Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-19

considered corporation, not having yet sat isfed the railroad commissioners as to the lay | out of the road.
 Jennie Cramer's Fate.
 To Last Another Week-The ssParalyz-
 ed Story''-A New Version-The Mush-
 rOOmS-Blanche Douglass Case.
 The preliminary court in the Malley cases resumes session this morning at 10 o'clock in Thompson's Hall, West Haven. Mir. c. K. Bush, for the State, said Saturday that the State would probably get thr ough with it's side tomorrow. As to whether, as rumors said, the defense would not offer any thing. but submit the case to the court, he did not know. On the principle that all signs failed in dry weather he thought it hazardous to make guess He had heard some talk that the defense would hold over their testimony, but the defense generally effected surprises in their mode of proceed ure.
 Blanche Douglass remains very quietly domiciled in jail and seems reconciled to wait in Micawber-like frame of mind for de- .nouements. The justice said that if the Malley trial should be in progress on Thurs day the Blanche Douglass trial for perjury would be postponed. Another party said that she was doing well enough where she was, and the State could get her when they wanted her, and if anybody gave bail for her she would be re-arrested and held on murder charge, so that her presence in the city was to be assured for awhile yet. The State seems not to have made up their mind yet to put Blanche Douglass on the stand. If she is, she must testify to-day or to-mor- row, probably, above stated. One party says it is not clear what the State is to gain by putting her on the witness stand; the State has her confession, and, unless they could get supplementary or amended con- fession, would not gain by the move. On the other hand the defense is not likely to call her.
 Nothing has been found as yet, although diligent inquiry has been made throwing light on the question where the arsenic was purchased that was found in Jennie Cramer's stomach and system.
 On another page is an article on the Cramer' question from Hartford paper. There is hardly paper of note in the Union but has commented more or less on the Cramer case, such being the wide spread attention the fate of the unfortunate girl has excited.
 THE ''PARALYzED'' STATEMENT.
 The case has abounded in sensations, and now comes another which may or may not have bearing of some importance in the case. The report is that servant girl at ,1rl 4Ia4 was the party on the flying horses that fatal Friday night who exclaimed, "Oh, God, I'm paralyzed," which various witnesses attrib ted to Jennie Cramer. Various witnesses tes- tifed that it was Jennie Cramer who uttered the remark when apparently dizzy from the motion of the flying horses or from some other cause not known, and that James Nal ley was with Jennie Cramer when she uttered the exclamation. If the new story is correct, there will be considerable inquiry and it will raise the question whether the girl was not the one witnesses saw as they stated. The testimony identifying the girl on the flying horses as Jennie Cramer and the young man with her as James Malley, jr., is one of the important links which the State has to con- meet James Malley, jr., with the shore that fatal night.
 The defense we learn, will certainly intro duce their evidence. The hearing will prob ably continue through this week and into next.
 MUSHROOMS.
 physician at Chambersburg, Pa., writes to the Philadelphia Tunes of Friday as fol- lows: 'sAs the Jennie Cramer case, now be- ing investigated at New Haven, Ct., has been and still is surrounded or clooded in mystery, would it not be well to call the attention of the coroner's physi- elan to portion of the contents of the stomach found after death9 refer to the mushroom which was part of the partially digested food found not so far changed as to be beyond recognition as mushroom or which is more likely the highly poisonous article of the same family, toad stool. I am sure and have been under the impression that she met her death through partaking of toad-stool and not arsenic. I have seen two cases in my practice that were saved only by immediate and active treat ment at the hands of physician. The con- dition of her brain and other viscera also confirms me in my view of the case"
 West Haven.
 A large number of the cottagers left the shore last week and several more will leave this week. Between twenty and thirty will remain until the middle of next month. They think that the early fall months are the most enjoyable.
 Landlord Howes of the Railroad Restaurant will keep open this month and next.
 Large parties visit the shore every day to try their luck in catching the bluefsh land meet with very good success. The ladies seem to have the best luck. Mrs. o. ,q ci, 1ocf Friday, off Kelseys wharf.
 Personal.
 James G. Patterson, of Hartford, who has | been seriously ill., is better.
 Col Tubbs, of New London, colonel of | the Third, talks of resigning, for want of | time to devote to the regiment.
 Ex-Conductor Jo. Scofeld, of the New l York road, has been appointed station agent 1 at the Grand Central depot in New York.
 An exchange says: As Boy Preacher Har- l rison is 28 years old and charges $1OO | week, he doesn't mind being called young.
 Bishop McMahon, Mayor Bulkeley and | others will review the parade of forty-six | Catholic temperance societies in Hartford on | Wednesday.
 It is now reported that Wm. H. Wallace, of the drawing room and sleeping cars, will l be MT. Moody's assis tant on the New York | division of the Consolidated road.
 Mir. John Eagan, one of the depot switch | men at Bridgeport, has been in the employ of | the New York, New Haven and Hartford road twenty -four ears. About one hundred 1 trains pass over his switch while he is on l duty, which is from six in the morning to | eight in the evening.
 Miss Anna Thompson, the soprano at Cal | vary Baptist church, who sang with such &C.,. ceptance in ''The Mascotte' last winter, has raceived n most faftarino offer from, Auous