The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-18
COUNSEL SUMMING UP
The Sham Case Will IN
doubleday Go To the
Jury Tonight.
specfalf to The Je,acu CIR Y.,r,.

gate John w. Cornail produced the will
OF john T.. Shaun, Sr. The ruie to bar
credii ors expires gu O;tobe- 81. Captoin
Holt objected to the admission OF the
will, because it wa. not on the ground of
rebuital. The State said 1t wanted TO
show the contents of the will, aud that
Mis-. Shaun. after the payment of the
debts, would come in possession of the
| property. aud that was her motive for
| getting cash. The Court granted the de-
fense an exception. The hearing. of evil
dencs being concluded. a recess was
taken.
THE STATE SUNS UP.
After the court recolvensd Assistant
Prosecutor Apgar began summing up,
beginning with u definition of circum-
s~tantial evidence and quoting freely from
the conclusion in the upper court In the
case of Carlyle w. Harris. The evidence
in this case. he said, is purely circum-
stantial. That a mother would poison
her own offspring seems to be impro-
babe, bur such are Che facts OF history,
aud Instances are numerous where PEG.
pie connected by close ties have com
mitted sucn crimes. The defsnse in
this case is monstrous. She deliberately
comes into the court by differences
that this son was a common drunk
ard, aud with a dreaded disease which
the drink habit has developed. IL her
grief was genuine she would not allow
him to be further blackened after all hat
the body has suffered. After all that
had happened she would rave cried
enough. She attempted TO watcn him by
sleeping in the room, yet allows him TO
be disem boweied. She prevents his body
being cared for In the proper way, but
prefers it to decompose to cover her hHndI-
work. A mother who would allow his
character for purity to be Questioned
would not hesitate TO force dangerous
medicine down his throat. We claim that
DIR. Bergen told the truth and sue did not
demand another physician. Her rsfusa!
to have a consulting physician way not
the mother that she would have you De-
iieve her. The defense a y perfect de-
Tense In the fact that she did nothing
but administer the medicine as given
her by the physician. The State could
not have brokeu down that defense.
kMRs. sHAEN'S TWO MOTIVES.
There are two motives for this woman
cansiug the death OF her son. There were
two policies made payable 10 her in case
of his death. II be lived she was not
benefited. Up TO the time that she WAS
told that the company wonld perform an
autopsy on that BODY II was not touched
or marked. Four hours later she is
frightened into allowing three men TO
loucn that body. There were six men in
the house Within call. yet she allowed
the work of REINFORCEMENT to go on.
| No eye saw Mrs. Sham administer the
one or more doses to her bon, unless it
was Carrie Pyatt, the colored oma
She refused to let Cough see the body.
and there was no daughter asleep in the
sursvs nj q n a I'M nhA ~ " - - n n N,t,A-
pan did nothing underhand. They
ordered their physician to perform the
| autopsy, aud il he did not ike t. do il,
to notify the authorities aud make it
public matter. II they started this way
could they ave ended by a secret disem-
bowling?
After the Rhouls had been to work, SIZE
does not arouss the household. She did
not direct anybody to go The authorities
and have the ghou1s hunted down.. She
did not rush upstairs to see whether
Mabel had been harmed, but goes by the
death for Van Selous. We do
not say that that there was an accom-.
than one person in hat nights act.
Whoever went up to that r0om th ut
night is known by Mrs. Sham.
THE STATES EXPERTS PRAISED.
1he Assistant Prosecutor then turned
his attention to the exRerts and praised
u Ab0ttn VI Az 3Ldl1 duA L. DhI-
ticular attention to the five hours of
Characterization of DR.. Cantwell by
four lawyers. DR.. Wolf, he said, showed
his teeth and claws. He earned his fee
by refusing 10 answer questions. Ind
gave lectures to the jury. He was
brought from Hartford TO belittle the
local physicians. He makes his living
Going about testifying as an expert. and
what he says must be taken with allow
ance.
The evidence shows that $50 grains Of
corrosive suDlimate nave gone into the
Sham house. DR., Warman's evidence
was then taken up and ridiculec. The
defense tried to show that the Manhattan
Company caused the body to be tam
pered with. They insisted that So, 600
WAS no motive tor Mrs. Sham, who
needed money to pay her husbands
debts, but was u motive for the disem-
bowlmeut OF the body on the part OF a
company. Mrs. Shaun's knowledge OF
human anatomy has besu carefully ke pit
out of the case. The defense says that
they will show that DR.. Bergen Loiso ned
hun, yet they 90 around and say that he
was not poisoned. he died Of ~venereal
disease, SO they founder from one thing
10 the other.
Fl DEFENsE's NEGLECT.
Touching on the compound cathartic
pills taken by John, the Assistant
Prosecutor, said the druggist. de tected
odors that indicated that tnsy were pills
without calomel. Ii The defense was
was sure that there was cAlomel they
would have had them analysed and
proved the fact without leaving TINS mat
ter In doubt. He attacked the evidenc g
of both Mrs. Mamie Kelley and Mabel
Sham. and said they had convenient
memories and there was something
wrong with the two phases Of it. There
was something wrong wrong with 1t, ac-
cording TO the notes taken at the Coron-
er's jury. The statements are diametri-
cally opposite. DIR. Bergen swore that
there WIS nc signs of a venereal disease
during the sickness of John Sham.
The Assistant Prosecutor then gave q
peroration on the justice that must be
shown to the dead aud those who cannot
defend themselves.
Justice Albeit requested tina AMI
points of law that either side wish him
to take notice OF in his charge shoald be
submitted to him in writing early this
morning..
II DEFEECE SUMMING UP.
The summing up for the defence IN the
Sham murder trial began this morning,
ex-senator Vanderbilt appearing as Mrs.
Shann's first spokesman. He sKetched
the history of the case aud,
analyzsd the evidence holding that
Mrs. Shann's arrest 10 the first instance
WIS not justified. Consequently there
was no ground for her indictment and
this trial. Had the officials engaged on
the case. when 1t frst became known, done
their full duty the young man'sbodywould
havs been allowed TO rest In peace. The