Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-12
Jennie Cramer,s Fate.
The Case this Week-The Zimmerman
 ArrfvaI-His Visit to Blanche Douglass.

The Case this week-The Zimmerman
 ArrfvaI-His Visit to Blanche Douglass.
 His Wife.
 The hearing in the case against the young Malleys in West Haven will be renewed to- day at 10 o'clock. There may be an adjourn ment of the case at the close of the session this afternoon until Wednesday, Tuesday being the day for prayer for the President. The case to some seemed to make haste slowly last week, but there was good deal done after all. The defence had several ina portant witnesses to examine and wanted to fight the case inch by inch, and some of the testimony, expert included, necessarily took considerable time both in the direct and the cross examinations. The first witness to-day will probably be Samuel Mattoon, the clerk at the Elliott House drug store. The State, by this and other persons, will show Blanche and Jennie together there Thursday even ing. The Radcliffe supper, at 11:1S orbe- fore the same night, will be shown, and the supposed soiourn of Walter, James, Blanche and Jennie at the Radcliffe building over night; will be attempted, it is probable; Hauser's testimony as to James and Jennie walking on the Green Friday at 12:ao or so; Audley and Twining's as to their presence on Temple or Trumbull street about 3, ,Sanford's s as to James and the horse at Redclife's about
 TAO or 7:50 that night, and the shore testi- mony is supposed to show them together at the shore up to 9.
 Mr. Fox, of counsel for the defense. said Saturday that the State had not shown 8 primo .facie case. The defense yet had
 nothing to meet, even if the proof of vio- lence to the girl couldn't be offset. 1hat
 was no proof of murder. What if arsenic
 had killed her? The State hadn't shown that
 the Malleys or their agents bought arsenic.
 They had not connected the young men with
 the crime. It seemed now as if when the
 State rested that the defense would move for
 discharge on the ground of insufficient evil dence. If this were denied they might or
 might not introduce evidence But what had they to combat? Nothing And if the jus tice were to bind over the boys anyway there
 would be no necessity of wasting time and expense in introducing evidence in the infe- rior court. If evidence were introduced the defense would probably consume two weeks.
 There was another dramatic event in the case Saturday in the appearance in this city
 of John Zimmerman, the husband of Blanche
 Douglass. He arrived the night before and
 made himself known to the West Haven au-
 thorities Saturday morning. Coroner Boll-
 man and c. K. Bush had 8 long consultation first as to the
 identity of the man as Blanche's husband
 and second as to how his coming might be
 turned to any proper advantage to the State. It seemed to be decided that his coming
 would not probably have any effect upon the
 case one way or the other, and the new com
 CT was turned over to Blanche's counsel, MT.
 Dow. He is about twenty eight years of age
 of slight stature and below the medium
 height, dark hair, dark eyes and small
 black mustache, and of German percentage. He said stI was married to Blanche the last
 Sunday in December, 1877, in the church on
 the corner of Morton and Bedford streets by minister named Brown. I have got my marriage certificate. We lived on the corner
 of Wooster and Grand streets when our child was born, which was less than year after our marriage. She was a good woman up
 lived on Essex street. It was on this man Riley's account that she left me. He's a fraud and impostor and I'm going to show him up. Don't know how she got acquaint- ed with him. It is over five months since laid eyes on the woman. It's lie when they cook and work in hotels. gave my. wife a good home.'
 Zimmerman, while in West Haven obtained professional advice from Lawyer S. Arthur Marsden, who accompanied him to this city. Zimmerman also made 8 call upon Chief Webster. On Saturday he was permitted to see his wife, MT. Dow accompany ing him to the jail. He was left alone locked up with Blanche for an hour in her private apartment in the residence connected with the jail At the end of that time he was liberated. Blanche acknowledged him to Mir. Dow as her liege lord, saying, ''This is my husband" There was no dramatic scene, no tears, no hyster- ! ics. They seemed to have had g quiet talk. l The visit was conjectured by some to be partly with reference to a supposed bonanza ! Blanche was possibly to derive from the sale | of her pictures if copyrighted It appears, however, that it is doubtful if the copyright ! ing will hold in the case of picture. Zim merman said "For the first two years she was good wife to me; we had little bright, blue-eyed, faxen- haired girl, and we were happy. After two years she began to | drink and caroused around I often came l home and found her in bed drunk. One 1 time while she lay in bed stupid, the baby \ fell on the floor and received injuries from which it died. After that she went to the 1 bad faster than ever She is depraved, bad woman, and it would be a good thing for so | ciety if she was put in jail for life, and if il | was in my power I would put her there. J
 In speaking of the man Riley, he says he | wants to know what right he has to be going | around acting as the woman's protector. 1 'He ought to be in jail, and if I could get ! my way he would soon be there.''
 Blanche Douglass, it is expected, will be l brought down to testify against the Mslleys l on Thursday though it is not decided upon for certain