Connecticut western news., 1882-07-05
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point Of nausea and there is general feeling of relief that the cases are ended. It would have been more satisfactory perhaps if they had terminated in the same manner from the end of the halter, but we can't always have everything just as we wish it in this wicked world and the general verdict of the commu- nity no doubt is good riddance to bad rub bish." Let both cases honce forth rest togeth. CT in the grave of oblivion.
 The trap had scarcely boen sprung at Washington, before the Country was flooded with 'extras" giving a rehash of all the silly details which had been served up for year, and the astonishing thing about it is that it was eagerly sought after and devoured appar- ently with relish. The taste of the intelli- gent reader is sometimes queer taste, and the desire for this kind of reading may iu some measure be responsible for the crimes of such cranks as Guiteau, who desire notori- ety more than any thing else.
 The most persistent efforts had been made in Guiteau's behalf, first to obtain new trial and then pardon or reprieve but they all fail. ed and he was promptly hung at the appoint ed time without any bungling, for a wonder, and without any unusual scene or incident. He displayed the same nerve and courage at the end he had throughout and whether the result of sanity or insanity, they were worthy of a better cause. His counsel Mir. Reed and Mir. Scoville deserve much credit for the faithful manner in which they have stood by him under the most trying cireum. stances, without the hope of fee or rewards and their conduct adds honor to a much abused profession. The truth is there is no profession or calling that can polnt to so many instances of such disnterested services as that of the law. There may be instances where the charges are exorbitant but they are the exception and not the rule. The instances where the services, although great and ardu- ous have been done for nothing, are far more numerous and no poor man was ever compelled to go to trial on a criminal charge without a faithful lawyer to defend him, even "with- out money and without price"
 The autopsy made after the execution show. ed that Guiteau's brain and all the internal organs were normal except the spleen which was enlarged to twice the normal size which fact probably accounted for his crime. It was his spleen and not his brain. The brain weighed foity-nine and one half ounces which is a little more than the weight of the average human brain. It was we'll formed and presented no external evidence of disease or lesion. The lungs and heart were in thelr normal condition, but there was @ slight ruff1ing of the aorta in the vicinity of the heart The neck was not dislocated or frac- tured, as the surgeon at first supposed and it follows. therefore, that death resulted from suffocation and not from dislocation of the spinal vertebrse. While the tragedy was be- ing enacted at Washington, or at least before Guiteau was cold in the coffin, very different scane, (certainly not tragedy,) was witness. ed at New Haven. The case was submitted to the jury and in fifty five minutes they re. turned verdict of not guilty and the Malleys went forth to neighboring hotel and cele- brated the event with champaigne and ha- vana cigars. Circumstances alter cases tre- mendiously. In the one case the victim was poor girl, and the accused had more money than brains, in the other the victim was the President of the United States, and the ac. cused was poor crank. In the one case the accused was hanged, in the other they go forth with an ovation. There is considerable fault found with the prosecution, bnt why we think it would puzzle some of those critics to give an intelligent or sensible reason. It is however, perfectly natural. There is nothing so successful in the eyes of the world as suc- cess. Ifa man succeeds, no matter how, he is a-great fellow. 1T he fails he is crank. It is difficult to see how different form of indictment could have helped the case. All the evidence that could have been obtained was introduced and went to the jury, and it was case of murder in the first degree or nothing. What difference would it or could it have made if the indictment had been as lonp as the moral law and had contained score of counts. The accused were acquitted because there was no murder committed and that there was no evidence to connect the accused with the death of the girl. The verdict upon legal principles was undoubtedly right. The jury were sworn to decide according to the evidence and the evidence, although it was the best to be obtained, was insufficient to convict of murder in any degree. There is a wide spread feeling, however, that if the Mslley boys and their paramour, are not legally guilty, they are at least morally responsible for the death of Jennie Cramer, and like Cain they will wear mark upon their brows which times effacing finger will never wipe out.
 The Malley trial as we'll as the Guteau trial depended in measure at least on expert eyi. dence, so called, and the people are pre-. pared to believe that there is good deal of humbug about it. A score of experts on one side can always be offset by score equally as learned on the other The remarks of MT. Case on this subject in his summing up in the Malley trial, were pretty well put:
 II know what is said about the wonders of science and know something about the blun- defs of science. I am content with the un. l caught butterfly and the unsstimated glory of the stars. Not only are you ignorant-you and and the court-but science is not agreed in itself. The science of to-day is laughing to scorn the science of yesterday, and the | science of tomorrow will laugh to scorn that of to-day. The Chittsndens of science, with | hands in each others hair are wrangling and disputing for all the world like 50 many Doo- titles. The scientists are the Hessians of | ,ur courts of justice who swear for pay"
 We would like to give Judge Granger's ,hargs to the jury in extenso, but have not he space. It is highly spoken of as very lble presentation of tho case on the law and he evidence, and we append the following ynopsis off it:
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