The evening world., 1894-06-19
The HALLIDAY TRIAL.
Examination of Witnesses Began
Promptly This Morning.
Accused Woman Sits with Bowed
Head In the Court Room.
Sullivan County Out in Body to
Hear the Case.

MONTICELLO. n. Y. June 19.-The
trial OF Mrs. Lizzie Halliday, the Bur-
lingham murderess, is treated as a first
class entertainment by the good people
Of Sullivan County. The courtroom
no larger than one Of the parts Of the
New York Court of General Sessions, Is
daily packed with citizens who come
from every section of this mountain
county, by their own conveyances prin-
cipally, for there is but one railway to
Monticello, and that connects II with
Port Jervis. 1000 feet down In the val
icy and twenty-four miles away. With
As much precision as though 1t were by
order OF Justice Edwards, the women,
n delicious Summer gowns Of gingham,
Hwn and the like. take seats on one side
W the north centre aisle, the men seat
Nng themselves on the other side.
~ The jury had been completed in three
hours yesterday afternoon. Only fifty
one OF the 160 impanelled citizens had
been examined. The rest were disap-
pointed men. and they expressed 1t feel
ingly in the hotels last evening. 1t was
q matter of 81 a day to them, with the
prospect of a long trial, and some Of
them were very gloomy. Any one who
sullivan County could appreciate the
snsnti spesatness OF their sorrow and disap-
AT $50 o'clock to-day Sherifr's Depu-
es tra mhorter' OF Liberty and Erastus
seen each other before and were not on
SSpeaking terms. not having been intro
csced. brought the prisoner from the
ss.s M so Sasn Ssar q the quaint little
Ihe woman slayer Of three fellow.mor-
.Wensy-eisst . s semmonRlass Sea4. 4bass, woman ot
fifteen years older. % She has she an LOOKS 1Rs
healthy pallor, and is w very thin. Weiph-
Ing lhs not more than 11O pounds. She Was
" plain agG g9wh si,oma OF brown stun. perfect
slsmea s1sm a, BY 0ys the good people fatheersd
DAY. whose defense is homicidai insanity,
sat quietly between the Sheriff's depu,
,es rested her rn head bdr bowed SO that her chin
matched head swayed from side to side.
put the eyes were closed. and the rather
fihPressiSness fioPn 6is face gave no sign OF emo
Hill told the jury of farmers the story ~
to be tried. ""'
Birmingham, the hamlet where Lizzie
Halliday and her aged husband, old Paul
Halliday. lived a miserable life together,
is thirty miles from Monticello, the
county count aeat and scene Of the trial. yet
,District-Attorney- Hill told the jury
the story Of the finding Of the naked
heap Of stable filth, riddled with bullets.
It Is for the murder of Sarah McQuil-
Ian that Lizzie Halliday is on trial, al
bSysh boSys w@s when fo1nd aha5 yoang womans ms
BODY BODY OF the ioaS @other sS Harssast was Mee lee
9uiiIan, And later on. the body OF, old
the hen where this woman spent
most most her life. All three bodies were
that susey tssy tted ans Mr. n,.tH H ,onS tUS
Sep Z. 1898. when the bodies Of the
M WS n ered was women aren.,SG were found and the
lis trial is unlike that Of Mrs Cath
81 e Fitzgerald, II New York. whose
seross was tinsa,nty in that there Is
aIienists who will testify. ''A'
,fsa sarah = McQuillan.. for whose murder
@ and ans asnEnssr Marssref or 2la Sia
skirts ae ~ NMG3Sans Ss Eed in the out Snd
been gone to the Halliday farm several
lays when. late last August. Sarah got
aotSer aSts from Mrs; snd Halliday saying her
cad under the heap Of stable refuse.
DttsMsTict-AttS3IrIney M.s InSIIy HIN told the Jury
Pms before shooting them.
The first witness was Mrs. Caroline s.
Eright&, & OF NewbHrg; She related how
Der street, Fifth avenue, Newburg, in
shs engaged Margaret W Mcou.lian, eSiaie HsiR; whc
h"sy GOOD %h BY hff If faSSnF SonFt Sc See Mcs yoa
gain; s,i,tn am going to do some work for
erssf Tss fHalasE Mr, wGman smIb had represented
IN SATURDAY, OF the same week, Sept.
j Mrs, smith came again and got Sarah
NeQuillan. Sarah told the witness
5hurt herself at Mrs, Smiths, and
asked asked Ne. wrIgh, to milk her
khing. The witness identified a leather
lSeit, shirt waist and lastly a cheap
old watch chain and pendant heart OF
ola As THINKS she had seen Sarah ].
Then Mrs. Wright broke down and
erled e6.i, oyer son some rings: She sobbed hys-
Said she: " / know, because have n Worn n
them myself many time"
Sarah MeQuillan was twenty years
band and father OF the murdered
women, listened to this story, nodding
bis approval OF It, He has been, a
and seems to enjoy his distinction.
Joseph ID. Osborn. the next witness,
Eas also a Newburger. He saw Mrs
Halliday feeding her horse at the Gar
entown Church sheds, Aug, 80 last. and
ir5. McQuillan was In the blackboard to
ghich the horse was attached.
Margaret Arnot, of Collingham, Orange
ounty. identified Mrs, Halliday, as a
5erson who applied at II o'clock. the
conveyance had broken down.
he said she was Mrs. Smith, and that
Uwould be In no hurry to get up in