The New York herald., 1879-10-16
MARY STANDARDS MURDER.


ESCAPE sERv1cE-BEoINNING THE TRIAL
spoINTs" ON MEDICAL ExAMINATIoNs-PRo-
FEssoR WHITES STATEMENT.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.,. Oct. Is. 1879.
Creditable progress made in the Hayden MUIR
der trial to-day. The jury was completed and is
above the average of juries. The evidence was be-
gun during the afternoon. and thus far
has been comparatively unimportant. The State
merely desired to make q presentation OF the main
facts of the case leaving the future the bringing
to light of the details. which of signal i'm
portance. The selecting OF the six addt-
tional jurymen required to. complete the
panel was wearisome affair. After the
adjournment yesterday Sheriff Byxbee and his
deputies had been in sharp pursuit. Of talesmen and
hived about three dozen. fewwere merchants and
clerks OF New Haven. but the majority hailed from
the rural districts, and. as rule, were ready II
not anxious for jury duty. Generally they
had read of the case only in their weekly
papers and formed no opinions from the
meagre information thus furnished. Counsel for
both sides showed disposition to take this class
Of jurors and they fast faded out of sight under the
operation of peremptory challenges. Twenty are
allowed each side under Connecticut law. But
talesman, city man. claimed to have conscientious
scruples against capital punishment; his country
question was put to them Some excellent jnrymen
were peremptorly challenged for apparent
cause. Louis Feldman was one. president
of the New Haven Board of Solectmen. and
Wealthy sws ana otSsr IN tho
city. He was finely preserved man, distinguished
in appearance. but his self-possessed manner and
hard blue eyes gave the impression that II the
audience was against Hayden it would be difficult TO
warp Feldmans Judgment. The defence excused him.
Eugene A. Jones, a hashily dressed young mechanic.
of Hamden was rejected by tho State He made
most remarkable statement-that he had never read
line about the case and. on being Questioned tnr-
ther explained that he never read the daily news
papers, but confined his reading exclusively to tho
weekly story papers.
ESCAPED AT Last.
Persistence won the release, from the jury box. of
Jeremiah A. Bishop. ex-treasurer Of Ben Noyes' de-
funct National Life and Trust Insurance Com
pany. After lengthy examination as to
his qualifications Bishop was accepted. but
had not been ten minutes in the jury box
before he arose, and asked leave to make state
ment 1t was to the effect that, upon careful reec-
tion he had grave doubts whether he had not. at
sut Of HAYDEN Chief Justice Park took Mr. Bishop
in hand, and after securing from him reluctant ad
mission that any opinions previously held would
not warp his judgment now,> decided that Mr..
Bishop was qualified and must serve. Bishop
knitted his brows in annoyance. and few moments
and scratched off pencil note. This he passed up to
the judges, who. after scanning It closely, held .
whispered consultation. Then they passed the
selves and whispered mysteriously. The purport
OF the note rot revealed. and moment later it
was passed back to Bishop, who destroyed it. With
out referring to its tenor Chief Justice Park re-
marked to Bishop that the difficulty could be SO
ranged as not to interfere with his duties as juror
and to this Bishop replied that he was very anxious
to be relieved not only for this but for other
Counsel conferred, and finally agreed to let Bishop
Bishops reasons for wishing to be at liberty
curious. Counsel for the State Insurance Commits
IN T
peror Court OF this county for the of the
book Of stock subscriptions and certain and
on the National Life and Trust Company. Bishop
being treasurer. As the documents were not pro-
duced, petition made that the officers be pun
ished for contempt Of court. They were cited to
appear in court last week, but . postp0nement
to the 2lst inst was agreed upon, when 1t will be
decided whether the three officers including Bishop,
shall shall not to jail for contempt. In Wow
Of this condition Of things it is natural that Bishop
he was assuredly free from persecution.
THE JURY COMPLETED.
.varsga Tbs men Chosen to.av we're Horaco ~ 'Ts
Perry, New Haven carpet dealer; John 7. Many,
of New Haven. who is engaged in driving patent
city and now retired from business; Albert f.
Clark. of Seymour, Auditor Of Town Accounts. and
two farmers. Eli G. Bronson and John Bashan. both
Of Middlebury. The jury includes six farmers. two
men retired from business, man,li acturer. sani
tary inspector one storekeeper and one well driver
THE OPENING TESTIMONY.
The jury having been sworn and the oath admin
istered to them. the hrst witness for the prosecu
house Of the Stannard girl and assisted in
removing the body from the woods to
the Of 1S es nd s,y 70
North Madison. testified to seeing the corpse
at Mr.. stannsrds house that night. DR.. Earle Mat
medical student at the time Of the tragedy,
described the wound. He cut the abdominal
sharply cross-examined and made the singular ad-
mission that he had first had opinion. based upon
talk Of bystanders. that the cruel knife wound in
&l,o hao f-f.0i~ Cd
ination Of the uterus proved that the suspicious
that the murdered girl was PREGNANT were
founded, and further than this there were marks
upon the underclothing which would indicate ordi-
narily that such not her condition close
examination Of Oscar Stevens son Of the village un.
dertaker secured point for the defence. that at
various times after the murder the body was not
under watch.
A HEADLrss CORPSE
Andrew Hazlett. of North Madison. who opened
the grave . short time after the burial, described
CHASTITY scene. without semblance OF emotion on
his part Reaching the coffin he cambered out of
the grave and Professor White climbed down into IL
and opened his glittering instruments. The cloths
through the bone and sinew of the neck and head
being cut from the body was loosely wrapped In .
being given more thsn one white and uneasy fsoe
was seen among the lady spectators
THE BODY PROFESSIONALLY MurIIATEp:
The sheriff of the county testified that he
present twice when Mary stannard's grave
opened; he was there In his official capacity,
play n'ff Professor 0eeR Whe Of the Sso Ms%
cal College. subjected to extended
examinations; in the past twenty-five years he had
performed over a hundred post-mortem examine
tons; in September last at the house of the
murdered girl. an examination was made and
the stomach and liver removed and placed
In glass bottles; these were ultimately turned
to Professor johnson for analysis by direction OF
the State Attorney; meantime they had been pre-
served in absolute alcohol and safe from inter-
ference; the following month the head
taken by witness. VINO removed the brain substance
and turned that also over to Professor johnson;
In March, 1879, the body again In medical hands:
DR.. Hotchkiss, who was in company with the wit
ness. donned rubber gloves and removed kidney.
pieces OF the guet, diaphragm, intestines. lungs.
and quantity Of disintegrated matter from
the abdomen. At this point Professor White
taken in hand by tho counsel for Hayden and sub
tected to n sharp examination oy Mr.. Watrous. The
Professor inclined TO state things In his way,
and the efforts to make him give answers otherwise
resulted in considerable irritation. However, he
preserved his composure admirably. Mr.. Watrous
questioned him closely the point whether he saw