New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-02
QUAILs BEFORE ATTACK.
MRS. HNNES ALMOST GIVES AWAY
WHEN PROSECUTOR SUMS UP
HER MOTHER CARRIED FROM THE COURT
IN A FAINT-CASE WILL PROBABLY
GO To JURY TO-DAY.

Mount Holly April 1.-The jury trying Mrs. May
f Haine5 the charge of killing her stepchild'
Gwendolin, will have the case placed IN It's h'hu9
some time tomorrow. Prosecutor Atkinson ad-
dressed the jury to-day. and Mr.. Budd Tor 'he
defence started on his argument but did not nnlsh
Tomorrow Mr.. IIendrickson, the assistant 10 the
prosecutor will make the closing address for the
State and the court will charge the jury
In the cross-examination Mrs. Haines was let OF
with few questions and the State in rebuttai DID
not make any great effort to impeach her story.
When Mrs. Hanes appeared in court TO-DAY she
seemed detected She lacked the posltivehesS OF
manner which has marked her demeanor IN the
previous DAYS Of the trial She did not smile ana
ioko with her counsel as usual before the court
appeared. did she evnce the usual effusiVeness
in greeting her husband and friends. All through
the proceedings she sat stlessly beside Mt. budd-
She seemed to feel the arrangement by the prose
rUtor ana left court tonight in worse shape lna'
she has yet appeared.
DR.. Robert \ Hare. of jefferson College IN re-
buttA made fiat denials of the statements OF the
medical experts for the defence, John Hansbury
testified that he in DR.. Weiler's office when
Mrs. Hatnes came for the doctor on the night
Gwrueulin died. The doctor, he said vas perfectly
sober. Or Weller denied that he was drunk on
that night. He also denied that Mrs Haines ever
mentioned him bruises the body Of the
child before the night Of the child's death
After DR. Weller testified MI Atkinson at once
began the summing up for the State He first
gave the chiId's history and described her death
and then INDUCED In a dissertation arsentcal
poisoning fidculing the contention of the defence
that all the arsenic found in the child had adj
hcred to the undertaker's embalmng syringe after
4 previous usage. He declared that the presence
of the arsenic in the bones showed 1t had been
administered while the organs were still perform
ing their regular and proper functions and had
absorbed the poison
Turning to the second contention of death as the
result OF the blows, Mr.. Atkinson denounced the
treatment OF the child. testified by the wit
for the State. the act of ncnd inCdr-
IL a ne 7,
cned criminals shuddore when they heard OF II
Criminals sunk the lowest depths seldom
harmed child. bat here was woman who was
supposed 10 take the place OF the childs own
mother bringing about the death of the baby by
long drawn torture.
Howard Hanes ir had 70 be elected from the
seemed 70 be distracting the jury Mrs Hdine5
showed very Htgle interest when the lad was car
mother of the prisoner. collapsed under MI AT,
ktnsons bitter denunciation Of her daughter; ana
was carried out in a faint, Mrs Halnes spoke 10
her husband then and he hurried out 10 see mat
Mrs Fenton was properly cared Tor. BEFORE MI
Haines left the courtroom he was subjected to a
bitter attack by the prosecutor.
defence. denounced deliberate
Justification Lyttle goaded to anger. and.
literally threw Lyttle back onto the bench. He
Just in time. for Justice Garrison had his
gavei raised, and his face was flushed and angry
The prosecutor then told the story OF the Chlid :
death N" State contends It was brought about.
Before he finished Mrs Haincss face was ashen;
her under lip caught between her teeth, and
she biting II hard: her hands were clenched,
ana it seemed that had the prosecutor continued
five minutes longer she would have given away.
gan his speech for the defence. lie devoted much
OF his time TO picking flaws in the testimony Of
end his summing up, and will complete it to-
morrow