, 1879-03-16
MRS, UNDERnILI,,
Result of the Examination at Ar.
iington Heights.
Sic Is Held Without Bail to Await the
Grand Jury's Action.

|
| after $50 o'clock ia the afternoon prevented
| TIE TRIBUNE, in its issue Of yesterday morn
ing, from presenting an account Of the previous
evenings proceedings before Justice Dunton.
| In time it may dawn upon the minds of the
| denizens Of that suburb that telegraphic con-
nection with the city wouldn't tie bad thing, but
! ut present there is most plentiful lack Of
! accommodations in the way Of communication
| between the two points, and the newspapers as
we'll as the Inhabitants simply have to make the
! best Of 1t. 1t was possible yesterday, however,
to catch up with tho proceedings, and the reader
is therefore enabled to 60 on with the story in
oil its completeness up to date.
It appears that there was no particular diff
! Guilty encountered in getting Mrs underhill out
OF jail and III removing her to the country.
Deputy-sheriff Blum. presented MS order to the
Jailer, got his prisoner, and dispatched word
to Mr.. Woodbridge to meet him at the train.
Mr.Woodbridgc was there, and the two arrived ut
the village about 6 o'clock, Mr.. Woodbridge in
terposins no tecbnicalitles whatever. 4 con-
tinuauce was taken until I, at which hour the
examination was resumed in the JUSTICES hall,
in the presence Of about half the people In the
town.
MRS. DUcKLASD
PANoNAAe40A3
Mr.. Wilson and Col Shirley, and testified that
old man Underhtll was opposed to tue sale Of
his household goods last fall. while Mrs. Under
hill favored it, In fact demanded it, and i'm
pressed her demands by going for the
matters worse, said she hated and despised him
anyhow. The old man particularly wanted to
save certain picture, but she wouldn't hear to
it, and it was sold. In reference TO ncr letter to
:lrs. johnson, suggesting that Susie taSe
johnson gave it to Mr. Woodbridge. She then
proceeded, In her volubie way. to explain what
she meant by certain expressions used therein,
all OF which was set forth IN yesterdays IRtB-
uSE. She further testified to meeting Airs. !.
in Chicago aioug in December, 1873, aud the lat
ter then told her that the old man Was sick, had
lost the use Ut his legs, and that she had left
him at home, although very cold day, IN q
feeble condition.
er, who testified that he helped lay the old man
out, and noticed that the pit OF bis stomach Vas
all drawn in until it WIS no thicker than wit
ness two bands. In other words, the old man
was nothing more than skin and bones. Wit
ness thought he had been starved and frozec to
when witness went there.
DIR. HAWKS
was called, and testified substantially to what he
told The TRIBUNE reporter Friday afternoon,
insisting that it WAS old age, want OF suitable
nutrition, and exposure to the cold that caused
he had been fed as witness directed, he
would probably hare gotten better. In
his opinion, the raising vi q window in
weather such as then prevailed, and its
being left open all night, with the draught CON-
ing in OH the old man, could not but have re-
suited fatally.
Dir. Woodbridge appeared TO think the Doctor
about the only witness who was worthy OF any
thing like q cross-examination. and medical
science aud jurisprudence tried to get the best
Of each other for some little time. Tie Doctor
steadily maintained that the old man Ind good
appetite, could cut well II nc had anything
nutritious 10 eat, and that there was no reason
for his going of if he had been fed we'll md
otherwise taken care Of. Mr. Woodbridge on
the other hund, drew forth an admission froa1
the witness that the old mans daily excreta re-
yealed the presence Of digcstcd food. and SUBJ
scoucntly used this admission In his argument
to show that, with this evidence OF healthy digeS
ton, starvation was out OF the question.
MR. E. l.. ALLEN
testified to hearing David johnson charge Mrs.
u. with having thrown pail of water on tue
old man, with having turned him out of the
house and kept him out all of one night, and
with having kept his food and tobacco from him,
nil Of which she then admitted, md begged the
old mau to withdraw the divorce proceedings
then pending, promising to do better bv him
AIr. Allen also testified TO hearing them quarrel
;us, and her calling him " q dirty old hog,'' aud
wishing that hc was out of the way. at another
time size said in witncss' presence that she
hated tue old mau, and would never cook Tor
him or do an,thing for him any more. Mt:
Allen, it will be remembered, kept about S1,700
of the old mans money while the divorce pro-
ceedings were pending. Mrs. U. got an order
sented st tic order to air Allen, got it, d and
then, as afr. Allen testified, represented that
s4DO OF il was, going to the old country to paw
debt. while to the old man she told quite q |
story, namely, that they (her neigh !
bors) had stolen it.
III. j. n. Oi,nstcd. the village Postmaster,
corroborated muvh that MIR. Allen had testified !
10, adding that Mrs. u, at 3 certain sociablc, |
when reproached for her treatment Of the old |
nan, admitted the charge and promised to do |
better.
The next witness was
BErsEr TuoR1soH,
servant at the house during portion Of the
line when the old man was sick. From her
trapping size, she has earned thu
;obriouet Of "Bg Betsey.", She was
ecalied aud testified that the window
Turing his sickness. and that when she tried to
,ut it down the ice was frozen on the easement
ii that it couldn't be closed. The weather at
his time vas very cold, aud the old inau's bed
wouldn't eat there hersslf bocaufe the food was
o bad, and for three days the olu man himself
idn't get but one meal. When she spoke to
lrs. U. about him, the latter replied that she
ated the dirty old hog, and didn't want to
On tie cross, alr. Woodbridge endcayored to
how ttlat the witness did washing for Mrs. U.
nd took the clothes home ior that purpose,
'ltich might, account for her , not TAX
ng her meals in the house: The witness
asisted that her reason for not eating there was
hat tho food was not tit to eat. The smell Of