Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-05
The Hayden Case.
Drawing to Its ClOse-HumOrs of tn


 Drawing to its C10se-HuIaOrs of the
 Great Trial.
 The great trial will last through the present week. Judge Harrison and Mir. Hubbard in- form US that the evidence will most probably be finished by the close of court Friday. The court will probably then adjourn till Tuesday. The arguments, 1t is thought, will occupy a couple of days. Speculations are rife as to the result of the case now that it is at last coming somewhere near an end. Since MT. Jones fourished metaphorically black oak club over Ben Stevens' head, inquiry is ire quent as to what was up. MT. Jones is an able lawyer, and what he intends to show to the jury in support of the club questions is one of the features in public curiosity as to the coming testimony. What the defence in tend to do on that point was foreshadowed briefly by some of MT. Jones' inquiries, from which the inference was that witnesses on that point would be produced. Otherwise it is kept shady and as something (which no feller can find out" Stevens removal back to Rockland the same day was not thought ad- visable, as too much of jaunt for an invalid, especially over such a rough road, and he was accordingly taken from his hotel, the Ton tine. to tho State Hospital, and placed under the charge of some of the skilled nurses pro- vided at that institution. He announced him. self as feeling decidedly rested Saturday and | better than when he left Rockland, especially with the siege of the examination somewhat off his mind.
 The man Hazlett, who figures in the ''great immoral show" as some people are in their less serious moments disposed to call the trial, | was found to be in an exceedingly irate frame \ of mind the other afternoon in the ante-room | of the court, during recess, owing to 8 lively l talk he was having with Gilbert Stone, one oi | the Rockland witnesses and a friend of MT. Hayden, who WAS insisting that his friend l before him had been called Hazen or Hasen or Hazeling, or all of those names. | Hazlitt was demonstrative and frewate1 | had contributed to render him frisky | MT. Waller WAS in the next rood | with various of the counsel and other lega ! gentlemen. Some one noticing the dispute from the next room thought of an impending conflict, though Gilbert Stone seemed to b, in no alarm, being well groomed vigoroul II man and evidently good match for his op ponent, both in talk and personal prowess | MT. Waller was in the midst of the caucus il a jify, and collaring his indignant friend witl | the many aliases, as MT. Watrous facetiousl, termed him in court, marched him out an( shut the door, bidding him recollect that h. | might be,Hszen around when he was drunk
 but was Hazlitt when sober, to the grea amusement of the bystanders at the sportiv proceeding.
 The discussion of the merits of the Haydel case take wide range. One gentleman wrot to this city from Texas asking if it was req or mock trial which was going on. He wa inclined to think it joke. Discussion i common in all parts of New Haven county a least over the case, and opinions are held yer, tenaciously as seen by the following.
 groom was busy near the stable entrance a1
 guing over the trial and crowd of friend
 and neighbors standing around him. H.
 threw his arms about and talked with grea
 vehemence in attempting to demonstrate tn
 justice of his opinion. Finally mild gen
 tleman of judicial looking aspect who h1
 stepped up enquired, My man what woul
 you do if you should find it established a
 clear as the monday sun that you wer
 wrong?" ''I'd cut my throat,' was the re
 sponse made in intense feeling, amid roa
 from the bystanders.