The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-04-08

may eAcept Ihe ieeiing OF contempt eX-
pressed in the curl of the lips which has
been of such frequent occurrence during
the entire trial. Judge Garrison compli-
mented all the lawyers connected with
the case and said the trial had been CON
Quoted in very able manner.
Judge Garrison charged the jury on
Thursday morning. After referring to
the circumstances with which the Jury
must become acquainted that death was
the result of other than natural causes.
that the prisoner must be connected with
these causes, that she must be given the
benefit of the doubt-he declined to
charge, at the request of the defence, that
the state had failed to show a motive.
The question of motive he said was only
circumstance of the case for the Jury to
consider. The purpose of charge be de-
clared to be to state the law applicable to
the subject and place it before the jury
in an impartial manner Counsel argues
on facts, the jury knows the law only as
it is given by the court 1t is the duty
of judge to assist jury by stating
points of evidence, which may be disre-
garded by the jury, but the law cannot be
ignored. The court may direct jury to
ignore any line of testimony This is law
and cannot be disregarded
The judge then referred to the mass of
expert testimony which must most Ger
tainly have been embarrassing to the
jury. The question of arsenic, how and
when it was administered, was referred to
at length, and the court said the entire
question of arsenic rested upon the testi
mony of John G. Bolton, the undertaken
The whole of the evidence of this wit
ness was described by the Judge as uncer-
tain, vascillating, and lacking anything
sure, yet it was the only proof on the
point of arsenic. The entire weight of
poison rested upon Belton's evidence.
which the judge emphatically denounced
as worthless.
The doctors had found ample cause of
death before arsenic was discovered. there
fore he instructed the jury that all of the
case that had anything to do with arsenic
must be considered as if it had never been
introduced. But he wished it to he mn.
derstood the prosecution had done its
duty in investigating that branch of the
case, and would not have been justified in
taking the stand now taken by the court
and counsel for the defence had NO riobt
to presume upon the present position. not
having any knowledge of the opinion of
the court on that point Both sides he
said, have tried the case fully and with
ability" The real question for consider
alton was whether Mrs. Haines killed Gwen
doline, and to reach conclusion on this
point it must be determined whether the
child died from natural causes IF tbis
was decided in the affirmative then the
verdict must be one of acquittal. On this
point there was the testimony of disinter-
ested persons and of medical men of ex-
perience, and they were the proper per.
sons to testify to this condition. having
been trained for that especial purpose.
These witnesses said death occurred
from the wounds on the head, and this
statement must be accepted by the iury
but to get the relation between the de-
PENDANT and the deceased the jury must
look to the other wounds, and decide
whether the tearing of an ear, the break
ing of nose, or the discoloration of an
eye could result from fall.
Having dwelt at length on this phase of
the trial the judge then spoke on the oues-
ton of degree: He defined the difference
between first and second degrees and man
slaughter. If satisfied that Mrs. Haines
had caused the death of Gwendoline then
the jury must determine the degree of her
guilt. Under the indictment which was
being tried it was not possible for YER
dict of atrocious assault and battery or
simple assault and battery. After short
talk upon circumstantial evidence, the
judge gave the case to the jury, having
spoken three quarters of an hour.
1t was after ten when the jury retired
Mrs. Haines was taken back to Jail. At
half past eleven the ringing of the bell on
the court house announced that a verdict
had been reached, and there was a rush
of people to hear the decision. Mrs
Haines arrived and took a seat within
touch of the foreman. Judge Garrison
gave orders that the utmost decorum
must be preserved, and after calling the
roll and ordering the prisoner and the jury
to look at each other, Clerk Warrick
asked if verdict had been reached. He
was told it had and in response to his next
question the foreman replied mot guilty, -
and the matter which has been occupying
public attention for year was settled
Judge Garrison looked at the jurors for
moment and then informed them they
were discharged until notified that their
services were again required. "The pris-
oner is discharged, he said and then pro-
ceeded to go on with a civil suit he was
hearing. Mr.. Budd began to make mo-
ton, and Judge Garrison quickly said:
mo, no, l will not listen to any motion
in this case until the civil suit is over. !"
Mr. Budd, who had been spoken to by a
member of the bar near him then said:
Il beg your honor's pardon, was going
to move for the discharge of the prisoner.
did not know it had been ordered
Mrs. Haines at once left the room with
her husband and mother, and in the rear
of the court house she held a short infor-
NAL reception, shaking hands with the
jurors and thanking them for the great
favor they had done her She was the
same nervy, emotionless woman she has
been from the day she entered the Jail
charged with the murder of little child
who was laid in her last resting place on
the same day year previous to that on
which Mrs. Haines was set free by twelve
men who by their verdict decided that she
was guiltless.
The verdict was surprise and is not at
all satisfactory to those who have watched
the case and followed the evidence While
there is general belief that verdict o