New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-20
THE ACCUSERS OF HARRIS.
TAKING OF TESTIMONY BEGUN.
c1rcrM-T,xcEs WHICH TELL AGAINST THE


YOUNG PRISONER
Issue has now been souarely Joined in the trial OF
CARLYLE W. Harris charged with the murder ol His Suue
wife and the case Is attracting unusual attention. rd''
III NJ General Sessions where the trial is Deing heiu
WAS filled Yesterday with spectators. ana many Pe''"'
could not obtain Omission. number vi ""'"0' "'''
in the courtroom. The proceedings ye>'eiu"S ops'"
with Assistant District-Attorney NellnahS opeilns
speech "a powerful arraignmcnt Of the eVoN "ohlns
v,,, nrnrcr Mr. Wellman told in unadorued style the
story Of the acquaintance Of Harris VIII MISS liei'h
Nelson Potts whom he ahcrwam maireu' 81 '"o
Wedding OF the young wc's illness ana dea'h' an" vi
the prisoners words and actions IN cOhecuoh WIN 'c
sad fate Of the woman whom he should nave lo'eu o'o
than all Others III, ..
Mr. Wellman said that Harris was first Dooh agent
then for two yeiIs actor in " faul hauNd' ''h
many and then a student in the College OF Physicians
and SURGEONS. The story of the secret marriage was
told and Mr.. Wellman described now HaIrIs hiu S.iu
10 "A young woman Of his Acquaintance; Marty nv
man and / will give him pill and get rlu OIL NM
The prosecutor would show, he said how f"hn'r INC
prisoner was with morphine. Mr. NeHmdh SpoHc l'f
an hour and threequarters.
The first witness WAS Miss LYDIA Day, for scveH
yeors principal Of the Comsock school, No. ~ West
For,ietn ST. where the young wife died. Oh january
n last said the witness Miss Potts. she was KNOWN
complained of a headache in the evening however
she seemed cheerful and happy. ~ 10 y. H. Mss
Potts 70 her rpDnl lNO HohIN INV
was summoned 10 her pupils bedroom, and found her
uncon.cious The witness sent for DR.. Fowler, ana
DR. Bancr wa, also called in aficrward Ihry Urea l"
revive Miss Potts, but she died the next uaS' i''i''
had taken his wife - Brooklyn the Gay Dclo'c '';
died When he learned Of her death he told Miss Day
that the young woman had promised The day before 10
become his wife . ~,
Mis-, Carson, who occupied the room WIN "'''
Potts. told how she found her writing letter, when
WA addressed 10 Dr. Harris. old Point Comfort. When
the witness came home about 10 80 p H. on Jhu
ery 81 At midnight the means Of Miss P0'lS a"aheheu
Miss Carson.
Mrs CYNTHIA = Potts, mother Of the dead GIRL heAa
went to the stand. She proved difficult witness 10
handle being more anxious to tell what she thonshI
than what she had said 10 the prisoner ana "hat no
had said to her She and her daughter had hr'' met
Harris and hi, brother McCrady, at a hop at the
Coleman House in Asbury Park in August l77o' N'ef
that the Mcssrs Harris frequent visitors al her
home.
The prisoner was 30 constant in his attentions to
Mis-, Potts that her mother spohe 10 nm "Do"' IT,
"Yon are not in a position to get married yet SAID
che to the Young man. and ought not 10 can on ny
daughter 10 naqucntly.7 After lt.c While Harris
seem q to grow colder the young woman and 10 H.
getting ucd If her society. Nil, Iott, was worried "t
times but wa still fod Of the young man a. ever
I'm tle GUNNER vi l-9O MIS- Potts went to scranton
PENN to visit her uncle, DR.. liavcrton she De'''u
IN there and her mother WAS sent i'r' u WAS ''
scranton that Mrs. Potts learned Of her daughter
marriage
TN, witness wa. asked about the prisoners arrest IN
A>burv Park ON the charge Of keeping gambling house.
but th, testimony va, ruled OH Nh Potts theh De
,crlbed m Interview which ,h" had WITH Harris In inc
office If her lawyer. Chlric T.. David on m tins '}'
me attorney went out n the room, and hils ana M
nutlrer.in-iaw were IN alone. The young man ''u
moi seem 10 consider TIE marriage nn especially serious
affair.
II It proves unhappy It can easily be broken ard
no one the wiser" -nd Dee
MI Poit- WI. worried that her daughter 'h'nh
hav. bccI married Dos Az Alderman. 1hI- docs uo'
seem t. have b-.u ycry -arr'd ceremony. -Ic rh"
Nell / .ll,-- not answered h.r I.h Jaw.
looked up Alderman Eiu'hhlH licrnHfi ad iIIhA 'Ht
t.lt IA, wa, - -alpDu herlr-r.' Ifl- Wa --td WIN &"
-necr Mrs. iOt- 10 i'd iAat there nn-t hc nt ou'
ceremony. Harris. however. -l-atd an Hihdhti. 1'-
kunrIe.lenc ni, marriage with Mi-- HcicI Nelson
Pot- The tcrt icaic giving fhe name. which th'y dd
assumed Char.,, Harris AMI Helen NciisJn.
The trial VII 20 on todny