Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-02-09
shook his head "No.n


Attorney Clymer was about to take
up the blood.stained shirt which
Georges wife had testified he had put
on the same morning, but after
moments thought threw it on the
floor.
did you and your mother in-law
have any quarrel that morning,
George2'' he asked instead mo, sir,n
replied Dunham.
Did you that morning strike or in
any way inflict injuries upon your
mother-in-law?' mo, SIR"
ibid you discharge that gun or any
other gun that morning at your
mother-in-law?'' II didn't" responded
Dunham falteringly.
The unfortunate prisoner was then
handed over to Prosecutor Perry for
cross examination, and he had hard
time of it.
Aged Elan Durham, the prisoners
father, was then called by the defense,
and testified that his son George had
always been slow in answering cues
tlons and had strong aversion to
looking at dead persons, having re-
fused seven years ago to look at his
mother While the gray haired far
mer gave this testimony the prisoner
leaned forward on the table before
him and his frame shook.
The defense then rested and the
State called Frye Hopkins and Con.
stable Smith, who testified that they
had driven from the HANDLE farm past
Wesley c. Dunham's store in thirty
one minutes, thus showing the mae
curacy of the Dunham brothers. essi-
mates. A cross examination revealed
the fact, however, that their trip had
been made with q blooded horse hav-
ing record Of 2214. At half past
twelve, the State rested in rebuttal
and the morning session adjourned.
Prosecutor Perry occupied the entire
afternoon, from 2 to 5, in his summing
up. His argument was exhaustive
and touched upon all the details of
the tragic death of Mrs. Kandle.
When he dwelt on the more har
rowing circumstances of the murder
he advanced frequently toward the
prisoner, and with dramatic sweeps or
the arms and violent bursts of indig
nation, denounced the prisoner as
murderer. AT such time Dunham's
baby set up shrill crying in the arms
of its mother who sat on front seat.
and Durham himself turned round in
his chair with his back to the prosecu-
tor and jury, while his face twirehed
spasmodically.
At ten minutes of 12 O'Clock Satur-
day night the foreman of the jury in
the case of George c. Dunham, uttered
the closing words in the tragedy which
began on November 11th, with the
murder of Barbara HANDLE, and which
has been moving at Woodbury. to its
inevitable end for the last five days.
The jury left the courtroom at s
o'clock, and the spectators broke up
into groups of lively takers in the par
lor of the neighboring hotel Shortly
before 12 o'clock the twelve men with
whom rested the prisoners fate, filed
solemnly into the room, after having
been out four hours. There was the
sound of many steps on the stairs, and
in moment the courtroom was filled
again with men.
When the prisoner took his seat in
the big arm chair he was painfully
agitated There was sudden hush in
the crowded room and a craning of
necks to see the defendant.
How say you, gentlemen of the
jury? Do you find the prisoner at the
bar guilty or not guilty?" asked the
clerk. The stout, red-cheeked fore
man looked at the Judge and the
Clerk in turn, and then answered in
low voice, "Guilty of murder in the
first degree"
There was no outburst of approval,
no signs of disapproval. The con.
demned man did not seem to fully
realize the full import of the verdict.
He had gazed in rather vacant way
at the foreman of the jury, and when
the announcement that meant he must
hang was made, he dropped his hands
by his side and sat down as if he had
not heard the verdict.
Dunham, it is thought, is preparing
to feign insanity. When the officers
went after him yesterday morning to
bring him into Court he refused to put
on his coat, and ran up and dewn the
corridor of the Jail wildly gesticulating
The day opened with Prosecutor
Perry's continuation of his closing ad-
dress to the jury. He explained his
supposition of the murder at some
length. when Mrs. Handle was
shot, he surmised, "she placed her
right hand over the wound, covering
it with blood, and it was with this