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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-05-06, Page 61 l.,ep hint w{tit-'°i1 a e1'If1A�t k¢ t+C.ettiklllltt,$, Huron t q. n E 1rS- QCUt'd ;,what hie mental. capa4ity. Wag+ $1.50t.5o Temsl��, le Advance When being plied xtvith the questions tift :c,ustomar • under .tbe circutnstaucea Wednne$tda1,'* iHaT Otis. 1891. wrfal. T;T,A.GKJS ' ()RM.;1h, IN TU 4-NNAL4 01? A:1I eRCA." ariisse. Larocque wa- put in the due -snd the proceedings in his tale" forutai-der was commenced at VOriginuj, Ointario, on Tuesday of Netweek, The Judge in passing sentence said it wee "the blackest panne in theannals Of America." It wi,l be remembered that the two McGonigle girls, school children aged 1,2 and I4 yeare, were outraged and murdered in October last. • THE FATHER'S EVIDENCE. James McGonigle, the father of the murdered children, a laborer, was thea called and testified to their ages, namely, that of Mary abaut fourteen years, and that of Eliza _shout twelve. They were at school at Cumberland on the 7th of Octo- ber last. They did not come home that night, but it was thought they had stayed with friends iu the village, as they had -- previously done. His house was about two utiles from the school. The next night, Wednesday, the 8th, about 10 o'clock, the two girls were found dead by him and some others in a bush, just out of a lane which the children traversed on their way to and from the village as shown by the plan. George Brown, the school teacher, and Cosy McCollum, a little girl who waa a achoolueate of the murder- ed girls, teatified to the latter hav- ing been at school ou the 7th of October and having left it for home at 4 o'clock. Cosy accompanied them as far as Mr. Gamble'a lane, near which the bodies were after- wards found, and saw them going up it towards home. Mr. Elliott stated that on the 6th of October the prisoner went to Ottawa with hint, and while on the journey with hien had some con- versation with him that was not any better than it should be. Mr. Constantineau here interposed au objection, and Mr. McLennan stated that what he proposed proving by this witness was a declaration by the prisouer of his intention to have improper intercourse with some one. Mis Lordship ruled the testimony out as irrelevant. THE PRISONER'S MOVEMENTS. Margaret Cochrane deposed that after her children had come home from school at 4 o'clock on the day the girls were murdered she saw the prisoner running through a field opposite Shirkey's tannery and south of Wiusor's Hotel towards the hill rip which the Lane lends Her house 19118 about five minutes' walk from the school house and he- tween it and tate lane. In cross- extmivation she stated that she was betsy at the waste tub at the time, but had watched the prisoner a little while She did not know him to speak to, but she had seen him around for two or three years. She was corroborrated by her son, a school boy, who further stated that he saw the prisoner run all the way to the foot of the hill and a abort distance up the hill, He had also seen the prisoner on the same day in the back street near which the school house is situated when witness was going to school at dim ner time. Wm. Gamble, a son of John Gam- ble, deposed that on the 7th of October he was working in a field at the side of the lane in question until about balf.past 4, when he quit and drove home along the lane going northward. On the way he wet the two McGonigle girls proceed ing up the lane, and about a minute afterwards, at a distance of 80 paces behind them, he saw the prisouer coming along the fence be-. tween the baro and Cameron's line. Prisoner was running when witness first saw hive, but when they suet he was walking at •a brisk pace. Prisoner when passing remarked that it was a wet night. When the prisoner reached the lane he turned along it in the direction opposite to that in which witness was proceed- ing. A wan , named Benjamin Bernard who lived with witness' father was working with witness that afternoon, and when witness left the field Bernard went to a Mover field near by for the cows and brought them home about fifteen minutes after witness reached there. Witness was home all that evening, and saw Bernard there too. On crosa-examination the witness stat ed that he just saw the prisoner while he was going about. 30 feet, part of that distance on a run. Ir, was about three-quarters of a mile from witness' father's hoose to where the girls were found. It was near 5 o'clock when he got into the house after putting away his horses. He did not hear any noise after going home. Bernard was not thoroughly intelligent—sometimes he was sharp enough and sometimes he waa not. He took bad turns sometimes. BENJAMIN BERNARD. Benjamin Bernard was the next put into the witness -box, but before .he was sworn his Lordship question• he beanie( afttt t'a l t little; me to which he waabning itadgered in•ail •yncail- ed-for nianuer, and in reply to a question of his Lordship as to what wool[[ "blipPen to him if he 'told a lie, he impatiently responded with the counter interrogatory, "Well, do you want rite to tell a lie?i7- At last it was elicited from him that good' people went to heaven and that bad people, including those who told lies, went to hell lire, so he was allowed to take the stand. He told his story in a connected man- ner; corroborating that of the prev- ious witness. HEARD THE CRIES. Robt. Dalrymple stated that when he was near his barn feeding a colt he bard screeching, as of somebody in distress, coming from the direction of where the bodies were found, which was about a mile or a mile and a quarter away. He had no welch with him, but, judgs ing from the time at which he was accustomed to feed the colt, it was about 5 or 6 o'clock when he heard the cries. There was an interval in the screeching. From the time he heard the first of it till the time he heard the last was a period of about 15 minutes. Heber Orton testified that on the 13th October he went along the private road on which the bodies of the children were found for some distance beyond that point and found the tracks of several different persons. This was in the direction it was supposed the prisoner would have taken in going to Edward Larocque'e Some distance past the place of the finding of the bodies he came upon an elm sapling of about an inch in diameter, off which the top had been broken. A little further on Ire found the top of the same sapling, as he proved it to be by titting it to the stub, and un the leaves was'dried blood. Under the top and sticking to it there were also a couple of staple leaves with considerable blood on them. MEDICAL EVIDENCE. Dr. James Ferguson, the coroner, gave evidence as to the condition in which the bodies were when fou.td. There was no doubt they bad been terribly outraged, but the immedi- ate cause of death was strangulation in both cases The eyes and tongue were protruding. There were marks of abrasion on the throats, and it was evident from the finger prints that he observed that the wind pipe had been subjected to great pressure. There were also woundson the hands, such as would be made by strong finger nails dig- ging into then[. Not only the skin but some of the flesh had been re- moved. The pressure was of a strong muscular, robust hand. Dr. Robert Marks of Ottawa de- posed that he made a post mortem examination in company with Dr. William Ferguson and Dr. Janson of Ottawa. He produced in evi- dence the hands and other injured parts of the children preserved in spirits, and also photographs of the hands, together with impressions of the prisoner's fingers and finger nails which he had taken after his arrest. The testimony agreed with that of the coroner as to the imme diste cause of death and as to the external marks of violence. In stat., ing the particulars lie mentioned that a bone in the throat of the younger girl was broken, The des- cription of the injuries detailed by hien were most horrifying. Among other evidences of the fiendish treatment the poor little girl was made to suffer he stated that intern• ally he found that there was a break- ing through into the abdominal cav- ity. The brain and lungs were very ranch congested and venous blood had escaped under the scalp. The internal evidences of violence were much more marked in the osse of the younger girl than the sister. It was apparent that the younger one was the firat to receive the ill•treat- mertt by which they wore caused. The thumb marks were on the inner sides of the neck, speaking with re- ference to the position in which the were Lound. Dr. Janson and Dr. Win. Ferguson have evidence corroborative of that of Dr. Marks. After an absence of 35 minutes they returned in the court room with a virdict of guilty. THE SENTENCE Having put on the black cap his Honor aaked the usual question as to whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed. Larocque, who during the delivery and recording of the verdict, had been standing with a hopeless kind of expression on his face, simply re- plied that he bad nothing to say. In addressing the prisoner before passing sentence his Lordship said to Trim :—"Perhaps in the annals of crime in this country no more dias helical crime has been committed than that which you had perpetrat- ed and of which the°jury have very larOPO:flyrt.thirritr.correictettmlon The circumstances all pointed to you as being the guilty party, You were last seen in the company of 11. "' ,•moi" ;Gtu; these two Iittlttgirla, ,who Yr ern no - Ode to protet;t tltetttselve8 t ati,3 you,, leefn . 44443101 of the fancily, yowl duty ought ta. finve Vertu . JP- have prett•oted`lheti' agniutst the handof° amyous instead of that as the ev dence must satisfy everyone, }nu first, in order to satisfy your lustful passion, violated them troth and then y03 committed this offence for the purpose of covering up the guilt of the first crime," After a few further rewarle, in the course of which be observed that rte was afraid what he had said would make very Little impression on the convicted man, his Lordship formally pronounced his doom, which wae to he hanged on June 4th. After being removed to the goal prisoner's counsel went to have an interview withqhhiw, and in the course of it the man exhibited but little feeling. He remarked to them that a man her] to die once at any rate, and he might as well die now as another time. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, • DEATHS. SOME INTERESTING COMPILATIONS FROM THE ONTARIO RE- TURNS FOR 1889. There are some interesting facts in the report relatiug to the aegis tratiou of births, marriages and deaths for 1889, which was pre- sented to the members of the legis- lature the other afternoon. During the year 58,528 births, 14,880 mar- riages and 23,229 deaths were registered in the province. Over 1888, the births show an increase of 329, and the deaths a decrease of 405. Thecounties of Carleton and York produce the greatest propor- tion of registered births being 36.4 per 1,000. There were 926 more males than females born during the year. Iu only one mouth, that of March, did the females get ahead of the males. March, which symbol- izing nature, is usually the most prolific month for births, had re- oeded to fourth position in 1889. April had the most births and Fobru- al•y the least—owing, probably to its being three days short. Three cases of triplets occurred in 1889. Illegitimate births are on the increase, being 2 per cent of the total number in 1888, as against per ceut in 1889. "They were married in the gentle June time," is a wind up, to a work of fiction that is no longer author- ized by fact. June or May may be the most romantic monthe, but the young people of Ontario, strange to say, prefer December, with its own bridal veil of white snow, and with 1,753 weddings in 1889, October and January carne next. June is not in it, being sixth on the list, while July is tenth, and May eleventh. Brides evidently favor cold weather, as August stands at the foot of the list as usual, with wedding bells rung only on 913 occasions. The returns show that only' 259 males were married under twenty yeais of age, while 2,573 females were in their teens. Forty two giddy young young persons of seventy years of age and over were married during the year, there being forty bridegrooms and only two brides. Of these only two brides were olderthan their bridegrooms, one young woman being eighty-two yeard,.or twenty yearn older than her hubby. Four persons were married at the age of eighty and over. In coutrast to these marriages of persons advanced in years. the fol- lowing youthful marriages were re- corded, namely :—Nine girls of fourteen years of age united them selves to youths under nineteen years, and thirty girls were married at sixteen years of age. The youngest couple mrrried was a girl of fourteen years of age to a youth of• eighteen years. The greatest disparity of ages exhibited in any marriage was that of a man aged seventy-nine years who married a maiden of the age of fifteen years. Coming to the deaths, it is found that phthisis is the disease that causes the most deaths, with 2,417 to its credit. Pneumonia and bronchitis come next with 2,286 ; nervous diseases, with 2,268: general debility, with 1,996, and heart disease, with 1,639, are the next highest causes. The class that die the moat are cultivators of the soil, there being 3,387, mechanic° coming next with 927. Clergymen attained the greatest age of professional men, their aver- age being sixty-one years. Factory operatives are the shortest lived, their average age being thirty-four years. Then come book-keepers and clerke. who average thirty-one years. Laborers do not live as long as tarmere and gardeners. AN EGYPTIAN BRIBE. ALMOND•HYED, ROSY -CHEEK ED, SUPPLE, AND GRACE- FUL OF FORM. It was in the Barrage, the famous Bridge oz,lo d,e..w,eit ,t,,b,e- eaaterr part spanning the Damietta and the western the Rosetta branch of the Nile. It was there that the late .4 i Iched va *tilts, loveely.. palace, end. snit. [more. lovely. garde[[, which, be, pother, graced with his I3rettence takes to, his life and left to decay, just as till Feyptiatts have done 4400 .the World 'began, never re- ne:wita, never reviving, but build ing, as a child would built[ a toy house, to pull down and begin another. .4.0 American engineer, one of the half dozers retained in acts, has ch.tzrge of the bridge, and it is be who walks under the shadow sof the palmsand gathers the wild roses and' eats the goldeu oranges that, whether or not, blos- som and bear fruit iu the deeerted garden. It was from the balcony of the house, a part of the old palace, looking out uu the beautiful, bloom ing country, the green fields, the lovely, mysterious river, that we saw a cavalcade approaching, and heard the sound of the lute and pipe. "It Is a fautaaia," exojainred our host ; a fantasia meaning any fete or Nitta. Down the long white road they came, a procession of horsemeu ou white Arabian steeds, the last man dressed iu handsome raiment and bearing himself with the proud air of one upon whom all oyee are fixed. Next to him stood a groomed and caparisoned. camel with a rich blanket and au embroidered saddle, and after this another cancel with even more gorgeous trappings, who bore a rieh palanquin, curtained on every side with gold and crimson hangings. Within sat the bride. Following the bride were three other camels, on which were seated veiled women, and then came a train carrying household furniture, bedding, stuffs, chests, pots and pans, and all the various appurtenances essen- tial to housekeeping in an oriental cou It wntly.as the bride's coming to the husband's house, the Istat day of the wedding, and the conclusion of the seven days' feasting. Iu a few hours he would for the first time lift the veil and see whether indeed what his mother had told him is true ; whether she is almond -eyed and rosy-cheeked and supple of limb and graceful of form ; whether she has the voice like the cooing of a dove, and is learned in the mak- ing of bread and dakkah, for not one glimpse of her face, not one word from her lips, has ever been vouchsafed him. Poor fellow I Do those brilliant curtains shroud loveliness or deformity ? Has the mother been won over by the pile of stuff and the earrings and brace- lets to fancy beauty where there are only riches? It has happened so in other lands. But the bride—have I no pitying words for the bride, who is also supposed to be ignorant of the lineaments of h3r husband? The bride is a woman. • There are windows, though latticed windows, in the house in the village over the plain, _ and the brown eyes were never darkened when, veiled and shrouded, she went to the- mosque or well. We may be sure the bride had seen hint many a day and oft, and loved or hated him after the fashion of women, who heaven be praised, do not need a century of contemplation to make up their minds whether they like a thing or not. EXPERIMENTAL MARRIAGE AS SAID TO BE PRACTICED IN A STRANGE BRITISH COLONY. The Audaman islands are used as a penal settlement for Indian and Burmese convicts, who with the ex- ception of every limited aboriginal race scattered over the group, form the bulk of tho population. The isolated situation of the settlement in the Bay of Bengal, tlio absence of communication by cable, the small military force maintained, and the fact that about 15,000 convicts are here resident, render it necessary to endow the chief commissioner with more than ordinary powers extend• ed to governors. Hence the chief commissioner of the Andatnans,who is also superintendent of the con•. vict settlement at Port Blair by vir- tue of the almost autocratic author- ity vested in him, enjoys a despot- ism well nigh incredible under the British flag. Such powers being concentrated in a single individual, it may be imagined that from time to time some rather startling revelations leaked out. I only propose, how- ever, to refer for the present to our marriage customs, which have novel- ty, if nothing oleo, to recommend them. The chief commissioner as superintendent of the settlement in convict matrimonial matters le su- preme. He is licenser, registrar, and witnesses rolled into one. The The greater part of tate life convicts, who are good characters, are "e elf- supporters"—that is, meq out on ticket-of-laave in the settlement. These men are allowed to marry. The convict women, on the other hand, aro always kept under close supervision in the female convict jail. 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Should the overseer absent himself for a moment the coveted bachelor, though he be an octogenarian, is assailed on all sides with a view to his conquest. Such phrases as "Here, take me!" "No, me !" "Why, she's gut red hair !" "She's cross-eyed I" do not make matters essior for him, At length, having suited himself, he takes by the hand the lardy of his choice and leads her from the ranks. The couple aro then allowed half an hour to discuss matters, after which, if they agree, their names are sent into the head office. A day or two later they attend at the cowmission- er's and are there put through an examination as to the state of their affections and their inclivation to marry : but no no awkward ques- tions are ever raised concerning possible existing husbands or wives beyond the seas. ' And now conies the climax. Sup posing satisfactory untwists have been given as to their mutual senti- meuts, the lady is handed over to the man—not to be his wife for bet- ter or for worse, but for seven days' trial. During those seven days she lives with him, and the relationship of the pair is that of a married cou- pyje. At the expiration of the torus of approval, if both are agreeable, they return to the chief coturnission er's office and are married by that gentlomau. If, on the other hand, either of them does not approve of the other, the mate is left to go his way, while the woman returns to her old routine of work in the fe male jail. The worst feature of the system is the fact that, as might bo anticipated, children aro occasional- ly born of these probationary un- ions. To such infants the state as- sumes the responsibilities of a step- father. 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