Connecticut western news., 1894-06-21
LIZZIE HALLIDAY.

jurymen are well advanced in years, and probably as sturdy and conscientious a company as every sat together on a crim- inal case. Almost without exception they stand high in the community, which means that they are sober, industrious, honest men.
 District Attorney Hill told the jury the story of the finding of tho naked body of Sarah J. McQuillan under heap of stable filth riddled with bullets. It is for the murder of Sarah McQuillan that Lizzie Halliday is on trial, although when that young woman's body was found so was the body of the mother Margaret McQuil- Ian, and later on the body of old Paul Hal liday, the prisoners late husband, was found under the floor of the kitchen, where this woman spent most of her life. All three bodies were filled with bullets and MT. Hill told the jury that they fitted pistol found in the possession of Lizzie Halliday Sept. 4, 1893, when the bodies of the murdered women were found and the woman was arrested.
 Sarah J. McQuillan, for whose murder Mrs. Halliday is put to trial, was a beau tifui young girl the daughter of old Thomas NcQuillan and Margaret, his wife. The MoQuillans lived in the out skirts of Newburg. The mother had been
 
 when late last August, Sarah got note from Mrs. Halliday saying her mother was iH and wanted her. She went to Burling- ham. She was next seen dead under the heap of stable refuse.
 The first witness was Mrs. Caroline Wright of Newburg who told how Mrs. Halliday had appeared at her house and engaged Margaret McQuillan as domestic help, representing herself as Mrs. Smith. The other witnesses were Joseph Osborn and Margaret Arnot who testified that they had seen the McQuillan girl drive away with the prisoner.
 Tho defense in the Halliday case seem to bo doing but little, apparently relying upon the law which protects any and all forms of insanity. The prisoner was com pletely composed, and If it were not for oc- casional twitchings of her mouth no one would suspect that she understood that anything unusual was going on. Alor Sawyer, the justice of the peace of the town of MamakitinR was called to the stand. He testified that he went to the house on Monday. Sept 1, and found a pistolball while taking up the carpet. He was the man who proposed to Mrs Halli- day that she go to Bloomingburg with a couple of men for the purpose of getting her husband.
 He described minutely the discovery of the bodies of the McQuillan women. When the prisoner was brought back from Bloom ingburg, Justice Sawyer told her that the bodies of two strange women had been found on her place. She appeared perfectly rational, he said, until tho evening of this day, Monday, when she began to act queer ly and to complain that potato bugs were crawling over her. The blood stained rope was put in evidence and identified by Mir. Sawyer as that found in the house The bullets taken from the bodies of the wom- en were also produced. They were found wrapped up in the report of the testimony taken at Birmingham and were in the Sul- livan county clerks office. District At torney Hill has been searching for them for over week. Paul Halliday, one of the sons of the murdered man, testified to calling at his fathers house on Aug. 23. When ne visited the house with Garfield on Monday, they found bloody cape and spots on the carpet. Mrs Halliday re- piled to their inquiries that 1t was her own blood that made the marks.