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<v Speaker 1>Calbuler got Calm Trenton, New Jersey, November twenty ninth, eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety seven.

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<v Speaker 2>Clarence Doyle, who yesterday near East Windsor killed Amos Haveland

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<v Speaker 2>with an axe, was arrested today at Allentown, where he

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<v Speaker 2>was employed as a farm hand. He did not know

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<v Speaker 2>that Haviland was dead, and claimed that he had struck

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<v Speaker 2>him in self defense. Doyle is a brother of Jimmy Doyle,

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<v Speaker 2>a clever young pugilist residing in this city. Yesterday, Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>went to the Spence Farm, where Haveland is employed, and

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<v Speaker 2>spent the day with him and his wife. The men

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<v Speaker 2>drank freely of hard cider, and at five o'clock in

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<v Speaker 2>the afternoon they quarreled, the host, accusing Doyle of undue

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<v Speaker 2>familiarity with Missus Haviland. Both men were very drunk, and

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<v Speaker 2>they were evenly matched in strength. They struggled a long

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<v Speaker 2>time on even terms, until Doyle seized an axe and

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<v Speaker 2>struck Haveln to blow on the forehead, from which he

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<v Speaker 2>died three hours later. After Havelnd had fallen, Doyle staggered

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<v Speaker 2>to Allentown, which is not far from the Spence Farm,

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<v Speaker 2>and went to bed. This morning. He was at work

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<v Speaker 2>at the usual hour and doubtless did not realize that

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<v Speaker 2>he was a murderer until told so by the officers.

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<v Speaker 2>Doyle this afternoon was brought to the county jail. His

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<v Speaker 2>victim body is.

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<v Speaker 1>In the morgue.

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<v Speaker 2>This evening, County physician Rogers held an inquest, and the

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<v Speaker 2>jury decided that the blow administered by Doyle caused Havelen's death.

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<v Speaker 2>True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news tales of classic scandals, scoundrels,

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<v Speaker 2>and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age

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<v Speaker 2>of yellow journalism. Episode three hundred and sixty seven is

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<v Speaker 2>a holiday tale more bone chilling than heartwarming. It takes

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<v Speaker 2>place the weekend after Thanksgiving, when family and friends get

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<v Speaker 2>together for games and good times. The cautionary part of

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<v Speaker 2>this tale is be aware of what topics are best

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<v Speaker 2>to be avoided at such gatherings. This time, the touchy

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<v Speaker 2>subject is not politics, but I wear I'm true crime

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<v Speaker 2>historian Richard O. Jones, and for your horror and indignation,

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<v Speaker 2>I give you hard cider and insults. Struck by an

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<v Speaker 2>axe and killed. Halund was a quiet, peaceable man, and

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<v Speaker 2>wherever employed was highly spoken of. He was pitied by

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<v Speaker 2>the community for all knew the notorious character of his wife.

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<v Speaker 2>When a young man, Halyn met Anna Patterson and while

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<v Speaker 2>under the influence of drink, was induced to marrier. She

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<v Speaker 2>at that time was of a shady character. The union

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<v Speaker 2>was felt as a keen disgrace by Havelyn's family, who

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<v Speaker 2>are respectable people and parents, brothers and sisters disowned Amos

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<v Speaker 2>because he would not leave his wife. While the domestic

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<v Speaker 2>life of Haveland and his wife never ran very smooth,

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<v Speaker 2>they kept together and cared for a large family of

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<v Speaker 2>children and until Andrew Decker came to disturb the harmony

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<v Speaker 2>there was. Missus Haveland's devotion to Decker enraged Haveverln for years.

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<v Speaker 2>They lived one month together in the next apart. Some

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<v Speaker 2>months ago, Missus Haveland and Decker were arrested for stealing

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<v Speaker 2>and were confined in the Freehold jail for some time.

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<v Speaker 2>Since Missus Haveland's return from Freehold, she has been employed

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<v Speaker 2>on the farm of Harriet Brown. It is claimed that

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<v Speaker 2>Decker and Missus Haveland have been on the outs since

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<v Speaker 2>the stealing affair. Haveland and his wife have not been

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<v Speaker 2>living together for some time. It was arranged that they

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<v Speaker 2>should meet Sunday at the home of Fred Haveland, their

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<v Speaker 2>eldest son, and planned to go to housekeeping again. Haveland

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<v Speaker 2>has been working for Ellsworth Haynes, a farmer living between

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<v Speaker 2>Yardville and Hamilton Square. Sunday morning, Haveland visited his son

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<v Speaker 2>Fred and family, who had moved Wednesday, November twenty fourth,

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<v Speaker 2>on the Spence Farm at Page's Corner. Between nine and

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<v Speaker 2>ten o'clock of that day, Clarence Doyle, who has of

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<v Speaker 2>late been attentive to Missus Haveland or her daughter Lizzie,

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<v Speaker 2>stopped at the home of Ellis Jones at New Canton

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<v Speaker 2>and acquired if Missus Haveland had been there yet. On

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<v Speaker 2>being told no, he sat down and waited until Missus Haviland,

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<v Speaker 2>her daughter Lizzie, and the baby and a coach came along.

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<v Speaker 2>He joined the party and pushed the baby coach while

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<v Speaker 2>they were passing New Canton. Charles Nixon inquired where they

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<v Speaker 2>were going, and Missus Haviland informed him that they were

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<v Speaker 2>going over to Fred's and remarked that she would raise

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<v Speaker 2>a little hell when she arrived there. The party reached

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<v Speaker 2>Fred's home and found Amos already there. The meeting by

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<v Speaker 2>all parties, was agreeable, and the time was spent as

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<v Speaker 2>is the custom of Page's corner in games, et cetera.

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<v Speaker 2>Missus Haveland has been boarding Hattie, a five year old

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<v Speaker 2>cross eyed daughter, with mister Missus Samuel Mitchell, who lived nearby.

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<v Speaker 2>About two o'clock, she, Lizzie and Howard, another son, went

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<v Speaker 2>over to Mitchell's. After the girl, Fred and Doyle left

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<v Speaker 2>the house and went over to an adjacent farm. They

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<v Speaker 2>were treated to sid her. A short time afterward, Amos followed.

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<v Speaker 2>He was treated and drank three glasses. The men all

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<v Speaker 2>returned to the house together. Missus Haveland had returned with

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<v Speaker 2>the girl. On entering, Amos embraced the child and sat

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<v Speaker 2>her down on his knee. Then Missus Haviland said, sam

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<v Speaker 2>Mitchell says, any man that can't get a pair of

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<v Speaker 2>eyeglasses for a cross eyed child ought to go to

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<v Speaker 2>the devil. Haviland replied, you better get the glasses of Decker.

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<v Speaker 2>She answered the devil with Decker. A few more words followed,

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<v Speaker 2>during which Doyle joined in haland became white with anger

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<v Speaker 2>and started across the room as though to go past Doyle,

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<v Speaker 2>who threw up his hands as if to fight. Haveland

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<v Speaker 2>and Doyle then engaged in a short fight, resulting in

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<v Speaker 2>Havelyn's favor. Havelyn left Doyle and pushed Joseph George, a

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<v Speaker 2>young man present, over a settee. At this stage of

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<v Speaker 2>the row, both Fred and his wife ordered Doyle to

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<v Speaker 2>leave the house, but he would not. Then Missus Haveland,

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<v Speaker 2>Hattie Howard, Fred's wife Lizzie, and two babies hurried into

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<v Speaker 2>a room across the hall and fastened the door. Fred

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<v Speaker 2>and the young man George, held the door against Tavland.

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<v Speaker 2>He then procured a hatchet and struck the door a

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<v Speaker 2>tremendous blow. Fred let go his hold on the door

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<v Speaker 2>and ran upstairs with George. Haviland then discovered that the

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<v Speaker 2>others were in the back room. It is thought that

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<v Speaker 2>he imagined the women were hiding Doyle. Finding the door fastened,

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<v Speaker 2>Havelyn then secured an axe and broke the latch off

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<v Speaker 2>the door, gaining admittance. Doyle stood in a back door

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<v Speaker 2>and witnessed all this. It has claimed that the daughter

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<v Speaker 2>Lizzie was the only one that witnessed how the deadly

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<v Speaker 2>blow was struck. She recited the following to your correspondent

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<v Speaker 2>quote after father gained admittance. He threw the axe on

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<v Speaker 2>the floor and slid it over under the mantle. Father

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<v Speaker 2>stood looking around and I think did not say anything

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<v Speaker 2>to anyone. Doyle walked into the room behind Father, picked

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<v Speaker 2>up the axe and threw it across his shoulder, took

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<v Speaker 2>it down and turned it so that the sharp edge

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<v Speaker 2>would strike, and with a quick, powerful blow, struck Father

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<v Speaker 2>on the head with the heel of the axe behind

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<v Speaker 2>the left ear unquote. The blow felled Haviland like an ox,

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<v Speaker 2>crushing the skull of the unfortunate man. Doyle then stepped

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<v Speaker 2>up to Missus Haviland, tapped her on the shoulder and

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<v Speaker 2>said it's all right now. He then left the room,

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<v Speaker 2>still carrying the axe, picked up his coat and threw

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<v Speaker 2>the axe to the ground as he ran out the door.

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<v Speaker 2>Seeing Fred in an upper window, he remarked, the old

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<v Speaker 2>man hit me between the eyes, and then ran away.

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<v Speaker 2>By this time the house was in an uproar. Missus

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<v Speaker 2>Havelan screamed, oh, you've killed my husband. You've killed my husband.

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<v Speaker 2>Doctor Silvers of Windsor was summoned and worked hard to

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<v Speaker 2>revive the injured man, but Doyle's murderous blow had inflicted

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<v Speaker 2>a fatal injury. It was about four point thirty when

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<v Speaker 2>the blow was delivered, and Haln died about six point fifty.

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<v Speaker 2>As soon as the victim died, doctor Silver's telephoned to

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<v Speaker 2>Trenton for county physician Rogers. A Monday morning, coroner Disbrow

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<v Speaker 2>of Trenton arrived and took charge of the body, who

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<v Speaker 2>was taken to Murphy's Morgue at Trenton. A post mortem

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<v Speaker 2>examination was held. Halynd was perfectly healthy, and it was

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<v Speaker 2>found that he had not taken enough sider to make

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<v Speaker 2>him drunk. The family claimed that no one was a intoxicated.

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<v Speaker 2>Doyle returned to the home of his employer sometimes Sunday

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<v Speaker 2>night and was at work Monday morning as usual. While

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<v Speaker 2>the officers were searching for him, it was thought he

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<v Speaker 2>went toward Trenton. Constable John Tyndall of Windsor notified Constable

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<v Speaker 2>Bergen of Allentown to look out for Doyle and capture

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<v Speaker 2>him if possible. Constable Bergen learned that Doyle was at

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<v Speaker 2>home working, found him there and arrested him. Doyle took

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<v Speaker 2>the matter cooling, smoked, laughed, and treated the matter lightly.

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<v Speaker 2>It is said he was surprised when informed that Haviland

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<v Speaker 2>was dead and claimed it was in self defense and

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<v Speaker 2>later said it was through drunkenness that the deed was done.

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<v Speaker 2>Doyle and Missus Haviland were both taken to Trenton and jailed. Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 2>the remains of Haveland were taken back to the scene

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<v Speaker 2>of the tragedy and there rested over the spot where

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<v Speaker 2>he had been murdered. His life's bloodstains beneath the coffin

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<v Speaker 2>were plainly distinct. Funeral services over the remains were held

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<v Speaker 2>at the Allentown Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon last Reverend

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<v Speaker 2>George Swain delivered the sermon and gave good counsel to

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<v Speaker 2>the family of the man whose life has been so unhappy.

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<v Speaker 2>The interment was in the church cemetery. Was the murder

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<v Speaker 2>a plot of Doyle's and Missus Havilan's. Public opinion generally

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<v Speaker 2>thinks so. January thirty first, eighteen ninety eight. Clarence Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>is now but seventeen years of age, and has passed

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<v Speaker 2>the greater portion of his life in that part of

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<v Speaker 2>the city known as Chambersburg. A short time prior to

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<v Speaker 2>the tragedy, he secured employment on the farm of Allentown

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<v Speaker 2>Presbyterian Church, better known as the Parsonage Farm. Doyle was

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<v Speaker 2>a good workman and well thought of by his employers.

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<v Speaker 2>Early last Sunday day morning, November twenty eighth, Clarence went

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<v Speaker 2>over to Page's Corner near Windsor to see Fred Haveland,

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<v Speaker 2>a son of the murdered man, who lived on a

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<v Speaker 2>place known as the Spence Farm. There were other visitors

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<v Speaker 2>there that day, Amos Haveland, his wife and daughter, and

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<v Speaker 2>reports say that the greater portion of the day was

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<v Speaker 2>spent in carousing and drinking hard cider. The afternoon was

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<v Speaker 2>nearing its close when the fatal quarrel started that terminated

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<v Speaker 2>so disastrously for both Clarence Doyle and Amos Haveland. What

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<v Speaker 2>started that quarrel is one of the things that the

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<v Speaker 2>present trial is expected to develop. There are two stories

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<v Speaker 2>which have been given to the public. One that Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>had been entirely too intimate with Amos Haveln's wife, who

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<v Speaker 2>was a woman in the neighborhood of forty years of

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<v Speaker 2>age and the mother of thirteen children. This story is

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<v Speaker 2>emphatically denied by Missus Haveland and her children, and as

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<v Speaker 2>they were the only ones present at the time. Their

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<v Speaker 2>story will go a long way toward influencing the jury

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<v Speaker 2>that is to decide whether Clarence Doyle is to be

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<v Speaker 2>allowed life in liberty, or whether his crime must be

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<v Speaker 2>atoned for by death on the gallows or imprisonment in

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<v Speaker 2>a cell. If the story of the origin of this quarrel,

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<v Speaker 2>as told at the coroner's inquest by Missus Havelan, her

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<v Speaker 2>son and daughter's be true, then indeed was the primary

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<v Speaker 2>cause of Amos Havevilyn's death a trifling matter. Amos Haveland

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<v Speaker 2>had a little daughter named Hattie, who was in need

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<v Speaker 2>of a pair of eyeglasses, which her father had refused

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<v Speaker 2>to buy. A certain Samuel Mitchell, who resided near the

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<v Speaker 2>Spence Farm, is said to have said, any man who

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<v Speaker 2>had let his girl go blind for two dollars and

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<v Speaker 2>fifty cents ought to go to the devil. It was

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<v Speaker 2>this remark that caused all the trouble. It is because

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<v Speaker 2>of this remark that Clarence Doyle is now standing trial

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<v Speaker 2>for his life in Mercer Court. Havelen mumbled and muttered

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<v Speaker 2>to the fighting mad state. Then as witnesses testified at

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<v Speaker 2>the inquest, without any provocation whatever, he rushed upon Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>and a fierce struggle ensued. This much of the fracas

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<v Speaker 2>to fight it out alone. No one knows what occurred

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<v Speaker 2>after that. The occupants of the next room heard the

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<v Speaker 2>being struck. Then Haviland went out in the yard and

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<v Speaker 2>got the axe from the woodpile, re entered the room,

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<v Speaker 2>and smashing the door in where the women were, he

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<v Speaker 2>and going over to w where the axe lay, he

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<v Speaker 2>his head. Doyle struck the blow that caused the farmer's death,

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<v Speaker 2>but Doyle did not know that the blow had been fatal,

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<v Speaker 2>so he walked back to the parsonage farm at Allentown

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<v Speaker 2>that night and went to work as usual on Monday morning,

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<v Speaker 2>where he was captured by Constable Bergen shortly before noon

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<v Speaker 2>the same day. Since that time, Doyle has been confined

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<v Speaker 2>causing the keepers no trouble whatever and making many friends.

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<v Speaker 2>He apparently does not, as yet realize that he has

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<v Speaker 2>been guilty of any serious crime. The defense will be

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<v Speaker 2>conducted by Captain W. D. Holt and James Clark, and

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<v Speaker 2>will practically be that Doyle acted entirely in self defense.

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<v Speaker 2>Hundreds of eager, excited curiosity seekers throng the entrance to

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<v Speaker 2>the Mercer County Courthouse as early as nine o'clock this morning,

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<v Speaker 2>and from that hour up to the familiar ohya oya

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<v Speaker 2>of Crier Pearson, the stream of humanity continued to flow

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<v Speaker 2>into the courtroom until it was literally packed, but among

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<v Speaker 2>in this large assemblage there were but few ladies. A

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<v Speaker 2>few minutes after ten o'clock, Justice Gummer and Judge Woodroff

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<v Speaker 2>took their places on the bench, and almost at the

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<v Speaker 2>same moment, Constable Cappell appeared with the prisoner Clarence Doyle,

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<v Speaker 2>the boy who is now on trial for taking the

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<v Speaker 2>life of a fellow man. Doyle was natalie attired in

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<v Speaker 2>a black suit, white shirt, standing collar in a neat

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<v Speaker 2>dark tie. He looked unconcerned and smiling. Shortly after taking

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<v Speaker 2>his seat, his counsel, Captain W. D. Holt, came over

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<v Speaker 2>and after shaking hands, prisoner and counsel chatted together for

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<v Speaker 2>some minutes. Prosecutor Stockton and Detective Clancy occupied the other table,

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<v Speaker 2>and nearly all the seats inside the railing were filled

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<v Speaker 2>with the lucky ones who were fortunate enough to hold tickets,

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<v Speaker 2>entitling them to that privilege. When Justice Woodroff called the

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<v Speaker 2>court to order, County Clerk Gummer called off the panel

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<v Speaker 2>of the jury. All were present. Then came the drawing

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<v Speaker 2>of the jury, which was to decide Clarence Doyle's fate.

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<v Speaker 2>Edward McHugh called the clerk jur look upon the prisoner, prisoner,

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<v Speaker 2>look upon the jur do you challenge mcew was accepted.

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<v Speaker 2>The drawing of the jury occupied just one hour, during

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<v Speaker 2>which time thirty jurors were called. There were eighteen objections.

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<v Speaker 2>Immediately after the constables of the jury had been sworn in,

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<v Speaker 2>Judge Woodruff addressed himself to the jury as follows quote.

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<v Speaker 2>You will understand, gentlemen, that from now until the time

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<v Speaker 2>you will find a verdict in the case of the

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<v Speaker 2>State against Clarence Doyle, you will be sequestered from your

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<v Speaker 2>homes and families. So if you have any arrangements to

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<v Speaker 2>make in connection with your families, you will have an

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<v Speaker 2>opportunity to do so. At this time a majority of

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<v Speaker 2>the jurymen accepted this privilege. The brother and sister of

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<v Speaker 2>the accused arrived in court at this time. The sister

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<v Speaker 2>was crying quietly as she came and took a chair

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<v Speaker 2>at the prisoner's side. He smiled at her reassuringly and

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<v Speaker 2>clasped her hand. In opening the case for the state,

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<v Speaker 2>prosecutor Stockton said, quote, the grand jury found a true

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<v Speaker 2>indictment against Clarence Doyle in these words, that on the

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<v Speaker 2>twenty eighth day of last November, in the township of Hamilton,

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<v Speaker 2>Clarence Doyle did wilfully, with malice, premeditation and a forethought,

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<v Speaker 2>kill and murder and commit other wrongs on one Amos

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<v Speaker 2>havelnd This gentleman, the State claims, is a murder in

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<v Speaker 2>the first degree, and we shall ask for such a

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<v Speaker 2>verdict in this case between the State and the prisoner,

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<v Speaker 2>which you will be called upon to decide unquote. Mister

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<v Speaker 2>Stockton then briefly reviewed all that transpired on that twenty

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<v Speaker 2>eighth day of last November, from the time that Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>and the elder Havelyn family arrived at the house of

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<v Speaker 2>the sun Fred Haveland, up to the time when Fred

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<v Speaker 2>and his little sisters Hattie came back from chasing Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>In concluding, the prosecutor said, the state will insist on

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<v Speaker 2>a verdict of murder in the first degree inasmuch as

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<v Speaker 2>the killing of Amos Haveland was wilful, deliberate, premeditated, and

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<v Speaker 2>with malice a forethought. E. G. Weir was the first

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<v Speaker 2>witness called. He testified to the making of a survey

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<v Speaker 2>of the scene of the tragedy and of afterward producing

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<v Speaker 2>the sketch which was now before the court. The condition

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<v Speaker 2>of the interior and exterior of the house was minutely described,

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<v Speaker 2>also the location of the blood spots in the so

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<v Speaker 2>called parlor where Amos Haveland received the blow that ended

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<v Speaker 2>his life. The cross examination was very minute. Captain Holt

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<v Speaker 2>was extremely careful not to let the slightest point escape

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<v Speaker 2>his vigilance. He drew from mister Weir the average size

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<v Speaker 2>of the blood spots were about six inches in diameter.

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<v Speaker 2>As mister Stockton called the name of the next witness

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<v Speaker 2>for the state, next were craned in all parts of

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<v Speaker 2>the room. For the witness was Fred Haveland, the son

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<v Speaker 2>of the murdered man. As Fred took a seat in

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<v Speaker 2>the witness chair, the prisoner, for the first time assumed

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<v Speaker 2>some interest in the proceedings. Every few minutes, as some

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<v Speaker 2>vital question was asked, Doyle would quickly glance up at

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<v Speaker 2>the man. Doyle's sister was no longer crying, but was

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<v Speaker 2>listening attentively, eagerly to every word that fell from the

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<v Speaker 2>young Havelyn's lips. She apparently realized that what this man

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<v Speaker 2>said had much to do with her brother's fate. Fred

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<v Speaker 2>Haveland said he had lived in the house where the

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<v Speaker 2>tragedy occurred about two and a half months. Question do

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<v Speaker 2>you recall the twenty eighth day of November? Answer yes, sir.

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<v Speaker 2>Question did your father come to your house on that day?

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<v Speaker 2>Answer yes, sir. Question who came with him? Answer Clarence

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<v Speaker 2>Doyle and Lizzie. Witness then told how he Doyle and

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<v Speaker 2>his father went over to a neighbor's and drank some

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<v Speaker 2>sweet cider and then returned to his house. Question who

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<v Speaker 2>did you find there? Answer Mother, my sister's Lizzie and Hattie,

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<v Speaker 2>brothers Dick and Howard, Joe Jordan, and a man named Decker.

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<v Speaker 2>Question what occurred after you got home? Answer? Mother told

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<v Speaker 2>his little girl go blind for two dollars and fifty

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<v Speaker 2>cents ought to go to the devil. Question what happened next?

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<v Speaker 2>Answer Doyle said something. Then father pushed Doyle in the corner.

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<v Speaker 2>Question did you see any blowstruck? Answer no? Question Then

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<v Speaker 2>what did your father do? Answer why? Joe Jordan was

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<v Speaker 2>standing by the sofa, and father went over where he

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<v Speaker 2>was and pushed him down on the sofa and began

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<v Speaker 2>to talk to him. Question what did you do? Answer?

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<v Speaker 2>I went and told Doyle he had better go out.

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<v Speaker 2>Question did you do anything else? Answer yes, I pushed

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<v Speaker 2>and locked the door. Question what did you do that for? Answer?

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<v Speaker 2>I was afraid they might get hurt. Question who was

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<v Speaker 2>in the kitchen after you pushed the family out? Answer

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<v Speaker 2>father in Doyle? Question anybody else? Answer no? Question What

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<v Speaker 2>did you do after you got in the other room?

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<v Speaker 2>Answer held the doorknob? Question what happened while you were

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<v Speaker 2>holding it? Answer? It was struck and smashed? In question

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Jordan went with me. Question what did you hear

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<v Speaker 2>up there? Answer? Heard them all holler in the back room?

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<v Speaker 2>Question what did you do? Then? Answer? I came out

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<v Speaker 2>in the hall. Question hear anything more? Answer? Heard somebody

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<v Speaker 2>holler you've killed him. Then I stuck my head out

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<v Speaker 2>Question did you hear anything? Answer? I heard my mother

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<v Speaker 2>say you've killed him, Clarence, you've killed him, oh amos.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I jumped out on the roof and saw Doyle

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<v Speaker 2>coming out with his overcoat. Question did he say anything? Answer?

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<v Speaker 2>He said, your father hit me between the eyes. Question

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<v Speaker 2>what did Doyle do then? Answer? Started to run. My

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<v Speaker 2>Question did you catch them? Answer no? Question what did

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<v Speaker 2>his back in the parlor. He was breathing and bleeding

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<v Speaker 2>from the mouth. Question what did you do? Then? Answer?

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<v Speaker 2>Ran and sent for doctor Silvers. Question was anybody drunk

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<v Speaker 2>on that day? Answer no, sir. The axe was then

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<v Speaker 2>shown the witness by Prosecutor Stockton and was identified. The

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<v Speaker 2>Question do you remember your testimony at the coroner's inquest?

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<v Speaker 2>to how your father was killed? Answer yes, sir. Question

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<v Speaker 2>of what you were to swear? Answer no. Question have

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<v Speaker 2>you talked of this affair to your mother? Answer yes,

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<v Speaker 2>seven or eight times? Question have you not repeatedly said

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<v Speaker 2>you would like to see Doyle hung and that you

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<v Speaker 2>would like to be the man to do it. Prosecutor Stockton,

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<v Speaker 2>I object, Judge Woodruff, witness must have his attention called

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<v Speaker 2>to the time and place where he made such statement.

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<v Speaker 2>Captain Holt, pointing to Lawyer Clark, did you not at

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<v Speaker 2>you would like to see Doyle hung and you would

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<v Speaker 2>like to be the man to do it. Answer? I

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<v Speaker 2>said I would like to see Doyle hung, but I

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<v Speaker 2>do not remember saying I would like to be the

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<v Speaker 2>the accident, while you, your father and Doyle were crossing the field,

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<v Speaker 2>of terms? Answer yes, Sir. February first, eighteen ninety eight.

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<v Speaker 2>In continuing the cross examination of Fred Havelyn, Lawyer Holt

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<v Speaker 2>Halyn said his father was the only angry person in

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<v Speaker 2>He also said that his mother had greatly incensed his

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<v Speaker 2>when Decker's name was mentioned, his father always grew white

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<v Speaker 2>with jealous passion. Captain Holt next brought to the attention

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<v Speaker 2>witness of the state, was like putty in Captain Holt's hands.

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<v Speaker 2>He said he was so frightened at Amas Haveln's display

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<v Speaker 2>of temper that he ran upstairs and hid in a closet.

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<v Speaker 2>Captain Holt also made Jordan admit that Amos Haveland, after

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<v Speaker 2>his anger had been around to a white heat by

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<v Speaker 2>his wife's actions, had made a ferocious attack on Doyle,

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<v Speaker 2>attempting to hit him with his fists, while Doyle, on

417
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<v Speaker 2>the other hand, had not retaliated, but had simply warded

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<v Speaker 2>off the blows of the infuriated man as bestie could.

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<v Speaker 2>Anna Haviland, the murdered man's wife, also became tangled and

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<v Speaker 2>confused under the fire of Captain Holt's questioning, and testified

421
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<v Speaker 2>exactly contrary to what she had sworn in the coroner's inquest. Finally,

422
00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:34.559
<v Speaker 2>she refused to answer the questions at all and broke

423
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<v Speaker 2>down crying, with the excuse that she did not know

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<v Speaker 2>what she was doing. At the coroner's inquest, Mary Haland,

425
00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:45.079
<v Speaker 2>wife of Fred Haland, had tried to tell what she

426
00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.000
<v Speaker 2>knew of the killing, but she proved hard work for

427
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<v Speaker 2>the prosecutor. She corroborated her husband's testimony in the main

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00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:56.519
<v Speaker 2>and contradicted that of her mother in law, Anna Havelnd.

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<v Speaker 2>Clarence Doyle kept his eyes riveted on the witnesses all

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<v Speaker 2>the afternoon, especially when anything was said respecting the killing,

431
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<v Speaker 2>but he never lost his look of confidence. Occasionally he

432
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<v Speaker 2>would turn and address a few words to his mother

433
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<v Speaker 2>and sister. Both the latter wept whenever the fatal blow

434
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.720
<v Speaker 2>was mentioned. On the whole, the defense were well satisfied

435
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<v Speaker 2>with the result of the first day's work. Another chapter

436
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<v Speaker 2>in the story of the trial of Clarence Doyle for

437
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:29.799
<v Speaker 2>the murder of Amos Havelant was commenced at nine thirty

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<v Speaker 2>five this morning. In spite of the fact that was

439
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:36.960
<v Speaker 2>pretty generally known that little Lizzie Haviland, daughter of the

440
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:40.119
<v Speaker 2>murdered man and the state star witness, would be put

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<v Speaker 2>on the stand sometime this morning. The crowd in the

442
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:47.839
<v Speaker 2>courtroom was not nearly as large as yesterday. Evidently, many

443
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<v Speaker 2>of the morbid minded ones whose delight it is to

444
00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:53.519
<v Speaker 2>look upon the misery of others, understood from the drift

445
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:57.000
<v Speaker 2>of testimony taken yesterday that there is but little chance

446
00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.880
<v Speaker 2>of a fatal termination of the trial. Consequently, their interest

447
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:04.119
<v Speaker 2>in the affairs of the Mercer court has taken a drop.

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<v Speaker 2>Captain Holt made his appearance at about nine thirty. He

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<v Speaker 2>was attired as usual, with the exception that this morning

450
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:17.240
<v Speaker 2>he wore an unusually broad and complacent smile. Clarence Doyle

451
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<v Speaker 2>took his place by his counsel's side, but a few

452
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<v Speaker 2>minutes after nine thirty he looked just as confident and

453
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<v Speaker 2>smiling as on the opening day. His mother and sister

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<v Speaker 2>were with him as usual. They too seemed to be impressed,

455
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<v Speaker 2>with the general feeling that all was going well with

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<v Speaker 2>the boy they loved. A delay of forty minutes was

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<v Speaker 2>caused by the witnesses from the country failing to arrive

458
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<v Speaker 2>at the time appointed for the opening of the court.

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<v Speaker 2>During this delay, the courtroom filled up slowly until the

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<v Speaker 2>attendance was almost as large as that of yesterday. When

461
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<v Speaker 2>the Havevilins did arrive, it was found that Mary Haveland,

462
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<v Speaker 2>the wife of Fred, who was to be cross examined

463
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<v Speaker 2>this morning, was so overcome by the cold occasioned by

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<v Speaker 2>the ride from Page's Corner, that she would be unable

465
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<v Speaker 2>to go upon the stand for some time. So Justice

466
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<v Speaker 2>Gummer instructed the prosecutor to call the next witness for

467
00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:16.240
<v Speaker 2>the state. A hush fell over the courtroom for a

468
00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:20.799
<v Speaker 2>few moments when mister Stockton called Lizzie Haviland, But as

469
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<v Speaker 2>the daughter of the murdered man walked up the aisle,

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<v Speaker 2>the spectators on both sides rose to their feet to

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00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:29.599
<v Speaker 2>obtain a better view of the witness who was expected

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<v Speaker 2>to convict Clarence Doyle of the crime charged in the indictment.

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<v Speaker 2>Lizzie is the brightest, most attractive in appearance of the family.

474
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.759
<v Speaker 2>She was neatly attired in a dark blue dress. Lizzie

475
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<v Speaker 2>answered the questions of Prosecutor Stockton freely, but seemed reluctant

476
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<v Speaker 2>as soon as Captain Holt commenced the cross examination. Lizzie

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<v Speaker 2>said she was the daughter of Anna Havland and that

478
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<v Speaker 2>she recollected the twenty eighth day of last November. Question

479
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<v Speaker 2>who went with you to your brother's? Answer mother, her

480
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:08.200
<v Speaker 2>baby and Clarence Doyle. Question in what room were you

481
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:11.640
<v Speaker 2>when your father came back with your brother Fred and Clarence?

482
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:17.839
<v Speaker 2>Answer in the kitchen? Question what happened? Then? Answer they

483
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.039
<v Speaker 2>began to talk about the girl's glasses. Question What did

484
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.240
<v Speaker 2>your mother say? Answer any man who would let his

485
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.960
<v Speaker 2>little girl go blind for two dollars and fifty cents

486
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.319
<v Speaker 2>or three dollars? Ought to go to the devil? Question

487
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:36.559
<v Speaker 2>What did your father say? Answer let Decker get them? Question?

488
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:40.279
<v Speaker 2>Then what did your mother say? Answer to the devil

489
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:46.519
<v Speaker 2>with Decker? Question what happened? Next? Answer? Father flew into Doyle.

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00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:51.839
<v Speaker 2>Question did you see any blow struck? Answer? No? Question

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<v Speaker 2>well what next answer? Father pushed Doyle outside. Then father

492
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.240
<v Speaker 2>came over to the sofa where Joe Jordan was staying

493
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:04.640
<v Speaker 2>and pushed him down on the sofa. Question where was Doyle? Then?

494
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:09.279
<v Speaker 2>Answer by the shut door. Witness then related how her

495
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.160
<v Speaker 2>brother Fred had hurried all the rest of the family,

496
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:17.000
<v Speaker 2>accepting her father and Doyle into the parlor. Question, now

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<v Speaker 2>tell the jury what happened next? Answer father struck the

498
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.359
<v Speaker 2>door down, came in and threw the axe into the corner.

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00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:28.519
<v Speaker 2>Then Doyle came in and picked up the axe. Question

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00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.519
<v Speaker 2>what did he do with the axe? Answer struck father?

501
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.720
<v Speaker 2>Question you saw him strike your father? Answer? Yes, I

502
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.279
<v Speaker 2>saw him do it. Question then what did Doyle do? Answer?

503
00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:47.480
<v Speaker 2>Went out? Question what did your father do? Answer? Fell

504
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:52.720
<v Speaker 2>on the floor. Question what did you do? Answer? I cried?

505
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.599
<v Speaker 2>Question where was your mother when your father fell? Answer?

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<v Speaker 2>She was going out of the room. Prosecutor Stockton then

507
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:05.559
<v Speaker 2>had the witness described with a stick exactly how Doyle

508
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:09.679
<v Speaker 2>struck Haveland, having Lizzie represent Doyle while he stood in

509
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<v Speaker 2>the same position amos Havelan stood when he received the

510
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:17.280
<v Speaker 2>fatal blow. When the cross examination was taken up, the

511
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:20.400
<v Speaker 2>courtroom was so quiet that a whisper could be distinctly

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<v Speaker 2>heard all over the room. Captain Holt questioned Lizzie as

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00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:27.119
<v Speaker 2>to her knowledge of the oath she had just taken.

514
00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:31.920
<v Speaker 2>She seemed unable to understand and failed to make any answer. Question,

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00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:34.679
<v Speaker 2>were Doyle and your father on the best of terms

516
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:39.159
<v Speaker 2>previous to the quarrel. Answer yes, sir. Question what was

517
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:42.880
<v Speaker 2>said before the remark made by missus Haviland about the glasses?

518
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:49.239
<v Speaker 2>No answer? Question were they all good natured? Answer yes, sir.

519
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:54.320
<v Speaker 2>Question then what happened? Answer all at once? Mother went

520
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:58.800
<v Speaker 2>at father about Hattie's glasses. Question do you know Decker?

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00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:03.599
<v Speaker 2>Answer yes, sir, for six or seven years? Question could

522
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<v Speaker 2>you see your father's face when he went to Doyle?

523
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:10.639
<v Speaker 2>Answer yes, sir. Question was he angry? Answer? I do

524
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.320
<v Speaker 2>not think so. Question what did he do? Answer jumped

525
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.400
<v Speaker 2>into Clarence? Question was there any reason for such an

526
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:23.639
<v Speaker 2>action on his part? Answer? None that I know of.

527
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Question did you hear your mother say to the devil

528
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:32.760
<v Speaker 2>with Decker? Answer yes, sir? Question was not that? What

529
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:37.159
<v Speaker 2>made your father mad? Answer? I don't know. Question what

530
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:39.280
<v Speaker 2>did you mean when you said that your father fell

531
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:44.639
<v Speaker 2>into Doyle? Answer a fight? I suppose? Question did you

532
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:49.679
<v Speaker 2>see any blowstruck? Answer no, sir. Question then how was

533
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:53.639
<v Speaker 2>it a fight? Answer? I thought they were mad? Question

534
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:56.559
<v Speaker 2>did Doyle do anything to make you think he was mad?

535
00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.800
<v Speaker 2>Answer no, sir? Do you call that a fight? Then?

536
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:05.719
<v Speaker 2>Answer where in the parlor? I call that murder? Question

537
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:10.159
<v Speaker 2>I mean the first affair in the kitchen. Answer I

538
00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:13.639
<v Speaker 2>thought that was a fight. Question but you did not

539
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:17.199
<v Speaker 2>know any reason why they should fight? Answer no, sir.

540
00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:22.440
<v Speaker 2>Then Captain Holt smiled. Question why did you go into

541
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:26.519
<v Speaker 2>the parlor and shut the door? Answer? I wanted to

542
00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:30.800
<v Speaker 2>keep father and Clarence out? Question why were you frightened?

543
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:35.559
<v Speaker 2>Answer not so? Very question were you not frightened at

544
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:42.480
<v Speaker 2>your father? Answer no question, nor Clarence? No answer. Now, Lizzie,

545
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:44.840
<v Speaker 2>you say you were not frightened at your father or Doyle?

546
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:48.119
<v Speaker 2>Will you tell me what you were frightened at? No answer.

547
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:52.760
<v Speaker 2>Can't you answer that question? No answer. Captain Holt then

548
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:55.199
<v Speaker 2>tried to shake Lizzie's story as to the manner in

549
00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:57.719
<v Speaker 2>which Doyle had struck the blow that killed her father,

550
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:01.559
<v Speaker 2>But in this he failed, as she told it again

551
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:05.360
<v Speaker 2>precisely the same as she had related it to Prosecutor Stockton.

552
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:10.920
<v Speaker 2>Question do you have any feeling against Doyle? Answer? I

553
00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.920
<v Speaker 2>did not have, but I have now. Question did you

554
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:18.440
<v Speaker 2>ever say you wanted to see him hang? Answer no, sir.

555
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:21.920
<v Speaker 2>Question did you ever hear of any trouble between your

556
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:26.000
<v Speaker 2>mother and father on account of this man Decker? Answer? No, sir,

557
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:31.519
<v Speaker 2>Mary Haland was then called for cross examination, and she

558
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:34.199
<v Speaker 2>again went over all the incidents of that twenty eighth

559
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:37.840
<v Speaker 2>day of last November. Her testimony as to the origin

560
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.800
<v Speaker 2>of the quarrel was the same as her husband's, that

561
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:43.199
<v Speaker 2>the deceased grew white in the face at the name

562
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.239
<v Speaker 2>of Decker and then rushed at Doyle and later at Jordan.

563
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.159
<v Speaker 2>Question why did you go into the parlor? Answer? I

564
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:57.159
<v Speaker 2>was afraid? Question afraid afraid of what? Answer mister Haveland,

565
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:02.039
<v Speaker 2>question were you afraid of Doyle? Answer? No. Witness then

566
00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:04.239
<v Speaker 2>stated that she had met with the family six or

567
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:06.840
<v Speaker 2>eight times to talk over what was to be said

568
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:11.119
<v Speaker 2>at the trial. County physician Rogers testified as to the

569
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:15.920
<v Speaker 2>finding of Amos Havelyn's body and the injuries sustained. In

570
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.639
<v Speaker 2>cross examination, he said that the dead man must have

571
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:23.239
<v Speaker 2>been very strong and muscular. Doctor Silver testified to being

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00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.000
<v Speaker 2>called to attend Amos Haveland immediately after he was injured.

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00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:31.039
<v Speaker 2>Richard Haveland, the son of the murdered man, was also called,

574
00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:34.039
<v Speaker 2>but only testified to being told by his relatives what

575
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<v Speaker 2>to say. Prosecutor Stockton then offered the acts and skullcap

576
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:43.760
<v Speaker 2>of Amos Haveland as evidence, and the state rested immediately

577
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:47.039
<v Speaker 2>after the calling of the afternoon session, the defense was

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00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:50.880
<v Speaker 2>opened by James Clark, who, after quoting and explaining the law,

579
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<v Speaker 2>stated that the defense of Clarence Doyle would be based

580
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.079
<v Speaker 2>upon self defense and the prevention of the committal of

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<v Speaker 2>a crime. Said mister cla quote. If I see a

582
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<v Speaker 2>man break down a door with an axe, rush into

583
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.199
<v Speaker 2>a room where there are a number of defenseless women,

584
00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:10.159
<v Speaker 2>and threaten to kill them all, I am justified in

585
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.199
<v Speaker 2>killing that man if need be to save the lives

586
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:16.760
<v Speaker 2>of the others. This gentleman, is a point in law

587
00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:21.599
<v Speaker 2>well settled. At this point Clarence Doyle took the stand

588
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:38.039
<v Speaker 2>and testified in his own behalf enjoy ad free listening

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<v Speaker 2>at the safehouse. Dubbadubbadubba dot Patreon dot com, slash True

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<v Speaker 2>Crime Historian, February two, eighteen ninety eight. The opening of

591
00:39:56.920 --> 00:40:00.320
<v Speaker 2>the defense in the case of Clarence Doyle, charge marged

592
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:04.360
<v Speaker 2>with the wilful murder of Amos Haviland by lawyer James

593
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<v Speaker 2>Clark yesterday afternoon in Mercer Court was a well rounded,

594
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.840
<v Speaker 2>cleverly executed piece of work, which, as was easy to note,

595
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:18.440
<v Speaker 2>impressed the jury favorably when mister Clark attributed Doyle's action

596
00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:21.880
<v Speaker 2>in part to a human impulse to answer the cries

597
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:25.320
<v Speaker 2>of those defenseless women and children. He touched a vital

598
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:27.639
<v Speaker 2>chord in the hearts of every one of those twelve

599
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:32.159
<v Speaker 2>men in whose hands Doyle's life and liberty rests. It

600
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:34.679
<v Speaker 2>was a clever stroke and had about it so much

601
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:39.039
<v Speaker 2>of that plain, unvarnished truth that always carries great influence

602
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:42.280
<v Speaker 2>with the jury. The full power of thus dating the

603
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.840
<v Speaker 2>case was not brought out until some time later, when

604
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:48.920
<v Speaker 2>Doyle admitted he was afraid of Haveland, but he could

605
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.239
<v Speaker 2>not stand idly by when defenseless women were crying for

606
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:57.119
<v Speaker 2>help and danger perhaps of their lives. This admission on

607
00:40:57.159 --> 00:41:00.440
<v Speaker 2>the part of Doyle placed his action before the jury

608
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:03.400
<v Speaker 2>and a light little less than that of heroic, For

609
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:06.159
<v Speaker 2>a man who intervenes to save the life of others

610
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.719
<v Speaker 2>when he fears for his own safety is generally regarded

611
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:13.599
<v Speaker 2>as a hero. True, it is that while Doyle had

612
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:17.480
<v Speaker 2>plenty of sympathizers from the very first, the entire attendance

613
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.079
<v Speaker 2>in the courtroom was in sympathy with him, long before

614
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:23.519
<v Speaker 2>he had finished telling his own story. And what was

615
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.760
<v Speaker 2>his story in a voice ringing with truth. He looked

616
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:31.159
<v Speaker 2>upon his jurors squarely in the face and told them

617
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:33.960
<v Speaker 2>the whole of the tragic history of that fateful day

618
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:38.039
<v Speaker 2>when the freedom and straightforwardness of a boy unburdening his

619
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:41.159
<v Speaker 2>troubled mind to his mother. It was a story to

620
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:44.519
<v Speaker 2>be believed, and judging by the expression on the faces

621
00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:48.639
<v Speaker 2>of the jury, they accepted it as such. Doyle told

622
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:50.719
<v Speaker 2>them how he and the man he is charged with

623
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:54.639
<v Speaker 2>murdering had never exchanged a harsh word in an acquaintanceship

624
00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.679
<v Speaker 2>of two years duration. How suddenly this man, Javelin, had

625
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.559
<v Speaker 2>sprung upon him like a wife out beast, without any

626
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.639
<v Speaker 2>provocation whatever. How after hitting him in the eye and mouth,

627
00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:09.639
<v Speaker 2>he had threatened to lick everybody in the house. Then,

628
00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:12.960
<v Speaker 2>after the women had become frightened at Halen's madness and

629
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:16.559
<v Speaker 2>locked themselves in the parlor, Doyle told the jury how

630
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:19.840
<v Speaker 2>Havelnd went out in the yard and got the axe.

631
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.880
<v Speaker 2>Then he shouted to the women to escape, for haveland

632
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:28.119
<v Speaker 2>was coming with the axe. How the enraged man smashed

633
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:31.400
<v Speaker 2>in the parlor door with the axe and shouted, damn you,

634
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:35.719
<v Speaker 2>I will kill you all. How he Doyle, hearing the cries,

635
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:39.440
<v Speaker 2>for help, but fearing for himself, had hurried in to

636
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:41.519
<v Speaker 2>do the best that he could, and found the women

637
00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:45.239
<v Speaker 2>trying to escape, whereupon he had picked up the axe

638
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:48.320
<v Speaker 2>Haveland had lost, and, knowing he was no match for

639
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:53.239
<v Speaker 2>Haveland man against man, how Havelnd then directed his attack

640
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:57.400
<v Speaker 2>on him, and he, thinking only to disable him, had

641
00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.880
<v Speaker 2>met the assault with a blow with a flat part

642
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:03.320
<v Speaker 2>of the acts, the blow that had subsequently been the

643
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:09.360
<v Speaker 2>cause of Havelen's death. That was all, but Prosecutor Stockton

644
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:12.519
<v Speaker 2>was unable to shatter a single word of the boy's story,

645
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.840
<v Speaker 2>although he subjected him to a rigid cross examination and

646
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:20.119
<v Speaker 2>made Clarence illustrate with the acts just how he struck

647
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.719
<v Speaker 2>the fatal blow. This Doyle did so well that it

648
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:27.480
<v Speaker 2>only tended to add to the strength of his story.

649
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:31.639
<v Speaker 2>As the case now stands, on the testimony, it is

650
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:37.320
<v Speaker 2>Clarence Doyle's word against Lizzie Havelen's. Then the defense rested,

651
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:41.559
<v Speaker 2>and now but three scenes yet remain of the final act,

652
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.559
<v Speaker 2>the summing up of the council, the charge by his

653
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:54.880
<v Speaker 2>honor Justice Gomer, and the verdict, the beginning of the

654
00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:57.920
<v Speaker 2>end of the trying ordeal, to which Clarence Doyle has

655
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:01.159
<v Speaker 2>been subjected for the past three days, was ushered in

656
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.639
<v Speaker 2>at Mercer Court this morning at nine point forty. The

657
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:09.440
<v Speaker 2>young prisoner, who has conducted himself so well through all

658
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:12.960
<v Speaker 2>these bitter hours, was the same today as he has

659
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:18.239
<v Speaker 2>been on previous days, confident of his own innocence. The

660
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:21.440
<v Speaker 2>crowd in the courtroom was the largest of any period

661
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:25.480
<v Speaker 2>since the trial commenced. The room was literally packed with

662
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:29.199
<v Speaker 2>people who were evidently friends of the boy. When Doyle

663
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:33.239
<v Speaker 2>appeared with Constable Capple, a murmur arose in the courtroom

664
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:36.800
<v Speaker 2>that almost amounted to an outburst of applause for the prisoner.

665
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:40.880
<v Speaker 2>As Prosecutor Stockton opened up the summing up for the state,

666
00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:44.960
<v Speaker 2>Doyle listened attentively to every word which was intended to

667
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:48.039
<v Speaker 2>prove his guilt of a crime, the penalty of which

668
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:52.400
<v Speaker 2>was death. His eye never faltered, his cheek never blanched.

669
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.000
<v Speaker 2>He seemed willing to look the whole world in the

670
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:58.400
<v Speaker 2>face because he had within his own heart the assurance

671
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:00.639
<v Speaker 2>that he had only intended to do to his duty,

672
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.599
<v Speaker 2>even if his own life was to be forfeited. Prosecutor

673
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.880
<v Speaker 2>Stockton arose to address the jury, and the court room

674
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.480
<v Speaker 2>was still in silent as a tomb. The crucial moment

675
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:17.639
<v Speaker 2>was now at hand. Mister Stockton traced the course of

676
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:20.239
<v Speaker 2>a killing from the time it was committed up to

677
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.119
<v Speaker 2>the time the facts are given to the jury. In part,

678
00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:26.639
<v Speaker 2>the prosecution said, quote, you have been sworn to try

679
00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:29.719
<v Speaker 2>the facts of this case and determined from the evidence

680
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:32.840
<v Speaker 2>put before you what is the truth and where justice

681
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:35.519
<v Speaker 2>is due. You have no more to do with the

682
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.880
<v Speaker 2>question of law in this case than any spectator in

683
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:42.360
<v Speaker 2>the audience. You are to accept the words that come

684
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:45.159
<v Speaker 2>from the court as the only law in this case.

685
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.119
<v Speaker 2>With you, it is the pure question of facts. You

686
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:53.119
<v Speaker 2>have nothing to do with mercy, prejudice, revenge, horror, or

687
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:57.159
<v Speaker 2>any other feeling. You must make your minds a total

688
00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:00.920
<v Speaker 2>blank to everything except the actual facts put before you.

689
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:04.199
<v Speaker 2>If you show mercy, you are assuming a right that

690
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:07.239
<v Speaker 2>belongs only to the court, and you are thereby going

691
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:10.360
<v Speaker 2>outside the lines of your duty as jurors, and are

692
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:13.760
<v Speaker 2>betraying the confidence imposed in you by both the state

693
00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:20.960
<v Speaker 2>and the accused. Unquote. Prosecutor Stockton then cited and explained

694
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.000
<v Speaker 2>the law concerning murder and then said, quote, if you

695
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:26.719
<v Speaker 2>decide that the prisoner has committed a murder. You will

696
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:28.960
<v Speaker 2>then have to determine whether it is murder in the

697
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.360
<v Speaker 2>first or second degree. The law concerning a killing of

698
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.079
<v Speaker 2>a fellow man in self defense has nothing to do

699
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.119
<v Speaker 2>with this case. It is not applicable in any way.

700
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:42.760
<v Speaker 2>The state thinks that the defendant, Clarence Doyle, struck the

701
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:48.519
<v Speaker 2>blow that caused the death of Amos Haviland, deliberately, wilfully, premeditatively,

702
00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:52.199
<v Speaker 2>with a malice of forethought, and shall therefore ask you

703
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:56.360
<v Speaker 2>to render a verdict of murder in the first degree. Why, gentlemen,

704
00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:59.920
<v Speaker 2>the defendant's own story is false and impossible of blo

705
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.519
<v Speaker 2>by any reasonable person. It was plainly manufactured to suit

706
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:08.519
<v Speaker 2>the necessities of the case. Premeditation does not mean that

707
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:11.039
<v Speaker 2>a man must think and meditate on the killing of

708
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:14.599
<v Speaker 2>another a year, a month, a week, or a day. No,

709
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:18.599
<v Speaker 2>not even in an hour. A single instant is all

710
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:23.199
<v Speaker 2>the time required by law for premeditation. The state can

711
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:26.320
<v Speaker 2>show that while Clarence Doyle was outside in the yard

712
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:29.880
<v Speaker 2>with his overcoat on his arm, he was then deliberating

713
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:33.039
<v Speaker 2>as to whether he should go back and kill Amos Halin.

714
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:36.519
<v Speaker 2>That was enough time to show premeditation, and it did

715
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:39.280
<v Speaker 2>not matter if the whole party were laughing and joking

716
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:42.519
<v Speaker 2>all the previous part of the day. I shall go

717
00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:45.760
<v Speaker 2>over the facts and evidence in fuller detail at a

718
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.400
<v Speaker 2>later time. The plea for the life and liberty of

719
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:55.280
<v Speaker 2>Clarence Doyle by Captain Holt was a touching, convincing, eloquent

720
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:59.800
<v Speaker 2>effort in well rounded tones. The captain related the oft

721
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:03.840
<v Speaker 2>time old story. He described the horror of the situation

722
00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:07.559
<v Speaker 2>in which young Doyle was placed alone with a madman

723
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:09.719
<v Speaker 2>who was trying to take the lives of any and

724
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:13.400
<v Speaker 2>all that crossed his path. The able lawyer pleaded in

725
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.440
<v Speaker 2>a deep undertone that impressed the jury and doubly increased

726
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.519
<v Speaker 2>the solemnity of the utterances. In part. The plea for

727
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:25.960
<v Speaker 2>Doyle's life was as follows quote. The prosecutor is right

728
00:48:26.039 --> 00:48:28.360
<v Speaker 2>when he says, you must have proof beyond a doubt

729
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.480
<v Speaker 2>that the act that deprived amos Haland of his life

730
00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:36.920
<v Speaker 2>was committed wilfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, and with malice a forethought?

731
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.280
<v Speaker 2>What is malice badness? Why, gentlemen, such an action must

732
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.079
<v Speaker 2>come from the mind of a man utterly destitute of

733
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:49.920
<v Speaker 2>every principle of right Prepense is a word taken out

734
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:53.039
<v Speaker 2>of the old common law, which means to weigh before

735
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:56.719
<v Speaker 2>to calculate to a nicety the hour, minute and second

736
00:48:57.079 --> 00:48:59.400
<v Speaker 2>of the time when the crime is to be committed.

737
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:04.159
<v Speaker 2>Who is the murderer? Look upon him, gentlemen, Does he

738
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:08.079
<v Speaker 2>look like a murderer. It is a boyish face, destitute

739
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:11.320
<v Speaker 2>of viciousness. It is an honest faced without the mark

740
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:14.039
<v Speaker 2>of cain upon it. He comes to you as a

741
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.519
<v Speaker 2>boy would go to a father, and asks of you

742
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:21.159
<v Speaker 2>nothing more than God's own justice. On the twenty eighth

743
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:25.000
<v Speaker 2>day of last November. The indictment says, this boy killed

744
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.400
<v Speaker 2>Amos Havelen with malice. Malice, gentleman, why his mind does

745
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:35.320
<v Speaker 2>not know about the words meaning unquote. Captain Holt then

746
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:39.159
<v Speaker 2>retold the story of the witnesses of Anna Havelyn's remark

747
00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:42.519
<v Speaker 2>concerning Decker, and of how the demon was aroused in

748
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:45.920
<v Speaker 2>the dead man's breast by the mention of the man's name.

749
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:50.840
<v Speaker 2>Captain Holt continued, why, gentlemen, Clarence Doyle was a hero

750
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:52.880
<v Speaker 2>at the time he rushed to the aid of those

751
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:56.000
<v Speaker 2>defenseless women who were alone in the parlor at the

752
00:49:56.039 --> 00:50:00.559
<v Speaker 2>mercy of Havelen's jealous rage. Weak as he was, he

753
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:02.960
<v Speaker 2>was willing to do his best. Do you think he

754
00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:06.800
<v Speaker 2>ought to hang? For that? Contrast Doyle's action to the

755
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:12.079
<v Speaker 2>abject cowardice of Fred Halund. Then, gentlemen, the testimony of

756
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.840
<v Speaker 2>the state's witnesses was contradictory. They said they wanted to

757
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.239
<v Speaker 2>see the boy hang. Shall then testimony be taken against

758
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:23.079
<v Speaker 2>that straightforward, honest, manly story you heard from the lips

759
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:28.119
<v Speaker 2>of this unsophisticated country lad. Finally, it rests with you, gentlemen,

760
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:30.719
<v Speaker 2>whether this boy shall go from this room with a

761
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:33.760
<v Speaker 2>fond mother and loving sister to a home of love

762
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:36.440
<v Speaker 2>and care, or whether he shall be condemned to end

763
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:41.800
<v Speaker 2>his life ignominiously and in despair in a prison cell. Unquote.

764
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:46.119
<v Speaker 2>In summing up for the state, prosecutor Stockton made a

765
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:49.719
<v Speaker 2>powerful plea for the conviction of the accused of murder

766
00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:53.440
<v Speaker 2>in the first degree. The voice of the prosecutor was

767
00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:57.719
<v Speaker 2>earnest rather than eloquent. Mister Stockton said, quote, you and

768
00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:00.880
<v Speaker 2>I both loved the name of Jersey justh and we

769
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:02.920
<v Speaker 2>do not want to see it dragged in the mire.

770
00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:06.159
<v Speaker 2>But if Clarence Doyle is not guilty of the highest

771
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:09.440
<v Speaker 2>crime known, the state does not want his blood, and

772
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:11.679
<v Speaker 2>if he has it, it is your duty to say

773
00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:14.800
<v Speaker 2>that he pays the penalty. As to the origin of

774
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:18.119
<v Speaker 2>that quarrel in the kitchen, when Havelnd rushed at Doyle,

775
00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:21.480
<v Speaker 2>it is almost beyond belief that the remark made by

776
00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:24.960
<v Speaker 2>mister Haveland about Decker should have aroused Haveln to the

777
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.639
<v Speaker 2>fury of a demon. Why then, did Havelnd rush at

778
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:33.199
<v Speaker 2>Doyle Because Doyle was telling Missus Haveland that her husband

779
00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.840
<v Speaker 2>was having improper relations with a certain old hag, and

780
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.639
<v Speaker 2>Havelyn was incensed to hear Doyle thus produce him in

781
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:44.639
<v Speaker 2>the presence of his wife. The defense got all the

782
00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:48.360
<v Speaker 2>Havelins to say that they had feelings against Doyle. It

783
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:50.960
<v Speaker 2>was right that they should have feelings against him, for

784
00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:53.599
<v Speaker 2>did they not see their father chop down with an

785
00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:57.159
<v Speaker 2>axe in cold blood by this defendant. Would not you

786
00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:02.079
<v Speaker 2>have feelings against the defendant? Were you? And the Doyle's

787
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:05.480
<v Speaker 2>motive was revenge. He wanted to get square for those

788
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:08.159
<v Speaker 2>two blows Haveln struck him in that fight in the

789
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:13.559
<v Speaker 2>kitchen unquote. In charging the jury, Justice Gummer explained the

790
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.519
<v Speaker 2>law so clearly that there could be no doubt that

791
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:19.719
<v Speaker 2>the jury understood their duty. If ever a jury did,

792
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:24.400
<v Speaker 2>all the evidence was reviewed commented upon in a clean,

793
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:28.400
<v Speaker 2>clear manner. It was an admirable charge, one of the

794
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:36.519
<v Speaker 2>best ever made in the Mercer Court. February fifth, eighteen

795
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:42.000
<v Speaker 2>ninety eight, for the killing of Amos Haveln with an

796
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:45.239
<v Speaker 2>axe on the twenty eighth day of last November, Clarence

797
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:49.000
<v Speaker 2>Doyle was this morning sentenced by Justice Gummer to ten

798
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:52.119
<v Speaker 2>years and three months at hard labor in the State Prison.

799
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:56.280
<v Speaker 2>Doyle was brought into court at fifteen minutes of ten o'clock.

800
00:52:56.920 --> 00:53:00.679
<v Speaker 2>He smiled pleasantly at friends he recognized among the spectators,

801
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:04.239
<v Speaker 2>and still appeared to be unable to appreciate the gravity

802
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:08.199
<v Speaker 2>of his position. Shortly after he took his seat by

803
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:13.000
<v Speaker 2>his faithful counsel, Captain Holt and James Clark. His father,

804
00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:17.280
<v Speaker 2>sister and brother arrived and occupied chairs around him. His

805
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:21.440
<v Speaker 2>mother was not present. Prosecutor Crossly then moved that the

806
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:26.039
<v Speaker 2>prisoner be sentenced. Captain Holt, in asking the court to

807
00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:30.079
<v Speaker 2>show mercy and imposing sentence, made an eloquent please, setting

808
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:33.159
<v Speaker 2>forth the weaknesses of a great portion of the evidence,

809
00:53:33.639 --> 00:53:36.679
<v Speaker 2>the youth of the prisoner, and the recommendation of mercy

810
00:53:36.760 --> 00:53:40.320
<v Speaker 2>of the jury. Quote, we are here this morning to

811
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:43.599
<v Speaker 2>face a most trying ordeal. I can well understand the

812
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:46.440
<v Speaker 2>feelings of the court as it faces this stern duty.

813
00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.280
<v Speaker 2>But I desire to call your honor's attention to a

814
00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:53.239
<v Speaker 2>few things. Captain Holt then handed the Court of petition

815
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.159
<v Speaker 2>asking the Court to show Clarence Doyle the greatest clemency

816
00:53:57.199 --> 00:54:01.400
<v Speaker 2>the law would allow in sentencing. The petition was signed

817
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.599
<v Speaker 2>by Senator Skerm, Assemblymanyard Nicklin and Weller, Mayor Sickle, and

818
00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:09.440
<v Speaker 2>one hundred other names of prominent city and county men

819
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:14.039
<v Speaker 2>of importance. Continuing, Captain Holt said, quote, you will call

820
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.639
<v Speaker 2>to mind that the question of the prisoner's guilt or

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<v Speaker 2>innocence depended largely upon the environments at the time the

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<v Speaker 2>blow was struck. If Doyle acted wrongly hastily, he acted

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<v Speaker 2>also as he thought for the best. You must remember

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<v Speaker 2>that he is not a man of mature judgment, and

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<v Speaker 2>under the circumstances which the fatal blow was struck, older

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<v Speaker 2>and more experienced minds than his would have committed the

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<v Speaker 2>same error. It seems to me, considering the prisoner's youth,

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<v Speaker 2>considering he acted under the best light that he had

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<v Speaker 2>and without malice, that he's entitled to all the leniency

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<v Speaker 2>your honor can give him, And I feel assured that

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<v Speaker 2>your honor will also temper justice with mercy in imposing

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<v Speaker 2>sentence justice, Gummer said, quote Doyle, after a trial in

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<v Speaker 2>which you have been ably defended. You have been convicted

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<v Speaker 2>by a jury of murder in the second degree, and

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<v Speaker 2>the court thinks the verdict adjustment. After a careful examination

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<v Speaker 2>of the facts of the case, the court thinks it

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<v Speaker 2>will be doing its duty to the public and properly

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<v Speaker 2>administering justice by imposing sentence upon you, not for the

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<v Speaker 2>full penalty of the law, but a sentence as light

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<v Speaker 2>as is possible. Therefore, you stand sentenced to ten years

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<v Speaker 2>and three months that hard labor in the state prison.

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<v Speaker 2>Doyle heard his sentence unmoved, but both his father and

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<v Speaker 2>sister gazed pathetically at him, while the tears coursed silently

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<v Speaker 2>down their cheeks. The general opinion about the court room

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<v Speaker 2>was that the court had been most merciful in its

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<v Speaker 2>administration of justice. That was hard cider and insults, struck

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<v Speaker 2>by an axe and killed, called from the historic pages

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