Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-21
HAYDEN's TRIBULATIONS.

den-Sfannard Murder Case-A Full
History of the Cause CeIebre.
The telegraph yesterday announced the
disagreement and discharge of the jury
charged with the hearing of the case of III
State of Connecticut against lev. H. H.
Hayden, accused of the murder of Mary
Stannard, after trial covering a period of
about sixty days: Although the crime was
committed early in September, 1873, and
Hayden was placed in jail in October, it Was
not until October, 1879, that the trial was
called. Meantime the counsel for the prose-
cution were working up the case even to the
minntest detail. The trial has occupied
tifty-fve days, and there have been repeated
adjournments for day or two at time.
In the township of Madison, twenty miles
from New Haven, is the little village of
Rockland. Before this trial no one ever
heard of it. Hayden was the pastor of the
little Methodist church. Charles s. STAN
nard, fair example of the 'poor white" a
middle-aged widower, had lived for some
years in an isolated house In Rockland. He
worked for neighboring farmers, and his
housekeeper was Susan F. Hawley, his wife's
daughter by fGrmer marriage. Mary E.
Stannard, his daughter, an attractive young
woman, 90 years old, had be-
kcome the mother of an illegitimate
Fchild two years before the murder; but
she had seemed so penitent and had con-
Quoted herself 80 properly afterward that the
honest farmers of Rockland admitted her to
their families az domestic and forgot her
deviation from the paths of virtue. She had
frequently worked in the house of Mr.. Hay
den, and in August, 1878, she was employed
by family named Study, i'll the neighbor-
ing town Of Guilford. On the LIST of Sep
TENDER she returned home, having first sent
letter to her half-sister, enclosing one to
Mr.. Hayden. In her letter to Susan Haw-
ley she said she feared she was in
account. The next day she visited
Hayden's house several times, and &C
corling to the claims of the prosecution told
Hayden her troubles and agreed to meet him
the next day when he was to obtain some
medicine for her. The theory of the prose-
cution, as brought out during the trial Is
this:
MIR. Hayden was the author of Miss Stan
nard's trouble. He feared exposure and de-
cided to put her out of the way. On Tues
day morning, September 3, Hayden told his
wife he was going to Durham to buy some
oats. He passed Durham aud went to Mid
dletown, and at an apothecary's store
bought some asenic. On his way home he
stopped at the Stannard house, about noon,
and got glass of water. The water was
warm, and Mary volunteered to
go to spring which was on the road to
| his house and get some that was cool. At
the spring she dipped up pail of water and
he drank of it, told her that he had pro-
cured some medicine and asked her to meet
him in an hour in the woods opposite the
| Stannard house, near rock known as Big
| rock. Soon afterward Mary went in the di-
rection of the rock, carrying tin pail, say
ing she was going to pick blackberries. Her
| friends never saw her again alive. Late in
the afternoon her father became anxious
about her, and went into the woods to find
her. He found her dead body. It seemed
plain that her murderer had knocked her
down with a blood stained stone which
was lying near by her, and had then
stabbed her in the throat with O sharp
and narrow knife blade. She lay as ons
prepared for BURIAL her arms had been
folded on her breast and her sun BONNET had
been placed under her head. Her empty tin
pail stood near the body, but no weapon
could be found. Susan Hawley told what
she knew of the case and Hayden was ar
rested. The body of the murdered girl was
exhumed and ninety grains of arsenic found
that Hayden had given the girl this arsenic;
duoed by the poison, and that he plunged
his knife into her throat and silenced her
forever. Then he washed the knife and
went home.
The question of arsenic has entered large
~ into the trial. Hayden claimed that the
poison he purchased was for rats, and that
he had hidden it in the barn. At the pre-
| limnary examination search had been
made but no arsenic found. Afterwards a
friend of Hayden's found box of arsenic
hidden away. The prosecution got hold Of
the arsenic and last summer experts from
| Yale were sent to Europe to study arsenic.
| They showed at the trial that the arsenic
found in the barn vas different from that
purchased at Middletown. The pastors knife,
| too, was examined. In the little notch
for the thumb-nail on one sharp and narrow
blade were found fifteen or twenty cor
pusces, which were pronounced coIpu5cles
of human blood. Hayden's defense was that
he had not been intimate with the girl, and
had no motive for putting her out of the way.
| The defense also showed that Mary Stan
nard was not in trouble, although the prose
cution brought out the fact that she thought
she was. Hayden claimed that on the after
noon of the murder he was cutting wood in
his wood lot. His wife corroborated him,
and both testified that when he went
to his wood lot that day he left the
knife with her in the house; and hus-
band and wife agreed that with this blade
he had recently cut one of his fingers. Every
thing that could bring out point against
Hayden was used. Accurate maps and
photographs of the locality we're made; dis
tances were measured, and attempts were
made on one side to show that he could not
have gone to Big Rock without being seen,
and on the other that he could. Mary's face
and neck were preserved in alcohol, and the
prosecution even went so far as to claim that
certain marks in the face had been made by
Hayden's boot heel. The defense claimed
that the marks were made by putrefaction.
The long trial has been most sharply fought
on both sides. The evidence produced has
been entirely circumstantial. The trial will
cost the State something like $4,000.
One of the IiltOn- BeecLer Jurors Dead.
John McMurn, who served on the jury in
the Brooklyn city court in the salt of Theo-