Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1891-03-19
BRlDGETON, N. j., THURSDAY, MARCH l9, 1891.

room. During the entire examination
he seemed happy, and often smiled.
When adjournment time came Judge
Westcott had not finished the exgmi-
nation, which will he continued this
morning. Il is thought that the d.
rect examination will take an hour
longer, and then Prosecutor Rich
ard 3. Jenkins will cross examine the
accused man. Outside of the proceed
lugs proper, two incidents occurred
during the day. The first was a
woman spectator who was carried out
the room in half faint. The other
caused more excitement. Juror CLARK,
long bearded man, who is No. 2, was
seen to resi his head on the chair and
close his eyes, near the end Of the
morping session. When the court ad-
l9urned for dinner Juror Clark walked
with difficulty down the street TO the
hotel where the jury is stopping. He
had hardly entered the hotel when be
tainted and had to be carried upstairs.
DR.. STATION was summoned and he
found the nlan suffering from cramps.
1t was thought for time that Juror
Clark would be SO sick that the after
noon session wou,d have to be dis
pensed with. The juror, however, had
plenty of pluck and G. hitch in the pro-
ceediags was avoided.
Long before the morning session
opened large crowd stood outside the
Jail waiting for Lingo to go into the
court room. His four trips to and from
the cell met with !bis ovation IF curl
osity. At each session The crush for
seats was SO great and she court room
so small for the big crowd that hun
dred5 OF people could not get in.
Professor George A. Piersoil, of the
University of Pennsylvania, short,
black-bearded man, was the first wit
ness in the morning. He said he oc
cupied the chair OF histology at the
University. Professor PiersoA's testi,
mony was of e delicate nature, and re.
lated indirectly to the supposed con
di;ion Of Mrs. Miller at the time OF hes
unnatural death.
WEDNESDAY.
The argument of the counsel for The
State and the defense in the Camder
Court House Tuesday began with ar
able speech by Prosecutor Wilson Il
Jenkins. Mr.Jenkins spoke two hour:
aud a half, and then adjournmen.
time interrupted him He will be
given one hour and quarter this
morning to conclude.
With the close of the morning ses
siop was slso the conclusion of all the
evidence
AS was announced in The Press yes.
terday, Lingo's lawyers produced q
sensational witness in Samuel Lawyer.
By this witness the defense endeavor.
ed to SHOW finally that Mrs. Miller
vas not murdered in the bush lot.
Lawyer testified that OF the afternoon
the body was discovered, he found
blood smeared on the leaves OF
two bushes located in direc,
ton different from that in which
the State contends Mrs. Miller
was carried by her assailant. He
also said he saw distinct wagon
track through these bushes. This evi.
dance was in the line of the defense's
theory that Mrs. Miller was brought to
the bush lot" after having been MUIR
dered somewhere else. Lawyer was
subjected to severe cross-examina'
ton by Prosecutor Jenkins, which did
not result with favorable impression
of the witness testimony. Judge Gar
rison significantly inquired of Lawyer
whether he had related his discoveries
to any person in the Prosecutors Of
fee, and received negative answer.
After Lawyer had stepped from the
stand the State opened its rebuttal,
which closed at the noon hour. The
most important feature of the rebuttal
was the evidence of lad named Elijah
Burrough. Young Burrough was pos
tive that he saw Lingo in front of the
Jordentown school house at about
o'clock on the afternoon of the muir
der. His testimony greatly helped the
State in the matter of contradicting
Lingo's statement as to the route he
took to return to Young's field on the
fatal afternoon. When at the noon
hour it had been noised around that
both sides had finished their evidence,
and that the augmentation would be-
Gin, the crush for admission to the
Court House was greater than on any
previous day. The doors had been
opened but few minutes, when the
officers were compelled to close them.