Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-15

,f the grinding like Mir. John H. Leeds. And how much fairer it would have been not to have used such secrecy in attempting to convict man. Then there was the Tyler's lndistinet knowledge as to the identity of the arsenic Hayden purchased Time had almost erased the circumstance. Take kernel or corn (making an exhibit to the jury) to show how substance in bottle would pack down by shaking and that some arsenic would adhere long after new had been introduced, or many new filings been put in. The druggists evil dence was too extremely uncertain as to the identity of that arsenic, too finasy to hang mans life upon. Again, that frank, truth his home at 2 o'clock. Impossible to doubt her. Gould she believe her husband mur- derer, she must believe him guilty of inf delity. One follows the other. Her testimony cannot be broken down.
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 was sorry that counsel tried her as they did as if she had not suffered enough. Susan Hawley was not treated that way on the wit ness stand. (Mr. Waller made remark not audible) MT. Jones said she was asked if she would forget her God to save her hus- band. What 8 code of morals to proclaim abroad-that wife should forget her Bible and forget her God before a man could love her as he ought. Better infinitely is that wife, pure as the snowflake, whom nothing but h1L14kAbY PoWcI Cau SW6Ito HUH AcI L1OAo and from the truth. It is funny doctrine that one wouldn't love his wife unless she would lie or perjure herself for him. If she would lie for one, why not for another? MT. Jones now reviewed the evidence of MT. Gibbs, the clergyman, in scathing terms.
 Mir. Hayden's behavior at the body was again cited. What under heaven could an innocent man do that he did not do His clothing again free from anything to connect him with the murder. Concealment of purchase of arsenic? Why, it was known that he went. Folks saw him. He told it to the Stannards. Again, if he didn't havethat lumber converse tion, how did he know of it except some one told him? And if some one told him, heaven and earth at Rockiand would have been raked over to produce the proof. Hayden's time of telling his wife of the arsenic is questioned. A secret? Is it not sworn to that he told four or five different people of 1t before his arrest ? Johnson, Minor, all these people could have been called if it was doubted We'll, how did Susan Hawley know it? Why, that night that whole town was afre. That charcoal man who met him at Middletown was there Ben Stevens was told of it by Hayden. He would have known of it. Men may smile, but laughing isn't going to clear Ben Stevens nanae. Don't dodge short corners. Let the testimony have it's full and proper weight l am interested in this case. I shall live if that man hangs. But he isn't to be railroaded to the gallows. Ben Stevens is contra dicted by fifteen different witnesses, by John Talmadge, George Atwell, Fred Dowd, J. s. Buell., Manfred A. Wilcox, Ed ward E. Meigs in regard to the lumber, etc. H. H. Wright about his route home, and be- ing 'full." F. D. Bartlett, lumber Charles W. Lane as to talk out of doors and that d-d old knife; Alton l.. Stone, because he said the old man aid not go into the pantry, Ebe- nezer Watkins and Mir. Coe and Charles Smith as to the testimony at Madison.
 n L. the State to contradict about going into the pantry, and limiting it only that they did not shut the door.
 tell you Rockland has been searched with @ finetooth comb without much regard to the kind they caught. (Laughter.) Two dollars and 8 half day brings lem out better than charcoal; but I hadn't ought to say word about that, as was brought up in a charcoal country myself, and have grave doubts some something else. MT. Jones deprecated the questioning of the time at the wood lot. Why, gentlemen. sumter along and take half an hour to go to the store for paper of tobacco. And because some one else could have done 1t in five minutes this the speed of deer used, if the girl was all ready to be killed, he might possibly have done 1t by running all the way home.
 MT. Eldridge's testimony was next taken up. The clergyman had evidently intended honestly. But it amounted to but little ot importance. Allow that Hayden knew of the menstrual condition of the girl. Il helps us as showing that he would have no motive. Look at Hill, the stenographer's testimony. It is evident that he did not take the evidence literally and yer batim, as he is contradicted by various wit nesses. He reports: I turned my wheel and they (the children) came out and got in. Now these little children didn't come out and crawl in over the spokes. He helped them in. The witness had it substantially correct, but not exact. He was the young man who was so anxious for information about what memory was; he was a little off on some oi his work. A list of witnesses was given, o1 witnesses who contradicted about Luzerne Stevens statement of the wood lot time. man contradicted by ten different witnesses was hardly the man to testify at this late day that he said differently. The hole in the barn and the boards, that evidence was where lots of evidence came in to contradict the State. Mir. Jones rscurred briefly and rapidly to four or five other places of contra dictory evidence, all of which he said had been lugged in by main strength to give char acter to the case. Mir. Jones closed with 6 brief .impassioned appeal, re-assertipg his be. lief that MT. Hayden was an innocent and deeply wronged man.