The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-05
KILLING NO MURDER.
Another Whatcom County Mon
ster Turned Loose.
The Alleged Assassins of Editor Pen.
rose, at Butte, Discharged.
Escape Of Walls WaIls Rape Fiend-
No Case Against Gambler Leighton
A Tacoma Man Killed in . Run
away.

WHATcoM. April 4-lSpecial Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis closed the last two
hours of his eight-hour speech in the
celebrated Long murder trial this morning.
1t was one of the most remarkable speeches
ever heard in this county. H. A. Fair
child, in strong five-hour speech, closed
for the state. Judge Winns charged the
jury an hour on the law. After thirty
minutes deliberation they returned q
verdict of mot guilty."
On the night OF December 2. 1891, at whatcom
d. H. Long shot and killed his wife and his
son-in-law. Norman Humes, in the presence of
his daughter, and then fed to Lummi island. in
Beilingham bay, where he remained in hiding
Tor seventeen days. and being forced by hunger
to go in search OF food, was captured. Previous
TO this affair he had threatened Humes' life,
which was mentioned in the Whatcom paper at
the time, as follows, on November 10:
:. A very romantic story comes from the Great
Northern railroad. father-in-law meets his
son In law on the traeK near Squalicum, and
ASKS him where his mother-in-law is. The in
curry is made with two No. 10 shotgun tunnels
staring the son-in-law in the face The son-in-
law processes ignorance of the whereabouts of
MS wiies mother, and all is again serene 1t
seems that the iather-in-law locked out the
mother-in-iaw from her home while she was at
church, whereupon the latter temporarily found
sheiter elsewhere The son-in-law and daughter
nad themselves in very precarious situation.
~ Is an unpleasant thing to have harmonious
family relations rendered inharmonious, and
also very unpleasant to have ones head shot of.
Long was 40 years old, his wife SO, Humes
ABOUT 20, and the latter's wife 16 When the
case came to trial the defense act UP the plea of
temporary insanity, and the evidence in the
case showed the depravity of those concernad
IN IL as principals. The girl Susan, wife OF the
murdered man, testified that she first met her
husband Nnrunan at fha al
Amy barracks, and said:
Alter the meeting was over he went home
with us. He was at the house quite often. He
ana my mother went cut quite frequently. My
mother took care of the house, garden aud the
flowers. She was happy before she met Humes.
Mhen we met him the first time his name was
Griffith. He went to Blaine and wrote a letter
to TON ne ana signed his name Haines., He came
back afterwards and came to our house. He
acted nice. He and r1other were very friendly.
thought he came to see me, but found it was
mother. when papa was gone. mamma would
put out white flag at the window so that Nor
man would come. Once she made me hang out
the flag. Norman came whenever papa was
away Father did not want me to marry be-
only know of the flag being hung out once.
Mother ana Norman were good friends After
my marriage to Norman we moved to Sehome
and mamma went with u.s. threatened to tell
1ather about the way mother and Norman acted,
and she whipped me. She beat my head on the
hoor. We lived there only a week. On the
night when papa shot them mamma and Nor
man were sitting together ct the table, and Nor
man had his arms around her. did not like it
ana bit her on the arm. They were talking
about all three of US sleeping In the same bed.
Then father came to the door and they both
jumped at him, and then the shooting took
place. went on the porch before father came
and did not see which one was shot first After
the shooting went back in the house.
The girl also told how she had seen her mother
and HnmaS in communicating nd hat
her mother at one time gave Long some bread
poisoned with arsenic. which made him ILL.,
Long told his side of the case, as was outlined
at the commencement of the trial, which was
as follows:
He was born in Freeport, Ill, In 1852, and
moved early in life to Danyille. Mo-, where he
married his wife. Their only child, daughter,
dwarfed in stature and OF feeble mind, was born
there. He has brother in an insane asylum.
He came to Whatcom about four years ago and
bought the property upon which he made his
home. On the night OF January /, 1891, he went
with his family to the Salvation Army meeting
Norman Humes sat behind them. He became
intimate with the family and seduced
the weak minded daughter. Long came
to distrust him and learned that his wife
had become infatuated with him. They car
red on for months criminal intrigue. They
had code OF signals, by which the guilty
woman would summon her paramour to her
house when her husband went out to earn their
bread. The mother was anxious that Humes
".
The father objected saying that she was but
child, and he wished her to go to school. Humes
and his wife insisted upon the marriage One
night he was taken deathly sick. An examin-
alton of the loaf of bread of which he had eaten
showed that it had been poisoned with
strychnine Last November his wife left him
ana went to the Humes' house in Sehome. He
became almost mad from the sense of shame
and wrong endured and knew not what he did.
He went about the streets iuquiring of every
body, friends and strangers alike, for his wife
He went under Humes house to listen and
there heard his wife and Humes plotting to
forge deed to his property. On the night of
the tragedy he went to the house. He had the
revolver which he had brought from Texas and
which he had alwsys carried of late. While he
was listening under the house he heard his
daughter sobbing. she was demonstrating with
her mother and husband against their
proposal that the three OF them oceury the same
whip the daughter If she did not submit He
could not stand it any longer, and went up the
rear steps and entered the room. Humes and
Mrs. Long both sprang at him he entered.
He drew his revolver. Both assailents grabbed
it In the scuffie he fred five times.
Although an effort was made to prove that the
girl had told different story as to the shooting
she stoItly denied having done so, and her evi-
denee corroborated her fathers. There were no
other witnesses TO the crime. After the shoot
ing it developed that Long had been a cowboy
and had talked about shooting, and had always
been jealous OF his wife and cranky and dis
agreeable. his daughter, the widow OF Humes
is an undeveloped girl, and not bright. She
does not seem to have any feeling in the matter
She changed her clothes in a wardrobe two feet
from her dead mother and husband immedi-
ately after the shooting, SO as to receive COM