New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-28
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.
SAYS FATHER BEAT CHILD
TESTIMONY OF SERVANT BRINGS IN MR.
HAINES AS WELL AS HIS WIFE.

Mount Holly. March 27.-The case of the
State against Mrs. May F. Haines who. it is
alleged. killed her twO-year-old stepdaughter.
finished yesterday. and the defence began.
When the mother of Mr.. Hanes came into the
court she went to the defendant and said: May,
l know you are innocent. and will be acquitted,
so keep up a good heart my dear"
Judge Harrison ruled that if the State could
show that the testimony % Nellie Richards the
Haines servant who is dead, taken at
legally instituted hear. before a duly au-
thorized magistrate of the State. he would have
to admit the testimony. Prosecutor Atkinson
placed Justice of the Peace Charles II. Zeigler
on the stand. and proved that the testimony was
taken in the presence Cf the prisoner and that
her counsel had full opportunity to crOss-exam-
inc the witness. The justice regular
magistrate of the state. Justice Harrison then
admitted the Richards testimony and allowed
the defence an exception.
The testimony corroborates that Of Mrs, Paul
frey. Of Wilmington, given yesterday The
prosecution considers Il the strongest thus far
given. 1t is pointed out that it is the only di-
rect evidence Of the trial the rest being purely
circumstantiaI and deductive. After the testi-
mony was read to the jury Prosecutor Atkinson
announced that the States case closed. The
testimony is in part follows:
have often had occasion 10 see the treat
ment Mrs. HaneS gave GWendOlin. Very fro
quently has she bumped this baby's head on the
floor and wall without the slightest prOvoCation-
Mr.. Haine5. when home. has also done this.
have seen CwendoIin standing in the corner
for an hour with her hands strapped behind her
back. Mrs Haines all this time beating and
abusing her. The child would stand this until
IL fell forward from sheer exhaustion, and then
Mrs. Haines would let up.
She has also put the Child'S head in a bucket
OF water until IL was black and blue in the face.
The child received its whipping every morning
and night. and each time without any cause
whatever Mrs. Haincs merely stating that the
baby needed a whipping twice day to he
brought UP properly.
Mr.. Budd. before opening the for the
defence. asked for the discharge of his client on
the ground that the State had failed elect
how the child died. whether by arsenic or 4
result of injuries. In his opening ne said that
the defence would prove that Mrs. Haines loved
the child, who weak and always falling.
The defence would endeavor show that
senic could have gct.ato the child without being
administered by Mrs. Haines. and would prove
that tho prisoner had nothing do with it's
administration The defence would claim that
embalWng fluid contains arsenic. Mrs. Hanes
would 60 on the stand and explain everything.
Miss Laura Ludlow, Miss Anna Middleton.
DR.. Edga~ Clement. Mrs Hoard Hopes,
Roland NJ Willard. George Glover. Mrs. Anne c
Field, Charles Clement, Thomas Redman DR..
h. Z. Fannie and n score or more Of residents
Of Haddcnfield testified in succession that Mrs.
Haines's reputation was good in the community.
and that she had displayed love for children
while teaching there. OF each Prosecutor At
kinsOn asked one question on REORGANIZATION.
1t was 10 show that the witness had not seen