Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-24
The MalleY Trial.
Am Opinion Questionable Availability
 oG GJmrors-Gossin Ahnlt tha Case.

oH JUrofs-G0ssip About the Case.
 The counsel in the Malley case expect that this week considerable evidence will be har- vested. The court, it is well understood, in tends that the case shall not drag along to any unheard of extent. but will expedite the case as far as practicable. Rumors innumer- able are constantly being unearthed, which are principally valuable as showing the in- terest attaching to the case and the earnest
 endeavors to throw more light upon the sad
 fate of the unfortunate girl whose body was
 found on the sand at West Haven shore.
 Considerable discussion has been created
 about town about the wholesale rejection of men for jurymen who have expressed an
 opinion in the case. The subject has excited
 interest among many of our most enlightened
 and able citizens, who have expressed doubts
 as to the propriety of the rejection, holding
 that in such a case as this almost everyb body is presumed to have read about the case and formed some kind of an opinion regarding it, and yet are not thereby disqualified from adjudging the case fairly and upon it's actual merits as jurymen. The discussion of the l subject having been quite general, some legal gentlt men were asked their views in the case, giving it as their opinion that the law might be proftably modified, though holding that after all it was better to have a jury enter upon the case free and uncommitted.
 The bill providing for an allowance not to exceed S10 day to counsel assigned by the State to defend prisoners charged with capital offences having passed both branches of the Legislature will soon be signed by Governor Bigelow. This will pay Blanche Douglass two lawyers fair sum for looking out for her interests. If witnesses are necessary for her defence, the State will probably be asked to issue the subpoena, on the ground that she is without means. This is the usual course. The 300 jurors who visited the city last week left between $6 ,OOO and Ss7,OOO here in the way of trade. It was divided among res taurants and merchants and others. They had chance to do little necessary business and get their travelling expenses each way and S2. 50 day while here in attendance up on court, and the weather being too backward for profitable farm work nothing was lost thereby. The court room received a house. cleaning Saturday. Mir. Doolittle paid visit to the court room Saturday to see about some entries on the docket, and Mir. Bush of West Haven. remained in the borough to at- tend to legal work Even the temptations of reports of large trout to be had for the catch ing had no allurements to tempt him from the bundles of papers which had accumula- ted.
 Among the stories and rumors of new evi- dence is one that clergyman will come for
 ward and say that he saw the three prison
 CTS who are on trial and Jennie Cramer all at
 West Haven shore together the night be-
 fore Jennie's body was found. This would
 be pretty important evidence if true, and the question arises why clergyman should keep silence so long with such @ secret locked up in his breast. If correct this evidence SUD- ports that of Howard Payne, who testified to the impression that he saw one of the Nal leys at the shore that night An other story is that another party will come forward and testify that he saw some of the party at the shore that night. Another story that man when boozy de- clared while in the lookup in West Haven to seeing the Malleys and Jennie Cramer near the shore that night, and to hearing talk be- tween the party about seduction, promise to marry and threats of poisoning. The mans story was, at the time, discredited as a fic- tion invented as a bait to get his punishment remitted. Another story is that roughs saw Jennie Cramer in Wooster Square and were struck with her face, which they pronounced the most beautiful one they had ever seen that they fell in with at the West Haven shore, ravished her and threw her off the dock. The stories are given as specimens of current gossip, and many others of like sort are floating about. The Cramer mystery is now again exciting much interest far beyond the confines of our own little State, and is likely to much increase in interest The merits and qualifications of the jurymen and the lawyers in the case engage public atten- tion. In one of our city pulpits yesterday remarks were made by Dr. Todd in a sermon in condemnation of exhibitions of false senti
 mentality on the part of the public toward prisoners at the bar, the application being evidently intended for no particular case, un less perhaps, the attentions showered upon Guteau were held in mind.
 The anticipated euergizing of the machin
 cry of the law by the court will not hinder there being some sharp legal conflicts as to the admission of certain evidence in the trial
 Lawyers Jones, Case, Cassidy, Blydenburgh and Fox on one side, with Stoddard and Dow supplementing them on the part of Blanche Douglass, and with the States attorney and
 Mr. Bush on the other. make up an array of counsel not often seen in the annals of our court room.'