The evening world., 1894-06-20
Mrs. Ealliday's Lawyers Call
Experts and Jailers.
Queer Antics Of the Murderess De-
tailed TO the Jury.
Her Two Attempts to Commit
Suicide In Her Cell.

this morning that the third days pro.
ceedings in the trial of Murderess Lizzie
Halliday. OF Birmingham. were about to
begin.
The lay testimony was about all In
when Court adjourned last night. the
defense making no effort to combat the
circ|umstantial evidence that old Paul
Halliday, Mrs. Margaret McQuillan and
pretty Sarah Jane McQulllan had died
at the hands OF this sallow-faced. dis
trait woman.
1t had been shown, that each of the
three had been shot through the heart a
half dozen times or more, as IL they had
been approached while asleep by the as.
sassin and she had held the muzzle OF
that self-coCking, rapid-firing pistol close
up to the bosom OF her victims.
1t had been shown that the women's
bodies were found hardly. hidden from
view under the stable refuse near the
barn. and the old man $ body under the
kitchen floor.
1t had been shown that in all probable
ity Paul Halliday had been dead several
days, and Mrs. McQuillan at least two
days, while the girl had been lured from
her home near N%ewburg. by Mrs. Halli-
day only two days before the bodies
were found on n pretense that her mother
had fallen and injured herself and needed
her care.
1t had been shown tina Lizzie Halll-
day has displayed finger rings, a watch
and other itnery that belonged to the
dead woman on Sunday. ana all these
things said with unerring exactness that
'his NOlIoH IcIlu ndl kllleu ntT nuSltiIl
and the two women in one-two-three
order, the young girl last and probably
late Saturday night.
The bodies were found Monday.
This trial is for killing Sarah Jane
McQuillan.
Sherir Harrison Beecher. tall, lank,
~raw-boned, good-natured, and a politi-
clan. reported his morning that Lizzie
had spent a quiet, peaceful night in
slumber. The woman refused to speak
at all. Indeed, she gave no sign OF
having heard the questions asked of
her.
In court, clad in a brown dress. made
by the Sheriff wife. Lizzie Halliday
sat again to-day with her head bent
eyes half closed, her waXy fingers
picking. constantly picking. at her
sleeves, near the shoulder.
handkerchief. which she held to her pc
culiar shaped nose, a nose like a pigs,
with a broad %nostril. but, pointed. the
end turning up and rounded. Her lips
moved necessarily, and her head nodded
for five minutes. then turned slowly for
five minutes. then nodded again. thus
alternating all the time,
DIR. Allison. Superintendent OF the State
Asylum for Insane Criminals; Or. Selden
II. Talcott. Of the Middletown State Hos
pital for the Insane; DR.: Goodale, Super
a nnd othar OF .ke rGed ot o esperts cq in ~.
sanity cases arrived this morning to
tell the jury that the woman is hopeless
~ insane.
Mrs. Halliday was IN inmate OF DR..
Goodale's almshouse -four months. two
years ago, and was transferred to the
asylum at Matteawan;
Justice Thayer. of Bloomingburg, town
OF Mamakating, was called to-day to
identify the revolver used by Mrs. Hal
liday, and though its chamber had been
en- PIT :, by SPECIAL os order Of ,bs justice m,,Gssi Ed d
take the pistol out of doors and fire 1t
off to see II it was a self-cocking weapon.
1t was.
DR.. George NJ. Beakes, Of Blooming
burg. who performed the autopsy, tes-
tilted that there were three bullet holes
through the heart Of Sarah Jane Nc
pr. Charles W. Piper. of wurtsboro.
rived at the Halliday farm shortly af-
ter the finding of the bodies of the wo-
They were bound up with linen. about
the knees n the ankles, and the arms
were crossed on the breast. and red at
the wrists.
John Bennett. of Johannesburg. five or
six miles from the Halliday farm, testi-
fed that the pistol about which Justice
Edwards was stu a little nervous. was
For the fourth time Witness Thayer
was recalled by District-Atorney Hill.
this time to compare the cartridges. He i
said they were No. 10 cartridges. 'S2
shorts"
zoe Thayer had set out to drive
home, twenty miles away, when he
was called back this morning by tele-
graph.
Coroner Joseph Roche told the jury
about the inquest, and how he per-
formed his duty in preserving the EVIL
dence.
Mrs. Carrie Scott. wife OF -he constable
who arrested Halliday. was recalled Tins
morning. She testified TO stripping and
searching Mrs, Halliday. She found Sli
In the toe of one stocking and silver
money In her other stocking, in her purse
and In other parts of her clotning. alto
The District-Attorney devoted the
morning to recalling yesterdays wit
nesses, questioning each with an EVIL
dent desire to establish a motive for
Mns. Halliday's awful crimes.
Mrs. Caroline Wright testified that In
August, just before the murders, Mrs.
purse full, and that Sarah Jane Nc.
Quillan was known to carry $50 abou;
Old Thomas McQuillan. husband and
called and told the jury that his wife
and daughter both had money when they
left home to go io Mrs. Haliday,s.
This completed the case for the pros,
ecution.
District;Attorney Hin rested anG
George II. Carpenter. counsel for Mrs
Halliday. opened for the defense, after
the usual formal motions to discharge.
James II. Goodale, who is deputy sher
1T in Orange CountS, and had the car,
of Mrs. Halliday in 1891. when she wa.
under arrest for stealing a horse. wa!
called as the first witness for the de
Tense.
she was as wild as n hawk durinI
those three months" said the witness
She would not eat anything, and afteI
two days I fed her with a spoon. He
hands were moist and slippery. ! tool
her from the Jail at Newburg to tn,
asylum at Middletown.
while size was In jail she never slep
, during the first two weeks. but kept IN.
awake by yelling: Ma! Pa! Nancy! an,
other things. Her looks were wild, he
habits filthy. After she returned iron
the asylum she was some better. In m,
! opinion she was insane then; was insan,
Sept. %, 1898, when / saw her in tn
Monticello jail. and is Insane now"
Harrison Beecher, the genial Sheriff
e OF sullivan County. testified that he ha,
the custody OF Lizzie Halliday sine
sept. 4. "When she came to me" h
y said, she was without any intelligence
ilthy In her habits. and talked TO i'm
aRindry people. This state continued 70
two weeks, She refused food, and a ply
d stefan forced food into her with a stom
e ach pump. This condition continue
night and day.
c Lizzie once hanged herself in her eel
using the facing of her dress for a ropc
i She was unconscious when discovered
y She was sick abed FOR a spell, the resul
o OF not eating anything. At anothe
q time ghn hFpl(R "a window a,,l ,,-nl a..