AN ALIBI FOR HILDRETH Allis Counsel Is Trying Hard to Prove One For the Accused Lad. A CHARGE OF NEGLIGENCE. The Railroad Company Accused of Being Anxious to :Shift- the Responsibil- ity—Evidence In Favor of the Alleged» ‘Vreckers. ROME, N. Y., May 7.——When court con- vened today in the Hildreth train wreck- ing trial, the most prominent witness for the defense, next to the defendant’ s aunt. Mrs. Perrine of Red Hook, was Mrs. Fan- nie Hodgsett, professor in telegraphy of Thompson’ s Business college, New York city. Mr. Searle, counsel for the defense, commenced his opening address to the jury. Searle told the jury that counsel for the defense was present because as- signed by the court and because the de- fendant and his relatives were poor, and the law held that he should havea fair trial; that no word of the defendent would be allowed by law to convict himself. “Your duty, ” he said, “will be out- lined by the court, and we are here to as- sist you in arriving at your verdict. The district attorney took two days to prove that only two rails were removed. Why is it the great Central railroad utakes such interest in the case as to send their de- tectives here from all over the state so one cannot move about the courthouse with— out bumping into them. I don’t believe >Mr. Shove of Syracuse is here for his health. We will tell you about alleged confessions said to have been made of the boy’s own free will. “Why is it the conductor of the wrecked train was discharged, also the whole crew of that train? This case has been all "sworn to lay railroad employees, and if not for the alleged confessions you would say the wreck was due to negligence. If not so, why were all these employees dis- charged? This road would rather blame the boys for the wreck than fight claims for B RISTOL. 151131311111). anDnErn. WILKES. PLATO. death through their own carelessness. It is cheaper for the road to pay Wilkes for perjury, to pay expensive counsel fees, than to fight claims for damages in the higher courts. We will. show you that the track was not in good condition on the day before the wreck, for men had been there to repair it. We will show you pieces of rotten sleepers taken from the track at that point. This poor little boy is inno- cent of the crime of murder, for he said in the alleged confession that he took no part in the wreck, but did and said all he could to prevent it. The district attorney is bloodthirsty in this case and wants to con- vict this boy, and he is pushed on by this aristocratic great corporation. ” f :1. ' latluun’s Testimony. Mr. Searle then assailed the testimony of Detective Latham and said be frightened and bulldozed Hildreth into making the alleged confessions now produced in court. “Eatham said he asked Hildreth questions to see what answers he would make. He lied when he testified to that, and if he lied about that he will lie about anything else. Why, this boy, under fearfulness of Latham, would have owned up to crucify- ing Jesus Christ many thousand years ago, also to assassinating Lincoln. The books are full of confessions afterward proved not true, and one case was brought to your notice in this court on the exam- ination of talesmen. When Hildreth was arrested and closeted in the station house, Mr. Sayles Went there and asked to see him, but was refused. Was this honest? But they allowed there Latham and other railroad detectives. Is it any wonder this weak boy confessed to anything they wanted him to in sight of those iron bars and rumors of lynching? Why is it the district attorney put the gambler Wilkes on the stand, who said he had won less than $1,000 since the wreck, but could not tell how much. I can’t understand why he was put on the stand, unless it was to impeach the confession ” Searle related how the two bootblacks did business here. One was poor and the other did a. good business. Hildreth bought out the latter and gave the outfit to the other that he might do better. “And this is the little heart charged with murder,” said Mr. Searle. “We will show you he had an untarnished reputation, was a good little boy and truthful till he met Sandy Latham. Gentlemen, you have the power to put out this bright light and shed blackness over his dear father and sister. An anxious mother who left this world and left this little . boy in the cradle is now looking down upon you.” Searle made a strong appeal for sym- pathy and finished his address in 51 min- utes. Hildreth, his father and his aunt, Mrs. Perrine, were in tears, and several jurors wiped their'eyes. Sheriff Weaver, the first witness called for the defense, said the crowbar alleged to be used in the wreck weighed 25% pounds; three long wrenches weighed 21 pounds 13 ounces; the two angle plates weighed 65 pounds. The height of the defendant was 5 feet 1 inch when he was in the Utica jail. Strong Points For Hildreth. Mrs. Jennie Carver, who testified be- fore the coroner’s jury, was a chamber- maid at the Temperance hotel where the defendant lived at the time of the wreck. She said that Hildreth’s room was 53. She did chamberwork in that room at half pasts on the morning of the wreck. She heard of the defendant 5 arrest soon after that. The bed was turned down, as though it had been slept in, and the pil- lows were unused. The slops were in the pail and the washbow1 as on other morn- ings. Henry Wilbert testified to being at the wreck at 8 o’clock, and said he found the hat in the Woods. He kept it about one hour, and as he was about to leave he Adiertisc in the GAZETTE. ' ern house $4,049,691.26; ' Tn EILEv EN LN G i G A ZE'II‘ E called Detective Latham to one side and gave him the hat. Mrs. Jennie Truesdale, grandmother of Plato, one of the train Wreckers, identi- fled the hammer with wire on it as here. She said the policeman came to her house about 8 oclock on the morning of the wreck and took the hammer from the shelf and went away with it against her protest. George Darling was called as the next witness. He identified the rotten railroad tie shown. He visited the scene of the wreck on May 1 of this year and found the exhibit in a pile of about 250 ties. Mrs. Emma Hibbard, mother of the accused train wrecker Theodore Hibbard, said that the night before the wreck her son came home at 5: 30 from Lee, ate his sup per, changed his clothes and went to church. She next saw him at 4 o’clock on the morning of the wreck. He had a se- vere attack of nosebleed. She attended him. Mrs. Hibbard saw Plato, another accused wrecker, in bed with Theodore. After breakfast, about 7:30, Plato went away, and Theodore took the horse and went to his work. Her evidence was cor-_ roborated by other members of the family. Two Miners Killed by an Explosion. CHATTANOOGA, May 7.—George Cannon and Thomas Atherton, miners at Whit- weli, entered their room in the mines, fixed a “shot” and ignited the fuse. They left the room and Waited for the explosion. As it did not occur in the time expected, both men returned to investigate. Just as they reached the point where the charge had been placed it exploded. Cannon’ s head was blown completely 011' and Atherton died shortly afterward. Strung Up a Wife Beater. WILLIAMsTOWN, Ky, May 7.—News has reached here of the hanging of Dr. Farrell at Ellistown, Ky., by a mob. Farrell has the reputation of a wife beater. He came home drunk and whipped his wife. A mob took him from the house and banged him to the limb of a tree. Some boys found him after the crowd had gone and cut him down. He was revived and is likely to recover. ' Temperance Instruction Law. NEW YORK, May 7.—-—Superintendent W. H. Maxwell of the Brooklyn public schools, in his annual report to the board of education, denounced the temperance instruction law. Teaching the evils'of liquor to impressionable children, he says, and keeping such subjects before their minds are most hurtful and will create a desire for the very things they are taught to avoid. Detective Stewart Confesses. CINCINNATI, May 7.—-It has been defi- nitely learned in the Jackson-Pearl Bryan case that Detective Seward has made a full confession of his connection with the case to Prosecuting Attorney Lockhart, Colonel Nelson and Mr. Hayes and has placed himself at the mercy of the court. Seward has acknowledged to these attorneys that he bribed Witness Troste to tell his story. BIethodist Book Concern’s Work. CLEVELAND, May 7. —The session of the Methodist conference was devoted to the anniversary of the Book Concern. The' sales of the eastern book house for the period were $4,013,134.31 and of the west- total, $8,062,- 825.57. The assets of the eastern concern ware $2,586,065.32 and of the western con- cern $1,506,454.95. An Arkansas llIurdcr. HELENA, Ark., May 7.—-Wllliam Bent- ley shot and instantly killed Spencer Griffin in this city. The men had a quar- rel, in which Bentley was the victor. Grifiin went to his home and returned with a revolver in his pocket. He sought Bentley, renewed the row and was shot before he could draw his pistol. The Shah‘s Assassination. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 7.—It has been learned that when the news of the death of the shah reached here, Sheik Djem Eleddin, the Persian agitator, who is sup- posed to have been the instigator of the assassination, was arrested here. Later, however, he was released, owing to lack of evidence. Gold For Export. NEW YORK, May 7.—Gold for export ag- gregating $2,100,000 was announced to- day. Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co. will send $1,600,000. Baring, Magoun 8; Co. will send $500,000 for the account of their Boston correspondents, Kidder, Peabody & Co. The gold was taken from the sub- treasury. Settlers In the New South. SOUTHERN PINES, N. 0.. May 7.—The representation of the Southern States Seis— tlers’ association which met here was from all sections of the south. All the work was in the hands of people from the north and West who have settled in the south. A permanent organization was formed. North Died of Natural Causes. LONDON, May 7.—As a result of the in quest held today upon .the remains of the late Colonel 1.1 “,1. a verdict of death from natural causes 11.15 returned. A physician testified that he had' previously noticed symptoms of heart disease which, he as- serted, was the cause of the colonel’s death. Cashier chon Is Back. NEW YORK, 'May 7._—-Isaac B. Noxon, the missing Sing Sing bank cashier, who left home because of debt on March 18, has returned from Venezuela and is in this city. His friends, who feared he had met with foul play, are trying to arrange matters with Noxon’s creditors. Boer Prisoners to Be Pardoned. JOHANNESBURG, May 7,—The Diggers’ News says that the sentences imposed upon the convicted members of the reform com- mittee will be reduced to nominal fines, that part of the sentences prescribing im- prisonment and subsequent banishment being revoked. The Vienna Burgomastership. VIENNA, May 7.—Herr , Strobach, antl- Semite, has been elected burgomaster in the place of Dr. Lueger, who resigned at the request of Emperor Francis Joseph. Herr Strobach announced that he would resign at the proper moment in favor of Dr. Lueger. Charged With Three Murders. AKRON, 0., May 7.—-The grand jury re-. turned three indictments against Romulus Cottell, alias J ohn. Smith, for murder in the first degree. The indictments‘charge that he murdered Alvin 'N. Stone, Serena N. Stone and Ira F. Stilson.‘ He will plead not guilty. Killed by Lightning. BURLINGTON, N. J., May 7. —While working in an open field on the farm of John Lucas, near Florence, Thomas Mul- bolland of Stevens, 11 farmhand, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. -—Advertise in the Gamma. 1“,; INOTES FORTHIE ELECTRICIANS. = Electric heating under the mOst favor- that of steam. The telegraph department of the Lon- don post office employs 3,459 messen- gens. A farmer and his two sons were in- Cal., a. few days ago while seated at a table eating supper. _ It is now customary to copper-face the bottoms of iron ships by the gal- vanic process, as a protectionngainst decay. The city council of New Orleans has just adopted an ordinance requii ing the electric railway companies which use Canal street to place uniformed fiagmcn at the crossings. N ansen’s vessel for the north pole ex- pedition is provided with an app'aratus for securing electric power by means of wind-mills. The doctor’s supplies will last several years yet. Telegraphic communication between England and the continent has so enor- mously increased of late that the Brit- ish postal department must lay new submarine cables to France and Ger- many. Thosc now existing are; quite inadequate for the traffic. Killing aimless dogs and cats is the very latest use to which the scientific chief of police of Hartford, Conn., is putting electricity. In the rear of the station house he has had a cage rigged up with electrical connections. The cage is just loge enough for a. dog to stand in. The fore feet 0f~the animal rest upon one electrode and his hind feet upon another. When he is in po- sition an electric current is switched on. BRIEF BITS BY FUNNY FELLOWS. Clara—“Mr. Nicefello said my face was classic. “but is classic?” Dora— “Oh, most anything old.”——.G 00d News. “Beverly is a. thorough aristocrat. isn’t be?” “Yes; he has such a well- b1'ed way of not listening when you say anything to him.”~—Chicago Record. Proud Pop (to old bachelor friend)— “I tell you, Dawson, there’s no baby like my baby.” Dawson—“I’m glad you’ve wakcd up to that fact. I knew mighty well there never was a baby like the one you described]’——IIarper’-s Dazar. Mrs. Johnson — “Hateful, stuck—up thing! How proud she was of thatncw dress of hers. She would hardly look at me. But I got even with her.” Mrs. Jackson—“How did you do it?” Mrs. Johnson—"Oh, I told my servant girl 11 here she could get a dress like it."— Some11illc Journal. “Do 1 on know, 1 11's. 13011111111311,” said the y oung' 1111111 who 11 est-11 0 months bo- .l1ind in l is b01111l,“by means of the I cathode ra vs 1 could tell e1 cr1 thing that lis in that plate of hash. 9” “\\ cll, ii’ 5 1111 opinion,’ ’I'eplicd 1.1..rs Bo:1r<l111a11,“th:.t people 11.01121le 5 1'. 'int too much 101 nothing. —‘Y onl: c ‘:-=Str1i'csmu-n. !BIG T‘IZENGS IN THE BUG LINE. Venezuela is a little republic but she has one thing that is the biggest of its kind on earth. It is a bug—the largest insect in all the world. The creature is known as the “elephant beetle,” and when full grown it weighs nearly half a pound. . In tropical America occur certain huge species of bugs that are closely re- lated to the familiar electric—light bug's of this country. Like the lattu, which has been popularw known only since the introduction of the electric light, they fly at night, living during the day at the bottom Of ponds. There is a butterfly of the Malay Peninsula and Malayan Archipelago which has a. spread of ten inches. In India. and tropical Africa. are found giant forms of those remarkable in- sects known as “walking sticks.” They look like twigs of trees. Some of them measure 18 inches in length. They are related to grasshoppers and katydids. In Europe giant beetles have a. con- siderable market value, commanding prices in proportion to their size. 111 London there are regular auctions of insects, and a single butterfly has been known to bring as much as $800. A specimen of» the rare and very large Goliath beetle is worth $60. This is the largest beetle of the world, and it first became known through missionaries in the Congo basin“ P. H. DWYER DON’T BE SIOE-TBAOKEO. ALTERATION SALE STILL OH. OOSTOMEBS ALL SATISFIEO., SALES LARGE. VEROIOTu-A SOOOESS. _ Here are a few reasons : HARNESS oILs. 34c quait were 75c. |9c pint were 450. Labels 21 little worn, torn, etc. Oils are A NO. I though, htandard goods. OOSTEBS. 989 were $1.50. 14c were $1.25. 59¢ Were $1.00. 38c were 75c. Equally useful for house, can riage,st01e o1 b11111 Always useful. Nev er so cheap. I inll drum upon those $9. 98 Har- nesses. 'lhcy re WUlth it, may cent. Also five d1u111n1ers samples single harness. \\111 go at $1. 98. Made to sad at double. They are a. bargain, as] new. Have Leen‘cii‘messly handled. P. H. DWYER, Cor. Knight and WaII._Sts., NOBWALK. 00.111; ' able conditions is twice asexpensive as stanily killed by lightning near Orange; BUSY, BUSY, ALWAYS BUSY. THE BOSTON STOR NORWALK. Losses suffered by. manufaolurers, imporl- ers and iobbers have knocked lhe bollom oul of prices, have given its big profit idea. New York omce. 442 Broadway. a paralytic shock, and have illuslraled lIIo' power of lhe almighty dpllar. We 'have The Brash Has time. Another Proof (if any was necessary) that Our SMALL PROFIT. SMALL'EXPENSE IIIII CASH BUSINESS Are the Great Safeguards of the People. 0 U R BOLD STROKE! 'In sheltering prices will please and I be a profit lo our Palrons. IN OUR BIG CLOAK Ro.0M‘————/ As large as it is, we want it filled every day this week with customers, and we shall make prices to do so. 10' Dozen Wrappers Let us figure the cost: 8 yards Print at 60, 7 48c I ‘ Buttons, - - — 5c Thread, - - - - 40 Making, - - 30c—870. We shall sell one to a customer at 596. Others at 150, 986, SI. 25, I. 49, I. 98, 2. 25, 2.75 and 2. 90. corsets 8 dozen Dollar Corsets, large size only, 500 each.’ Shirt Waists We have now 200 dozen Shirt Waists, and can suit any one that wants a Waist. Prices 390 to $3.50- 0 Separate Skirts—um— The sale on our Skirts has been wonderful. This week we offer 100 Figured Mohair Skirts, lined and interlined, regular price, $4.50, at $2.25, Others at $2.49, $3.15, $4.50 to $10.00. III BUSIIN STIR . EDI. Main an Wall 3 A, POINTER...— Is your plate glass or safe insured? If not, call on me "and I will w1ite you a policy 1n the Mutual Plate Glass and sale Insur- ance Company. Glass will ”break and burglars use dynamite. n case of Fire You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance ’01 l‘hiladclphia; Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire 013 Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State 01 Ports- mouth Will prefect you against the fire fiend. W H. EY‘ENGEQN, Real Estate and General Insurance, 111101111 1.» GAZETTE BUILDING LOANS NECOTIAT ED AND INVESTMENTS MADE. _ y ' . CORRESPONDENCE SOL/CITE?) ll , \ 1p.
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