National Republican., 1885-07-03
THE CApENTER JURY OUT.
Failing to Agree They Are Locked Up
for tho Night.


for the Night.
The defense continued working in their
testimony upon the opening Of the crimi-
nal court yesterday, in the trial of Henri
eta i. Carpenter, indicted for the murder
Of her late husband, George w. Carpenter,
on the 25th Of December, 1888.
A. ID. Prince testified that Mrs. Carpenter
was employed as a cook in his family in
January, 1884. Her strange behavior at
tracted the attention of himself and wife;
they thought she was not in her right mind
and kept her only two weeks.
DIR. Alexander McWilliams, physician 20
the jail, testified to treating her while In the
prison, and being quiet and docile.
On cross-eyamination the witness said he
thought the defendent perfectly sound In
mind, and never saw anything 70 indicate
otherwise.
w. W. GoddIng, superintendent Of the
government hospital for the insane, testi
fled that insanity had hereditary tendencies,
and that a child Of an insane father was
likely to become insane. The witness pro-
duced the record of thehospital, ,showingth
John w. Bailey was the ilfty-fourth patient
taken into the hospital, and was admitted
in March, 1855, and died April, 1857. The
record OF Annie Robinson, daughter, of
In the hospital, was also read.
THE ACCUSED TEsTTFIEs.
Henrietta L. Carpenter, the accused, was
then called to the stand. She was attired
in deep mourning, and was very cool and
collected, showing no confusion at any
stage Of the examination.
"Did you murder your husband ?" asked
her counsel.
mo, no SIR" she quickly answered.
"Where is your husband ~
~ don't know where he is. He told me
that he was going west"
"Is that your husbands skullY'
Mrs. Carpenter picked up the skull,
which laid on the stand before her, care
fully turning It over and said, 81 don't
think it is his. The hole in the bottom is
not large enough. George had very large
neck.n
"Did you write that letter ?" (showinr
the one received by f. G.. Davis.
~ did not. did not know that he went
with other women.h
She said that her husband furnished the
money to support herself and seven chill
dren. They never quarreled, and he never
treated her badly, for she always obeyed
him In everything. Sometimes he slept up
stairs, and sometimes down, and In Decem-
Der he slept away from her, because the
baby was sick, and he did not care to be in
| bed with 1t. He came home Christmas
night about o'clock, sat down to supper,
| and said he did not want much to eat as he
had taken dinner with Hillary Davis. lie
| did not talk much, but told her he was
| going away. As she was going to bed her
husband said, swell, good-bye;' she said,
"Good night" and went up stairs. He said
nothing about what he was going to do.
She did not see her husband after he said
"Good-bye" The next day she had supper
ready, but he did not come home. A man
named Page came from Mr. Davis's store
and asked II her husband had gone away or
| was in trouble. She told him that she did not
know. He had told her that he was going
away, but he did not say when. She did
not see him the next week. She did give
her name as Hattie Parker, because her
husband had told her If he stayed any more
than three weeks she could change her
name. She took the name Of Parker be-
cause that was her grandparents name and
that OF Hattie as short for Henrietta. Her
husband never called her Hattie; he always
called her Queen. 1t was about six weeks
after her husband left that she went to
work at the house Of Mr.. Prince. After
leaving there she went to Mrs. Wheelock's.
On cross-eXamination the witness said she
had been married seventeen years, and had
never had any trouble with her husband.
She never heard that people were talking
about her husband or that he was drinking
whisky. She had heard more about her
husband in court than she ever heard be-
fore. She never told Mr.. Page that her
husband had got mixed up with women and
whisky. Neither did she tell her brother
Leonard anything Of that kind when she
told him that her husband had gone away.
When her husband came home on Christmas
night he did not talk much, but said he
broke mans sleigh by sitting in it, and
that he weighed PIP pounds. All her hus-
band said when she started upstairs was,
"Well, goodbye, l am going away to the
west" She did not think any more about
IT., because she thought he would tell her
before he went. The next morning after
one ON the ' table, Si%pp'r She a'ShGi did wect Sot
go into the closet that day. There was nc
blood marks about the closet or the room
to show that there had been a struggle
She did not know Of any hole in the closet
the door in the floor; 1t was nailed down
and she never opened 1t. The door was
there when she came into the house. She
never used 1t because she did not know
there was anything there to use. She did
not put milk or butter down in the place
as she had a refrigerator for that purpose
When the defendant left the stand the
defense announced its case as closed.
EVIDENCE IN REBUTrAL.
The government called in rebuttal j. p
Page, Charles II. Cnppen, VIM. 7. Riley
Sarah E. Wenzel, VIM. a. Edelin,, Perry NJ
Carson, and Marcellus West, which com
pleted the testimony without developing
anything new.
District Attorney Worthington proposed
to submit the case to the jury without
argument. He said 1t was not usual
course to pursue, especially in capital
case, but the circumstances connected with
itwere peculiar; the jury were acquainted
with all of the facts, aud he was perfectly
willing to leave the case to them.
Judge Mackey was not inclined to agree
to that proposition, but suggested that
each side be allowed thirty minutes fol
argument, which the government ac
qlliesced in.
The argument was then entered upon
and was concluded at 4:30 p. IN. Justic,
Macarthur charged the jury, and they re
ceived the case ten minutes later.
AT 0 o'clock p. m, the jury not having
agreed, they were locked up, to remain to
gether for the night.