Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-08
The Hayden Case.

Witnesses Regarding the Club with
 Blood and Hair Upon It-COntradict-
 ing Witnesses of the State-The Wood 2. Lot tTIme-BenJam1n Stevens and the
 Alleged Lumber COnversatiOn-Br0tla-
 CT Ministers-Other FeRsuress
 The proceedings at the Hayden trial were of special interest. The day was devoted to sur-rebuttal evidence, and it was listened to with great attention by the throngs present.
 The court opened yesterday morning at 9:10 o'clock. The State rested it's rebutting evidence on Tuesday night and yesterday the sur-rebuttal WAS commenced.
 The first witness called was Mrs. H. H. Hayden. In reply to MT. Jones she said she heard Mir. Eldridge testify. Said she stated that he was at their house once. Saw him on Friday afternoon about o'clock. At that time my husband had been arrested. Think there was no one there but my children and Mrs. Talcott Davis. He remained about an hour, then went away and afterward came back again.
 MT. Jones-Was Mary's physical condition a subject of conversation between you and MT. Eldridge.
 A. It was We were speaking of MT. Hayden's arrest and he said they seemed to be trying to weave chain around him. I asked him to what he referred. He said Su- san Haw1ey sstory. I told him had heard Susan's story and it did not seem to me that Mary could have told Susan such & story, judging from what she had told me of her physical condition at times, and the last time about month before.
 o. Was there anything else said about Mary's physical condition /?
 A. think not.
 o. Did you have conversation wi MT. Eldridge after he came of the stand?
 A. I did at recess. He spoke of not re- membering well as to his conversation with me. He asked me if remembered the con- versation with him and asked him if he did. asked him if he remembered about saying anything about 'weaving chain" about MT. Hayden. He said he did not.
 o. Did you have conversation with Ell more Scranton about the condition of Mary's clothing. When was this
 A. It was on Friday and in my kitchen. Mrs. Davis was there and we were talking about getting the work done. She (Mrs. Davis) said that Fillmore Scranton was pass ing and she would go out and speak to him. She went out and he came in. Q. What did he say about the clothing? A. He said Mary's clothing at the time she was found was s'clear up" and he pulled them down. Q. Have you any knowledge about the bottle of laudanum that was found at Hay den's house? A. We called Dr. Matthewson in 1876 for our little boy. He left small bottle of laud- anum which was never used. Mary came to the house and said her brother Charles had | the toothache and gave her the laudanum, | and never saw it afterward. o. Rev. MT. Gibbs says he was at your house on Saturday afternoon following the homicide. Can you tell what time he came | there?
 A. It was late in the afternoon and think | ahnuf half mast His yvifo and Jannia hie | daughter, came with him. My brother MT, l Shaw was there when Mir. Gibbs came. should say he came about half hour before MT. Gibbs. Mrs Ellsworth Scranton and | Mrs. Talcott Davis were there and others came afterward,. think Mrs. Eliza Stone came. remember that Mir. Gibbs sat down | in the dining room door. don't recolleci
 having any conversation with Mir. Gibbs about my husband going to the wood lot. I know
 I never told him what he testified to, as te the time of MT. Hayden's starting for the l wood lot.
 | to the time your husband started for the wood lott
 | A. Never.
 Cross examination by Mr. Waller 1 Mir. Waller-You don't remember any con verRation with MT. Gibbs on that day about going to the wood lot2 | A. No, sir. l o. Did not your husband tell you after his arrest that he went to the wood lot about I 1 o'clock?
 ] A. No. don't recoIleot that he eve,
 spoke of it. l Q. Do you recollect telling anybody with | in three days of the homicide about the time
 your husband started for the wood lot2 A. Yes. told MT. EIdridge on Friday af- | ternoon.
 o. Was there not something that occurred before that Friday that made the time of youl
 husbands starting important?
 Q. Did you you say anything to MT. Eldridge
 about arsenic? l A. No. sir.
 o. Did you not talk with Mir Eldridge
 about the menstrual condition of Mary?
 A. It was just alluded to. Q. Was there any conversation between you and any other gentleman about Mary'f
 physical condition, previous to Friday? l A. I talked with my brother about it. | Q. Did you talk with your brother about
 the arsenic
 A. I don't think did. 1 o. Did you tell MT. Eldridge that Mary l was regular in her periods the month before
 A. think I did.
 o. Did you not testify at Madison that you | did not tell your husband about the menstru | al condition of Mary :? | A. did.
 Q. Did it ever occur to you that you had | 1 ridge until after he had testified? l A. Yes. I talked with MT. EIdridge about | my testimony at Madison and he said it wa.
 almost word for word as it occurred between us.
 Q. Did MT. .Eldridge in his conversation l with you at Madison make any allusion to the I menstrual discharges of Mary? A. No, there was not. We talked about l the knife and Mr. Waller Never mind about the knife ! now.
 1 Mr.Jones insist that the witness shall no
 be ehoked of from answering the question. | MT. Waller took exception to the expression
 ''choked off," He said he did not desire to
 "choke of" anybody Judge Park said witness could make any I statement in explanation of her answer SC l long as she did not wander off to other sub jects.
 Mir. Waller. Now, madam, I want to asl l Mir. Eldridge at Madison anything said about l Mary's menstrual condition A. There was not o. Had your attention been called to this matter up to the time that Mir. Eldridge testi l fled to it in court7 A. thought of what MT. EIdrides said $ l great many times, my mind being impressed | by what he said about the stchains." l o. Do you recollect of any man, woman ol
 child that you have talked with regarding the conversation you had with MT. Eldridge, up
 to the time he testified in court? | A. I don't remember that I did, but ] | would not swear that did not, Q. Did you talk with anybody while Mir. l Eldfidge was testifying? A. I spoke to MT. Jones while Mr. Ed ridge was testifying and told him that I rec
 ollected having such conversation with Eld. ridge.
 O. In talking with MT. Eldridge after he
 had testified why did you not tell him that l what he testified to was conversation that he
 had with you and not with Mir. Hayden? A. don't know. Q. How did you know that Mary Stan
 nard was regular in her periods? Was it by observation or did she tell you2
 A. She complained to me of being uawell. This was about the first of August. o. Was there anything said in playful way between you and Mary that if anything
 happened to you she would marry Mir. Hay l den
 A. Yes, s,such talk was had in playful way. l and Mary said you don't believe Mr. Hay. den would marry me, do you? I replied, no, Mary. don't. Daughter O. Mr. Scranton tn1d vou kbo4 Mo-r,s