The daily gazette., 1881-12-08

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FLEA or INSANITY AND wlrELrJ
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AT The Opening Of Court lhis morning,
M. Bird, 81 COUNSEL iof the Tie defsnse
IN the murder trial OF Jeremiah Hsrri-
eau, opened for his ',cfient. He spoke
for about thirty minutes snd 7oatiInedl
lhe defense 70 30 Insane nj the time af
commitsiBg the sct, prUduued by manfu
a potli from hard drinking the drink.
Ing being caused BY thednfidsliiy OF hia
wife with Shea. !npId lHiaE9a diH .
jTha Arst Jwitpess called wAs Mary
Harrisan. the prisoners eldest dsaghter,
aged between fifteen and. Axieepl yesn.
She said Shea lived At our house,
coming there about September lit, 1880;
BID lived with us atout Stx Or Seven
mcnths, thd va With vi fcr sonie time
before he paid any boskd,, ~ supper dine
evening, when mother, sister. Kfien sud
/ were present, Dennis She's was talking
10 mother about father and said be did
not know anybody a. bad ~ father ex.
cept brother.in-lAw Of his In. Ireland,
who was . drunken. good-lorDolhlDg
fellow; father came In and told. Dennis
TO 60 out and never come back any
more; Dennis went out, and calling
father after him asked II he could come
back and get bis clothes; father said be
could, but TO make II his last visit: he
came back eight Or nine timea after
wards dnring fathers sbsence, always
asking where father wa; when l would
tell him father WIS In he would 20
away;i II l told him father vas away he
would go into the house, but sometimes
he would 10 10 the barn; Ibave seen him
10 the bedroom with mother two or
three times; when. saw him there lie
would send ma down stakss 70 get some-
thing; he dad this alw ags when went In
the bedroom and found him With mother;
I nst him on the road ones, AFTER be
was ordered away, and he asked one II
father was NJ home, said yes, and be
said he Hwouid be even with him some
day, the soI Of . gun" he came one day
when father and mother were both away
and when told him, he said, "the sun.
OF gun, Ill catch him some DAY.
told father when Sbsa would come
home, and also told him OF the thre 1t.
Shea made. told father about seeing
Shea In mothers bed room and beins
sent down stairs 80 e,ela tsA u4,t
| The witness said that during last Au
gust her father Was brought home on,
day, suffering from sun stroke, ant
Or. MITCHELL altended bin, be was II
bed about week, after he recovered b.
commenced drinking bard and did no
90 TO work for ten days, Mr.. Lacy cam,
to the house and took father home will
him, TO stop his drinking, at this tim,
be was ont Of bis'mind and spoke o
seeing things, be stayed with Mr.. LACY
two or three days, father commences,
drinking two or three days before IN,
shooting, and drank ALL the time, he VA
away ell OF the Friday night before th,
shooting, he was drunk on that Satursta,
morning, but was home Gil day, drink
Ing said he saw burglars, and locke
wild. ..-a..4 - .d4G ; - y III. -. J.
4. The witness also testified to seein
Shea, Kelley And Cresdou coming int
the house on the Saturday night tb
shooting occurred, she was 10 bed, an
came down on the stairs, her father can
up,asked her for the keys and then wen
up stAirs, she then went back to bed.
Ellen Hsrrlgan. a-sisseT Of this wit
ness, cosroborated her. testimony In tb
main PARTICULARS. ,ff4J4-J -. Is
| WIN. Lacy, said he lived Ia New Jer
sey, and was connected with the Ksoli
works, where Harrigan was employed
he used TO 60 home every week, an
whom he returned Harrigas would driy
him from the station to the works, wit
ness was askedif Harriean, during thes,
| drives told him anything aboat his re
iauons with his wife, but the question
WAS oejscled 70 by the State aud tb
objection Sustained The witness tesiife,
10 Harrigan being In terrible condI
ton, last August, from / snpstroke an,
hard drinking. y IL. - - = '.l'77.' y
Cornelius Creedon testified to seeipl
Shea at Harrigans cellar door, fss
evenings before the shooting, talkin
to Mrs. 'Harrigan, who was In III
cellar. Is 'te - IL. 'ni is5t5,i.'71 - ~
Court here took recess nntil tire