs TO
| her relations with her pastor. yet he did allow
Mrs; Stndley Of Gultora to say, THAI, Mary who
| had had "A conversation with her which led her
to believe that Mary was in trouble. and she
| made n mhtronly examination. which convinced
| the witness of the same thing. Mary who had
| been cheerful before became very melancholy.
| aud finally decided to 20 home.
Burton Mills. n little boy said that he told Mr.
| Hayden before any one else that Mary Stannard
had been found with her throat cut, and that the
| bring her home Mr.. Hayden was in his houss
| then. reading. and he asked. SO Burton said
where it was. That was all he said but he went
| AWAY with the boy to the place where Mary 8
| body lay.
Lizerne Stevens, a neighbor Of Mr.. Hayden g.
| said that he saw Mary Stannard go 10y Mr.. Hay
| don's house on tho morning II the murder
with Mr.. Hayden's. children. That was about o
| o'clock. In the afternoon. AT o'clock. the wit
! ness saw Mr.. Hayden come up the lot pretty
| rapidly To his house. This may have been be-
| cause II was Just beginning TO rain. The State
would have taken Mr.. Hayden to Walk ACROSS aero
| lots from the place Of the murder to his house.
Andrew Ilazntt said that Mr.. Hayden asked
him. the morning after the murder II any one
! sicrny. that there was a surmisn' and he said
| nothing more. but turned and went away"
| The hearing WIS adjourned until Tomorrow
| morning. when there will bc session of per-
! hans an hour. aud next Tuesday the remainder
! of the expert testimony will bn taken. This
| ecution.
The expert evidence regarding the blood ia
said to he the result Of one Of the most delicate
| experiments Of the kind on record. To the
naked eye nothing wns found on the knife
the grove upon n piece II clean gnss was seen
| with the naked eye nothing but Il faint tinge OF
| dlscOuratlon could be seen. Even with a mag
| nifying glass OF some power the blood particles
| could not be seen. but when Prof. White put his
| 9oOOO mgnitying power glass upon tho parti-
| Gle and stirred il gently with the point Of n cam
| brio neo'lle. then the ~ corpusclcs Individual
| lied themselves. ms he called IT, With the micro
| meter he WIS able 10 measure the diameter of
oach ono. and found that II would take g. 200 OF
| such corpusclrS 10 make an inch in length. No
| other blood corpusclos, excepting that Of man
| meets this requirement. Tint Of the dog Prof
| White snid came the nearest to IT,
| MI Hayden. when tho day was over, laughed
| heartily with frenis, who shook hands with
| him. and trotted away from the court room on
tho arm OF his keeper with every appearance Of
! perfect case of mind.