The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-05-19
General Sessions.

6WILLiAM SHALER. acting District Attorney.
alias English Jack" implicated with Thomas Henry
placed in the bog for forgery in the second degree
Grand street. who stated that the evening the 10th
IF April prisoner in company with Henry came into his
and offered So note on the Atlas Rank
# Boston, for which he requested change Upon being
asked where he obtained the note he II had been
given to him by his boss" who was absent at Albany
The manner OF Williams and Henry induced Mr. MoreheSd
arrest them, and while on their way to the police in
cab in company with officer Davis and John Brown
Williams snatch he'd the note and threw out Of the cab
window, by which means il was lost. The counsel for
prisoner commended that in the sAce of the BILL the
witness couls proceed relate the conversation with
prisoner until after the forgery had been proved The
decided that witness could describe the bill in gene
Witness then proceeded to describe the
and stated that the bill similar to many others that
had been presented TO the court reaen trials and on
counsel for prisoner enqurng positively as to the face OF
the counterfeit he presented that he said was
similar appearance. The counsel for prisoner objected
to the note being offered evidence but the court de-
cded that the counsel had called upon witness to de-
scribe the note offered in very precise and particular
manner the presented being similar in appearance
could be received as evidence and it therefore ad
mitted. The jury after an absence of about fifteen min
ues returned verdict of guilty and English Jack"
will be sent to Sing Sing for summer residence and VIM
ters quarters.
Attempt to Commit Bursia,y.-A loafer looking genius.
with beard Ia Russ and imperial tried for attempt
on the 10th April last, with intent to- steal He
broke pane of glas: from one of the window,
was engaged On the premises There being no sn
dence to satisfy the jury that there any intent TO steal
discharged with admoniton from the Court not to
be caught again breaking other peoples windows
tried r c Ra 4 NMHs5h II then
Broome street. the sth Of April last while in the per-
ormance Of his duty in levyng landlords The
indictment charging the defendant with assault and
ry when no battery was committed the jury returned
verdict Of not guilty, and Mr.. Moger then proceeded to
shaped spE.si; S. ,,, -.
upon his trial for an alleged libel against William j. Bur
Tor he
ton and opened the by stating that the parties
druggist. and Of patent in this
ed by Burri the complainant, not invented by
Comsock the person charged with libel but intro
right make and vend them US Comstock or any
other druggist The libelous was then introduced
defendant Al Jordan, EsqMr BUmsrT1 was then called
to the stand to testify that he the person in the
ccution here rested and A. L. Jordan ESD for defence
opened the for his client He that they should
prove that the complainant Burritt had been in the
tice for years of countefeitng and initiating all kinds of
patent medicines and therefore the charge Of counterfeit
ing such medicine as alleged in the libel would be fully
sustained and justified by the truth.
SOLOMON HAYS was then sworn for Defence know
certain medicine, called Hays specific for the
piles it was first compounded by DR.. Grdley of Exeter,
n H. practitioner Of medic inc of repue and profes.
ser in one OF the Universities. He communicated to
the of compromising the medicine in 1923 do not
know that he commune ated it any one else. IA
contract here presented to witness for examination
He stated that it contained his signature The defend
the counsel for prosecution also contained the
gnal receipt for the manufacture OF Hays Linimen The
counsel for prosecution then commended that all the
contents of the above paper should be submitted
The counsel for defence then offered to show that
part of the paper containing assignment of the
original recipe from Mr. Hays to Comstock, and also
the receipt for the money but not that portion Con.
tanning the recipe for the manufacture of the lnment
The prosecution objected and the Court ruled that
only that portion desired by counsel for to be
admitted should be received The prosecution requested
the Court to note their exception and the paper then
read to the Jury. twas in the shape of affidavit made
by Hays in March, 1884, wherein he dsposes of the orgi
nal recipe for the manufacture Of Hays nment Luclus
T. Comstock for certain sum of money fixed upon by
the parties
DRBRASDnErH and several other gentlemen called
TO testify to the extensive in which Mr. Comstock
had advertised the Imminent throughout the country the
object being show that had made reputation for the
medicine before Burrt had commenced to manufacture
imitation of it.
ConSELus BoRrM druggist testified that when Burritt
had offered it for sale to him. he had called Hays ni-
ment and said the same kind that sold by Com.
stock
The court here ad ourned to this morning at IL o'clock