Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-25
Growing Sentiment That the Prison
VIII Not be Convicted

Growing Sentiment That the Prisoner
win Not be Convicted.
WOODSTOCK (Ont }. September 2t,h.-Tbe
| Burcheil trial was continued this morning
| The prisoner slept well and was up in lime
| to perform his usual careful toilet before
being called 10 face the Judge and iurv.
He was ready ano waiting for the Sheriff
| when the latter arrived in hack. Ii had
| been reported that Burchell was hand
cuifed on the way to and from the Court
! room, but such is no; the case. He is the
| quietest most-easy going prisoner anv
| lailer ever had 10 do with, and neither
| complains nor gives trouble in sny way.
There was the usual great crowd at the
| Town Hall entrance TO see him pass. and
his appearance was warmly criticised bv
many. Burchell has raised I'D in this
community two clearly defined parties.
one in his favor and the other against him.
The latter party are more numerous, aud
| they are having their own way pretty well
during the presentation of the case ior the
| prosecution But the prisoners friends are
stalwart, and convinced either that he is
| innocent or that il will be impossible TO
prove him gully.
! There was q great crowd in the Court
room, including over 100 ladies. The
| prisoners wife and sister.in.law were not
present, Mrs. Burchell being too nervous
and i'll to stand the strain CT watching the
proceedings.
DIR. Taylor, the physician who called to
see Benwells body when found in the
swamp, testified the clothing was frozen to
the ground. 1t had lain there four of five
days. His examination showed that Ben
well died of wounds in tie head SO located
that it not be suicide.
On cross. examination, the doctor became
considerably ratified" as it was shown
that his evidence before the Coroner as TO
the character and appearance of the
wounds and probable time they were in
flicted, did not coincide with that Just
given.
Dr. Wilford was the next witness. He
described the appearance of the body as it
lay in the undertaking establishment and
its preparation for the postmortem. In
two or three points on cross-examination
he favored the prisoner. The shirt on the
body was rather clean and stiff, seeming in
conflict with the theory that il had been
out in rain-storm all night. Appear
ances indicate that the body had not fallen
in the position found, but that it had been
placed there.
Recess till evening.
In the evening Pelley was recalled and
recognized Burchells several letters, which
were put in evidence.
Grigg the Princeton sexton, was Ques-
toned as TO the attempt as he suspected,
to open the grave and steal Benwell's body.
He was unable to identify the persons
whom he frightened away.
Frank Pierce teller in bank al Niagara
Falls. related how Burchell came into the
bank on February Goth. and said he was an
agent of the British Government buying
horses IN Canada, and deposited $152 in
cluding eleven English sovereigns. This
point the Crown makes, that il agrees with
the statement of Pelley, that Benwell (the
murdered MANI had handful of sovereigns
with him.
An important discovery was made by the
detectives to-day. Burchelrs attorneys lay
great stress on the fact that F. G. Benwell
registered at the Commercial Hotel at
Bantford on January 18th. To-day two
young men of Brantford confessed that
they made the entry for a Joke. This is
considered heavy blow on Burchell.
Mexico's Finances.
New ORLEANS, September 24th.--The
message of President Diaz on the opening
of Congress has been received here. He
said: The financial situation continues to
improve. The receipts of the Treasury
during the last fiscal year exceeded $685.
600 600, the receipts from the frontier and
maritime Custom House reaching S24 ,000,-
000 This shows the magnificent impulse
that mercantile traffic has received, since,
without increasing the tariff, the Custom
Houses now collect $4,000, 900 more than
four years ago. The economic situation of
the country is becoming daily more solid,
and if, as is to be expected, the Republic
continues to develop its elements of wealth,
the day will soon come when the require
ments of the estimates will be equaled by
the revenues"
Floods in France.
PARIS September 24th.-Further reports
of the damage by floods are received. The
town of Annonay and the surrounding
country are inundated by an overflow from
the Canoe and Deame rivers. The dam
age is enormous. Factories are DESTROYED,
bridges swept away and railways impassa-
BILE. In Annonay manufacturer and sew
eral men were drowned.
Irish Nationalists.
LONDON, September 24th-It is under
stood Parnell will shortly call Convention
of Irish Nationalists.
Parnell has finally decided it would be
unwise to send anyone to America in the
place of Brien and Dillon, as they will
be able to carry out the original plan in any
event.
Sydney Labor Congress.
SYDNEY. September 24th.-The Labor
Congress finished its work to-day, after de-
Gliding to make final appeal to the en-
ployers to hold a conference with the
men. The Congress adhered to the de-
cision to call out the employees in the wool
trade. 1t is doubtful, however. whether
the men will respond.
Monarchial Principles.
PARIS, September 24th.-Comte de Psris
writes Senator Bocher regarding the Bou-
langist revolution, justifying the course he
| took and advising his friends to waste no
| time in recriminations, but affirm clearly
their faith in monarchial principles and
unite for a continuance of the struggle.
Sentences Reversed.
| DUBLIN, September 24th.- AT Water.
| ford Assizes to-day Judge Waters reversed
| the three months Imprisonment at hard
labor pronounced upon Fisher, editor OF
the Munster Express. and Redmond, editor
| of the Waterford News. The two editors
were committed under the Crimes Act.
| Sentenced to Hard Labor.
VIENNA, September 24th.-The suit OF
Baron Won Scuddier against the Vadertand
for accusing him of having accepted brioes,
| ended in conviction of the editor, VINO
was sentenced to eight months imprison-
ment at hard labor.
! Fatal Explosion.
! LONDON. September 24th.-An explosion
occurred on the steamer Pandora at New
castle. Twelve persons were fatally
scalded.
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