Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-30
The Jennie Cramer Mystery.

The Approaching Tria1-Hints Thrown Out-The Present Aspeo& of the Case.
 The time for the trial of the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass (April term of the court) draws on, and public interest in the case which has slumbered since the investi- gation in West Haven has taken new start. Considerable enquiry is made about town when the prisoners will be brought down to plead. One of the counsel for defense, in talking last evening. said the prisoners would be brought down to plead to the indictment before many days but that it had been de- cided that when they are brought down it should be as privately as possible without previous announcement of the fact, this course being taken at the request of the
 prisoners. The other morning when it was
 expected that the prison CTS would be brought
 down to plead the court room was thronged
 with people-young members of the bar and
 citizens in general-a notable array of faces.
 Among knot of young men present were
 several who had come for the express pur-
 pose, they said, of studying the physiognomy
 of the faces of the prisoners, especially that
 of Blanche Douglass, as they had been led to
 think, from the testimony of friends, that
 they were quite expert as physiognomists and
 had achieaed success in arriving at psycho-
 logical facts from 8 study of faces. The non
 arrival of the prisoners was special disap-
 pointnlent to these seekers for light and they
 turned their attention to look for Samuel
 0f Ho ub
 had been engaged to assist Messrs Blyden-
 burgh and Fox in conducting this important
 trial, with poor success, not discovering the
 object of their search. Mir. Jones, as is well known, has been to Savin Rock and taken
 mental cognizanee of the principal points of sad interest in connection with the tragedy and has been in consultation with his partners in conducting the case considerably. MT. Jones' face is familiar to host of New Haven peo- pie from his connection with the famous Hayden trial, and his present connection with the Malley cases makes ''lots of talk :" in places where men congregate to while away spare time and air their opinions in eel ebrated cases, noted lawyers and old time criminal lawyers.
 What is there new in the Malley case Has the State anything new to develop? Has Blanche Douglass added anything to her tes- timony given on that momentous night when the jury had her before them and when she told the story with which the public has been for long time familiar? These are ques- tions which the State will answer in due time. The State, under the eye of it's emil nent attorney, will give the case thorough searching, and all the facts possible bearing on the death of the unfortunate girl will be brought out. There are many stories afoat of new developments in the case throwing light upon the dark picture of her fate. In the light of Blanche Douglass statements be- fore the jury the theory is formed on the one side meeting the views of many persons that the unfortunate girl, pleased and fattered by the attentions of James Malley, was not un- willing to make conquest of him and add him to the number of her train of admirers; that she was led on and lured on until Blanche Douglass made new actor on the scene, and that, through her as de- coy, the unfortunate was led to and forced to submit to her ruin. The argu- ment advanced is, further, that she sought and had new interviews with James, to plead with him to marry her, and that broken hearted at finding herself duped and wronged, with no courage to return to her home, she died on the Malleys' hands through the mal- of some drug by them, with no intent to murder, or taken by herself, of her own volition, without their knowledge, and that finding her dead they disposed of the body at West Haven shore. The above theory is advanced by a multitude of people, and is quite commonly heard about town. It IS the of many that the girl was tempted and wlonged, and that Blanche Douglass told the truth when she said that Jennie Cramer resisted the loss of her honor. The State is reported to be sanguine of developing such train of evidence as will secure 8 con- viction. On the other hand parties argue that much of the testimony relied upon by the State as matters at West Haven shore will not stand the test of scrutiny that the 0Ii6is of Walter and James are sufficient to prove to any jury their whereabouts On that fatal night, and that the girl met her death either by accident or suicide. It is held further that the presence of arsenic in the system is fully accounted for on the theory that deceased was an habitual arsenic eater for the sake of her complexion, and that if the parts of the poor girls body now in the hands of the experts show more arsenic it will only tend to confirm the arsenic eating theory. If the girl had been outraged it would have been natural for her to have re- vealed it to her mother, and if outraged how was it that she retired from the Malley man. sion with Blanche on the morning after the alleged offence in such gracious humor to the parties whom, if guilty, she should have detested AS to the story framed by the Malleys at the inquest, so far as they were untrue, it is claimed that these were framed to cover scant :. and not & murder.
 Mr. Asa Curtiss has new story about the case, in which he sets forth theory that the girl who was taken sick on the Thursday night at West Haven shore and lay in faint under tree in front of the Beach House with crowd around her was Jennie Cramer. The story given runs further as follows "A young man stood under another tree near by and he was James Malley. The doctor who attended was Dr. Barry. Blanche Douglass was one of the girls end the other was tall md slim woman. I don't know who she was, out I'd know her if I saw her again. Yes, I saw all this. There were two German girls hat were stopping at the Beach House. They i've in New Haven now and they have got to estify yet They came out after Dr. Barry lad put Jennie down and gave her water. After they got Jennie into the beach wagon )ne of the girls said: Jennie, do you want my more ?'-meaning water. I heard her 'ay it. Then they drove off towards the Sea View House. James Malley was on the front ,eat and the three women were on the back eat, Jennie in the middle. The others were holding her up They drove down towards Grove street and turned in there. From Grove street they could have driven on to Railroad avenue and back to this city. When | hey were on Grove street Jennie gave ter ible shriek. There are those who heard it. l They may have taken her to 8 certain build l pg on Chapel street near the corner. l don't | 1now about that. Probably she was taken | here between eight and ten clock that even- 1 ng. It was eight o'clock when the thing in front of the Beach House. 1 Sometime that night they took her to the path house. There are four of the bath | houses, three of them close together and one little way off The dead body vas there all day. Friday and Friday night she was put into the water. Yes, know Walter Malley was in Branford Point Friday evening" but he and Blanche vent there for effect. They had time to go md get back, and Walter and James went to he shore and put the body in the water. You may be sure I am right about it's being Thursday that Jennie was seen at the Rock, md not Friday. The witnesses got 1t one day shead I tell you Blanche Douglass will go ,cot free when this trials over. Walter may nave to stay in for while, but James, chances are good for while in jail. If he lad called doctor down there at West Haven, instead of trying to cover it up, I lon't care if the girl had been seduced and vas dying, he wouldn't have had to stay in all as long as he'll have to stay now, and Walter and Blanche would have been clear" "