New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-13
WAS TT JAMES MALLEY?


MORE EVIDENCE FOR THE STATE.
T1YING TO IDENTIFY JENNIE CRAMER'S coMPAN-
IONS AT sAvIN RoCK-A SHORT BUT IMPORTANT
SESSION OF THE COURT
IFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE'l
NEW-HAvEN, May 12.-lt was stated at the
opening OF the this morning that the session to-day
would be short one, i'm consequence OF the illness OF
daughter Of one OF the jurors On this account the court
adjourned about noon to again next Tuesday AS
An illustration OF the interest taken In the trial In all
parts OF The country il may be stated that the Now
Haven postmaster has received letters from all parts
OF the country asking him TO forward pictures OF the
late Jennie Cramer.
AT the opening OF the court this morning Alvin San
ford was on the witness stand for crossexamnation by
Mr. Jones' The object of his examination was to show
that I'm his assertion yesterday that he saw James
Malley standing by his horse his fathers store on
Friday afternoon August D. he was mistaken The ex-
animation did not shake his testimony at all
Henry C. Allen then called He stated that he did
not know Jennie Cramer but had been told who she was
and knew her by sight The last time he saw Jennie
Cramer alive was the night before her body found at
savin Rock He was passing Chapcst in a street car
at the time she in a carriage she was opposite Red
cTes restaurant sitting a light carriage. The witness
described the carriage. There gentleman with her
The witness had the gentleman before IN
Maleys store At the mems furnishing counter.
ON the cross-examinaon by Mr.. Fox the witness
stated that the platform Of the street car on which he
stood was crowded. there about ten persons on It,
He was the eft-hand side going up the street IL was
between ana 5 O'Clock in the evening lie saw the
carriage before it reached him; it was not gong very
fast There was nothing which specially attracted his
attention; but he knew the girl by sight ana oohed
second time There nothing about her dress to at
tract his attention but he recognized the face. He
thought OF the the next day On thursday
the witness he at savn Rock he went there at
O'Clock in the afternoon and returning about $3.50 in
the evening. At the West Haven hearing lac testit1
that he went to the NcwHayen Jail to if he could
Identify the man he in the carriage.
He saw the person ting in the BARRIERS chair He saw
the same person again ut the hearing at West Haven
He testified West Haven that he had seen person on
the street aferward that he believed the same one
he in the instead OF the one he saw at the
Jail. said he met the street who had glasses
on and that he in the BARRIERS chair had had
glasses on he should have said that he the man.
This person in Church-st, coming in the direction OF
Chapolsi; tho witness coming down Chapel-st from
his home When he saw him, he stopped III the street
looked carefully, and for moment thought II must be
the same person lie had seen in the BARRIERS chair
The witness did not remember when this was; twas
some days after he hal visited the Jail He further
stated that he would say that il he had this person
before he saw the the Jail he would have testified
with just much posveness that he was the one he
had seen the The witness said he could not
swear that the person whom he saw in Maleys store
was the one that he in the carriage on Friday night
first Jennie Cramor In the post Office at North
ford; that time young man with hun called his at
tcntion to her.
On the redirect examination by Mr.. Dooitte, the wit
ness said that when visited the Jail and conducted
to the cells he did not anyone who looked Ike the
person he saw 10 the carriage but that when he went
the BARRIERS shop he young gentleman sitting
in one OF the chairs, who when he turned his face to-
ward him. looked very much like the person he saw in
the carr age on Friday The witness said that when he
saw him he could not help crying
Mr.. CAse-Why did you cry A-Because ieit sorry
for the young $500.
Q~Didn'I you when you ont Of the Jail that
the reason why you moved to tears was because
YOU feared that your Identification oil the prisoner WOud
be the cause OF his being punished A-No' sir. ,..
OWN you swear that this young man Cp0lntlnS
to James Maeyl Is me one OF whom you bought TIC
O.-Are YOU sure A.-Prctty sure
Own YOU swear positively A.-1es' WILL now
that look more closely.
IN The carriage Friday night A.-No sir Will not
When saw him at the jail part of his covered
with la and he had towel around his neck was
satisfied then that he was the same man saw IN the
carriage bat don't want 10 swear positively 10 II now
O-Why Won't you swear positively A.-Because of
the way he looked when saw him in the BARRIERS
char and also BECAUSE of the other person that SAW
alterward in Chapel-st. | positive it was jennie
Cr1mcr In tie carriage aud don't think 1t pOss Die that
| could be mistaken aoout IT, . -.
lhe witness was evidently confused TO the identity
Of the Macys. lie was unable to distinguish between
them III regard to lis having seen Jennie Cramer out
riding Friday evening he very positive and
conld not made say the contrary,
Charles T. Maltby then called. He said he knew
the late Jennie Crancr, and that the last time he
her Was al Sayin Rock Friday night, August D. the
night before her body found At that time the wit
neas was the path that leads from the principal street
10 the Grove She was ON the same path which runs
along by the Sea View House lie was going toward
the Grove when be her. and she coming
from It, Tue witness was within live feet
Of her when she passed Ii between
and . o'clock. She IN the company OF man and
a woman lie witness could not state whether the
man WAS old young. he took notice Of either
OF her companions lie first heard OF her death on the
the next saturday afternoon
ON the cross-eXa animation by Mr.. Case the witness
SAID that three persons were walking abreast the
man was on the southwest side. The witness passed
them the inside that the man was larthest rom
him Jennie CTamcr nearest TO hlm They were all
TALKING, hui he did not hear Jennie Cramer speak.
He nrst recognized Jennie Cramer when she was
about forty feet from HIM IL not
very li.ht very dark He did not
her. He looked at her, and she looked at him,
did not bow. The witness thought at the time that
was strange that she did not bow and the
clnsion she did him. The posi-
tive that he her Friday night, and SAID he had
never had doubt the subject lie did not see Walter
Macy at the shore that night he aid not know James
Maey and If he had seen him would not have recog-
nlLed INN.