The evening world., 1894-06-20
TO PROVE HER CRAZY.
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.
Special to Tn. Evening World ,

Especial to The Evening World
MONTICELLO. n. Y, June 20.-The
bell in the cupola OF the little Sullivan
County Courthouse, In this beautiful
shady village, proclaimed at $50 o'clock
this morning that the third days pro-
ceedings In the trial of Murderess Lizzie
Halliday. OF Birmingham. were about to
begin.
defense making no effort to combat the
circumstantial evidence that old Paul
Halliday. Mrs. MarGaret McQuillan and
pretty Sarah Jane McQuillan had died
at the hands Of this sallow-faced. dis
trait
II had been shown that each OF the
three had been shot through the heart a
half dozen times or more. as II 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 10 the bosom OF her victims.
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 probab bill
lily Paul Halliday had been dead several
days, while the girl had been lured from
her home near Newburs. by Mrs. HALL.
day only two days before the bodies
had fallen and injured herself and needed
her care.
1t had been shown that Lizzie Halll-
day has displayed finger rings. a watch
n other inery that belonged to the
dead woman on Sunday. and all these
things said with unerring exactness that
this woman tiend had killed her husband
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.
Sheriff Harrison Beecher. tall, lank.
raw-boned. good-natured, and a politi-
had spent a quiet, peaceful night in
slamber. The woman refused to speak
at all. Indeed, she ave no sign OF
having heard the questions asked OF
In court, clad In a brown dress. made
by the sherin's 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
moved n"% sIf incessa aR Sn and d09 her head h sod ddes
for five minutes, then turned slowly for
I'VE. minutes, then nodded again. thus
alternating all the time.
Asylum for Insane Criminals: DR.. Selden
II. Talcott. Of the Middletown State Hos
pltal for the Insane: Dr.: Goodale. Super
and other acknowledged experts In in
sanity cases arrived this morning to
tell the Jury that the woman is hopeless
Mrs. Halliday was an inmate. of DR..
Goodale's almshouse four months, two
years ago. and was transferred to the
asylum at Mattsawap
Of Mamakating. was called to-day to
Identify the revolver used by Mrs. Hal
hday. and though its chamber had been
wards. the Justice ordered the witness to
take the pistol out OF. doors and fire It
of 10 see II 1t was a self-cocking Weapon.
DR.. George NJ. Beakes. OF Blooming
burg, who performed the autopsy. tes-
titled that there were three bullet holes
through the heart Of Sarah Jane Nc
-Di. Charles w. Piper. of wurtsboro.
s r,yaH 60 nyi,,G came next ne ,or Hr ar ar
men. He described their appearance.
They were bound up with linen. about
the knees and the ankles. and the arms
were crossed on the breast. and red at
the wrists.
John Bennett, OF Bloomingburg. Ave or
six miles from the. Halliday farm, testi-
f GSws snd! t Was r s,iiP a nh fI9tle m ssrSou !us Wss
"oid Paul Haliiday's gun"
For the fourth time Witness Thayer
tnis TeSsi ,e co by p 2 Hi;
shorts"
Poor .Thayer had set out to drive
finished his testimony yesterday aud
graph.
about the inquest. n how he per-
formed his duty In preserving the evil
dence.
Mrs. Carrie Scott. wife OF he constable
who arrested Halliday, was recalled This
morning. She testified TO stripping and
searching Mrs. Halliday She found sld
In the toe OF one sto ;klng and silver
gether $50.
The District-Attorney devoted the
n %sr.,"s qu 'e Essinlll" each {e' @i,h an w svi.
dent desire to establish a motive for
Mrs. Caroline Wright testified that. in
McQuillan had a big roll OF bills and a
purse full. and that Sarah Jane Nc
Quilian was known to carry $50 about
Old Thomas McQuillan. husband and
father OF the murdered women was re-
called and told the Jury that his wife
left home to go e Mrs. Hailiday's,
This completed the case for the pros
ecutIon.
District-Attorney Hill rested and
George H. Carpenter, ounsel for Mrs.
Halliday, opened for the defense. after
+ the usual formal motions TO discharge.
James II. Goodale. who Is deputy sher-
IN In Orange County, and Rad the care
OF Mrs. Halliday In 1891, when she waa
under arrest for stealing a horse. was
called as the frst witness for the de-
Tense.
She was as wild as n hawk during
those three months" said the witness,
She would not eat anything. and after
two days | fed her with a spoon. Her
hands were moist and slippery. / took
her from the jail at Newburg to the
asylum az hiddletown.
While SIZE was In Jail she never slept
during the first two weeks. but kept me
awake by yelling: Ma! Pa! Nancy and
other things. Her looks were Wild, her
habits hIthy. After she returned from
the asylum she was some better. In my
opinion she was Insane then was insane
Sept. e. u&1, when / saw her in the
lgnticello Jail. and Is insane now"
Harrison Bsecher, the genial Sheriff
Of Hull!Nin County, testified that HI had
the custody Of Lizzie Halliday since
sept ; When she came TO me" he
sala, she was without any intelligence.
nlthy In her habits. and talked to i'm
aEtnary people. This state continued for
TWO weeks She refused food, and a ply
siCian forced food into her with a SION
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