Excerpt from The Rev. Herbert H. Hayden; An Autobiography: The Mary Stannard Murder; Tried on Circumstantial Evidence
The trial of the Rev. Herbert H. Hayden, of Madison, Conn., on a charge of murdering Mary Stannard, was begun in New Haven on the 7th of October, 1879, and was not concluded till near the middle of January, and, considering the time occupied, the character of the evidence and other circumstances, it was one of the most memorable trials in the court annals of this country. Public interest in it became absorbed from the start; and the wide-spread knowledge of it and watchful curiosity to learn every phase of it have been strikingly illustrated in the overwhelming correspondence that the publishers of this book have received from one end of the country to the other, making inquiries concerning the sale and price of the work.
Readers will find in the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Hayden, and in the abstracts of the arguments of counsel, a record of the leading events in the trial, together with the essential features of testimony which formed the scheme of the prosecution and the defensive elements on the other side. It has not been considered necessary to follow in detail the whole mass of evidence, material or speculative, which occupied the attention of the State throughout, because very much was introduced manifestly in support of theories which were finally not pressed. A sufficiently comprehensive idea of the leading facts and material elements of the trial is given to satisfy all readers - even those who have not pursued with care the current record of the proceedings.
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