The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-09-17

Avenue H., | LETT Mr.. froemnn's employment
ut CLIFTON. SUPPOSE because h" hal no work
for mo. The winter was coming on. and ne had
moro mon than he wanted. | received no let
tors from Ellen. ] do not know that she could
write. think she was 90 or % years Old. -
Do you think there has been foul play with
! suppose there must have been IL that Is
her body. thought SO when ! read it IN The
sun. she never told me she WIS going to have
ac,r,9nnt in THE SuN."
d., i" Noywi when this Young woman left Clifton.
81" snid she was going to SOC you ~
did not 500 her. She snid she was going
10 Somerville, \. J.. | worked thcrc a month.
Ihen saw her Then | left. She dill not
knoY where was after leit ! told her did
Then went 10 North Oyster Bay. | saw her
last On the 9Th II August"
PA sne ask you 10 60 and gct married. TO
" 30. sir. I toll her l would marry her as
souii ~ got steady work md she was satisfied
from May TO November. is77, and first rot &c.
pgnMintSd with this girl about June. 1871"
Did She "vor propose to YOU to 10 into n
BipS-h asylum or similar institution
pa you over toll her what she should do ?"
causn | knew him"
-, At this point Coroner Dempsey insisted that
the testimony ms To- Dr. Fccny should he stricken
out. as 1t WAS hcar~ay. because the witness
know nothing about 1t except what the girl told
him. Mr. Nermiyra tried to persuade him TINT
what evidence they could get The coroner
continued 10 protest that h" would not permit
any evidence 10 ~ down that WAS not the knowl-
edge ui the witness. and said: II is not what "a
man says hs knows, or whit woman told him.
Anything else We will cross out"
Mr.. Nrrmilyca-This is not "A Dogherry court.
tien"u. 1t lies with tho Jury. The point Is, can
you She asked bir. Fseny :" ~" '"'"' '''' '0''
No. SIR said the witness
That settles IT,. said the Coroner And then
he ask.di What do you think caused this
" do not know I have no idea what killed
her. replied the witness, who. after a whis-
peIrd cpn-ultion with tho Coroner was or
Dr.. VIM. Charles Walsh. ono u tho physl.
clans who made the posi- norton examination
tstlHrd "a To- the autopsy. II" said tho right
side OF the temporal bone was mashed in. which
hnd apparently occurred after denth Her
gone N t. such an extent that II WIS lnipossi-
PIE L. decide upon the cause ~ death. She had
been pregnant and the appearances would
warrant the assertion that she died during de-
livery.
delivery; hut how when. Or whore ! do not
know. That the injury To- the side was after
death was evident from the absence Of internal
ruptur' u the arteries around ~"
DR.. Theodore Wais"r corroburated his sons
t"s,im' ny in every particular. and added:
presume she must have heen dead about "A
month wien ! consider tho upper part OF the
body. but tina, had been exposed t. t6c air with.
in sin inches Of the surface, under tho Seltem-
Der sun or rainy lays and her death may have
cen more recent than have paccd II. After
delivery decomposition would take place more
rapidly than under other circumstances
Do you know any persons. male or female.
that nre praci ing. THIS kind Of business in
Or. Walscr shook his head and sad he would
not make any ,su,h statement In reply To- u
Juror he said he hrd known hair u be- buried
- years and retain It's color. As t. the effect al
Chloride 81 limo. he said It would make the hair
darker IL WAS. however. perfectly impo-si5l
L I any one 10 recognize the body from tho lel-
turn-.
Tho noxt witness WIS Mrs Mary Hazle Mt
whose hous" Ellen Murphy had been IN the
habit Of visiting. Mrs. Halle had heard the
PHYSICIANS testimony. as che sat ln a chair
man. and has rather Jolly manner. She did
not appear at all embarrassed. hut gave
distictiy than any ot tho men. Her testimony
WIS listened 10 with great interest because
known To her. and Il was AT her house that tho
81. was igSi seen, She trstihrI That she had
in company with Louis Kiege Ellen
always sp~Se about thcir approaching
present of sci ~ furs Tor Christmas. but that
she was not prepared To b" marriel that she
could not get married until she got her ~ lury
that she would live nut uuiil sho glt II. On sun
ana said he had been 10 New York nni advnr-
Halle told him Ellen had gone in searcn
n him. and had let her house at g..
ago. Ki.ge called sunday u week ago and also
On the frl!aJ ufivrr. 90 ASK about Ellen. Mrs.
ner Of Nesey street. New York. and II was sent
10 her house IN - Ihur7day night Ellen
packed her trunk. and sent j. % Ms. Condrn :,
and SAID she was going % live ont coupl" ~
months Lat she lad told Mrs Cuthbcrison that
she Was nv 10 Lur"pr.
Mrs llHl' WIS a-krl Il She could identify
TIE ui.rcloih.ng, and said she could; thnt
Ellen hal pn ked her clothes. and Mr.. Ha2i"
had given her rhcini-c. winch sAe c1Lld