The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-06

=
make the "big stakes" and affect fast
horses and faster creatures of the
dcmi-mondc OH the road and at the
races and seaside resorts. The faro
table is also an Unsuitable claimant for
their ill-gottcn lucrc, as was shown bv
tho career Of one Of the princes of con-
1idcncc, Ralph l.. Rollins, now in the
Eastern pcnitcntiary. ... ....
| ...'
TISTOR U.i iYDEN'.S TRIM,
The Spcck of Steel Said to have been Found
| In Mary Stnnnarl's Neck that just Fits n
Nick In MIR. IIaydcn's IInirc-The Curious
Evidencc that May Worry the Defence.
More than q year ago Il young girl,
Mary Stannard, in Connecticut, who
had gone out bcrrying was found dead,
her throat cut from car to car. a
young prcachcv, who had that morn
ing ridden up to STANDARDS house and
asked Mary for a drink of water, was
accused Of the crime, and lodged in
Jail. Civcumstantial evidence points
strangely to lis gilt. He had been
friendly with her for some time, and
gossips charged him with criminal i'll
timacy. Several postponcmcnts Of tho
trial have taken place, once because the
prosecutor, Phtt, had been elected
United States Senator, once because
tho new prosecutor went on trip to
Europe, and the last time because the
chief Justice cannot preside at the trial
which had been fixed for the 9th in
slant. ~ correspondent Of The New
York Sum pre- licts that strange pic, c
Of testimony will be introduced by the
State. lie says: s..
There is some rather conclusive cvi-
dcnco TINT the medical mon who have
almost consumed, boiled, and cut to
pieces with their knives alid chemicals
! the body of Mary Standard, hayc dis
! coeYrca with the micloscOpc Il little
spcck That tmay'bc very dai1!aging to
| Mr.. Hayden. ,a ''HHas = -.
Prof. White has had Mr.. Uaydcn's
knife blade under his microscope, and
has examined every spcck thereon. !.
'WEat did YOU find on it!" Judge
Harrison asked him at the preliminary
examination.
"Blo0d."
"What Kind Of blood?"
"l[nman blood"
! And the Rev Mr.. Hayden looked as
interested and inmoccntly earnest as
the professor while this testimony was
given as the stiit1cnt does to The pro-
tcssor in college at the climax ofan cx-
pertinent in natural philosophy. Jtc
attcrward told, and his wife told, how
the blood got there. "Just as,'I Mr..
Jones said, "blood gets on the pen
! knife at times of all Of u.s. Mr.. Hay
den had cut his finger. Now, Prof.
! White was obliged TO admit that
science had not yet got so far as to be
able 10 distinguish Mary Stannard's
blood from the Rev. Mr.. Haydcn's, SO
the blood spccks on the knife went for
naught with the justice, ana he dis
charged Mr.. Hayden. But science did
not let go of the case. The micro
scope, chemicals, measurements, keen
eyes, hours of patient work on spcck
that breath would blow away, have,
it is now said, made discovery. The
muscles, the flesh Of Mary Stannart's
neck near the stab that killed her, have
bcen resolved to their origina gases
and elements, to discover any foreign
matter such as spcck Of steel. When
that which had been Mary Stannnrql's
neck became VapOr under the CHEMISTS
manipulation, then the mic roscopc
was put upon tho clean white paper
that would catch any foreign substance
and hold it. To the naked eye there
appeared on the paper nothing more
than spcck like dust tn t q whiff Of
wind might have blown there. But
upon it the micrssscopist placed glass
that could make one hair scom the sizc
Of rope, and then the spcek resolved
itself into rusty little piece Of steel
with clearly defined form. 1t must
have come from the blade Of The knife
that killed Mary S!annard. Now tho
glass is run along the blade ofthc Rev.
Mr.. Haydcn's knife, or which Prof.
! White found blood. There arc one or
two little hicks easily seen in it, too
!; large to match this little piece. At
! last defect is discovered it seems as
though the little specl on the white
paper, if applied to this defect would
just fit 1t, and by the most delicate
manipulation the fitting is successfully
done, and the prosecuting officers are
informed that tho savants have discov-
cred o spsck ofiron that dropped from
the tleshy parts around tho wound that
just fits nick in the blade Of the Rev.
Mr.. 1Iaydcn's knife. Sucl, is the story
7 that, somewhat Indefinitely, but with
. sufficient detail to make 1t worthy of
tho attention Of the Rov. Mr.. Hayden's
counsel, is roDorted regarding tho rc-
suit of the scicrtitlc mems work in dis
covering Evidence. a'' hJ"
Mr.. Iayden stiM Keeps Himself oc-
cnpied in reading and writing III his
cell in the New Haven Jail. lie. has
= grown Aeshyy and the longconhnelnemt
has taken off some ofthc healthy brown
! color that he had when he was arrest
cd. 1t is understood that if the defense
Makcs any effort to- prove good rcpu-
tation, Mr.! IIaydclrs former ncighbors
on Cape Cod arc to be" called in rcbut-
tal to- testify chat his reputation thero
I was not of the best. The trial will
@probabYlbe begun in October.