Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-23
Pastor Hayden's Trial.
THE CURIOUS 4yIDRNCE THAT NAY WORRY rHE

A telegram to the New York Sun from New
ve raven, August n, Says:-The Rev. Mr.. Hayden
must 10 an probability submit to another delay
m MS tIlai on cnarge OF numbering Mary Stan
nard. This time It is not because the prosecuf-
ing oncer mas been elected q. s. Senator, nor
because pee another prosecuting onicer has taken
TOT TWO postponements, but it is because The
chief justice cannot preside at the trial that was
set @ down nt0 TO oe 6egqn on the 9Th Of September
more than year. There is some rather m
elusive evidence that the medical men who have
almost mo 6 consumed boiled, and cut to pieces with
Stannard, have discovered with the microscope
q little speck that may be very damaging to Mr..
Hayden.
Prof White has had Mr. Haydens knife blade
under his microscope, and has examined every
8" What did you find on it?" Judge Harrison
asked him at the preliminary examination.
I" Blood"
"What kind OF blood?''
' Human blood"
And the Rev. Mr.. Hayden looked as interested
aGd innocently earnest at the Professor while
this testimony was given as the student does to
the Professor in college at the climax of an ex-
pertinent in natural philosophy. He afterward
told, end his wife told, how the blood got there
"Just as' Mr.. Jones said, "bloOd gets on the
penknife at times OF all OF u.s." Mr.. Hayden
obliged to admit that science had not yet got so
far as to be able to distinguish Mary Stan
nards blood from the Rev. Mr. Haydea's, SO the
UiOVu opCChS Ou luC hlD1c Wcut iUf udugHt Win
the justice, and he discharged Mr.. Hayden But
science did not let 60 OF the case. The micro
scope, chemicals, measurements, keen eyes,
hours OF patient work on speck that breath
would blow away, have. it is now said, made a
discovery. The muscles, the flesh Of Mary
Stannard'S neck near the stab that killed her
have been resolved to their orig NAL gases and
elements, to discover any foreign matter such
as speck of steel. When that which had been
Mary Stannard's neck became vapor under
the chemists manipulation, then the micro
scope was put upon the clean white paper
that would catch any foreign substance and
hold it. To the naked eye there appeared
on the paper nothing more than q speck like
dust that Whit Of wind might have blown
there. But upon 1t the microEcopist placed q
glass that could make one hair seem the size of
rope, and then the speck resolved Itself into
rusty little piece OF steel with clearly defined
form. 1t must have come from the blade OF the
kpife that killed Mary Stannard. Now the
glass is run along the blade of the Rev. Mr..
HaydenS knife, on which Prof. White found
blood. There are one or two little hicks easily
seen In 1t, too large to match this little piece
At last defect Is discovered; it seems as
though the little speck on the white paper, IL
applied to this defect, would just fit 1t, and By
successfully done, and the prosecuting officers
are Informed that the savants have discovered
speck OF iron that dropped from the fleshy
parts around the wound that Just fits nick In
the blade Of the Rev. Mr.. Haydens knife. Such
Is the story that, somewhat Indefinitely, but
with suffcient detail to make 1t worthy the at
tenttOn OF the Rev. Mr.. Hayden's counsel, Is
reported regarding the result OF the scientific
mems work in discovering evidence