Evening journal., 1898-05-23
ALEX. DOMAINS ORDEAL
He is on Trial for Staying
His Little Son.
MOTHBR-IN-LAw ON THE STAND
HER TESTIMONY WAS RATHER
IN THE PRISONER FAVCdt-MR
COOPER CONDUCTING THE EX-
ANIMATION

IN THE PRlSONDR ) FANCut-Nllh |
COOPER CONDUCTING THE EX-
ANIMATION
question HAS arisen as to whether |
or not, under the new Constitution, the
Superior Court and the Court OF Oyer
and Teuminer can be in session stimuli !
taneously. To Cbviate all risk until |
some conc,usiCn has been Reached re- |
galding This constitutional question, !
the Superior COpr6 was opened first !
this morning. and, as soon as advera. !
matters had been disposed of, IL was
adjourned until tomorrow morning
and dheCOurt OF Oyer and Terminer was
opened
Superior Court convened at 10 O'Clock /
Lewis c. Vandegrift, who has BEEN
busily engaged in Uhe United states
| Court for several weeks, inform the
court that he had had no opportunity
even to look oven his cases, and
would be compelled to ask for con-
| tinuance Of all Of them.
The dhief justice Notified in mem-
| bers Of the bar that all cases to be
haard should be arranged for t1-mOr-
lrUw morning, and il was his desire that
there be a fun attendance. In tl.9 case
of Minnie Harris and her husband VS..
Chief OF Police DOlan, on motion or
Walter II. Hayes, and by consent OF
counsel, judgmentfcr six cents WAS en-
tered in behaf Of the plaintiffs.
Commissioners i'm several divorce
cases asked for and obtained contin-
uances TO different times.
Superior Court Adjourned and the
Courts Of General Sessions and Oyer
and Terminer opened.
On account of The sickness OF Hhe de-
fendant the case of the State vs.. James
Walls, for policy writing was c0ntin-
ued until the next term, and the wit
nesses wene discharged to that time.
Ex-Judge Cullen visited the court
during The morning, and was warmly
/ greeted by the members Of THE bar
The grand jury spent the morning In
. finding true bills against delinquent
state taNables.
DOMAIN PUT ON TRIAL.
Alexander Domain, cOlored, was es-
ccrtod into the dock by the tipsuayes
. TO be tried for the murder OF his z
year-Old son, Joshua, near State Road
early I'M March. AttOrney-G enera
S White and Deputy AbBOrney-Geneiai
= Cooper conducted the prosecution
y Ex4AIayor Austin Harrington repre-
eonted The prisoner, who is a large
black man. not especially bad looking
$ but appearing fully cognizant Of uh'
E gravity of the situation confronting
e him.
n The following jurors were drawn 3
try the case:
The jury: Andrew Selall, Leroy Rob
i eats, William LOckermansv Levin Catts
Michael Kelleher, James AlcAdo,
m George E. Pinder, Edward Ciousel
re Jesse Talley. Albert M. Miller, Enc
- Rambo, Edward NJ. Taley-12.
Is Challenged by the defence: A,exar
der Stevenson, ]. Fletcher Deakynt
n William "A. Green, James c. Re9 mold.
e. Francis ID. Reynolds, Jr., Thomas kirl
1r Thomas 5. Wells, William c. Deakyn'
1ll Christopher White, Charles CrumptOl
n. Wii-tam Wright Benjamin B. Arm
ne strong, Charles Tosney-13.
ic Formed and expressed an cpinio
x and challenged by the defence: jon
n McGonigle-1.
S- Conscientious scruples: Thomas
ir Donovan, John Duncan.
re Absent: William J. HillyardEl.
es Challenged by the state: George @
o. pitt.
S0eg Clerk of the Peace Foard than rea
o. the indietment charging DOmau viii
he beating his son 10 death on March l
n. DOMAIN had previously pleaded N
en- guilty.
no Deputy AttOrney-General Coop
made the opening address to THE Jur
re After defining the different degrees
''s murder and manslaughter NE review
the details OF the crime alleged. ]
We said, i'm part:
"On or about March 10, OF tbs ye,
tie DOMAIN. who was at that time livil
. in New CASTLE hundred, this count
~ had possession of a small house
~ that hundred, with two or three sml
for chfldrene-his counsel says five as
At matter of fact At the time his W
o. was not living with him, and J thi
there was no woman about the hou
. and no other person about the hou
except him and those small chiidr'
49, THE deceased being next to the old'
child. Sometime after the 18th
Msrch-one or two days There ftel
r. the defendant quilted those pi mi.
C. and one Edward Miller moved into
y house In digging in the gardsn Mil
rs found some board covering over son
thing. He discovered that the CHI
had been buried in the garden
called upon Robert II. Smith. Mi
- and Smith went into the garden, tC
up the board and found the body o
F: small child of Alexander Doman
: man was apprehended and stated q
the child had died in the night q
4: he hadn't made any Noise about IT,
simply buried it in the garden
; afterwards made a number OF sta
ments to different people, assigne
different causes of death. One was Z
the dhiM fell against stove and
another person he said it had ono
100 death. | can't tell you the ex
number of reasons, but he as ig
different reasons for the child's de-
We will show to you that lydia j
Williams, the mouher-in-law Of the
fendant. came to his house On
- night of March 10. and Domain
nOunced to her that the little
S. Joshua, had that day died. Th4 b