Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-16
LOCAL NEWS.
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 ted suicide. Calling it murder, then, you are to look for the facts connected with that mur- der-not probabilities, but facts. Who caused that death? The State well recognizes that It is necessary to find 6 motive. From the hour of that girls death no one has at tempted to find who killed Mary Stannard All this time has been devoted to proving that MT. Hayden did 1t. They start with the as- sumption that MT. Hayden did it. They seek for a motive. The girl they find was not, as at first supposed, in trouble. I cannot fol- low my eloquent friend in his flights of i'm agination, and I will thank any one of you, gentlemen, to check me if depart from the evidence before us. They say that they trace the cause of pregnancy to the oyster supper of March, 1878. They say that when she left her home to go to Studley's she was cheerful and light hearted. Mrs. Studley said that she found two conflicting signs. She found that the periodical visitation was unchanged. Mary had herself been moth GIT, and therefore was no chicken, and the old
 mother seemed to have 8 motive for an in quiry. do not care about Mary's exposures,
 The State hang their case upon the theory that Mary thought she was pregnant. Take the rule and apply it with common senae. I tell you Mary Stannard's condition did not furnish motive. She was no more in the family way than either of you twelve men. Sad, why she was always sad. She was always sad when these period icals came upon her. There was @ marked diminution in the flow of her spirits at those times. Said good Mrs. Hayden, s'She was always sad at those times" Mary supposed 8 good deal at those times. She was depressed in spirits. But they say this old lady found another sign which she said contradicted those have spoken of. don't
 mean to offend anybody's nicety. What was itP Now just look at 1t. Between Sunday morning and the following Thursday morn ing, three short days, she discovered enlarge ment of the left mammalian protuberance. l am talking to twelve sensible men, rot boys. Did that gland increase in hardness and show symptoms of pregnancy in three days That Is 0 matter, gentlemen, that would like you to understand. She examined that organ. She said that she found it more sensitive than usual. That is the sheerest bosh, that every man within the sound of my voice knows well. It Is not as have learned from the doctors. It is by no means uncommon that that periodical visitation to which have re- ferred produces exactly what the old woman said was not a common sign. The doctors say that Particticularly where the visitation is painful, that there Is an affection of those glands, and this seems to be precise ly what was noticed by the old woman and Susan. But precisely what did take place might be produced that way-sensitivenes and partial enlargement. They showed what? They showed that Mary had no req son to think she was in the family way, and therefore did not think that she was. They account for the sadness of Mary, account for the sensitiveness, account for the enlarge ment. Everything had pointed in an opposite direction. We don't know that Mary had been exposed. Then she had, first, that which is to women the strongest evidence that nature offers; second, that evidence and partial enlargement. Then she had that sadness, that despondency, which Susan said she always felt when in that condition. I say then that she did not leave because she thought that she was in trouble. Was there any other cause :? Yes, right at hand. That boy was more than the people could stand. They had pest in that household. They all agree to this. That is the reason Studley him self gave for it-a word of whom by and by.
 know, gentlemen, you will not forget that in the direct examination she (Susan) made no allusion to this fact, except that she was in trouble. Did she want to go home? Not at all. Studley said this. do not know wheth- CT Mrs. Studley wanted to get rid of her sole- ly for that I have my doubts about 1t. She did not tell her son. do not know what the old lady had in view or felt in view of the ab- sence of a member of her household in Flu rope. The avowed object is the boy. So says Edgar. So says Susan. So says the father. They say she consented to go home. That consent was just es my client consents
 
 that on the way up she remarked at Hsyden's house the absence of his carriage. And they say that's got something to do about this. Why, MT. Hayden was down in Madison and used his carriage there. Do you think that if Edgar Studley hadn't been with her she would have charged MT. Hayden Gf he had been there) with her troublep Counsel eulogized him he said he was as honest 8 man as your selves or, think he added, himself. I am not here to defend counsel, but object to the comparison with you. You saw him on the stand; he didn't look you in the eye he saw something of interest at his feet. But Mrs. Studley didn't think she was in trouble. If Mary had not died you would not have heard that that saintly old lady ever thought so. When she got home, Susan took up the manipuIetion-said, par don me for saying she did-and went straight for this left breast, and she found expert as I suppose they claim she is :; maiden like her sister-and she found the same things that Mrs. Studley said she found. She found them, that Is by her story no one corrobor- ates her. That girl testifes to you that Mary told her she was so large that she was ashamed to go down the street for fear the folks would notice her abdominal extension. For what :? No pretense that anything was there; no pre- tense that her garments had been let out. I venture to say that every one of the twelve remember it if they don't, am sorry; it was in evidence. This is the States keystone. She gravely testified, to supply motive against the accused, that Mary said she expe. rienced fostal motion. The word to charac- terize this is spelled b-o-s-h. Why didn't this expert, this immaculate Susan-I don't rest my eye upon her at this moment; she does not cast 8 halo around me as she does around the other gentlemen-why didn't she say: sLet me see your abdominal enlarge ment and feel your motionp" Let us give he kof cku oba hoe ko glory, trust. Can we believe Susan? Then here are experts doctors who have been neg lecting their patients their patients good, have no doubt-trying to find motive to hang this little man.
 What next? They say she must have been in trouble because she wrote letter. There wasn't sign in Guilford found by Mrs. Stud ley, and not sign in Rockland found by the expert Susan, and yet they say she wrote 8 letter to Susan and enclosed one for Hayden, alleging paternity; she may have written this letter and she may not have done so. The gentleman who closed said there were two wit nesses to the fact that it was Mary's writing. He doubled the truth there was but one Let us see what Susan's testimony'is worth. On the cross examination we ask her if she testi- fled it was Mary's handwriting? She. testified she did. Then we showed her another style, D mans handwriting, and she said she might have been mistaken. Studley directed the oAVoAOPo d41u mary ID buppOS6Q 70 nave W91t- ten the letter. Gan we believe a woman who is mistaken in such an important particular There were two different hands and she couldn't tell which was which. But don't care what Edgar Studley said about it. The State didn't pretend to prove the hand by 5tudley. Isn't 1t singular they didn't lay in a letter, incontestNbly in Mary's hand, as a comparisonP No; you've got Susan's testimony that Mary said she wrote the letter. I wish we had some thing with which to make comparison. Be yond a reasonable doubt there is no motive shown on the part of the accused That let ter don't believe Mary wrote. If she couldn't spell 6 whole word in the dictionary right she would spell her own name right she wouldn't leave out the 'Se" or the ssn. D The letter is important; if 1t doesn't show motive against Mir. Hayden 1t shows motive against the guilty man, and was written to shield him. It is a singular fact that Mary, 70 overwhelmed and impelled to write let ter to her alleged seducsr, would sit down and write Q letter to Susan Hawley. THe read the letter in which she wrote that she liked her place and that Willie was we'll It s signed Mary Stanard-they call 1t Stannard, call your attention to the fact that it is only '' 6tanar "-there is no d. "Don't let father Iee it." "See what ?" The fact that she was unwell7 "I want you to give this etter to Mr. Havden." Hayden thev Unake