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 q Body to
Hear the Case.
Special to The Evening Worldly

| MONTICELLO. n. Y, June l9.-The
trial of Mrs. Lizzie Halliday. the Bur-
| lingham murderess, Is treated as 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 ard that connects 1t with
Port Jervis. 900 feet down in the val
| ley and twenty -four miles away. With
as much precision as though It were by
order of Justice Edwards, the women,
In delicious Summer gowns Of gingham.
lawn and the like. take seats on one side
or the north centre aisle. the men seat
Ing themselves on the other side.
The jury had been completed in three
hours yesterday afternoon Only ffty-
one OF the l60 impanelled citizens had
been examined. The rest were disap-
pointed men. and they expressed 1t feel
ingly In the hotels last evening. 1t was
a matter Of 81 day to them, with the
prospect of long trial. and some of
them were very gloomy. Any one who
has travelled through the rocky lands of
sullivan County could appreciate the
greatness OF their sorrow and disap-
polntment.
AT $50 o'clock to-day Sheriffs Depu-
Ties Ira Porter. of Liberty. and Erastus
Is. kniffin, of Bethel, who had never
snen, snen ,in each other before and were not on
speaking terms. not having been intro
uuced, brought the prisoner from the
sIuIy little jail back of the quaint little
courthouse into court
| Inc woman slayer OF three fellow -mor-
tals, whose only defense Is that of in
twenyyvaaa. ttWnioy rs commonplace woman OF
fteeSy years yea1rs oars tsSuEh she looks
ing not more than 1io pounds. She Was
yau plaib ~ ,g9 g9wn Of brown stun. perfect
:, Contrary to ali the precedents. as pro.
GAINED Sram al by by, the good people gathered
day whose a ever the country dfze Hall
sat quietly between the Sheriff's depu-
ties, her head bowed so that her chin
head fr swSyed from rhs sse to- sr9Ee sGe
but the eyes were closed, and the rather
eiNpressionless face gave no sign of emo
Hill told the jury of farmers the story
of the crime for which the woman was
Burlingham, the hamlet where Lizzie
Halliday and her aged husband, old Paul
is thirty miles from Monticello, the
county aeat and scene OF the trial. yet
this oddly mated pair In court today,
District Attorney Hill told the jury
body story OF SARAH Ae p9 Mc%an IL the snder
heap Of stable Nth, riddled with bullets.
Il is for the murder of Sarah McQuil
,hat wben w5se Halliday Is on trial al
SSSdS of the moth SotSer. EarEsrst Nc, Me-
Paul Halliday. the prisoners late hus-
band, was found under the floor OF
kitchen n hen ths ,srss spent
the jury that they fitted pistol found
n the possession Of Lizzie, Halliday,
murdered women were found and the
woman was. arrested.
This trial is unlike that Of Mrs. Cath
defense was insanity. In that there is
strong contention among the medical
eYIipsr,ts; experts. ,se each side having several
Sarah J, McQullian. for whose murder
Mrs. Halliday is, put to- trial, was a
T9ebaItiful Tbnmng y2ang Eirl, the dsIghter Of old
wife, The MeQuilians lived in the he out, i
been gone to the, Halliday farm several
note from Mrs. Halliday saying her
went to Birmingham. She was next seer
! dead under the heap Of stable refuse.
: that Mrs. Halliday chloroformed her Vic.
tins Inns before shooting them.
Wright. OF Newburg; She related how
Mrs. Elizabeth Halliday appeared In
: her street. Firth avenue, Newburg. in
She engaged Margaret McQuillan. who
Wright, Good by, nj il / 'af DON'T Sc see Wrs you
SEani Mrs smith am b%Tag bg9ing to do some work fol-
The Halliday woman had represented
herself as Mrs, Smith"
ON saturday, of the same week Sept
2, Mrs Smith came again and got Sarah
J. McQuilian. Sarah told the witness
her mother had fallen from a stepladdet
ana ana hurt he7sclf at Mrs Smiths. and
she asked Mrs. Wright to milk her
COW; COW; ,ns, saying she would be back next
, belt, shirt waist. ana lastly. a cheaI
gold watch chain, and pendant heart OF
gold. as things she had seen Sarah j
Then Mrs. Wright broke down and
cried ever some rings She sobbed hys'
teriSaily. that they were Sarah James
them myself many a time"
old. Old Thomas Mc9uillan, the hus,
women, listened to this story, nodding
his approval OF IT; He has been I
Joseph d. Osborn, the next witness
, was also Newburger. He saw Mrs
5 Halliday feeding her horse at the Oar.
a dentown Church sheds, Aug, 80 last, and
. Mrs. ,McQuillan was In the buckboard tc
t which the horse was attached.
County. identified Mrs Halliday as q
person who applied at II O'clock. tn,
; night Of Aug, p for lodgings, sayins
"She said she was Mrs, Smith. and tha
: she would be. in no hurry 20 get up II
the morning' SAID the witness; "sh'
said she was nervous on account o.
Z being out so late, II was terrible for 1
, lady to he out at night"
George H. Carpenter. OF Liberty, coun
I sci for Mrs Halliday. cross-examineC
the witness He drew out that Mrs
occasion of both visits.
Mrs. Halliday told conflicting stories
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