Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-03
The MALLEY CASE.
HO,c tie MMrderers of Jennie Crcn.er
Here AcqWtttcd.

H0s0 tie MWrderers of Jennie Crcnser
Here Acqwittcd.
New Haven correspondent gives at con.
siderable length the closing scene upon the
acquittal of the Malley boys who murdered
Jennie Cramer. The following is an interest
ing supplement to the brief Geographic an.
nouncement
Cheers rent the court room this afternoon
when the jury returned verdict of not guilty.
For few moments confusion reigned, and
friends pressed forward to congratulate them
upon their escape. Blanche Douglass sat
alone, smiling, until her counsel came to her
side, and then she sobbed in q manner half
hysterical for few seconds. The women
almost stood on each other, SO closely were
they packed, while the men pushed and strug-
gled to get front seats, where they could see
"Queen" Blanche as she sat nervOusly finger
ing snowy handkerchief that hung from her
girdle.
Mr.. Doolittle said: "There was no AIDE.
quate motive for this murder. 1 desire to
turn your attention to little law upon this
subject, to show some of the motives that
actuate people TO commit murder" He read
from Wharton on evidence, page 7S4. 1.-THE
records of crime" said he, ''are full Of cases
where motives are shown for the commission
of crime that would occur to no reasonable
mind" In fact no reasonable mind will think
of murder. There is no law that will show
consciousness of guilt led these accused
persons to seek the best counsel
in the land. They went out Of
Connecticut aud selected Philadelphia
lawyer, thinking he would be shield, and
that they could skulk behind him. No one
could deny the fact that q fatal dose of arsenic
was found in that girls boey. No one has
c11Cr Tod O 40 in,
the whole body was not1analyzed. It was not
necessary where blood had distributed arsenic
as in this case. Arsenic affects the nerves and
produces stupor and death. Now, the con-
duct of Jennie Cramer, they tell us, was extra
ordinary; that it was queer that she should
call for them to stop the horses; that she was
paralyzed. At that moment poison was cours.
ing through her veins. She was truly becom-
ing paralyzed. When she was IN this agony
she was taken somewhere, whether to the Nal
ley cottage or both houses. Tney undertook
to conceal their crime. They threw the body
in the water. That's the case. Haven't
those men who are defending these young
men charged with murder anything better to
offer than the suggestion that arsenic got into
the body of Jennie Cramer as it lay on the
board fresh from the planning mill in that
undertaker's establishment? There is not a
particle of proof that there Was ever any arse.
mic in that undertaker's shop. When body
is dead there is no circulation of the blood,
and you may sprinkle your arsenic upon it
and it wouldn't get into circulation like the
arsenic in This case. say these defendants
conspired to cause that girls death. No sort
of consequence whether they did II month
before she died or the night before; whether
that Wednesday night or Friaay ngnt THY
place to rob this girl OF all woman holds dear.
they talk about pity, Did they show pity 70
hat pirI who has gone to her grave? Did
hey Show pity to that mother?
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Deolittie's argu-
nen Judge Granger tb n,s G mngf to
, !. J.y ,,er;od Of more than thirty days, in
vh iefI YOU have listened to the testimony
=; th ;,,dra g II win be hardly necessary for
' mn ~ sne occ,snv much more OF your time.
hall hs therefore, be very brief. The state is
hound, , to prove that murder was committed