Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-08-09

do SD for tear ! would tell the doctor
how it happepej, but would get plas-
ter for me. After that / said nothing.
That was the time when Lieut.. Haver-
field says be missed me for a few days.
There was never the slightest intimacy
of any character between Lieut.. uaver.
field and myself
The witness was most emphatic in
her denials of any intimacy with Lieut..
Haverield, asserting that nothing more
than a simple good morning had hardly
ever passed between them. On one
occasion the Lieutenant came TO the
room where she was to light his pipe,
and her husband afterwards upbraidei
ner. The reason she did not tell her
father of her husbands accusations was
because she knew he would have insist
ed on her returning home. During tho
examination the wonderful nerve OF the
witnerr never failed her. Her face
looked pale with the surroundings of
her black robes, but it was as ipscru,a-
bic as a sphinx, and il was hard 10 tell
whether her strong will was ropressing
the tumult in her breast aud leaving her
outwardly calm or whether the memory
of her wrongs had crushed out every
tender emotion, and left in her only tho
spirit OF the ayenger.
CLAIMS FOR DISMISSAL
At the close of the evidence Mr..
Douglas moved for the discharge of tho
prisoner, the circumstances justiying
the plea of sell-defense. The young
woman, he said, bad been charged by
her husband with grave otfensc, Of
which she asserted her innocence. She
was in delicate condition; she had
been stricken when no hand should have
touched her; her husband had left her
and gone away with other companions
he did not share her couch; he attempt
ed TO kill her; she in utter desperation
defended herself, and, by the providen-
tial direction of higher hand, she took
his life and left herself safe. In fact,
il might be said that she killed him 10
save her life and that of her child.
AT this stage Mrs Bcnner became az
fected by the heat Of the court roam and
was permitted TO retire in custody Of
the sheriff.
Judge Motter said that there was no
doubt as TO the court having the power
10 admit TO bail, but the oilense was a
grave one, and great care should DO
exercised before discharging the pris.
oner.
An argument ensued as 20 the com
pleteness of the commitment, and a. 10
whether or not the finding OF the cor
oner's jury should have been incorpor-
ated in it, instead oft simply being said
that she was committed upon tho ver-
dict of the jury Of inquest.
Mr.. Edward Stake, States attorney,
argued that the practice Of English aud
American courts in such cases was diff.
ierenL The Court Of Queens Bench
conld not admit 20 bail except und6I
certain limitations, and under the code,
although Maryland judges could dis
charge, yet after the verdict Of tho
coroners jury the court could do no
more in this case than admit TO bail.
ADMISSION TO BAIL
Judge Motter said that the charge
against the traveIser was most serious
one. So far as the commitment was
concerned be did not see any difficulty
about it. Ae would say noting as 10
the merits of the testimony, although,
in his opipiop, no jury would find any
one guilty on it. The prisoner had had
the most terrible imputation put upon
her that could have been placed upon q
woman jealous of her good name. IIc
had decided 10 admit ber to bail in SI,-
500. This might be thought high
sum, but 1t was not SO, in view Of tho
gravity of the ofense.
Bond was at once given by Jas. Mar
maduke, father Of the prisoner, Jno. +.
Roland, farmer, Chss. w. Adams, ,coun-
ty collector, aud Chas. Porter, o prop.
erty owner.
MRS. BESEEEs FRIENDS.
Mrs. Benner Immediately left with
her father for his home. IL was after
wards stated that bail for any amount
could have been obtained, some Of tho
wealthiest men 10 the county being
ready 10 volunteer. TIE sympatbies OF
tie community seem 70 be with Mrs.
Mrs Bonner almost TO unit. Those
who have known her from childhood
speak highly Of be smiAbIe teJnperment
although they admit that she had a
very determined will Her husbsnd,
on the contrary, although a bard work
ing and industrious man, 10 represented
as having had most jealous disposition.
Mrs. Benner says she loved her husband
but was determined that he should not
kill ner From the nature OF the wound
which killed him it would seem, how
ever, as if she did not aim directly at
her husbands heart, but that when hold
ing the gun at an angle and attempting
70 pull the trigger it went Of. Tho
court does not cit until November, 30
that some time will ehpse before the
case comes before the grand jury.
LIEUTENANT HAvEnrIELD.
Lieut.. Haver6eld, the unconscious
cause Of the tragedy, impressed all by
the quiet and modest manner in which
he gave his testimony. lie il . man
forty two years Of age, tall, and, al
though plainlooking. has frank and
honest countcnance. lie lost leg 10
the late war, and wears m artificial
limb. lie is married, and bis wife, who
has not yet joined him, Che having only
been recently appointed 10 Antietsm,)
has a position 10 the indianapolis In.
sane Asylum. He is the superintendent
OF the cemetery, and boarded with Ben