The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-11
+" YANKEE DAMS" TRIAL
Opened This Morning With the
States Testimony.
EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM.
The Defence Fails to Shake tho Evidence
Materially-Mrs. Hasweli Identifies
the Clothes and watch-Death by In
fammstion-sulliva Fully Identified.

Observation-Disclosures Fully Identified.
The trial of Yankee Dan" Sullivan
was resumed promptly at $3.50 o'clock in
the Court OF Common Pleas this morn
ing. Yesterday afternoon the jury were
conveyed TO the scene of the crime, ac-
companied by the counsel for both sides,
the prisoner, aud Justices Wilbur and
Rogers.
Martin Sullivan was the first witness
called by the state. He saw Sullivan on
the 10Th of July in j. ]. Sullivan's saloon
in East Providence. 1t was about $50
o'clock. Martin Dalton was with him.
He knew Dalton. He was confident it
was between o'clock and $50 o'clock.
Medical Examiner Palmer was then
called and sworn. He told of the autopsr.
etc. He thought the cause of death was
acute T. fammation of the bowels.
caused by the escape of bowel matter
through the perforation. The perfora-
tion v "a produced by the broken end of
rib. The injury TO the head probably
caused temporary unconciousness.
The witness said positively that the in
juries could not have been sustained by a
fall upon the ground. They must have
been produced by mechanical forcs.
In cross-examination he said the injury
To the head was caused by "A small sharp
object.
Mrs. Minnie l.. Waldron testified that
she saw the defendant on July 10, a little
before 2 O'Clock. lie was standing at the
gate.
She told him how to reach Mr. Has
wells tenement and she saw no more OF
| them until @ O'clock. At that hour she
| saw them come in the side gate and go
| up the back stairs She saw them alb ut
| 6:30, when they left with Mr.. Haswel.
Mr. West brought out the fact that be-
foe identifying the man IN New York,
| she was given "a description Of him. She
described him To Mr.. Parker, and he told
her that the man looked just the same as
| he did then.
Mrs. Lydia Haswell the wife OF the
| murdered man, was then sworn. She
| first saw the defendant when he came To
| her house with young man on the 10Th
| OF July, about D o'clock. She told the
| story Of Sullivan aud Dalton's visit to
| her house.
The story was similar TO the one told so
| many times already.
4 he young man introduced Sullivan as
| the man who wanted t. buy those lots
down at Kettle Point.
AS they were leaving The house to come
| to this city the witness said, "l'll see you
again, shan't /. ;" and he answered. 'On
| yes" As he was going down the stairs.
he turned and said. I'm sorry to take
| your husband away. 1t will leave you so
lolely." She never saw her husband
alive again.
The young man did ali the talking, and
| Sullivan did not saw anything. She sup
posed her husband was TO geg the money
| that night and bring it to her, and she
| expectel to see the young man again and
| pay him his commission.
In redirect examination tue witness
| said that the younger man did not call
the elder by any name.
Mr.. West did not shake her testimony
| in cross exanina ion. she said ner hus-
| band had owned the wa ch thirty ye.lrs.
Mr.. West: Are you sure he had that
watch thirty yearsY
Witness: "All of that"
| Mr.. West "Do you know that the
watch has an Appleton and Tracy move
| mentf"
The witness did not know, aud the
watch was shown er.
Mr.. Wes Are you positive that your
| husband has had that watch for tnirty
| years, just as IL is, WORKS ana ALP"
Witness-''I im sure"
Francis Higgins was then called, and
| testified that he was a police constable in
| Haswell alive on July Is, about
$50 in the evening. He was on
| Taunton avenue, on the west side Of
John street. A young man was talking
10 him. There was another man about
ten feet away He did not know the
men. lie had never seen them since. He
| could not identify the defendant, but said
he was not the man that was talking
with Mr.. Haswell. The man was u young
man, with a smooth face.
Albert III. Cornell was next sworn. He
said he was street car conductor on the
.lt,Ntx nnI M Pol Itn pxy hn al
fendant at Arnold street on Governor on
the 10Th of July. He was accompanied
| by au old man and younger man.
lie heard the young man say to Mr..
Haswell, TITS only right over them.
| Friendship street is right between Lip
| pitt aud Oiney" The old man seemed TO
De impatient, and the young man contin-
| ued to assure him. They rode o the
| head of Pitman street. Sullivan alighted
| first, then the young man, and lastly Mr..
Haswell. They kept on up Governor
| street.
Frederick /. Dana was sworn, and said
| he lived at the corner of Ives and East
George streets. He thought he had seen
| the defendant on the 10Th of July. lie
Old "a story similar to the one related by
| the conductor.
John NJ. Willy testified that he lived
on Morris avenue. On the evening of
July 10, he left his house at about $3.50 to
| 90 down street. He went down Morris
| avenue and saw three gentlemen; one Of
| tnem was the old man hat was mur
! dered, another was Sullivan and the
| third was young man OF strong build.
They we're coming north from Olney
| street and lie met them in his carriage
| sullivan was on the west side of the road.
| and the other two were o. the other side
| They separated 20 allow the carriage to
pass through.
The young man saluted him with good
| evening. He never saw any Of the parties
| before. After the carriage bad passed
the men drew together. Mr.. Haswell
was on the outside.
Edward A. Hughes who resides on East
avenue, just above Doyle avenue, testi-
fed to hnding Mr.. Haswell ou Doyle
| avenue near Olney street.
The Attorney General asked IL the man
said anything about how he had been
injured, and the witness replied that he
described his experience.
| Prof. Wilson also testified TO the find