Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-16

know the trouble she Is Tn. Mrs. Studley is dead. She knew that death was approaching, but she did not contradict the story she had told about Mary. Why should she, when she told the truth? Now, as to Edgar Studley. Did you ever see better witness on the stand? Do you believe that he wonld go upon the stand and looking upon this good woman per- jure himself He tells you that he took that girl home on that day and she tells him who it was that had caused her this trouble. Stop there if you please and what is your verdict? It is night now, and we have got to Susan HawIey. Susan. Susan, am in trouble, says Mary. What does Mary do! She has told old Mrs. Studley. If she has got mother she won't tell her father; if the mother is gone she will tell the woman who takes the place of her mother. She says, Susan, think am in trouble Poor Susan it was bad enough that she had known of Mary's previous troub- les. Susan does not tell her story at first, but when she comes before the coroner's jury she truthfully tells all. She has got the let ter. Mary arrives home on that pleasant September afternoon. She does not go to MT. Hayden's house because she knows he is not at home. She starts early on Monday morn ing, but she sees Mrs. Hayden and not the msn, and Mrs. Hayden says she tells her that she wanted to see the baby. Back home she goes between 10 and Il o'clock she returns, but does not find him at home at this time. At o'clock she finds another ex- cuse to go down to Hayden's. She has been there twice before. Does she see Hayden Yes, she does. She goes with him to the barn and Mrs. Young sees her go. She goes to see him alone. Henrietta Young tells the truth and Rachel Stevens tells the truth, though it may wiring your hearts. She meets him in the barn. You can hear her say to him, sI am pregnant my breasts are hard; what can you do for me?" He thinks of three things. One is confession; but comics sion will damn him forever if he confes ,es he 1naaa hfasr1Qna and dnnnna hfa yuifa ar1G nhil. ren. What next? He thinks of abortion, Tout Oh! the danger of exposure. The devil wrestles with him; it must be death! death! death He hears her story. He says to himself, I will do no work tomorsGw' to @aeS ma man s1ys gs s.y. want o. soS go tomorrow, will go Wednesday. He leaves his house on Tuesday morning without telling his wife where he is going. He takes @ molasses jug and starts for Durham. Does he ask for ars enic there? No! he goes to Middletown. Will he see anyone that know the druggist? No. He will get his ar senic where he is not known. He meets 8 Rockland boy what now? The devil puts it in his head to go to MT. Burton's. We'll, he is in doubt about that girls condition and he will ask doctor. He sees Dr. Bailey and he don't tell him that he has got the girl in family way. He inquires about the symp- toms of his wife. Back he goes on the Mid dletown road and he stops at Stannard's. Un- cle Ben is there; Charles Stannard is there i; how shall he see Marry He asks for drink of water and gets 1t. Mary starts for the spring now he will get an opportunity to speak with her. He puts his children in the buggy and starts down the hill he meets Mary near the spring. He wants drink of water, does he? Mary cannot lift that little | lail he could not bend over and lift 1t up. l No, he chambers over the oats in front of him, | gets tlt and talks with Mary. He says he
 did not. What does Mary say? sShe tells Su- l san that Hayden has been to Middletown and l got some "guick medicine" and he is to meet
 her at the big rock. Do you believe him when he says he did not know that that mon arch rock stood ul there in those woods l Yet he leads the men around the pathway af ter the murder. Weh Mary says she is going to get blackberries, ana we leave her for . while and go back o'the spring and go home l with that man. He has tue arsenic. Who
 knows where it is ? Nobody but he. He is to meet that girl at o'clock. He will start
 out innocently on his bloody er.and, and he leaves at O clock. He says it was later but l he had previously told six men on a iury panel that he started at o'clock. If he said so at that time he thought so and not know | ing what he would finally have to meet Now how does he go? He does not tell his wife | that he has got the knife or the arsenic in hil | pocket. Mrs. Hayden says he did not take
 
 also that she had letter to write that after noon. Did she write that letter and peel the pears on that afternoon2 No, gentlemen. He | says he starts out with his children, but no body sees them.
 1 At this point MT. Waller asked for 6 recess
 of 10 minutes, and it was so ordered by the court.
 After recess MT. Waller continued his argu- | ment as follows:
 In this mournful march to the scene o1
 this tragedy it is not surprising if something ! escapes our memory. left the man at hil house and Mary at her house. The prisoner ! has through the counsel brought an array o1 ! experts to show that if Mary was pregnant il l was delusion. The post-mortem showed | that on that ovary was tumor, and Dr. White
 and others tell you that symptoms of preg-
 nancy would exist. But following them
 come Dr. Bacon, Dr. Carmalt and Dr. Glib bon, and they disagree with the experts fol the State. Now, push Bacon in contro versy of a precipice and you perform mira | cle. He tells you that unless the tumor is as big as this tumbler Cholding up tumbler,, | 1t may not produce symptoms of pregnancy. | do not believe it, gentlemen, and you do not ! Dr. Bacon jumps into the breach and says il | is impossible. He is controversialist. If the father of all the Bacons should say it, he | would not say it. Dr. Jewett brings the au ! thorities to show you that there can be no | outgrowth of disease without affecting the ! m6mOer that IS upon. why 0lQ not Of | Bacon sit down and reason?
 | follow the:steps of him who was doomed ! to go over the precipice, where the devil had thrust him. He starts with | children, and when they got to certain COT. ner, he turns them back. His wife sees him ! if she was at the window. He will of course go to the wood lot if his wife is looking. He | will not turn back while she Is sitting at the ' xuipd0D HA fo and ,bo ho ruiU pass the time in throwing up the wood until his wife has turned from the window. She l is gone and he turns back again through the bushes, and quick as flash he crosses the rock and is out of sight in the woods. He goes to meet the woman that is pregnant; he goes to meet the woman to whom he is to give the arsenic. He has left his home, kissed his wife, and he that has put on the vestments of chastity is about to kill the woman who is a mother. It is half past and he meets her. Oh, Mary Stannard, if you could walk into the court room and give the details of that He takes out the arsenic; he does not place 1t on the point of knife she takes it and burning seizes upon her. You can hear her talk to him. He says. don't cry out, Mary, the pains and bangs you are suffering are the pains and bangs of abortion. The look of the man may have frightened her, and as she looked into his face she may have seen that he intended murder and she screamed. A moment after she was dead. She falls; and writhing in the agonies of death he takes from his pocket keen sharp knife; his sleeves are rolled up and he thrusts that knife into her throat. The girl is dead and the devil himself must have been amazed. Now what does the murderer do? He rushes from the place and at the nearest brook he washes the knife; washes it and it is clean. He looks at his shirt and there is no blood upon it. There is a little dirt in the groove of the knife and the least particle of blood remains there. There are only fifteen corpuscles, but those few corpuscles tell of his guilt. But he fees Gods thunder is rolling in the skies, the voice of the same God that thundered on Sinai. Where does he go? He must keep away from everybody he must get back to the wood lot. The devil is behind him, the sheriff Is behind him, the eallows is behind him and he hurries back. How long will it take him to get back? Mr. Beck with says it will take one hour and twenty minutes. I don't mean any harm to my friend MT. Beckwith. He reminds me of Goldsmith's picture of the village school-mas- ter:
 Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage
 And cen the story went that he could gauge.
 And then when the villagers looked at him