Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-24

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 with fatigue. The fsh-oil men saw the trans | action. Upon the Cramer news the circunn-
 stance was at once associated with it. The | matter has excited strong suspicious, and
 some detectives are working it up, and went
 to Milford yesterday on the subject, thinking
 to be able to identify the sharpie as one seen | at West Haven shore the day before the body was found, but not having been seen since Experienced men at the shore feel deeply in- l terested in the matter, and have certain other
 facts, including the possession of black mustache by the man, or one of the men, in
 the boat. which impress them deeply.
 WALTER VALLEY.
 Officer Kennedy speaking of the three girls whom he saw that Thursday at the de- pot, and whom he told Walter Malley he had
 seen in answer to the latter's inquiries, says that the girls he saw went of on the Shore Line train. There was a crowd of people
 around in waiting for trains and Walter started off and MT. Kennedy did not see him again.
 The New York Sun of yesterday gives the | following picture of Walter Malley:
 ''Walter is slender, with long head, large
 
 white and shining, and drawn tightly over
 the face. His chin retreats, but is definitely | formed. His eyes are snapping black and | heavy-browed- He has dark brown hair, 1 slightly curling. His mustache, lighter in | color, turns up in an airy brush. His nose | is strikingly prominent and hooked. His | ears are large. and they stand straight out | from his head. His manner is rather prin.
 James, his cousin, has hair and mustache of | light brown. His hair is straight, abund ant, and careless, and grows low on the
 brow. He has hazel eyes, fringed and made soft by long dark lashes. His expression is
 sleepy, notwithstanding that his eye is open
 and mischievous. His face is slightly freck- Jed. His figure is slender and graceful, and | his manner is boyish and hearty. Both the young men were well dressed in dark clothes Walter wore 8 black, polka-dotted necktie 1 and James wore 8 scarf with blue polka l dots. Both wore their straw hats with polka
 dotted blue bands, land each geranium sprig
 in his coat lapel"
 | ANOTHER THEoRY-THE KELSEY WHARF THEORY JENNIE CHAMBERS SAD FACE.
 Another prominent New Haven gentleman | who is stopping at the shore and saw the
 body of Jennie Cramer shortly after it was
 taken from the water disputes the theory that
 the body could not have f1oated from Kelsey's pier, and having leisure took pains to SUD- port his theory. He maintains that the girl
 might have fallen off the pier some 15O or
 200 feet from the shore, where there is run
 between the bars, which even at low tide has
 water in it. By the force of the incoming
 tide the body, he holds, could have been car
 ried to where found through this run which
 is headed direct for where the body was found. He thinks the girl might have fallen
 of the pier when fooling with parties (al-
 though there is railing there, and struck
 on the sand in such way as to be rendered insensible, or that she might have been
 thrown over and that the party with her,
 fearful of the consequences, went away
 thinking she was dead, not wishing to be
 caught in the scrape, and that when the tide
 came in the body was carried through the
 strun'' to where found, or the girl might have
 wandered alone to the dock and fallen of or thrown herself of. He while in bathing, made the experiment as to the power of the tide in the run, and was satisfied that it was
 strong enough to move along the dead body of person. He saw Jennie Cramer's re- mains shortly after they were found, and says her underclothing gave not the slightest evidence that violence had been used. He said he was struck with the expression of the face. The expression was touching in the | extreme, an expression of weariness, sadness
 and despair, as if her last hours had worn in 1 to her soul terrible Sadness
 AN OPINION FROM AN Ex-sTArE's ATTORNEY,
 Ex-State's Attorney Olmstead was in the
 city yesterday. It will be remembered that ! ha kha off l Alexander and Buchholz cases. He said he
 had theory in the Cramer case, but was not ready to give 1t. He asked Coroner Bollman | (also prominent in the Buchholz case) if
 Jennie was found face downward and if there was, as reported, fresh cut on the lip and various bruises about the body, to which an ! affirmative answer was given. In relation to ' the arrest of the Malleys he was emphatic in | his statements that the grand juror, or the | authority who had caused the arrest of the Malley boys, had made 8 serious mistake Said he: "In my opinion the authorities had no business to arrest the Malley boys until they had established at least prinqn facie case against them. In this instance, so far as can see no such case has been estab- | ] lished. If the grand juror has such case it ! is his duty to make it known. Neither he nor any other prosecuting officer had right | | to arrest and hold persons against whom no case has been shown simply because the press or the public demand it. In this case the ! State represented by the coroner's jury, has clearly proven an alibi for the boys, ,as look l at the facts as reported Of course my l | knowledge is limited to what see published | | in the papers, and my experience is that, as | general rule, the reporters get at the bottom ] 1 facts in 8 case as quickly and surely as any | one else can." Mir. BoIlman interrupted Mr. Olmstead by | disclaiming any part in the arrest of the | Malley boys, saying that this action was | taken by the authorities principally because | the press and the people demandedit it. As to I the State establishing an alibi by the testi- l mony of the coroner's inquest, he held that | on the contrary the State had proven that | Jennie Cramer and James Malley were at the ! shore together on Friday night by the testi- mony of Glchrist and two other witnesses, the first being positive witness and the | other two, though not positive, certainly trustworthy and careful witnesses, who had l endeavored strongly to keep within the truth. MT. Olmstead held that the State had no right to arrest the Malley boys simply be- cause the newspapers demanded it, as even
 the press was liable to mistakes and to SUD-
 port peculiar and unreliable theories. Facts were needed before an arrest was made and facts that could be proven in court. Said he: If the hearing should result in showing that the Malley boys can establish an un- doubted aibi, nine persons out of every ten one meets now who have been clamoring for the arrest of the Malleys will say, q didn't l believe they were guilty any of the time" Now where is your public opinion under such circumstances It will turn at once against the officers of the State and then he will be where s1e Malley boys now are, the under dog in the fight. tell you, gentlemen, public opinion is an extremely tickle master to serve, and though it may one day uphold you, it will turn against you the next. The strict letter of the law is the thing for pub- lie official to act by.''
 'Until came here to-day supposed that every one in New Haven supposed the Malley boys to be guilty ? said Mir. Olmstead, ssbut my opinions in tihis respect have been obtaIn- ed from the press. am really very much surprised to find how much doubt there is ex- { pressed regarding the guilt of the boys, and the apparent siding with them has astonished me"
 THE HABEAs CORPUS TALK.
 The attorneys for the defense have not as t