The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-07-02
THE GREAT MALLEY TRIAL.
all THREE OF THE ACCUSED ACQUKT.
TED or THE Charge OF MURDER


NEW HAVEN, June 3O.-At the news that
Harvard had won the boat race, the old elms on
the Green seemed to bow their heads in sorrow.
Merchants, lawyers. and hack drivers wore
gloomy faces But there was no lack Of inter-
sst in the Mallav trial. by break Of day per-
,ons we're in line at the doors OF the Court
House awaiting admission. At $3.50 the crush
vas terrific. When the doors were opened the
,rowd poured in like water from burstod
dam Mr. Doolittlc continued the closing
argument. lIe made an apparently convincing
array Il facts. His prosentment was power
ful Tvi,c was counsel for defence stung into
n reply. At its close Mr. Jones for the first
time sincr The trial began. insisted on having
the last word. but Judge Granger refused to
allow 1t. The accused heard tho arraign-
mcnt with deep interest. At times Walter and
James ,miled Miss Douglas changed not a
muscle. Mr.. Doolittln resumed by trying to
dispose Of the complaint TINT all the body had
not been analysed in the search for arsenic. 1t
had been transfused throughout tho body by
tn blood 1t flowed equally in all parts of
thu body. You can't believe that the arsenic
happened to be only In those parts Of the body
ro,tly on tls, nerves, sometimes producing
shout My ca m m r paraiyzod" While 81" was
riding the lying horses. At that very moment
veins. Wherever she died her eyes were
closed. her hands were folded and her body
tide rolled /, on the beach. All this was done
to conceal tho crime.
The testimony Of an expert had sent DR.. Lam
son to the Gallows, who used a far more subtle
eondcmned man had acknowledged that the
s sh had DR. Sh ten
Promise Of proving i attarwari the state had
burns solution in his establishment. 1t was "a
false issue. calculated to give the jury the i'm
msh have been With this
arsenical solution. They offered no proof that
msn The Very board on Which the re@ans
Were PLACED had never been Ssed before The
he in so as to Ene
asigts lawyer cause for ,h complaint ~
S the mpor t Of Miss" Miss Douglas 90 s from from 1a LIZZIE
Bundy's. establishment, the DISTRICT Attorney
sion, True to the Maley instinct the cousins
wanted to get her as cheap as they could,
the house yet Anna Ger in the COOK. says Ss she
heard nothing Jennie he begged TO- go home
peal to- to her sympathy on Bianche's fsiGned
sickness. lie, would make no alIslon to what
not nave been used because the girl waved her
hand to her destroyer when leaving the, house
eRdeace ' ReEad Who that
girls waved her hand while the other was ar
Jennie alone wore mitts: so that 1t must have
been her companion Who waved an adieu
ME after that morning. If they wore seen with
her after that they are confessedly guilty Of
to- svm after she left Ho9 her
house. Blanche says she saw her in the car
and that she turned her head away BECAUSE %s she
action may account for Jennie's return to the
car after leaving j. B4t # IT IS clear tia, len
afternoon. Mr.. Dooliitle made an eEhaustiy We
that they saw WIN her. TGsy told Ge od truth Tor
they had no interest to do Otherwise. super.
Henpy sNore Sat She %as IN Rsdces
Th1WFs ssyy The STdsT f
si I their testimony. Fits is Why Lawyer S
Fox and the cousins tried to get possession OF
Here Mr.. Fox proto sted What did you go
there for p Numbered the District Attorney.
oh. tho boys went there ITO to get Henry and
Rawlings to change their minds. aud you hap
pened e drop in said Mr. Dooiittle' That
They pleaded with Rawlings and Henry James
was not established that he was in the party,
and thai Jennie not h ne The
Henry's testimony, and it stood on the
record unchallenged.
defence. Mr. Dooitte assorted that Walter and
night after %e their o return from BrsnSrd Poin
Walter had prepared that dose Of arsenic. and
h. wanted 70 see how II 3neeratedi ,,,,,.o +,
Mr.. Jones. and Walter wanted to see how it
was cXccnted, what would he be hanging around
% you want to argue the case again" Mr.;
establish an abb for Walter. Where we're the
coachman and the .eshambcrmaid who tr7tlned
at West Haven? Why were they not called by
Herr Mr. Jones AGAR. protested. Tho trouble
different alibi was prepared. He called the
jury's attention TO The signature y; Cramcr -
addressed to Jennie Cramer BY Waiter Maey, y
In the same hantlwritting.s The formation Of
the ~ and the long s!antng ia, tail t" the ha "a
They wers, pcculiarites that could not have az;
cidental'y been daplieatcd. w The IL Gramsr "
the girls death. IL could not register it nest
to the registry of his own and Miss Douglas 5
name. because the names of three gentlemen
from Birmingham interviewed. so he placed it
viii show you this. 1t Is an admission by Wal
day night, He intended To say that she was at
RFn Ts took EHS home %n and
t asrG nho programme however was after
Another Significant fact was Blanche where;
abouts on Friday night. No one had accounted
for her after she was seen at Branford Point;
after Jrnnles death. The defence were very
anxious to prove where Jennie was. but they
had made no effort 70 show where Blanche was.
They showed no alibi for her.
The suicide and SEDUCTION theory was intro Il,
duced merely to shield the accused: The
presence OF mushrooms In the dead girl S
stomach had been presented as IN evidence that
she died on Thursday night. 1t Is based on
the assumption that she ate nothing after
Thursday morning. The mushrooms would
have been digcsted within six hours. One
thing is certain; she ate the mushrooms
found ~ her stomach at the same time that she
ate the huckIebcrres found there, and the Red
elifIe check shows that she ate no hnckleberries
on Thursday morning. She was with Walter ut
the same restaurant that night and ate no
mushrooms. The inference that she ate them
on Friday and that the accused knew where
saying that il the accused were instrumental in
inducing he girl to commit suicide they might
be found guilty Of manslaughter
IN" last remark brought Sam Jones to his
Feet. He tried 10 controvert the statement, but
ne dessted at the request Of Judge Granger.