Year: 1860




destroying it. Was this the work of
one who understood its operation +?


The circumstances of his connec. ion
with the getting of the arsenic. are in
his favor. Fl I'D he been M iitating
poison, he, as sensible man, would
not have manifested an interest in the
getting of that arsenic.


Mr.. Bradley paid a high, and we
think deserved compliment to Mrs.
Ramsey for the manner in which she
gave in her testimony BE thought
both he prisoner and the State were
under great obligations to her She
had given, he thought, the fullest, the
clearest, and the most natural relation
of the immediate circumstances of her
death.


1t being the usual hour court adj


AFTERNOON SESSION.


Two o'clork, P NJ


The crowd in the Court boom. ex.
ceeds all that we have ever seen before.
There is utterly no possibility Of exit
or ingress.


After something IKE order was re-
stored, Mr. Brady proceeded with his
remarks; /; the remarks of Mrs Dor.
land he mother. to the effect that
Harden presented unusual appear-
ances on the morning after the death
of his wife that he "kind Of rolled h;s
eyes IKE" at them &c only go TO
show that she had eyes TO see what
others could not, ears to hear what
others could not her feelings and
those of her husband toward Harden
amounted to prejudice /; a.d preiu-
dice grows and strengthens like weeds
in rich il; Harden'S conduct was
natural on that morning so far as we
can Judge if not however the posi- ion
occupied by Harden was sufficient to
account for ANYTHING peculiar in his
conduct terrible secret had been
confined to his bosom; different per-
sons would have different opinions. as
to Immediately revealing the secret !;
Harden chose to keep it it may be
all picture of the prisoner; if so he
is doubtless guilty man but if it be
true, then he was in position which
would make him equally solieitous as
though he had been guilty of the deed
himself; this is sufficient to explain
anything that might be thought unnat-
ural in his condnct.


When Jacob w Davis went to
Harden to find out something in rela-
tion to his wife's death, it seems he
did not tell him the secret of her death
by her own hand Why he did not
has been already discussed, but it is
pretended that the part of his story
relating to Miss Dorland putting her
hand to her side, &C., was not true,
because she denied it. Her mother
confirms part of it, and Rev Mr. Cast.
ner confirmed the rest. But that por-
tion of his story 10 Davis in relation
to his going to Milford is false It
is. He had j"kingly told Davis that
ne was. Davis had spread it aronnd
the country, and made serious mat
ter of it. IF he had said otherwise,
there would have been contradiction.
and contradictions are all the food
necessary to support suspicion. Oae
thing is certain. He did not tell his
story for the purpose of cloaking the
fact that he had been to Easton. That
he had already told to Bamber Il
was known to all even to the child en-
10 whom he had bought books. 1t
does not go to show hat he was afraid
to tell that he had been 10 EastOn.


With regard to his running away,

the evidence clearly showed that he
was advised to go by friends superior
in years. Judgment and experience
There is NJ one who. knowing. the cir
cnmStances which hung about him,
would not have advised him to go.


Mr. Brady closed his argument
with powerful appeal to the jury
urging that the prisoner had not been
proved 10 be guilty, at least not be-
yond plausible suppoSition of his in
nocence, and therefore their verdict
must be not guilty.


Judge Dayton at once arose and
commenced the fnal summing up Of
the case. He begun his argument by
saying the jury that though uncertain
rumors should never find their way iu-
to the jury box, yet no consideration
of sympathy should influence their de-
termination, nor should they be govern
ed by the fine spun theories of counsel.
Ii this defendant is gully it is one Of
The most aggra' ated cases Of murder
known to The annals of crime. lit was
committed upon a young aud inotfeu.
sive woman. III the flower Of life anu
Just budding into womanhood, by a
minister OF the gospel. He who coulu
stand by her bedside under such CIR
cumstances aud see her die inch BY
inci unGer bis maud, must have rather
the feelings ot niger than y mau, and
Is beyond the pale ol human sympathy.
In Tue course ul long trlaI inauy uu-