Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-09-27
THE NEW HAVEN MALLEYS.
A Notable Trial Eeealied-Fhe Alleged
Murderer of Jennie Cramer suing
Newspapers for Libel.


New York Times
James Malley, who, with his cousin
Walter Malley, was tried and acqait-
ted Of numbering the beautiful Jen-
ME Cramer, whose body was found .
floating among the seaweed at Savin \
Rock, Conn, on Aug. 6, 1881, has
instituted suits for damages against
the StaatsZeitung of this city, and
the New Haven Register, for an arti
Gle published at the time of the trial,
which Mr. Malley thinks is a serious
reflection on his character, He wants
$50. 600 damages in each case. Papers
In the suit have not yet been served
upon the Register people James,
however wrote to friends in New
Haven last week that he had deter
mined to bring these suits and would
press them to the end. He was con
WINGED that he would win.
Since the morning of the day when
the old clam digger dragged the body
of the murdered girl to the shore
great changes have come over the
lives of the people who figured in the
trial. Jennie Cramer's father, an
honest old German, died soon after
the conclusion of the trial, leaving
everything he had to his wife. Mis-
fortune has been her constant com
panion, and she has seen her money
rapidly disappear, until now she lives
in almost actual want. Not very long
ago she was compelled to appear be
fore one Of the mun.c ipal bodies, and
ask to be relieved from the payment
of taxes, on the ground that she was
too poor to pay. To this day Mrs.
/ Cramer is unconvinced that the body
found at Savin Rock was that of her
daughter and 1t is said that she still
entertains hopes that the girl will
some day come back to her.
James Malley left New Haven soon
after the trial and went west Then
he wandered back again, and is now
in the drug business at WIlkesbarre,
Pa. He went to New Haven few
months ago, but the house of his I'M
Gle, the rich merchant, was closed
against him, and he put his name on
the register of a second rate hotel.
Since then he has been fitting back
and forth between that place and this
city, and the reason for his activity
is seen in these ambitious but ridicu-
lous suits
Walter Malley, unlike his cousin,
who sought to hide his shame among
strangers, remained in New Haven
and has assisted his father at the big
Chapel-street store. Walter has inn
proved much in appearance since the
trial, and yet even now he is a most
common place looking individual,
with watery eyes and a struggling
mustache, which will have fulfilled
the object of its cultivation when it
completely hides the weak, sensual
mouth beneath it. AT present it is far
from doing this. On the street Wal
ter is most frequently seen clad in a
velveteen coat and tight trousers, He
carries little riding whip in his
hand and looks about as if he doubt
ed whether the public appreciated the
generosity of such a great man III
exhibiting himself free of charge.
The crime and the trial was the
biggest advertisement for the business
of Edward Malley that could have
been devised. Mr. Malley has always
beex keenly alive to the advantage of
doing something to make the people
talk. He went to New Haven from
the Bowery in 1882 and started a lit
tie store. Possibly one-half of his
capital he spent in advertising his
opening, The opening was success
1 full, and the young merchant prosper
ed. When the great trial came he
was wealthy. The trial cost him aad
his son a great deal of money. Lewis
/ C. Cassidy, the present attorney gen
eral of Pennsylvania, got $4,000,
and he left the case long before il
came to the end Judge Blydenburgh,
who is now making temperance
speeches; Sam Jones, of Hartford,
and Timothy Fox also pocketed very
large fees In addition there We're
incidental expenses. Counsel for the
defense lunched every day at the eX-
pense of llr Malley and his son Wal
ter and it was rumored that several
of the iurymen did likewise. But
the money was well expended PEG
pie from all parts of New England
went to New Haven to visit Malley'S
store. The business increased many
hundredfold, and the Malleys baIl
account grew bigger and bigger, Las
Saturday Mr.. Malley retired from
business, and he and Walter vii
p soon 90 to Europe, to remain severa
years.