The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-18
NEARLY READY FOR JURY
ONLY TWO MORE ARG UMENIS IN
BOSSCHiETER CASE.


Judge Expected DO Give Case to Jury
This Aforementioned for Accus' d
Made Ont.
I Paterson, N. J., Jan. 17-For the en-
I tire session to-day the opposing counsel
nthe Jennie Bosscheter murder trial
to-day appealed to the jury. Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Ralph Shaw be-
gan the. summing up for the state. Mr..
Shaw. in his summing up, claimed that
the state had proven it's case and that
its every contention had been sustained.
He denounced the accused who, he said,
had taken the girl out to do her TO
death like a dog. He demanded that
the jury render such verdict as the
law and evidence demanded, one of
guilty in the highest degree.
Then ex-Judge Francis Scott lead III
the summing UP for the defense. He
was followed by City Counsel Michael
Dunn. Their addresses were very SINH
lar. They declared that no case had
been made out. They ridiculed the ex-
pert testimony and branded the hack
man, Schulthorpe, as a man of the low
est type and of the basest motives. EX-
Judge Hoffman will conclude for the
defense tomorrow, and Prosecuting
Attorney Emley will then conclude for
the state. 1t is probable that Judge
Dixon will give the case to the jury in
the latter part of the afternoon.
Argument of Prisoners' Counsel.
Ex-Judge Scott, for the defense, was
on his feet and before the jury almost
before the prosecutors assistant had
turned to take his seat He launched at
once into his address with a burst of
oratory that was striking in its con-
trast to the quiet manner of his oppo-
nent.
THE prosecution declares that IT
wants these young men gibbeted, but
without malice declared Mr. Scott
"and at the same time offers you as evil
dence a story and a romance. There
never was a case that made trouble in
this world but what there were two
sides to the story" Then the speaker
discussed the Indictment, and, reading
from the statutes, urged upon the jury
that, in order to prove the prisoners
guilty of murder in the first degree, the
prosecution must have proved that pol
son had been put in the girls drink
with intent to kill. Returning to the
story of the case, counsel dwelt upon
the character of the dead girl, as indi-
Gated by the testimony Of her mother.
Sixteen years Of age, gentlemen"
said he, slowly-"and locked out at
night by her mother--a girl who drank
absinthe. cocktails, and cheap cham
pagne in a resort frequented by men,"
Going into the expert testimony, he de-
clared that with all the professional
men called, not one of them was asked
for testimony indicating an assault by
the young men upon the girl, although
the prosecution was the first to obtain
and analyZe the organs of the body; |
the experts had testified on all other |
questions, but had carefully avoided |
this particular one. In closing he laid |
stress upon the testimony of the eX-
analysis of an alleged mixture of liquors
like those which the dead girl took, had |
evolved liquid that was similar iii |
odor to that found in the dead girls |
by the expert for the prosecu-
ton. This was Mr.. Scotts alusion to |
DR.. Witthaus: Under the inspiration
of jealous rival, sitting like satan at |
the bar of Eve, DR.. Vandeberg was not
cross examined on his chemical analy- !
sis but an endeavor was made to drag
him down and traduoe him. ] consider
Dr. Witthaus out of this case entirely"
1.-THE girl was not necessarily wicked,
but foolish and vain. Are you not as
founded by the fact that this girl had /
absinthe and champagne?
This girl not quite sixteen years of age,
yet drinking poison in this manner?
Now as to that poor hackman. What
kind of a man could he be to stand by l.
and see a crime committed without Of
fering any interference? Why was he
not indicted? Before the coroner he
swore he saw nothing, but here he told
another story. He lied in one place or
The other. 1t Is on his testimony gen.
.lemen, you have got to convict these
men of rape; his alone. This lying cab
mans story is all there Is on this point.
It was dark, the cab lights were out
md unless the cabman saw these things
he states case falls to the ground If
without further corroborative proof you
'annot convict. 4
Nov about the confession. You are
not going to hang man on
/ confession you did not hear from his
,wn lips, but only from officers who
,ot the so-called confession from the
These officers took the de-
endants into a room where there were
hree revolvers on a table. What was 4
he condition of these young men? They Z
new the girl had died on their hands.
Are you going to convict them on what
he policemen say they told them? r
There is no other evidence of rape. If {
here had been, could not the fact have
Who examined the dead girl and also
rom the two post mortems, but not a
word from either to prove an assault |
nd only the claimants story, and the
lleged confessions of Death and Camp c
,ell
Now as to Professor Witthaus. ,
What did he find? His six tests all t
ombined drew the inference that there f
vas five grains of choral in the stom-
ch and five grains in the other side.
Dr.. Witthaus told you enough choral /
lad been received in the body to kill. c
hen again another chemist takes i
olution from the drinks the girl had c
\ SaaPs saloon mad found the same d
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