Arizona republican., 1914-08-07

able motive being to prevent the threatened exposure of previous re- lations What made that suspicion even stronger was the revelation that the unfortunate girl had told friend when she set out for her last jour ney that she was to meet MT Hay den. It appeared also that the day of the murder, MT. Hayden had pur- chased an ounce of arsenic at drug store in MiddletOWn ito kill rats in a barn." When he was arrested, a blood stained pocket knife was found in his clothes. The paper containing some arsenic was also found in the barn.
 The defense was that the arsenic had been placed in the body after death to direct suspicion against MT Havden. and to determine whether or not this was true Professor Dana oi Yale college, presented his services. This professor worked for nearly two years gathering data and information as to the relation of arsenic. crystal ized or otherwise before and after being introduced into the stomach. It was on November 4, 1879, That the first phase of the case was heard.
 From that date, the case moved slowly. The medical authorities were unable to agree on almost any point On November II. the states experts testified that marks had been found on the face of the dead girl when resembled those of the nails of the shoes that Hayden had worn. and that whilst the girl was either dying or dead, the prisoner kicked her on the face and so left the marks.
 The counsel for the defense was equally as emphatic in their state ments that the marks found on Mary Stannards cheeks were nothing like shoe nail marks, but were similar to the marks common n cases ot putre- = faction and resembled those caused by smallpox pr. White was also pre- sented on the stand on the eleventh, his evidence mainly supporting to the identity of the knife taken from the prisoner and the clothes at the time of the murder.
 Another witness. Talcott Davis, told upon the stand how he had visit ed the Hayden's barn and found the tin box containing the arsenic Whlch Hayden claimed to have put there for the extermination of the rats. The state then testified in reply that the barn had been searched ten days be- fore Davis had visited it and noth- ing had been found They also claim ed that the box had been placed there after the arrest of Hayden by some friend of his.
 In connection with the case. the arsenic found in the body and thai found in the barn were carefully eX- amined under microscope and com nared with the arsenic in the JaI from which MT. Hayden's purchase was made and also with samples taken from the other drug stores 1T the neighborhood. the purpose belne 1 to see whether or not the polsol found in the barn had been bough' separately from that which MT. Hay den himself bought. But all the tes' timony availed very little, for II nearly every piece of evidence, II th' state took one side, the defense toof the other, and in not one materia point could they agree.
 Hayden himself was on the stane fir several days during the latter part of December, and was an excel lent witness in his own behalf. Th' trial was continued without nterrup tion until January 19, covering per iod of close to three months. whei the jury disagreed in verdict standing eleven for acquittal ana on' for murder in the second degree Havden was released on bail. but wa never again brought to trial.