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


MONTlCELLO, n. Y, June 19.-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 10
Monticello. and that connects II with
Port Jervis. 1000 feet down in the val.
ley and twenty-four miles away. With
as much precision as though 1t were by
oruer or Justice Edwards, the women
IN deilclous Summer gowns of gingham
lawn ana the like, take seats on one side
OF the north centre aisle. the men seat.
ing themselves on the other side
, me jury mad been completed in three
nne Oars 81 ytssterday Gay afternoon. Only fifty
been examined. The rest were d,san.
,olhted men. and they expressed II feel
lhgly IN the hotels last evening II was
nrnanao a nlaster OF ~ day to them, with the
Them were very gloomy. ANY one wbr
Sti mas \, travelled through the rocky la nds n,
SuliiVan County could appreciates tbt
5ointm,sa. VI the!r sorrow and disap.
t,a. At !, $50 o. O'Clock to-day sherins Depu.
yes ira Porter, of Liberty. and Erastus
49,, b, knifiin, of Bethel, who had neyer
snea,in taeh other before and were not on
SSpeaklng terms. not having been Intro.
uucsd, brought the prisoner from the
sIuny little jail back OF the quaint Iittie
courthouse into court. '''ie
tails. whose woman onIay sISyer Of three
tWenfvioS t,y; is a commonplace woman of
hesithv esfeh years ears older, She has an e un,
ing ing not more than lilo pounds. She hmeisa, was
clad In a gown OF brown stun. perfscts
~ plain and simple
claimed lGneddary g to al all the preeedents as pro.
1rom all over the country, Lizzie Hall.
oay, whose defense Is homicidal insa nitv.
siss sat quietly between the sherifr's depI.
rested resi- her IN mead ad, bowed owed so that her chin
thatehed thu head swayed froih side to Ee side,
but the eyes were closed, and the rather
eEPressi6nless ton wSia face gave no sign of emo
Hill told the jury of farmers the storv
to be tried. was
r, Ba,uurilngham, the hamlet where Lizzie
Halliday and her aged husband, old Paul
Halliday lived a miserable life together.
Is thirty miles from Monticello, the
county seat and scene of the trial, yet
there were many Of the neighbors of
District-Attorney Hill told the jury
the, story of the finding OF the naked
BODY BODY OF sarah J. MeQuillan under a
heap n Of 3f stable filth; riddled with bullets.
Ian that Lizzie Halliday is on trial. al
though when that young woman s
body was found SO was the
99uiilan, gull and later on, the body " of old old
Paul Halliday, the prisoners late hls-
band; was found under the floor Of
the kitchen where this woman spent
the jury that they fitted a pistol found
IN the possession OF Lizzie Halliday,
Sept; 4, 1893. when the bodies Of the
woman was arrested.
This trial is unlike that OF Mrs. Cath
erine Fitzgerald, in New York, whose
aesfnse Sense was insanity in that there s
alienists who will TESTIFY.
Sarah J; McQuillan. for whose murder
bsautiful young girl. the daughter Of old
Ihomas McQuillan and Margaret. his
Snit;s wife The n NaS NMGSuillans lived in the out
been gone on 10 he Hav ne % another had
days when, late last August. Sarah got
a note from Mrs. Halliday saying her
mother was III and wanted her. She
Iehs 10 burIngh nam. She was next seen
District-Attorney Hill told the jury
that Mrs. Halliday chloroformed her vic
tins ms before shooting them.
Wright, OF Newburg; She related how
Mrs Elizabeth Halliday appeared In
her street. Fifth avenue, Newburg, in
August. 1888 looking for domestic help.
rode away with her saying to Mrs.
Wright Good by, II / don't see you
again; ! am going to do some work for
Mrs. Smith, here"
The Halliday woman had represented
herself as Mrs. Smith"
on Saturday. of the same week. Sept.
MRS. Smlth came again and got Sarah
J, McQuillan. Sarah told the witness
and hurt herself at Mrs. Smiths, and
She asked Mrs. Wright to milk her
cow. saying she would be back next
evening. The witness identified leather
belt, shirt waist, and lastly, a cheap
gold watch chain, and pendant heart OF
gold. as things she had seen Sarah ].
Then Mrs Wright broke down and
cried over some rings. She sohbed hys-
terically. that they were Sarah James.
Said she; " / know. because have 9orn
them myself many a time"
Sarah McQuillan was twenty years
old. Old Thomas McQuillan, the .hus-
band and father OF the murdered
women, listened to this story, nodding
his approval of 1t. He has been "A
hero since court convened yesterday
and seems to enjoy his dictlnction.
Joseph ID. Osborn, the next witness,
was also a Newburger. He saw Mrs
Halliday feeding her horse at the Gar
dentown Church sheds. Aug. 80 last, and
Mrs. ,McQuillan was in the blackboard to
which the horse was attached.
Margaret Arnot, of Collingham, Orange
County, identified Mrs. Halliday as a
person who applied at IL o'clock, the
night OF Aug. rs, for lodgings, saying
her conveyance had broken down.
"She said she was Mrs. Smith, and that
she would be In no hurry 70 yet up in
came again Aug 90 at 7 O'Clock. She
said she was nervous on account OF
being out so late. 1t was terrible for a
lady to be out at night"