Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-16

foetus will be found in the womb, and so he tells the story that s'she must have been of and got into trouble, and rather than be exposed has committed suicide" Now he begins to think up his story. He is before the coroner's jury and he tells them that on that afternoon he was throwing up wood. Why was not this work done the morning before Will he tell that he bought arsenicf No. Will he tell his wife the ques- tions that the jury asked him? No. What will he do after his work in the woods? He changes his shirt, as there may be spot of blood upon it. He says he put on white shirt. but Mrs. Luzerne Stevens says he had on colored shirt. Who else says he had on white shirt /? scran- guard, gentlemen, and I will tell you what next the murderer will do. He will tell the stew ards of his church that he bought arsenic, but he don't tell them where it is. Fourteen days after this he tells where the arsenic is. It is fabricated story, gentlemen. Who put that arsenic in the barn ? I don't know, but let the insinuation of the counsel on the other side afset the statement that that arsenic was put there for Q purpose. We'll, he employs eminent counsel. The counsel put detective on the track for evidence. First it is Buell., and then Perry, then Perry and then Buell.. Mrs. Ward, and while one talks through the ear trumpet and the other records what the old lady says. What else do they do They go around and trump up evidence bear ing upon the arsenic and the visit to Middle town. Now, when MT. Eldridge comes into court and tells his story the accused says he never told him so. One end of his story is, that the girl might have got into trouble, and in the afternoon he tells Eldridge that he knew months ago that Mary was regular in her periods. Then he attempts to say that Luzerne Stevens tells what is not true, and 1o 1O% ho- Sv,ko 1,nf I<,Ia fr1 the barn. Then they attack MT. Gibbs, who says he has often been in and out of that hole. You know and know, gentlemen, that nobody says there was no hole there but Hay den. Now they attack that old man of 70, who says he searched that barn for arsenic and found none. They call him the ''gay cavalier" and try to wipe out his testimony, to their own discomfort. No, gentlemen there stands General Wilcox, and if he tells the truth, that man (pointing to Hayden) is guilty Now, what do Dana, Brewer and Wormley say? Men of education. men of breeding Because they are such should they be attacked by counsel? You heard the able argument of my associate yesterday on the question of ar senic, end I will not dwell at length on this subject. Wonderful as the cross-eXamination was on the part of the defense in regard to arsenic, yet we know that the little boy six years of age will sometimes ask questions that we cannot answer. Are these men to be
 
 is nothing new in their evidence; the tele- scope Is not new, the microscope is not new, and there is nothing new in microscopic ex- aminations. There was nothing wonderful in what they did there is nothing wonderful in looking through this microscope. We know he will discover planets one hundred thousand times as large as this earth; and do you doubt it? Who doubts but that can talk through the telephone with friends in New London, and they will know my voice. Science is not
 to be scoffed out of the Connecticut courts.
 If a man has brains and goes to college it will
 develop him as it has young Dana.
 But they say, gentlemen, you have not proven any intimacy. No, we haven't. No one ever saw him with the woman. She lived in his house six months, and do you say that crime could not have been committed I What do we prove about that oyster supper; Does anyone contradict Charles Hawley and Imogene Stannard? No. One good woman swears that she was at that supper, and she knows Hayden could not have been away. Yet she admits that he might have been uI stairs forty minutes and she not have known it. Then comes another man who swears that he | saw Hayden at just II o'clock, yet he cannot ! tell where his wife was or what he was doing Was there any reason for Hayden to gc home and take care of those children that night? No. Mary was there, she loved the | children and they loved her. Weak, feeble 1 excuse.
 Twelve years ago, gentlemen, there would have been differences In this case. The prisoner could not have testified; the wife could not have testified. I have been charged | with cruelty by some of the newspapers. Il you have not read it there is no use for me tc 1 speak of 1t. say now, gentlemen, what | said then, that if 8 woman believes her bus
 band to be innocent it was her duty to say SO If my wife is likely to starve for want o bread will steal it for her. God himsel | would not punish mo for it. One word more It is cruel for woman to testify. If wifs should commit perjury for the sake of hel husband, I don't know whether she could be punished or not, but know she ought not tc ! be. When they ask me to punish a woman | the life of her husband, they will have to send to New Haven county for somebody to do it. This poor woman has been contradicted by several witnesses. The defense have charged conspiracy to murder on the women oi l Stannard's family. They have charged it or Ben Stevens. What is the motive for Uncle ! Ben to commit the murder? Not that he has | got the woman in the family way he is toe l old for that. There is no reason. The coun. | ssl on the other side say that he wanted the ! room in the bed with Susan Hawley that Mary Stannard occupied. So he went up into 1 arsenic. What folly! Ben Stevens is out o1 | the case. Then they have brought up Haz- | lett, and he has gone out of the case What was there for a motive? can see how the | devil can take man and lead him on and on, but how such murder can be committed and | then come into court and try to throw it on
 some one else is beyond my comprehension. Gentlemen, I leave this case in your hands | If anything has crawled into that circle oi yours that you feel to influence you, go home, l and if you never prayed before, pray now
 that you may be forgiven. Remember that | unpunished murder takes something from the security of the people, and when the jury allows guilty man to escape they add to the insecurity of the people. I cannot understand why the law is so, that the counsel for the prisoner can have the last plea, but such is the case. Do your duty, gentlemen, and if you are led to a verdict of murder in
 the second degree approach your duty with out fear. Out of that group came the victim,
 and if you wait to punish criGirals without
 affecting the wife and children you will wait
 forever. If you wait to see guilt in the coun-
 tenance of prisoner tried for murder you will
 wait forever. Gentlemen, you must do your
 duty and let not womans tears deprive you of judgment. Approach your duty faithfully and leave the consequences to God.
 Afternoon.
 Judge Park-Let the house be quiet pro-