| Show C D 1 ta THE BILLINGS MURDER CASE i hil hit rt t billings trial which has his been a subject of grear great pucho interest d aho tho the east cast fars av eral mg weeks 1 sio esi came cam blo bio 6 to it a conclusion anthe the utu uth lust As cit lit tit t it will bo be numbered among ohe the ch a remarkable criminal cases cages af of pf t the 8 aimos times we briefly ita ito piew chief ii in cl ol dents fon foe the benefit of those who have not access to the leading eastorn eastern journals which wilch have hilly chronicled the this history of t th q ease oease I 1 and nn d the progress pr ogress of the trial aa on the th b evening ev ehIng of tho the ath of last june mary eilza ellza el billings wife of axe 1 ase kil eti jr while sitting in company with k itil her daughter r jenn jennie ae and the hired girl gir maggle maggie mahon ey I 1 in n her own house 1 eh in athe town of northumberland new york 31 haasl xo lin tbt tho head wita a pistol by some parson person outside tha the house houge h ouse ouge the ball passing issing pi through ghA dipane P ane of window glass crushing t through her skull and lodging in t the tue he brain bho she died instantly I 1 aitho without uth a bryand cry ery and without falling from the chair her tin informed formed ot fot the occurrence less than hait halt an hn 1 at the louse house of mr airi IV ashburne five sixths sixtus of df amile a mile distant ami aud rode node home manifesting great grief but hib his daughter ab at used express expressions idus logs indicating her hei suspicion that he be was the thit murders murder S er bey hev sev several eral erni cirou mst annee ancee combined tot tor create an un I ision islon towards towa tows mr i and the tte awas finally arrested iud pud tried for foz the crime at Balla tone tong ai u the defendant is jq a prosperous f business man and Jb banker anker and unit ia 11 the son of dr a rem rei re spectacle spec table and aud opulent physician ot 01 the old school hl hig hla wife was ahe the daughter of pt r hardis harris a weil well to A do trader andali iho ibo the e parnes parses are well wait connected and welt well known in i their neighborhood the marriage was an iq unhappy ur one Billings iwa izone sone aone of those jealous suspicious suspicions 1944 19 44 w women who magney the uld verlest t tricea fa to monstrous 1 her husband an ap awful I 40 eln gin in consequence her chiet chief object of jealousy avasa was a mrs curtis who with with her husband mr curtis mccu f pied pled rooms room id the bank building I 1 which ahe she kept in order bi mrs bill 4 1 ings had twice accused her hen husband hubband of attempting to destro destroy ller tier first b by chloroform while she was waa in beti and the other tibie time by trying to burn the house houpo but nut it appears that in the first inah IdAh instance nice hir was using some bome chloroform for the toothache which troubled dimand hirn hinn i n 4 on the other occasion upset a 4 lamp by y which the skirting ikIrt ing board of tila the room loom was bui burned hied fied but u haa baa had pad managed to impress m h ggs inzina tho the mina minu of or her daughter daughten ann jennie with the belief that her fai fal isi father was unfaithful to bid his marria marriage gd vows and aud desired id td get gat rid of her i and ind mrs harris Us itris the mother iri lit Inlaw lar law J a fi vinegary old oid lady lidy i joined heartily in the accusation I 1 onet oner jennie had b bb come engaged unknown to her berdd father to fo his clerk Sher bherman sherman mau man ap aud 4 on this fact lt becoming known mr bil bli lings discharged the young man who became aa an nily ally bf of those rho who iab inh incited cited the prosecution the case ease against the prisoner was in as follows tracks were traced out outi a i F alde side ald the house bouab after the murder L made by someone wearing rubben rubber boota which mr billings admitted baving shaving having on that evening tracks of pa a hore horge and wagon wl were re also aiso discovered along the river side lead leading inz ing to Wash burns A carlei carfel ne was waa found in a well adjacent said eaid to be long to mr billings gS and con contain tahi tahl ing the shell of a discharged car can 4 tr idge these facts added to the found in mr lit billings un chappy relations with hia hla wife his suspected intimacy with mrs curtis and former alleged attempts to rid himself of an uncongenial partner imade imado mare a it chain of 0 circumstantial r evidence 0 against him verv very y difficult aop h break he acco neco accounted anted for his tracks by erbo tabo showing wing that he had gone from the I 1 house on the evening of the muk mur eder der into a field near oy ly to salt some come cattle traces of 0 the salting being found next day dagand and fon for the horse band gand L gorl tracks by his visit to Wash burns where he heard of the murder the gun he declared he had not seen for several months eue ehe scouted cou con a the idea id 6 of any s erne eire elre a re in afons t tons ions with wat mr ea 1 I ic i curtie curtle C u ril rii that I 1 d s h Us band J I 1 nin him I 1 illais ili lit hta tempts em the trial triai lasted from september loth ao october and was characterized by intense bitterness on uhe the part oi of Y N C of 0 albany one of the tor for fhe phe he prosecution b by the spectacle of the prisoners dilu daughter ahter alding aiding all that was in he r to fasten the crime upon tipon 4 her ber r r who wad had always deen been wad vad indulgent to her and bahe man mariner t 4 id bi which she wa was supported by lier her lover over and law the whiter or I 1 ilfe life lre ire it tho the aks tib house hoube 1 s up etli disgusting that billings could bould have bave perpetrated the the murder and reached W vash yash ash burns burna s w with th am ease 0 by dy ta I 1 the ti time ilo iio baj ed ad and the cirou fr th the gun were brought up in startling by the r able retained to td assist the district attorney 1 e showed wed that oh mut jut the night of the murder jennie de db dared she sawa sawn man in greyel run I 1 across the street tand and h hide idi idt an in ii a wood pile pit a which is he repealed re ebed tifilo until stopped stopp edby by mrs hanis haris se beneral Bey sey vaa eral to a man of this thia description arnd arid bareheaded do d running away just list after af the anda and auda a hajwas hat was the thy wood pi leand leiland produced jn n court the shot was fired between 8 35 5 and ind pm pmj according to the tes of ritAm nin rin merona erous wh whose 0 so watches and locks clocks isteni to havi ha differ differed edas as houx usual at mr left the thel VasHU urn house to return hommed horned one of bf the wash i bahs declared eh there erb at anda man mati named ite he wab was wai in the boat anthi saw the tho prisoner 1 tie alp up lils hia horse dutcide Wash burns burna houd a few minutes before thi iwas aheard eard elberta were also examined ed in regard to the nullet bullet which wa extracted thic ted from the murdered wom dats ans head and which if affied fired ti from onith the 14 billings i gun originally weighed gra grains ins butwill but bui wag waa f found to weigh only grains mhd it was d that it should not have iosi jost inore more than ten grains anthe passage through the and the jt it i was therefore bythe byllie de dem dei folit A pistol jabot anu and wot vot 4 carbine carbino ball the prosecution pro threw throw doubt and dirt oil the witnesses witness ea for the defence and brought forward the per wr joach claimed to have had on bri the night of the murder who did I 1 not riot have it after three weeks before that date the utmost acrimony was displayed by the prosecution prince pally by mr and lying and perjury were freely charged by him against the defence including the attorneys of whom general hughes was waa the chief lef let A very impartial charge was given by J the jury juryj after being locked up from the the dinst failed to agree and were discharged bt anding standing eleven for acquittal and one for lor conviction the juror who ho would have hung bung mr billings Billi if it had not bi anfor been for those eleven obstinate fellows and who bears the ominous name of blood declaring that his mind was made up bythe bytha by the tha strong plea of mr mr billings was waa remanded to jall jail the joy of the har batitis but it is expected that ball bail will be accept accepted eol pol and it t is very doubtful if the case will ever again be brought to trial previous to the conclusion mr billings it is said made his will leaving his property to his daughter g 11 her er to wards bim him in contrastato contras tto the of abis his bis child was waa the fidelity of his father vrho wiio j 85 yearb years ears old attended to the cases under e r his care and ihen then lode rode ro de to the court room every day us ll 11 i pa his son by his a and nd encouragement it is probable that the question Who killed mrs billings willnon will never be fully answered until that great day when the things done dona in sei se i cret will be revealed upon lipon the housetops when the earth and the sea shall give up their dea den dand daud all shall be judged according to the deeds don done d in the body FIRST ACQUITTED THEN IN I 1 ON the ath I 1 nat we gave particulars of the and the examination zi sla iia arn ari of the tue arev herbert hayden rayden who vas mas charged with the crime since the broce edinga the ther then I 1 recorded ded the grand jur jury juryak yae a V w hayen haven n have found arub arue I 1 af in indictment ag against sel sei us the preacher on the strength of new now evidence produced by the district Dietri cb attorney mr hayden is now I 1 n J all ali tall tail having 11 been refused kho khe near cad by the ehe prosecution aro are the seThe jhb preather purchased purchase nii nhi ail op oun lqis e df arsenic oh tho the morning g detho of tho the murder thie the druggis h did not hot now mr hayden put hit fit bed bee heding seeing liw lil him talking ia a dr adiley va ion tile the street dornel corner after the purchase chabe chase dr bailey bays says he did dia eori cori verse with mr hajde hayden tf and arid answered some questions on t of pregnancy the the girl giri stannard starina 1 rd haef ras rab yas disinterred and a I 1 largi lardi of mnnie aretola 1 1 I 9 1 there ther therecia e lra iiA the theory of th 0 51 prove prope is eliat hayden nayden believing mary ir li fd her sister alte r bu sti at s beas heas with ehll child by him was wag true purchased ther thor the vr io abb the quick medicine which ibe ube girl told her bister sister mr hymi M as g goings goin tai gt procure for her that he meb met her ii the ac bordin to having havling told his wife he was going td the throw ont the land the heing being contiguous tig tidus havethe ga the tho fri the ir arsenie arsenic whai ch her hirl grent great hg agony on j caused hier fier to alfs ct bowks he was poisoning 1 boning her that by her hez reproaches pro aches 6 li briba on the hend head with tb tha the e rock that vas yas found cov erell pitr blood her jugular vein with mis his penknife AL AV bid bla bid t mali man awas iwas I 1 ad to th throw but of dr thel ewh swamp mp the same quantity of wood tue handling bandling of cof which hayden claimed to have been occupied pled pied the cwb hours be hd was absent froni bulno hulne at theotime the time of the murder nd the work wag was done in a very lvery 46 ami ri litos I 1 f I 1 wn 1 t hayden claimed that he bought the arsenic formats for rats and that be left it id cc barn the has been round found where hoseid he sald said he placed ity it mhd it U is stated daiy lacks four grainson grain grains of the ounce otince this is to 10 be strong evidence lice rice in his favor favora ds 3 too loo so large a quantity tk was wai couill in the girls body the pr preacher eacher elcher still niala maintains the cool and tint unimpressionable rn abl e luhn ruhn mannen manner ben nen ber which he hard harf assumed throughout his bu dut cut bly blanched tind shuddered when ae mma waa f of t the tha 9 grand rand jury the trial will intense interest in the enst east as us the case has attracted general atten tion and the public is agitated as well as divided on oa the question of his guilt present appearances are made darker forthe for the preacher than at the examination examina tien before justice Wilcox and if the testimony of the murdered girls sister alster and that of othero others to whom she made statement statements a of h her hen e r relations with thede the defendant fen dant and which were ruled out jut at the examination should be ad at the trial it jt is probable thattie that the case wall go very hard with cherev the ohe rev bev herbert haiden hayden metha methodist minis minister tk at i madison connecticut tim FATAL the terrible consequences attending a panic in a crowded building should be thoroughly impressed on the public mind this has been illustrated by reveral several r regent repent occurrences c curren ces notably among which are the dreadful affair at the coliseum theatre in Liverpool jand the awful scene at the colored baptist church id lynchburg which have both beer beet recorded in our telegraphic dispatches most persons who have critis crossed sed the plains have Witti witnessed essed the extraordinary tra ordinary eattie eattle fright called a stampede it is often inexplicable always uncontrollable tho thy scared aulm animals als alb rush forward pell poll mell niell as ag if lf maddened fd fenzy frenzy and abd sweep onward in a a raging ihaas mass like a sudden tornado A human panic pable slem seem deemia to be of a similar nat ureThe breThe most trivial circumstance answers for a cause at the lynchburg catastrophe astro phel phol a small piece of plater plastering fell from the ceiling while a marriage ceremony ceremony was in la progress and in an instant all was confusion and insanity people in the galleries threw themselves out of the windows and the crowds which blocked egress at the doore doorways were rendered denser censer by men then and women who jumped them from the stair tops there was riot not the least real cause for alarm and yet thirty persons were seriously injured and ten teli women were crushed to death people should endeavor to cult vate calmness and presence of mind to accustom themselves to the contemplation I 1 of danger and abd the proper in ih baab case of df a it sudden budden alarm which is liable tb at any time in a public Ass als asselin assembly elii elij the fatalities which have attended the breaking out but of fire in buildings have always been beell more in consequence headlong rub rus bof hof the panic stricken than fram the original cause of the trouble danger in su euras euans n creased by a rush and a clamor and barety safety will generally ba secured ed and the exercise of quiet common sense if pie would try no noi not t to ji yield f eld eid to I 1 the a first impulses ofir of terror which iq ij oam occasion buby euby a sudden alarm these fatal panics with their attendant and consequences might bp entirely avoided C i m i i ui I 1 f jj 1 7 i ji t ii ay iy THE li i WE in last sog bog s ten fen Junco the tho h prospectus bt the h a 9 ah uno unc n 44 nig rig op 11 this thia newly incorporated company having purchased the mater material laVand and newspaper which has bas b been E sustained u 3 t a 61 ii ed T tn n 0 ad n in 8 ja n isio 1870 aop propose fo co enlarge nin and im fin i it und and change the dl daily dally ily lly grom from from jin all eye benin niti hixi g a mopping paper pul publishing the dispatches and 9 general hews and making it 4 a sie secular CO ar and nonpartisan non partisan Jo journal the members of the new association ocla ocia are aro all ned men of practical 11 ex padd eadd eminently antly qualified 00 19 tomako tomake ahe abe fhe ily liy suo suc fydell 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