Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-16

Eloquent Pleas-PrOminent Specta- t0rs-A Great and Memorable Occa- si0n finn the County Court House.
 The closing arguments in the Hayden case were made yesterday by Messrs. Waller and Watrous. The rush to get into the court room exceeded that of any previous day, and 1 in the contest for entrance hats were dam aged, dresses torn, and not a few were slight | ly wounded. No one, however. was seriously | injured. Below will be found full reports of the able arguments made. The judge will charge the jury this forenoon.
 The court opened yesterday morning as 0:O5 o'clock. s7'
 MT. Waller commenced the closing argu- ment for the State at 9:07 o'clock, an almost breathless stiffness prevailing the court room.
 MT. Waller rising in his place said: May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury. At last we are approaching the end of the lRbors of this extended trial. I can assure you that shall seek the quiet of my own home with feelings of pleasure. You gentlemen will no doubt be glad again to go out into the world and mingle with your fellow men. Gentlemen, despise me If you think hatter you. No men can ever oc- cupy a more responsible positi on than that l you occupy to-day. You are to-day national representatives of the jury system. You and each of you are to-day on trial. The whole ! country are your jurors and they will pass up- on you and each of you. The jury system has been much abused sneeringly it has been | called the palladium of our liberties. Legisla | tors may make laws and they may be good | and honest laws. Society, our wives our daughters are protected by the law. How ever the laws may be, if you are not honest l the laws are worthless. The question is, is it ! together and pass in and out among the peo- \ pie, look upon the criminal and his friends day by day, be patronized by the people, gath ! cred together by chance, ito agree in their opinion. I beg of you, gentlemen, for your own sake, if there be one among you that feels that he is not fit to fill the place he now occupies, go to God and ask him to make you 6 man. You are filling the place. of twelve | men Ihat are supposed to have that manhood | in them that will enable them to do their du- ty though it break their hearts. Gentlemen, | came into tGs case knowing az little about t | as you did 1t has necessarily been 8 long trial. The defense have made us try five cases. We have tired conspiracy against fath- CT and daughter; Ws have tried Hazlett, we have tried Mrs. Studluy and we have tried Uncle Ben. The newspapers have re-echoed that this is an expensive trial
 Are we to blame for it2 hhas been said that
 it has cost the State $50, ,OOOs it will not cost
 $2O, 900. It is said that the State has been plundersd; If so the fault lies taere (pointing | to the judges) You or don't believe that it
 is there. Shall we talk in Connecticut about
 expense of trying murder, when we pay out
 of the funds of the State $12O, 900 year to | support a building where the law makers
 meet but once year? O, such idle twaddle
 about the expense of this trial.
 Up in Rockland, place scarcely heard ot | II1nf O Iu iOk
 en and with them a frail child. They hai | never seen so much money as it has taken tt
 find out who murdered that poor girl. Yor go abroad next summer, and standing in Pari you can tell those Frenchmen that you live II
 State where they will, at whatever cost hunt out the murderer. Among the thing | shall carry home with me are the pleasan relations have occupied inside and outside this court room, and particularly fol the extreme courtesy of the gentlemen on thu other side. Over three months of trial an( | not an unkind word has passed between us. Gentlemen, I have reminded you of thu poor creature up in Rockland. Whom are w
 trying? We are trying for the murder O that frail girl minister of Gods gospel Ant ! the presumption is that because he is 8 min
 ter, and say, gsntlem en, that it is profes
 sion that every decent man in the communit, ! will bow to. respect the poor minister a
 well as the rich one; as well they that worl in the rocky places es those who labor in ths
 crowded cities.
 man he was to ali the country dear,
 And passing rich on forty pounds year.
 But, gentlemen, all ministers art not good. God pity them. There are
 those that are unchaste and that commit crimes. When Christ selected his twelve dis ! ciples there were two that betrayed him
 Peter who was weak, and Judas the betrayer | None can tell to-day whether the bad men il
 Gods flock are the least or the greater. | ] you look upon this testimony as do, trus you will find verdict in accordance with tht
 facts. Now, permit me to say that Ithink my
 associate (Harrison) in public and in the pub ! lie papers, has been much maligned and abus
 ed. With that prejudice I confess to yor
 that came into this case; yet, I say to you | gentlemen, that I have not seen a thing II
 him that do not approve.
 Now, gentlemen, go with me to RocklanG
 before the murder. The gentlemen on ths
 other side have said wicked things to preju- dice your minds Men and women have beer ! canvassed and talked about in the course oi
 this trial doubt if any village in the coun- ! try could stand the scrutiny that Rocklant
 has, and come out so we'll In the circuit of ff mile or less are the villagers. There (poin tinf to the map) is the central house; in it Hvet Mr.. Hayden and his good wife nearly oppo-
 site lived Luzerne Stevens and wife; just be-
 low was the parsonage, just above the Stan
 nard house. There is Uncle Ben's house
 just beyond is Mrs. Mills and little farther | is Hazlett. Ten miles beyond is Mrs. StudleJ J and her son. MT. Jones has said you could
 bring anything from that village. But is il
 SOP Luzerne Stevens is attacked. He tooh
 care of MT. Hayden's COW; on the afternoon o1
 the murder his little girl was in MT. Hayden's
 house. Did Mrs. Luzerne Stevens ever say g ! word against MT. and Mrs. Hayden? Never
 Below lives MT. Gibbs and the swill from that
 house makes Hayden's pig delighted. And l now come the Stannards. The old mar
 Stannard borrows things from Hayden. Mrs. l Hayden, good woman she is, gives them g little milk occasionally. Is there any nalig nifty displayed here? Gan you think of 8 neighborly act that among those people is not readily given? Do you think, gentlemen, that there can be any motives but pure ones among these poor people? Have you lost your wits If you have not, will ask you on your consciousness if you think that the people of that village would come into this court and commit perjury toward the minister whose kindness has been extended to them
 Let us look again. Mary Stannard was one of the residents of that village. On the Sd of September, in the woods near by, lay the body of dead woman. On her hand you see a bruise, her throat is cut, and she lies there dead, in the solemn stiffness of that wooded place, made solemn by circu instances that surrounded it. If she committed suicide YOU look around and you will find the knife or the paper that contained the arsenic; but it is | AOV sAoE0. 1Ou Soo bu6 pOOA UT COaGulaE6Q blood quart or more, but when six inches of rain falls upon it you scarcely find more than Perry and others found. She did not commit suicide, gentlemen. Oh mol This is not claimed. How much time was ex- hausted by the other side to show that the murder was not committed there Well, she was murdered; perhaps some tramps did it. For what2 Not for money. For revenge ? i Look upon the face-of that girl and you will l say IL was not for revenge. tramp, some lustful tramp. may have outraged and then murdered her they say, but we find nothing of it. Let the tramp % out of the question then. Wait few hours and we find arsenic in her stomach, Did an enemy give her that arsenic2 Oh mol Some friend in whom she had confidence gave her that deadly poison and he deceived her when he gave her the fatal dose. What would | stranger give it to her for ? Not for lust not for any purpose. That woman Is dead; if she was murdered by her seducer her lips are
 sealed against him by that foul murder. She has once been deceived and she will not be deceived again except under disguise, and l what disguise so efectual as the sacred vest ments of the church Temptation caraa to