Show THE THE ACTUAL circumstances alic defendant an innocent man M rs was a subject of epileptic fit herself and husband had been to montpelier on saturday august shopping as they usually did every saturday they returned just before sundown the husband was not drunk as reported but had taken a drink of whisky the ward teacher was at the house when they came and as usual called the family together and it seems that mrs Qu arselle biad something to tell hut as she talked the swedish language which the teacher did not understand very well by consent of all the matter was deferred until another time the teacher then left and shortly after but a few moments mis selle came from around the house threw down an empty strychnine bottle and stated ehe would soon be dead her halsband and a young lady twenty years of age who had lived with them about eight years were present but they did not beeva to believe it almost immediately they all sat down to supper and after drinking some coffee and eating some food mrs Qu arselle exclaimed 1 I am getting stief and caught the girl elm by the arm the girl got frightened and ran to the nearest neighbors about eighty rods alie husband ran after her to bring her back as he a mysto boil some milk and counteract the poison aliey then believing she biad taken it the girl was loth to return and Qu arselle kuok her by the arm to I 1 compel her when about half way back a neighbor met them A short tion ensued and the girl went with the neighbor Qu arselle rapidly returned home in a few moments he was seen at the well with a dipper and then excitedly returned to abe house two boys were unloading wood at not more than a rod from the house they saw him at the well and apoka to him but he did not appear to notice them on the wood being unloaded which could not have taken but a few minutes the boys went to the door which was open all the time and saw mrs Qu arselle lying on the floor dead as they supposed and Qu arselle by her side the teacher had not gone more than half an hour while all this transpired the evidence shows that when mrs Quare elle had the fits referred to her husbands treatment was to get cold water bathe her temples and feet and rub the latter with a brush her right shoe and stocking were off and the lipper and brush were lying on the floor by the body the features were all natural no distended nostrils swollen lougue or staring eyes s in deaths by strangulation yet Qu arselle was accused of choking liis wife to death A bruise on either side of the larynx as if made by a hand in grappling the throat appeared on the neck the next morning there was no disarrangement disarrange mont of the clothed or the hair and no evi dence of a struggle the defendant claims that as soon as he got back from trying to get the sirl his wife lay before him on the floor he rubbed her hands and feet with a brush hut to no purpose and thinking she had taken strychnine and was lead in his delirium he swallowed half aa ounce of chloroform and laid don beside her where he was found A great quantity of vomit wag on the floor but whether from the man or woman no one knows did she take poison and throw it all up aa no evidence of it could be found in the body no test of the omit was made lor poison the onla evidence against the man consists of the bruises on the and the expert testimony of dr hoover sello and his wife are said to have always lived happily together hart and son made and argued a motion today to day for a discharge of ellen elm and J C rich has filed a motion to dismiss aa to Qu arselle |