Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-08
At this point, 1890, q recess was taken until

At this point, 1890. recess was taken until
Ills.
AFTER RECESS.
Great as the crowd was in the morning. 1t
was even greater after recess. 1t is doubtful
if similar scenes were ever before witnessed Mt
the door OF the court room. Men and women
struggled for admission as il their lives de-
pended upon their getting in the room. Ciothes
were torn, hats crushed. Attorney General
Miller was one of the interested spectators
The district attorney resumed his argument
by stating that he and Judge Wilson were In
perfect harmony as to the number OF reviewers
There were undoubtedly two in the case. But the
question was, Did not both belong to the de-
fendant7 The defendant had two revolvers the
Sunday preceding the shooting.
He had told Willett, who was on the stand
that he was going to get rid of his wife and
that he would hear from him in few days
What did he mean by that? Did he
mean that he was going to get divorcef he
had told the witness that he was married to one
OF the Hamlinks and that the whole family were
rascals. He WAS going to get rid of his wife.
That was the condition of his mind week or
ten days before this tragedy. Schneider denied
that he had any trouble with his wife.
On that morning after he pretended to have
been locked out the prisoner says he sent a
sealed note to his wife by Appleby. Appleby
says he took a sealed note. Yet APP
gleby could very well say that he met Frank
that he met a living member of the
Hamlink family. He knew very
well that Frank Hamlink's voice
was hushed. But the servant at the Hamlink
house, whose duty it was to answer the door
bell, told the jury that no one had brought a
sealed note to the house. Schneider knew that if
he stayed away unreasonably long from the
house that that would end his relations with his
wife; that she would assume that he was en-.
gagged in that in which he ought NOT
to be engaged. He had been warned that II
he erred, ii he proved unfaithful to his mar
riage VOWS. that that would end their relations
The district attorney then referred to the
testimony in relation to the conversation with
his wife in which Schneider said he had asked
her to leave her fathers house and go to Mrs.
Colleys TO live with him. Schneider wanted
the jury to believe that his wife was afraid OF
her father-afraid to leave her fathers house
They could not tell whether she said so
or not; the only evidence they had on that SUBJ
ject was what the defendant said.
Whether she said it not Col. Cole said he
had no doubt she was afraid to leave her
father and put herself under Schneider's pro-
lection.
In that conversation he did what ne had done
In all his relations with the girl; he had at
tempted to mislead and deceive her, for Mrs.
Colley, with whom he said he had arranged for
rooms. In which they might live, had shown
that this was not SO.
MR.. MERGERS TESTIMONY
He referred to Mr.. MERGERS testimony Of the
interview between Schneider and his wife on
the street, when Mercer said Schneider shook
his fist roughly in the face of his wife. Mrs.
Schneider and her sister did not accos1
Schneider but seemed to try to avoid him.
MIR. Mercer did not hear the words that were
spoken but saw the menacing gestures. lie
would leave the jury to believe whether lie had
pleaded gently and lovingly with her, as the
l,xa L.. - L1l,a had
spoken roughly as Jennie Hamlink had told
them, spoken roughly to his wife and then
turning to her, the sister, threatened to cut hel
throat.
This, said the district attorney, brought him
down to the 31st of January. the day OF the
tragedy. Although Judge Wilson had objected
to their making much Of the Gerald Lighttoo
letter yet he must refer to it as 1t threw f1ooo
OF light on this tragedy.
THE LETTERS TO HIS WIFE AND TO GERALD.
The letters he had written to his wife, Mr.
Cole asserted, had been manufactured for the
jury. The ''dear wife, and darling Annie
were written to make this jury believe tina
when he sent those letters to his wife he was il
love with her and wanted her to leave hel
fathers house. But that spell which
he wove, those letters he wrote fol
the jury, had the mask rudely torn off then
by this letter written to Gerald, and which il
was never intended should be read to jury.
referring to MIR. Hoehiing' remarks, District
Attorney Cole said his position in the cour
room had been such that he could not see the
defendants face.
The jury could know whether during all this
ordeal, during all the time when the members
Of the family were on the stand and Other
witnesses were on the stand giving
the details Of this horrible crime. telling
of the suffering of this poor girl, whether a
any time they had seen the tears come to thii
prisoners eyes, whether they had seen the
slightest evidence of emotion on his part? There
was time, however, when the defendan
had shown some emotion-the emotion due Il
surprise. That when MIR. Ciagett rose t.
read the letter to Gerald Lightfoot which
this defendant believed Gerald had com
mittted to the flames This letter showed
that when he wrote those letters to his wife
addressed to MY darling wife" and 'Deal
Annie" he did not mean a word of it.
THE LETTER TO MISS LIGHTFoOT.
The district attorney then read the Lightfoo
letter, written, he said, almost at the very houl
when he held the pistol and fired the sho
that killed his wife. The ink on th
letter hardly dry before he wrote the let
tiers to his wife, wrote letters to indicate tina
he was still loving husband, when. as the iur,
knew, he was then nursing his murderou
thoughts.
MEN ON THE JURY