The New York herald., 1879-12-24

anything toward getting it all that Monday after.
noon. after your return from Madison"
Hayden-I stayed around the house and res ted
we had chips enough.
q. Do you know anybody who you in that
woodlot or going III or coming out? A. No. sir.
ANDREW HAzKS, ALIAS HAzLETr..
q. You have stated that you have known Andrew
HaIett as Andrew Hazen Who did you ever hear
call him Hazen? A. heard many several names
civenl. and did not know him by any other name
Q. Before you testified on the first trial had you
heard that a certain word in Mary's letter to her
sister Hazen aud not Hayden? A. didmot.
There's no claim of that kind interrupted Mr.
Jones. 1--WE claim the name is Haley. There'll be
more testimony on that subject by and by.
q. Didn't you ever speak Of him at the first trial
Hazlettg A. No, sir. knew him as Hazen only.
"It appears here in the record Of your testimony
ducing paper, and Mrs. Jones inquired tqnickly
What recordy' Mr.. Waller replied that it was the
report 1of the phonoerapher. who. he said will be
Mr.. Waller questioned the accused at some length
regarding the alleged Of his jacknfe for peelng
vegetables and other ordinary household purposes.
Hayden repeated his statement that the afternoon
before the murder he gave his knife to his wife to
peel pears and did not again it until the day toll
lowing the MURDER he did not know that any one
excepting his wife heard the request for the knife
why his wife could not as well have used ordin-
AIRY case knives.
Q. That jackknifc was pretty well known. wasn't
it? A. Yes. perhaps by the man who sold It to me
and by many in Rockland who had seen me using it.
Q. No knife was found near the corpses A. NOT
that know OF
z. You owned no other knlie taan this? knife
Q. You 10 not know that it used on a
dog. that If there dogs blood it you would
not know it? A. No. sir.
This query was connected with the blood corpuscle
theory, the experts having testified that the
pusces OF dogs blood more closely resembled those
of than those of any other animal.
q. When you asked your wife for that knife tho
day after the murder what did you want it fors A.
To clean my finger nails; had dressed and was
going up to the inquest
Q. You cleaned tho blade sometimes. A. Yes. sir.
tie boy should cut himself with the sharp small
blade than the dull one? A. Yes sir; because it
would make clean. smooth cut and not tear the
skin.
''That blade was very sharp ON that Sd of Septem-
ber. the day of the murderY asked Mr. Waller, he
held up the knife and twired it between his fingers.
IL cannot say" responded Mr.. Hayden nonchal-
antly.
SEVERAL. POSITIVE DENIALs.
Q. Now as to the oyster supper. Did Charles Haw-
ley and Mary Stannard's sister see you in your
house and Mary being there about eleven O'Clock
O. Were you not in your house alone with Mary
Stannard that night after they went away? A. No.
O. Did they not ask you to let her go home. and
did you not that she would stay there all night?
A. No, sir.
O. In the month before the murder. when you
rode with Mary to Middletown. you were alone with
her on the road out Of sight Of anybody on that
lonely road. sometimes half an hour at a time?
Q. And you had no criminal intimacy with her on
that trip? A. No. sir.
the lot where your pastured? A. Yes sir.
Q. And you never met Mary there? A. No. sir.
all directions-a good place for quiet meeting |?
A. Yes. sir.
O. Wouldn't your COW. in her innocency some
time wander up around that spring A. suppose
SO, but usually called to her.
Q. And when searching for that COW you never
O. Did you know anything about Mary's menstrual
condition? A. No. sir.
O. Did you not tell Rev. Mr.. Eldridge of Middle
al1 hat Z WA fnl ly tn hat ad
that GIRL because your wife had told you that Mary
had her regular periods? A. had some CONVERSE
never spoken to me about Mary's condition.
Q. Did you know at the time you testified at the
inquest that Mary was pregnant Or believed herself
O. Did you not tell q Mr.. Greene on that day that
Mary had got herself into trouble and had laid it on
O. Nor that she had got herself into condition
OF pregnancy at Guilford and had committed sui
eide on account of it? A. No. sir.
Q. You were on good terms with the Stannards?
Mr.. Waller now skipped from one subject to
another over the field of Hayden's story.
q. Who WAS the first person you told about buying
the arsenicG A. Ny wife. on Thursday. two days
Q. You were suspected on the Wednesday night
before. Did you sleep well9 A. Yes. part of the
time.
Q. And exhibited to her none of the trouble on
your mind? A. endeavorcd to conceal the trouble
from her; did not tell her until Thursday fore
noon.
Q. Did you then tell her that you had been to
Middletown on the day Of the murder. and had
bought arsenic and had thrown away the wrappers
the poison? A. told her about the purchase but
not about the wrappers
Q. What did she say to you about arsenic? A. Oh.
Mr.. Waller cannot say; the poor woman was COM
petely broken down by the story Of my accusation.
q. When did you again speak to her about the ar
senc? A. On the following Sunday.
O. Don't you think 1t strange that your wife, when
on the witness stand. forgot that you told her on
Thursday? -. No, sir; only wonder that the poor
woman recollected anything Of the events OF that
day.
q. You say you next told two stewards Of your
church at Madison Friday, after your arrest, in
private room. Did Sheriff Hull hear you? A. 1
there told them, and Mr.. Hull had given permis-
sion to 10 into a private room.
q. Are you sure that 1t was not on Monday after ?
A. lam about that
Q. Did you tell Of this arsenic purchase in o pub
lie way until after you knew Mary's body to be
examined? A. Yes sir; ut the dinner table, at tho
house my keeper the day before the trial opened
O. Did you not then know that 1t was discovered
that you had purchased arsenic in Middletown? A..
No, sir; did not.
Q. Hadn't you then it in q newspaper? A.
No, sir.
O. You werc on pleasant terms with Susan Haw-
Icy, tho sister of Mary StannsrdY A. Yes sir; she
and it has been paid since my arrest
q. When did you last see Mary Stannard alive? A.
Shortly after eleven o'clock Tuesday, September 8,
1878.
O. Did she appear to be depressed? A. No. sir.
Mr.. Waller-It Is now five O'Clock, and would like
to suspend here and have o chance to look over my
notes before ask few inal questions.
An understanding reached that Hayden be re-
called the next court day. and the court then ad-