Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-13
gonrnal anb Courier,
M0ndaY MGvping. Feb. 10, 1852.
The Trial of Thomas Clune.

"O Luz Va 0AuhOs
WOman-Testimony of Mrs. Winsen
and Other Wftnesses-What CIune Says
In his own Defense.
On Saturday morning in the case of Thomas
Clune, charged with al assault on Mrs. Mary
A. Winsen on the evening of February oath,
ex-Judge William G. Robinson and Gallagher
appeared for defendant. They asked that
the witnesses for the defense might be sum-
moned at the expense of the State, and an
order was SO made. The first was City En-
gineer Fowler, who showed map of the To-
cality where the sassault took place, on the
corner of Nash and Lawrence streets. He
explained the map. Witness testified that
Lawrence street was and Nash street so
feet wide. There is scarcity of sidewalks
in the neighborhood There is gas lamp on
the street.
Mrs. Winsen took the witness stand. A
broad white bandage was seen to cross her
forehead, the rest of her head being covered
with red wooden hood She looked weak
The lady gave her name as Mary Adelaide
Winsen, and said she had been married
| twenty years. She lived at So Nash street !;
left home at 7:45 in the evening and went to
| 151 Hamilton street, below Walnut; left
there between fifteen and twenty minutes to
| 8; left her mothers and crossed at Walnut
street, on the left hand side, going home
ward on reaching Humphrey street crossed
| to the right side; followed along the right
hand side of State to Bishop street then
crossed vacant lot corner of State and Ed
| wards streets. She saw a man on the opposite
side of State street the man followed her
up Edwards, around the corner, up Nash to
the corner of Lawrence; as she passed the
corner, the fire alarm struck for o'clock.
Witness heard the first stroke of the bell, and
before the second stroke of the bell she was
struck; she supposed she had been shot d;
| fire flashed from her eyes she was struck in
the back of the head. Witness would have
fallen, as she pitched forward, but this man
1 caught hold of her and threw her down. She
did not see the man before being struck, but
knew there was somebody behind her. He
| took her by the throat, and the next thing
she knew was when she looked up in the
mans face and asked him why he had COM
mitted the outrage on an old woman. It
was the southeast corner of Nash and Law
renee streets. The man dragged the witness
| through the snow to the opposite side of the
street, over to the pipe shop. The violence
| took place in the street. When witness
asked the man why he had assaulted her, he
| used bad insulting language. The witness
| repeated the language to Judge Studley, ex-
! clusively.] Witness supposed when be heard
| her voice that the man would let her go, and
| that he must have been mistaken. When it
| was seen that he would not let her go, the
woman screamed twice. He put his hand
over her face She moved and then screamed
again. He then clutched her throat and said
| if she screamed again he would cut her heart
out. She tried to scream again, but by rea-
son of the structure on her throat was una
bic The man told her he would murder her
| if she screamed again or made further resist
ance. Witness begged the man If he had no
mercy on her to have mercy on her two
little children Her strength being exhaus-
ted she begged to be released and told
the prisoner that if her husband would come
out, .sGod help him. The man acted as
though he had no fear of the threats The
dragging across the street was by holding the
lady's left arm. Witness fell in the snow,
being faint. The man swore and he told her
to get up. This was on the pipe street lot.
The man repeated his assault at this time
and told witness If she ever revealed this
matter he would murder her. Witness did
not know how or when the man left her. She
found herself in a snowdrift short distance
from her house, but could not tell how she
got there. Her head had a cash in the back,
but it did not pain her after the shock, until
about o'clock in the morning, except that
she had pains in her ears. The man had on
Derby hat and sack overcoat, buttoned to
the throat. He had been drinking his breath
smelled strong. Witness got home at 9:15
that night She first saw her husband and
said MY God, papa, I've been shot !" Her
husband, she being faint, led her 10 a chair.
She told she was shot in the
head somewhere. She then told the whole
of the horrible adventure to her husband
Witness fully identified the prisoner in
court, PolntlnS 10 MIN as ne SAT py counsel.
is was q ilgnG hisno anu sue cou H .see ron
1lo piace ol tne assault DIS iar DIS osaIe s.Ieet.
Inc CROSS examination was cohouceed py
eA-o uuge hoolnson ,MHo inquired partieuiafly
as 20 Ine various perioos oi Ilne hiengioneo
oy Sonn piainan' ~ oeiiinS nei sIo1y, WtSness
SAID ner mothers name was Mrs. Davld IL.
Carr, and lt was at her mouse she had been
calling on Hamilton street. Witness said she
never saw Clune before. 1t was liquor and
not beer that ms breath was surcharged With.
her own heaith had always been good,
On the redlfect examination Mrs. Wlnsen
testified that she had been made, AFRAID OF the
| man.
Dr. Luby, IN hospital practice three years.
saw the lady at her house between and 10
that evening She excited and nervous
and afraid somebody would attack her. There
was scalp wound of an inch or an inch and
quarter long and a quarter of an inch deep.
there was slight confusion just above the
wound There were no other marks The
wound was made by CLUB or heavy cane.
such blow would partially stun person
and leave her unconscious for moment.
Cross examlned-The doctor described
more 1ully the wound In the Dack OF MIS-
Wlnsen's head 1t the wound was made by
| a blow that cut through the folds of shawl
| and hood, clean wound might be cut in
the shawl and the wound IN the head might
be jagged.
t Charles Wardell, of Ga Beach street, testi-
fed that he saw young man on the corner
of State and Bishop street about $50 o'clock
that Saturday night. 1t was storming hard
and the youth was pretty well intoxicated.
He was standing on the steps of Rourke's sa-
loon. Next the witness saw him a little after
8 O'Clock standing at the corner of State and
Wallace street. much more sober than when
first seen.