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TRYING THE MALLEYS, lx Court to Answer for Jennie Cramer’s Death. Selecting a jury to try the case —AN J>:rUSING ARRAY OF EMINENT Counsel—the story of Jennie Cramer’s dfatii—the pres¬ ent state of TnE prose¬ cution. Special dispatch to the Phila. Press. New Haves, « onn., ylpril 18 . On the morning of the 6 th of August 1K81, old Asa Curtis, a cl am-digger, passing along the shore of the inlet near o est Haven, about three miles from this city, discovered the body of a beautiful girl lying among the reeds and rushes that bordered the water’s edge. The remains were those of .Jennie Cramer, for whose murder roes and frailer Malley and Blanche Douglass were put on trial n the superior court in this city to da\ .Jennie Cramer was a singularly beaut She was twenty years old, possessed a superb form, luxuri¬ ant black i air, a clear, rosy com¬ plexion, sj arkling black eyes and the aristocratic grace of a princess. She was t he petted daughter of a Grand street cigar merchant, since d < eased, and while not very well educated her attractive wavs made her the general favorite among the yoniu people of New Ilaven. At tune st.e waited on customers in her father s store, but on the whole did very little but help her mother occasion illy about the house and take as much enjoyment as possible out ot life, never however, so far as is known, beyond propriety. Both parents spoke of her, shortly after death, us a good and obedient daugh¬ ter. her mother adding that she herself had been .Jennie's confidant in every thing. ,i.*i brother Edward, at the t ime of Jennie’s death, asserted with grojit positiveness Lis belief in the pun y o h sister. A SUSI'ICION OF MURDER. \\ i.en the body was found its appearance was that of one who had been drowned. There were no tna k, of v.olenee ib ut it, save a slight contusion on the forehead such as easily might have been caus’d by a fall or by coming into sud len contact with rocks or drift in the water. The remains were buried on August 8 th, but not until an autopsy had been performed and certain organs rosoiv d for examination. Among tli ’gi. ’s family and friends it was i e’ ev i that she had cither been a v d u alh drowned or committed amt.-i by though lor the last step no possi le motive could be assigned. W it outsiders, however, the theory provided that she had been foully imr e;v t. /. was remembered that the girl bad been indiscreet in her conduct; that she frequented the society o‘." question aide associ tes. and that for a week prior to her dea’hsh-- had been repeatedly seen in company wi h James and If alter \! alley and u mysterious woman calling hersell Blanche Douglass, who afterward on er own confession proved to be Annie Ream a notorious courtezan iVom New York, The suspicion of murder was so greatly strengthened by the mvsterious circumstances immediately preceding the girl’s death, that a tew weeks after the Burial the body was exhum 'd and other parts placed in the hands oi skillful scientists for examination. The result of the investigation still further corroborated the theory of murder, a chemical analysis of the parts examined revealing, it is said, the presence of arsenic in large quantities. 7 he idea of those ad¬ vancing the murder theory was that the girl was poisoned and her body thrown into the water to create the opinion that death had resulted from drowning. THE MALLEYS ARRESTED. The developments of the chemical analysis were shortly followed by the arrest of James and Walter Malley and Blanche Douglass on a charge of murder. The arrest of the young men, who were highly connected and reputed wealthy, caused great excite¬ ment, not only in this city but throughout the state. The allegations upon which the arrest* was made are as follows. That the Malleys had been suspiciously intimate with the Cramer girl for months prior to her death: » ; it tho Douglass girl, a new York . TOCCOA NEWS By idw SCEEAFER- 1 VOL. II. woman of notorious character, had forme ! one of a party of four, ing Miss Cramer and the Malley boys, who went out carriage riding the day before the body was found, and who occupied rooms in a certain hotel part of the night At the preliminary investigation ji!1 three parties were bound over for trial, aft»>r a protracted contest, in which eminent legal talent hotly fought every inch of the ground on both sides. the defense. The defense at the first hearing was that -Jennie Cramer was a confirmed arsenic eater, and that intentionally or accidentally she took an overdose of the poison and thus came to her death. This line of defense will be pursued in the present trial, ai d a determined effort is to be made to establish an alibi. Counsel for the Malleys declare that they wilt produce testimony showing that the girl was promiscuously intimate with young men, and that in a fit of despondency over a love affair, or something else, she took her own life. Meanwhile the mysterious facts in the case remain unexplained. The absence of evidence showing the girl’s whereabouts from the time of her all. night visit with the Malleys and Blanche Douglass up to the hour of the discovery of her body ; the condi¬ tion of the body itself, and the shore marks where it was found, plainly indicating that it .must have been placed there and not east up by the t d *; the inability of the Malleys to explain their whereabouts during the time between the girl’s dis .ppearance and the discovery of her remains ; the mysterious relations which the Douglass woman held with the young men and her strangely .contradictory stories concerning her visit to New Haven, and her acquaintance with the murdered girl these are features of the case which seem as inexplica¬ ble as ever, and which must be explained away fully and clearly before the heavy load of suspicion now resting upon the indicted parties is removed. STATUS OF THE PROSECUTION. The indictment L narrowed down to a single count—that of poisoning with, arsenic—and the prosecution claims to have evidence which can not be shaken and on which a con- vietion is assured. The result of the recent examination of the exhumed body is not given other than to ooun- sel for defense, under promise of secrecy. While tho weight of testi¬ mony may’ bear upon this charge o; poisoning there will be days of inter est ing testimony upon the many points of the tragedy of greater general interest. One hundred wit- nesses will he called, ami comt officers estimate that the trial will occupy a month at least. APPEARANCE OF THE I ETENDA: TS. fl'iilter Malley is twenty five years old, well educated, rather attractive in appearance, and before the mur¬ der held a responsible position in a wholesale department of ids father’s dry goods house. He is possessed of considerable property, left him by his mother. He excels as a musician and has composed a waltz in jail, which he says he will publish after his acquittal, of which he is c mfident. James Malley is twenty four, and compared with Walter is of inferior polish and uot of so favorable appear- ance. Ho was clerk in Walter s father’s store and a chum of »V alters in various excursions and parties. Although more strongly suspected than Walter. James declares that lie was not at West Haven Friday, August 5, and ba 3 no idea bow Jennie Cramer died. ’ Blanche Douglass is twenty years old, of girlish appear¬ ance, illiterate but pleasant in conver¬ sation, and now maintains, that she never saw Jennie Cramer afternoon on Thursday. The array of legal skill in the ease Devoted to News, Politics, Agiioultuie and General progress- TOCCOA, GA., APRIL 29, 1882. is a splendid one. Judge Granger will presi le. State Attorney Tilton E. Doolittle has called to his aid only C. K. Bush, who has been prom- inent in the prosecution from the first; but the Malleys and Blanche Douglass will have an aggregate of six or seven attorneys, including, for the girl Messrs. Stoddard and Dow, and for the Malleys, Samuel F. Jones, who was on the defense in the Hayden ; Messrs. Blydenburgh and Fox. of A T cw Haven, and Lewis C. Cassidy, a well known criminal lawyer, who has just been called into the case. It is possible that Mr. V\ illiam C. Case, speaker of the Connecticut house of representatives, will also be retained, SE«. UliING A JURY. The trial began in the superior court this forenoon. The state rested their case upon one count that Jennie Cramer came to her death by arsenic administered by the accused. The Malleys were driven from the jail to court in a covered carriage in custody by Sheriff Tucker. Blanche Douglass was brought down by Jailer Stevens, and a large crowd of both sexes congregated in front of the court house to get a look at her, Judge Granger entered the court room at 10 a. m. ‘Open the court Mr. Sheriff' lie said. He seated himself and began to write. A tall man. with sparse hair and a high forehead, arose at a desk in the centre of the room. He was the high sheriff of New Haven county. ‘Oyez, eyez, oyez ,’ lie shouted. ‘AH persons having any cause or action pending before the honorable superior court, April criminal term for New Haven county, now open at this place, or being summoned or bound to appear herein, will take notice thereof and give their attendance according *n> law.’ Sheriff Byxbec sat down. ‘Mr. Clerk, call the jury, said the district attorney', A gentleman of fine personal ap- pearanee arose at a desk near the reporter’s table. He was Acting Clerk Anketell, the same who officia- ted in the Hayden trial. ‘Baseagainst .James Malley, Walter E. Malley and Blanche Douglass,’ he said, ‘Gentle- men of tile jury, you will Answer as vour names are called. Wilbur D- Lounsbury !’ A plain looking farmer threaded us wav to the stand and the great Malley trial was fairly opened J here was no mention of the names of the accused, and not a word as to a separate trial for either of them. It seemed to be taken for granted that they were to be tried together. The proposed jurors took no oath befoie being questioned. Everybody, ex¬ cept possibly, the lawyers, was apparently satisfied that they would tell the truth. Mr. Lounshnry was peremptorily challenged by the pros edition before he had answered three questions. Both sides were very urbane. As candidate after candi¬ date passed through the hopper of a cross examination, such expressions as ‘Miss Douglass will excuse this gentleman,’and Mr. James Malley will relieve you from further annoy’- anee,’ were heard, and the candidate departed with a bowed head. The first juror obtained was Silas Benham, a joiner, of Hamden. He was the seventh in the pa'el. Within fifteen minuies a second juror was unearthed He was Merwin W. Tuttle, a North Haven farmer. A third juror, Daniel Lovejoy, of New Haven, 74years old, was discovered before the dinner hour. Miss Douglass dined with Sheriff Byxbee at the City Hall restaurant, near the court house. Walter and James Malley ate dinner in the same establishment with their fathers. Neither of the cousins paid any attention to Miss Douglass during the day. At times they casually glanced at her. but there was not the slightest sign of recognition. It was different, however, with the young lady's lawyers. They hobnobbsd with Sam Jones, and were evidently disposed to establish an entente cordiale. The Malley boy's changed their seats during the forenoon, and Mr. Jones frequently conferred with them as the members of the panel took the stand. Walter got out paper and pencil, and was of some assist- ance to his counsel. James however* crossed hislegs, folded his arms, and listened with his head careened to the right. The afternoon wore away without securing a fourth juror, and the panel was exhausted. The trial of the accused en masse gives the defense sixty peremptory challenges. Their lawyers distribute them equally. Yesterday Walter challenged five, James four and Blanche four of the panel. The district attorney made two challenges. Many' candidates were set aside by the court on the ground of opinions—formed by reading the newspapers. BROWN ON BEN HILL. In Sunday’s Constitution Henry Grady, who is in South Georgia, writes: The announcement in to-day’s papers that Senator Hill is assured a permanent cure suggests the suffer¬ ing he has undergone. The extent of the cutting to which he has been subjected is not realized by the public. Four times has" lie been under the knife. One-third of his tongue has been taken out—the entire left floor of his mouth—the glands in the leftside of his neck. He said that if he had to choose between death or the suffering he had endured from the cutting, he would unhesitatingly' take death—were it not his duty to live and endure. The i as t operation was the most severe, and p r ybably successful. When he was put un( j er other for it, it, was intended to only take out a small lump that had hardened on the gland in his neck. After he was insensible it was determined to adopt the heroic treatment and take out the entire gland. He was kept under the knife two hours, the gland cut out, and the knife sent in clear to the new flesh that had filled the place of the first operation. When Mr. Ildl awoke he was terribly exhausted, and shocked at the hole cut in his neck. The gashes had been neatly sewed up. For seven days he could not move his lips, and lived on liquid food. After this, he improved until inflammation developed along the wound. Then come the most critical period of his sickness, The entire opening of the wound being closed the pus accumulated and pressed against his throat. He was seized with fever and could hardly speak At last the tension became so great that the wound burst inside his mouth. This gave him relief, and he went to Fbiladelphia. He was put under the knife again and the outer edge of the wound slit open so that it might heal from the bottom. This is doing finely, and without inflam¬ mation. No trace of the disease can be found, and the hopes of hiB per¬ manent cure were never so strong. He says he will not submit to the knife again, and his surgeons think there will be no need. An affectionate friendship has been developed between Mr. Hill and Sen¬ ator Brown, who, to use bis own words, “has been to him in his afflic¬ tion all that a brother could be/ Got. Brown said to me ; “I have never seen in my life such courage and heroism and Christian fortitude as Mr, Hill has shown in the past few months. I have been with him daily, and every day has been a revelation to me. Never have I beard him murmur or complain ; never have I seen him shrink from the i TERMS—$1 50 A YEAR. ]\ 0 # present or the future, It l as been patience, dignity, heroism from first to last. 11 is chief concern has been for those about him. And his own suffering has bceu lost in a sense of sympathy for his beloved ones. 1 tell you no mere human fortitude could give such strength as Mr. Ilill has shown. He is sustained by a higher power and higher assurance than this earth can give.” I have written a great many things about Mr. Hill, but I have never written anything so to his honor as this. He has won a victory and achieved a great triumph under this keen and relentless agony, more pre¬ cious and glorious than any that ever come to him on the hustings or in the forum. God grant that he may live many years to enjoy it—to give his people a broader and better service even than that he has rendered, and receive from them the continued assurance of their Jove and confi¬ dence. H, G. A SOCIAL FRAUD. Peck’s Sun. A subscriber writes, to know if it would be proper for him to speak to a lady that lie has never been intro¬ duced to. He says be has met her on the street, in places of business, and at parties for two’years, that he knows all her family and she knows his, and that she looks almost as though she wished he would speak’, hut he has never been introduced to her. and dares not speak. No, you must not speak to her. You may go along meeting her every day till Gabriel blows his trump, and she may look’ as familiar as your sister, anc yet till some mutual acquaintance says: ‘Mr. So and so, this is Miss So and so,’ you cannot speak to her without society will say you are an impudent thing. She may wish she knew you, and yet if you speak toher she would feel it her duty' to society to say ‘Sir,’ and look greatly offended, and then you would be all broke up. If she should drop her pocketbook, and you should pick’ it up and hand it to her, she would thank you with a smile, but you would have no right to speak to her next time you met. If she should meet you some day and say: ‘How do you do, Mr. So-and- so? I have known you ever since you iived in this town, though wc were never introduced formally, and it has got so embarrassing to pass 3-011 half a dozen times a day without speak¬ ing while I speak to those that may be with you, that I have concluded not to wait for an introduction,’ some nine spot with a number six hat on would say : ‘Oh, my, what a flirt that lad) T is. She actually spoke to a man without being introduced/ If you frankly’ offer her your hand and say, Thank 3 'ou, madam, for suspending the rule of etiquette in speaking. I have seen you so many times that your pleasant face is as welcome a sight as that of my sister, and I have wanted to know you, but had given up all idea that I ever would,’ some simpering female idiot would say: ‘Only to think that bold, awful man has aetuklly flirted with Miss So-and- so until he has got acquainted without a formal introduction/ Ao, young man, go right along about your business, and don t try to hurry the cattle. Society must be consulted, though in some respects society may be a confounded fool • AS FAR AS HE KNEW, A stranger hi3°boots from the East was having blacked at the postoffice when an alarm of fire was turned in. As he saw the steamer rush out he inquired of the ‘shiner’at his feet: ‘Bub, what sort of water system have you got in this city?' The bov spit on bis brush, looked up and down the street, ami finally answered: ‘Well, as far as I know anything about it, they all take water after their gin!’ The reply seemed to lie thoroughly satisfactory to the stranger.—Detroit Free Press. AN AWKtVAKI) PREDICAMENT, Last evening the particulars were learned of a distressing occurrence at Euclid. There lives within the limits of Ibe town named a middle- aged farmer named Henry Good- plower. who, although honest, is not addicted to the careful observation of the biblical injunction to keep holy the Sabbath, which is indicative of a pious man. On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Goodplower attended the circus, and the lady remarked with feelings of admiration and astonishment the contortions of the India rubber man, who placed his feet on the back of his own neck with manifest ease and grace. The circus ended, and tho Euclid delegation .returned to their home, Mrs. G. deeply thoughtful. Yesterday the farmer, who, as stated above, is not a member of any relig¬ ious denomination, accompanied by liis hired man, betook himself to tho field to make up for lost time. After the men had departed, Mrs. Good- plowcr sat down on the floor to carry out a plan which she had been turning over in her mind. She is of a very emulative nature, and the more sho thought of the India-rubber man the more she became fixed in the belief that she could discount some of his efforts. The first feat attempted was putting her feet back of her • neck. The right foot was adjusted with circumstantial case. All attempts to get the other one up failed utterly and dismally. Finally , 1 concluding that the day was not a good one for playing circus, Mrs. G. tried to get her rigkt foot down, but was unable to do so. Finally, realizing her desperate condition, Mrs. Good* plower’s efforts were little less than, superhuman, but they were no good f the foot would not down, and at length the unfortunate woman gave over her fruitless exertions. In the meantime the cheerful husband and hired man were break¬ ing the Sabbath and making the oat-field look sick. All the morning they toiled, and as noon came on they looked anxiously and expec¬ tantly toward the house, but no signs that dinner was ready were received. At last the shadows and yearning stomachs convinced the reapers that dinner time was long past. The farmer led the way to the house, and on entering the door his startled gaze fell on the form of the wife of his bosom coiled up on the floor like a section of hose, the fire out and the dishes unwashed. The horrified man at first thought it was an attack of green cucumbers, but on attempting to raise his help - meet discovered the difficulty. The knots were untied, the kinks untangled, and the woman straightened out. She will resolve herself into a circus no more.— McDuffie Journal. GORILLYS. The gorillas are the terror of Africa. In the gorilla country no lion will live. They are man haters, and kill them for the love of it, leaving the body, never eating them, When they spy a native they come down from a tree, hit him on the bead with a club, which they wield with their hind claw or carry’ him up into the tree, there to murder him. Their strength 13 so great that they will bend the barrel of a rifle. Only one live one was ever brought to England, and that soon died. Several have been shot, but they are tough custo¬ mers, and the natives dread them more than any animal of the Africaa forests. The gorilla makes a bed like a hammock, and swings in the trees. The gorilla is the sworn enemy of the elephant, because each derives its subsistence from the same source. IFhen he sees an elephant pulling down and wrenching off the branches of a favorite tree the gorilla steals along the bough, strikes the sensitive proboscis of the elephant a violent blow with his club, and drives off the clumsy and startled giant, shrilly trumpeting his pain and rage through the jungle of the forest,