The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-10
AWAITING HIS DOOM
McLaren Case Concluded
and Given to the Jury
This Morning.
PRISONER CAREssEs HIS CHILDREN
Prosecutor Winfield Accuses the
SLST
Defence of Manufacturing
Eyidence-Thursday's
Proceedings.
PRISONER CAREssEs HIS CHILDREN

The McLaren case was concluded this
morning. and the jury went out apou,
half past ten o'clock. After they hac
left the room McLaren was permitteo
to take a seat with his relatives In the
body of the court room where he sal
with his arms around his children.
Yesterday Mr.. Winfield produced
papers showing that MeLaren was once
convicted in L~ehighton, Pa. of assaul'
with a revolver. Mr.. Miller, an exper'
on rifle shooting, was called AFTER re-
cess by the State. He testified that
>8S-calibre revolver will set fire to a gar
ment when fired at a distance OF tWeiVs
inches. Mr.. Hoffman elected the fact on
cross-examination that Mr.. Miller is an
umbrella maker and member, and tha'
he has experimented with revolvers,
rifles n ammunition for the past thirty
wears. He had never experimented VIII
lannon's but knew something about
their names as he had faced them before
Petersburg.
Jacob Clifford, who had been a gun
smith for eight years, testified that clotn
could be ignited with a 3S-calibre re-
volyer at from twelve to fifteen inches.
He made the experiment yesterday IN
his shop.
Mrs. Demarest was recalled to say that
she was not in a car with Mrs. Null
vaney on the day it is alleged she hao
a conversation with her.
NUDGE ,HOFFMAN'S SPEECH.
Ex-Judge Hoffman summed up for the
defense. The air in the court room was
SO oppressive that Judge Lippincott
ordered all the windows opened. Mr..
Hoffman necessarily waved a palm leaf
fan while talking, and said he crayed the
jury's sympathy. not for the prisoner,
but for himself. He talked for an hour
and twenty minutes with his usual force
and e~loquence. He made a strong and
touching appeal for his clients life, and
dealt with great, emphasis upon the
grave responsibility resting upon the
Jury. .
vaney's ~veracity had been severely at
tackled by ex-Judge Hoffman. AS Mr.;
Winfield was asserting that every WORD
of her testimony. was the truth, Mrs.
and fainttng. She was carried from the
room by a spectator. .
the burning shirt incident. He took the
garnent q handing it to the jury with
the remark that it was manufactured
s eyid asgs aa ,'doe ese # 4. in fhi your ge inagmen,t,
itehas been worn for four days; Gentle,
men. 1t was never worn after 1t left the
NMANuFAcTUREp EVIDENCE. :,
sleeves. and Mr.. Winfield pointed this
%snt as M the w9 nl4aeSid f the heid the the wrap gap-
per worn by Jennie Knittle at the time
Of her death, against his body, to illus,
trate his further remarks "a IS He b,,,,aps pipht o1e
in the left breast and commented at
length on it. He showed the jury that
the cloth had NOT burned and argaa3edd
in a struggle within two or three 1ncnes
from the woman. the garment would
have been ign tie uT He next a dSnn GTas sss
uious appearance. II would. have been
s q physical '1sn 5 ba imp tgs qaHsIver he pof Slaigne at
50 that it you'd infIct the fatal wound. !,
IN Mr. b Mi9sf[eIs n nsxt t=s ssysredly 70 4 fss aonl
v~ersation between McLaren and Mrs;
Mu1vaney in the County Jail. He called
spied on the actions and conversations
of the prisoners. Shame on the manage
ment of a Jail where they permit such
a thing, he said.
to the voice of the dead woman, being
heard from beyond the grave making
the accusation. THAT man (pointing his
finger at McLaren) murdered me-"
1t was half past four o'clock when Mr..
Winfield concluded his summing up.
Judge Lippincott left it to the jury to
decide whether they would be charged
Immediately and locked up for the night,
or whether they would wait until morn
ing. They were taken to the Hotel
Washington. At nine o'clock this morn
was a delay of ten minutes. caused by
the absence of the Clerk of the court
Judge Lippincott began at ten minutes
DaSt nine O'Clock. and concluded his
charge, which was considered to be very
much in favor of the prisoner at half
past ten o'clock. The jury retired in
charge of Constable Locke.