The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-03
Defence BEGUN
Garrabrandt's Counsel, Alex
Simpson, Says the Boy
Is a Degenerate.
STATE RESTS ON CONFESSIONS
Brings the Murderer's Own
Stories as the Chief
Evidence.
STATE RESTS ON CONFESSIONS

| Handcuffed to a Constable nineteen
year-old John Garrabrandt was brought
into the Court of Oyer and Terminer at
$3.50 O'Clock this morning for the second
| day of his trial for the murder of his
| former friend and associate, fifteen-year-
old Henry Mass, at Jersey City ON the
afternoon of May last. Justice Gilbert
Collins and Judge John I. Blair were on
| the bench and the trial was at once
begun. When the youthful murderer took
| his seat inside the rail the court room
and gallery in the rear were again crowd
| ed with spectators.
! Instead of taking the seat usually occu-
pied by prisoners on trial young Garra-
brandt occupied a chair at the end of the
reporters table, where he could be OBJ
served more easily. He was dressed the
same as yesterday, but seemed trife
paler he sat twirhng his hat during
| the examination of the different wit
nesses.
! Several times he smiled at the sallies
| of counsel, and once, when Prosecutor
Erwin nthinkingly asked witness If
Garrabrandt had sung at the same time
that he played mouth harmonica, he
| forth among the spectators.
| Just before recess the real effort of the
defence to prove the youthful criminal
| insane was begun, and while Dr. John
Dougherty was giving his reason for be-
lieving Garrabrandt insane the defendant
was placed in the seat by the side of the
witness stand. He smiled almost con-
stantly and seemed really amused at the
proceedings which must consign him to
the gallows or to a long term of imprison-
ment.
| It is probable that the defence will be
concluded this afternoon and that the case
will reach the jury by tomorrow evening.
| 1t was announced this morning that the
| case for the defence would be concluded
with the medical expert testimony and
| that the prisoner would not be put on the
stand. This afternoon will probably be
devoted to the rebuttal testimony of the
| State to disprove the insanity theory of
| the defence.
| The most interesting features of yester-
| day afternoons proceedings were the
| testimony of Mrs. Christian Garrabrandt.
mother of the youthful murderer and
! that of Mrs. Catherine Hayes. mother of
| the boy victim. No sign of recognition
| passed between the two women, who had
| sat in adjoining seats from the beginning
| of the trial.
| The contrast between them was most
marked. The mother of the victim, a
| stout faced German woman of about
! fifty, was attired in deep mourning. She
exhibited no i'll feeling towards the
/, youthful slayer of her son, who sat gaz-
| ing at her indifferently as she told what
little she knew of the crime that had
deprived her of a loved son. Mrs. Cara
| brandt, mother of the boy murderer, a
petite and rather good looking woman of
! about forty was fashionably attired in
a dress of black blue cloth. A neat black
plumed hat adorned her head. She had
| been subpoenaed by the State to testify
| against her son and help send him to the
gallows.
Mrs Hayes gazed almost sympatheti-
cally at the youthful slayer of her son as
she replied as briefly as possible to the
questions asked by Prosecutor Erwin and
Lawyer Simpson. She knew absolutely
nothing of the particulars of the murder.
She had seen her son when he went to
his work in New York on that fateful
| Saturday morning. She next saw him
when he was brought home dead on the
| following Monday.
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