The Jacob Harden Murder
NEW JERSEY MIRROR DEC 29 1859 On Tuesday last, the Warren County Courts commenced, and it was expected that the case of Jacob S. Harden, for the murder of his wife, would be the first taken up. --The trial promises to be long and tedious.-- Over one hundred and twenty-five witnesses have already been subpoenaed, and more will doubtless be summoned before the close of the trial. The prosecution will be conducted by Attorney-General Dayton and Prosecuting Attorney Vleit. Harden will be defended by Ex-Chancellor Williamson, J. G. Shipman and David A. Depue. In advance of the trial, the Warren Journal gives the following sketch of Mr. Harden and his late wife, which is not only interesting in itself, but essential to a correct understanding of the merits of the issue, about to be determined Jacob Snover Harden is the son of Mr. John Harden, a respectable and worthy farmer of some means, residing on the Paulin's Kill, near Blairstown in Warren County. At about the age of ten or twe