The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-05-23


In short time. however, the n4me OF Gorouer
james Dempsey was called. He testified that
an tho thlhss shoWn, IN court 4h1 inhrked ns
exhibits had previously been bClore Nun as
Coroner. He also said that when George Hom-
mol first saw the body found in tho hnrrel he
said he thought it was that " his daughter. but
anerwurd on disintcrriuE the body a second
time 1t was found that the bones OF neither arm
2S peRSd during ny sRn Rnnie H6%mmes % grhoodi. i ""p-
Counsel for the defence having obtained per-
mission from the Judge to make an opening
address. although he had already called one
witness. said to the jury that under his advice
keinhardt had never opened MS mouth hui II
was the intention Mt the last to tell the truth.
This young man was married. He lived hap
PLY with his wife. She wanted to rid herself OF
why he was compelled to conceal the death Of
his wifc. Having been intimate with a girl
named Paulina Dittm9r. and having been told
hv her that she was to become mother, lie was
n ked Ivy her to marry her. He married her on
July l3 Then when this young man saw his
wife die as the result Of malpractice. he knew
that If the officers Of the law should find her
there he would be sent 10 State prison because
there and Paulina Dttmars condition would
he assigned "a a motive. The jury now knew
tho facts and they, would be glad, tho counsel
said. that they could conscientously acQuit the
prisoner OF the crime Of murder.
Edward Ronhardt was then called to the
"On the Thursday prior to the death Of Mrs.
keinhardt she told mo she wanted TO sec some
doctor | don't know what doctor She went
on the O'Clock boat and returned at o'clock
in the evening and said she had some medicine.
She didn't tell me from whom she got ii or
about 4 O'Clock she had very great pain. She
said she had taken some medicine. She didn't
say why. She told me she thought her child
would be born. l did not strike her on the
head with hammer or anything else that
night. nor did do anything that could cause
ton performed. discovered that she was
dead about half an hour after she lay down, l
saw the child partly born. knew that paulina
Drtmar was going TO become another. knew
that might be accused OF malpractice IL the
| body OF my wife should be discovered. The
testimony concerning the carrying OF the body
| up the hill and burying Il is in the main, cor
rect. The stories about the barrel containing
crockery and irons were told to carry out my
! PURPOSE OF concealment"
Under cross examination Renhardt said tina
| his wife told him she had severe pain. ana that
| that was the only expression she gave OF her
| suffering, except that she might have repeated
| i several times. was packing" he said.
| when / discovered that she was dead. Sho
made only a slight groaning" The last time
| she spoke TO him was about 10 or IL O'Clock.
the father Of Dr. Wm. q waIser. TYu and assis,e5 &
| him IN making an examination OF the body Ho
| testified that from that examination he judged
| death might have resulted from various causes.
| Then the defence rested.
Dr. William c. walser. who was called in rc.
| buttal testified that the use OF medicine at that
stage rarely hastened parturiton. He could
| not say from the examination that the dead
| woman had not taken medicines or submitted
Mrs Herborn. called In rebuttal, testified that
she stayed home all the week preceding the
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| day OF that week. On Thursday. between and
| 10 o'clock. she entered the witnesses room in a
She was about to come into Mrs. Herborn 5 $
| room again. but her husband appeared. and
she turned back; Mrs. Herborn also saw her at
| about midday This was the day on which the
| witness heard Mrs. Reinhardt scream. and sent
her little girl in TO stop the trouble. under the
| pretence OF buying paper OF pins.
| Here the prosecution rested.
During recess from 81 TO o'clock there
| were many comments made on the unexpected
| cOurse of the defencp. MANY said that sal
| had been driven 10 II by conviction that the
Jury believed the prisoner guilty and that the
| story told by Reinhardt would possibly effect a
| Disagreement OF the jury Many believed IL
| was fatal step on the part OF the defence. and
| many others thought II was the only resort left
| 10 Relnhardt. Others put faith in it rs a com
plete and truthful explanation OF the whole
| mystery.
The summing up for the defence was begun
| Immediately after the renssemblng OF the court
| In the evening. by the light OF the sun which
was lust setting. The prisoners counsel said
! there had boen no evidence OF an outcry. Could
the jury believe that Reinharlt would venture
| to strike a death-blow with hammer or some
| other instrument n the indictment specially
charges. AT the dead Of night and OF all nights.
on that one when his landlord knew he was
WAS therefore likely 70 be wakeiul? The in
dictment charged that death was caused
proved. Dr. walser testified to tho fracture
| from an examination of the skull after it had
| been deprived Of its flesh. but he did not exam
inc the heart, the lungs, the liver or the other
| U.
reasoned that the fracture caused death. A
| mans life ought not to be taken away on ply
sicans reasonng. On the other hand. DR..
Walsers father who was To be presumed TO be-
wiser and more experienced than his son. tes-
titled that after he had made an examination
that death might haye been produced by vsri,
Gus GAUGES. As to Mrs. Herborn's testimony
that she saw Mrs. Reinharlt at home three
times on the Thursday that tho prisoner said
she went TO New York. II was 70 be attributed 10
excessive ,7eal-zeal' I nigh! be. in good good
be able 10 recall the events that had occurred
to them on that 18th ofJuiy.
The speaker next defined nanslaughter In
the fourth degree, which he said consisted OF
causing a persons death not directly or inten-
uonally, but by culpable negligence. II might
be that when bis wiin came home and told him
| she had been getting some medicine. Rein
hardt had been culpahly negl lgent In not send
ing for physician. II. on the other hgud the
jury should nnd that Rcinhardt struck his wife
in the heat ~ rasslon--a'hough OF ms there
was not The sl ightest eyideneo,th this also would
| be manslaughter in the fourth degree
The summing up was closed by a description
OF the responsibility resting on those who de-
privcd human being of Lie. Jurors in such n
case should be sure they had culprt and not q
victim.
The PROSECUTION began to sum up little 9'teI
so'clock. The court room had becn lighted
with seven Kerosene lamps placed On the Judges
desk and the table Of ihr lawyers. The audience
where tho darkness was donse Many of them
had driven miles to attend the trial. The FIRST
| point made by the counsel for the prosecutl ON
was that the defence had not offered 10 make
their partial confession until they had been
bound around with a chain Of invin.inle ov
dence Reiuhardt, by his own confession. had
tho motive and the opportunity 10 commit
murder He had two wives on his hands, One
wife was complaining. She was made the vic
tim. There were contentious in his Slater
Island household. There was another motive
The second wife wanted togo TO keeping house
His first wife had. He got pos4eSsiol
Of that phantom, ,hquptcd,. blool,stained
furniture and carried II of 10 his new
/ home Again, Augustus Krymers cVlenc,