Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-22
The Craner Case.

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 shOre-TaIk About the Case.
 A new phase is given the mystery of the fate of poor Jennie Cramer if report IS true, which seems to be well founded, ln a new and important revelation. If the report be true, it leaves the case still far from decided as to whether death was the volun- tary act of the deceased, or the result of an accident owing to an overdose or miscalcu- lation, or lack of knowledge, or whether the case is one of deliberate murder. The latest development which has come to hand is hat the medical examination of the stom- ach of the unfortunate girl revealed the pres- ence in it of alcohol and cantharides, or what is more commonly known as Spanish flies. The administering of Spanish flies to per- son by an incompetent person is criminal offence. The Spanish fly is brilliant green beetle found in Spain, where the chief sup ply comes from. It is dried, powdered, and when made into ointment it's use in external application for raising blisters is widely and commonly known. It is the blister fly of the apothecaries It is also used in the tincture as cleanser of the hair and scalp The powder when put under the microscope looks like fine glass. When taken internally, if given in large doses. it will produce death. Taken internally it causes inflammation and irritation of the mucous membrane, and also particularly of the urinal and generative or gans, and should only be administered by a competent physician. The rumor adds another to the many in this many sided case.
 The surgeons who made the autopsy have concluded their work, but the result of the chemical analysis, which Dr. Chittenden, of the Yale S. S. S., is making, takes time, and may not be arrived at in week or ten days yet
 Dr. Chittenden is already known as a young man of much ability, and his work will be most searching and thorough.
 THE TRIAL.
 A rumor was in circulation Saturday that there was fair prospect that the preliminary hearing in the case of the young Malleys, set down for o'clock this Monday morning at West Haven, before Justice Booth, will be delayed. Strength was added to this by the production, by At ttorney T. J. Fox, of letter from c. K. Bush, the prosecuting attorney in West Haven, stating, 1T shall ask for another adjournment on Monday in the case of the State vs. Malleys. The evi- dence is not all procurable just at present." Judge Blydenburgh and Fox were not disposed to entertain the proposi- tion favorably. Mir. Fox had met Mir. Bush and asked him the ground of the requested adjournment, being answered that the chem ical analysis was not yet completed.
 OPPOSED TO AN ADJOURNMENT -ALIBIs.
 Both the counsel for the Malleys were agreed to utterly oppose motion for an ad- iournment, both on the ground that there had been time enough in which to prepare the case and that to delay would be to pro- long the confinement of two men they claimed to be innocent. AS to each of the prisoners abundant proof could be adduced to show an alibi such ought to be thoroughly convincing to the most prejudiced. Judge Blydenburgh denied indignantly that there had been any attempt on the part of counsel for the Nal leys to suppress or distort evidence, or that there had been any eollusion on their part as to the stories given by the Malleys and Blanche at the investigation. Counsel was indifferent to whatever the chemical analysis might show, as to its effect on their clients, as they each had an alibi of unquestionable character.
 Judge Blydenburgh advanced theory, | which is particularly important as coming | from the counsel, as to the way Jennie Ora mer died. In his opinion Jennie Cramer, if ! foully dealt with, might have met some chance acquaintances of a rough kind, or persons who knew her by sight. They might have drugged her to accomplish base pur- pose, and she might have died from the drug. | Concerning the Malleys he insisted that it
 was case of mistaken identity, and that
 those that thought they saw the Malleys at
 the shore that Friday night were in error.
 He thought that all candid people could see
 easily what Happy Jack' Gilchrist said could not be so.
 | JAIL ECHoEs
 Dr. J. J. s. Doherty, physician at the I iail had conversation with Walter, who ex- pressed satisfaction as to the proposed hear | ing to-day, as he wanted all the facts brought | out He wanted vindication from the ter
 rible charge brought against him. He thought it unjust that the jury should have a lawyer to help them while the counsel of him self, an accused persons, were denied the right to ask questions. He thought the tes- timony of the young man Gilchrist who said he was at the shore that Friday night, was not worthy of credence, and thought if the au- | thorities would look elsewhere little they might perhaps find the person or persons l they wanted. He has fly netting over the door of the cell, having been annoyed by ! flies. James Malley thought the picture of Blanche in the Police Gazette quite ridicu- lous proceeding, as Blanche was nearer 20 than 4O as the Gazette picture indicated. He congratulated himself that his photoeraphs were not to be had as he had no pictures taken in several years.
 ANOTHER THEORY.
 Prosecuting Attorney Pickett says as to the theory that the deceased was killed or died in this city and her remains taken to the shore:
 sSThere is no one so idiotic to carry that body to the West Haven shore when they had to pass the West river, deep and rapid stream that would have carried the body out. It would have been better sense to have car ried it to the top of either East or West Rock, or else to have left it in the center of the Green. It is perfectly brainless theory to suppose that those boys carried that body in beach wagon through thickly popu lated city with plenty of policemen around. Why it is absurd"
 SIMILAR EXCITING CASE.
 A New York correspondent of the Post says: "The Jennie Cramer mystery is in points repetition of the Mary Rogers case, which is one of the memorable tragedies of New York. Forty years have elapsed since it's occurrence, and yet it holds it's place among the mysteries of crime. Mary Rog CTS, like Jennie Cramer, was a pretty cigar girl She tended store for John Anderson, who kept the finest establishment of the kind on Broadway. Mary was generally attract ive but it was not known that she had any special suitor She lived with her mother, who was poor widow dependent on her daughters earnings. One Sunday af- ternoon, in the summer of 184O, she left her home and never re- turned. Some persons who knew her said they saw her in company with man dressed in naval uniform. This was the last of her alive. Her disappearance was report ed to the police, but no immediate clue could be obtained Four days afterwards, however, nude corpse was found floating in the waters of the Hudson, near the Jersey shore, and this was identified as the missing cigar girl. It was evident that she had been foully dealt b,,h At,;e oil Hhak c0r1Id he ascar-