Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
SECOND DAY OF TRIAL.
Young Kerr Has Not Yet Been Called


 many persons at the doors, who were | unable to gain admission
 McAlister, Campbell and Death I were brought in promptly and after | greeting their counsel were seated near the lawyers table,. They all looked pale and haggard. The rapid progress made yesterday in the case has some what surprised leading members of the bar. Prosecutor Emley does not expect to occupy more than to-day and a part of tomorrow in putting in the rest of the direct testimony for the state. There is still considerable speculation as to whether George Kerr, who is Jointly indicted with the other prisoners, but who was granted | separate trial, will be called as wit ness for the state. The prosecutor and the lawyers for tfe defense refused to say anything on this subject this morning. --
 | New York, Jan 15-To-day in the Bosschieter trial, the state will put it's remaining witnesses on the stand. They | Will be Dr Cyrus w. Townsend, to whom, it is alleged, the prisoners took the girl when they found that they could not revive her.
 The report of Professor Witthaus. 1 or New York. will be heard. He has recently rendered a very full report, supplementing the one he sent County Physician Mcbride some time ago. Dr A. J. Mcbride, Dr F. H. Todd. Dr Van Noordland. Dr Vroom, all of whom | took part in the autopsy, will be put l on the stand @
 The trio of prisoners were led back to jail after the days proceedings. herr asked several anxious questions. Death broke down and asked McAlis ter to come up to his cell When in the cell Death flung himself on his cot and weDt like child Campbell was | very nervous when he heard Death | crying.
 When supper time came Death and campbell said they did not want any. Deaths appetite was gone Camp beil ate little. McAlister ate much less than usual.
 Prosecutor Finley. in his opening ar gument, yesterday afternoon. de- nounced the prisoners. without sparlnS single pitiless word. He de- tailed the crime. step by step. as ii has become known by the confession or Sculthorp at the time of his arrest. Weaving it as many of his hearers have woven silk, Mir Emley tried to make winding sheet for four men out of his tale to the jury
 ''The state demands from YOU a yer dict of murder in the first degree he cried. T am here for no compromise. There is no middle road. The law says that It Is murder murder. murder if you kill by poison. How much more is it murder if you give the poison for such a horrible purpose as this poison was given. l intend to prove these persons twice guilty. I will put them on both horns of the dilemma 1 will lay before you the bottle which con- tained the deadly drug. 1 will show you the poison that assisted these men no, these tiends incarnate--to accom- plish the ruin of this child of Holland, eXiled because, like many of her race, her parents were obliged to leave their dikes and their wooden shoes to seek liberty in free land. And this is the freedom she came to. To be stupefied and made unconscious by q deadly drug. until. dying, she was made VIC tim of a nameless crime. Then. with levity and jolly demeanor, she was thrown back into q carriage by the tiends who think she is merely asleer. l shall show that once, twice, thrice they drugged her to death.''
 Augustus Sculthorpe was called This. then, was the climax of the day. for Sculthorpe is the hackman who drove the gloating men hither and | thither with the unconscious girl be- side them. who sat on his box and coolly watched the assault who drove the Frightened party to the doctor, and from whose Victoria the girl was thrown at last to lie beside the Waga- raw bridge until discovered. McAlis ter, with his weak chin and sloping brow, strengthened in his chair. The perpetual sheer deepened in his face. Death Intensified his pose as q tough | young man, pulling out the cuffs of his loud shirt and gazing at them with critical condemnation. Campbelrs deep-set gray eyes grew a bit fright ened. He rubbed his smooth face nervously, then clinched his hands. This was the ordeal they had dreaded most.
 In answer to the call short stoclsy man of 30 advanced to the witness stand. He had rosy cheeks and gray eyes and q bit of a swagger He was dressed flashily and his voice was gruf. Many of his terms were coarse and the story he told in rambling way was buntly brutal S%
 If Sculthorpe had been man of lclluelIeul. SIlTlllkInS rom the story he, had to tell. his testimony would not l have been so effective. His careless brutality added to the horror with which the jury listened. When it came to the assault the mans rough voice could be heard throughout the court room. Even the stoical judge on the bench stiffened with repulsion when the driver, with unconscious dramat- l lc effect. told of the groans of the girl in the lonely lane, at the mercy of l the bestial man. He made no at tempt to conceal facts with nice | words. He called a spade a spade. | and used the language of the streets. l Several of the jurors paled perceptibly and one of them seemed on the point l of fainting.
 He said he had been a hackman for l nineteen years, a night hawk at the Erie station. where Kerr had found him at 10 o'clock on the night of Octo- Der IS, and had engaged his old, dou- 1 ble-seated victoria, driving Kerr to l S0aPS saloon Tn fayv monon+s