The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-11-20

Trial OF Polly Botline.
Circuit Court.
Before Judge Edmonds.

.
Before Judge Edmonds
Nov. l9-The Ladies .Agasn.-"Femae curiosity
appea red to have been slumberng the
ment of the present would seem to have again ar
before the hour xea for the sitting Of the Court were
10 be seen snugly seated in cornerthe eyes Of all
were directed towards the doorway, through which
ves and skies and sevens were also 10 De seen the
leading to the Court room IN order TO catch
not appear 10 have studied at any length the prnc
Piles Of politeness the "etiquette OF the ball room
rs they rudey thrust themselves forward in position
to vie the prisoner she moved along which was tru
ly offensive The Court sat at the hour Of u o'clock
and proceeded to hear excuses. The jurors already
took their places and Of them were looking
somewhat ill at easen T.
There was a lachrymose expression about the coun.
tenances CT Of them-a deep soemnity that would
to indicate that the wearer" conceived himself
hanging upon the " horn Of a dilemma" M.My AN.
| The business resumed and the Court was crowd
ed with batch of customers-none OF whom evil
IDENTIFY belonged to the upper Ten Thousand. though
| many OF them might, perhaps, possess more intehi
| gence.
requested to call the attention Of the Court to some
remark which fell from the Bench conveying an imPu
taon upon that part Of the jury at present sworn in
| which conceive to be unjust
CouRr-f should think, Mr. Clark that they ought TO
be allowed to speak for themselves.
| Mr. CLARK.-These remarks were made public IN the
papers, and consider they were gn i,s - ,,u
application made at the request and on behalf OF the
jury because if it is, is certainly very improper
Counr.--The jury have no right to hold any commu-
nscNtlOn W0atev0I
right convey to them any communication without the
| permission Of the Court.
Mr.. SLAhK.-i nsve nsu 10 @ as,ardav caIsS 70
the matter but did not then state to the Court. The
the observations Of the Court were calculated give
offence to the jurors who are now sworn think
am not the rules les Of ps0pe'y m oane
| COURT shall receive no communication from the
| jury through either of the counsel
COUNSEL for defenceThis is rather curious sort OF
proceeding to find that either OF the counsel should APP
pear here the peculiar champion Of the jurors II Is
matter in itself which consider calculated to- bias the
jury have selected in after nine days,
and to place the life death of the prisoner in their
hands and think when we have selected them as i'm
partial men, that this sort of proceeding is rather strange
| indeed
Mn. CLARS.-I think the jury have privileges-and in
relation to their rights and feelings
Couar-I do not think Mr.. Clark you are called
upon to become the champion Of the jury: II they
have any thing to communicate, should WISE S"sm 10
do SO themselves. .l.
/ William s. BOSWELL sworn and examined live III
South street; have lived in New York since last April;
came from New Orleans am assessed in New Orleans
CouRr.-The language OF the statute Is that juror
must be assessed the value OF $3.50.
JuRoR-I own no real estate the county; have
certained that am not assessed.
Juror set aside upon these grounds
George Irwin formed an opinion. Set aside Charles
D. Blevin Like like rule Henry Dickinson, and the
Caghlan, John Nice oTmick Caleb Ward, J. D: Utter
H. Gregory, Thomas McAdam, Geo. w. NJ Gibbs, J. NJ
IOmpkins. D. CruRer, Cnarles "a
Ter, w. McLcand o. Anjeyine, G. &. Tuhiy, w. s. Mil
Ter, Owen Barring, W. I: Mcintyre James Baker u "
I j. Nj Latham. Nicholas Kkin, Rowland Jones, Thomas
Dusenbury, Benjamin Coolage, BENJAMIN Sherwood, b.
Mei BOWEN y pKes Ne D. omsby W. Floyd john
Sheridan, Osburgh Benton, w. Brinslow Edward Will
lett George wesDsr yUnn
Master, F. sunnyball Louis Doty 7. Moony, sampson
Rockoe, Albert r Ambroe, NJ Hill, J. A. Tiord, Geo.
trick Daily, o. s. Jennings, Peter Dunn, w. Everdell
w. H. Degroot sworn.-flive at No IS vandam street;
heard newspaper reports read formed an opinion from
what heard read that murder had been committed,
and that there was an arson committed Set aside
read part Of the first trial. and generally makes prac-
tce to credit all Laugherl- hear the re-
verse-(Renewed laughter) Challenge true.
s. H. Bavelt formed opinion. Set aside: Also J.
Stewart J. Baker, James Little, J. c.. Howe j. Gilmour,
Cady j. H. Weed R. smith, W. Mallory, w. c. Perrine,
r. Caughlin, r. Kennedy.
nion Ihave read portions of the trial. but it has
escaped my memory have eonysrsed about It frequent
judged from what he heard and ir read s
Boyce, H. NJ. Herbert, $: vandeyeter, J. T. Derrick
o sdease f. wst sos olSan Rca
man, E. Wayd jr., w. Mccartney, s. e. Burdett
W. 8 Connolly sworn II is possible ! might have
impression my mind; have not expressed an OPP
Mon; but talked about the matter good deal; gave
aside. M M l
J. Sutton formed an opinion Set aside. Also, w. D.
nlcks o noWiey, D. i. 'dcAson, IL mum, ''r "o'0''
| w. Reynolds.
A. E. Palmer formed an opinion. Also, Theo Moon
| shine, Henry Luscombe.
Charles Purdy sworn-I satisfied in my mind that
murder was committed Set aside.
J. Kelvin, formed an opinion Set aside Also j. W.
Rennings, r. B. Greenwood, Jesse H. Van Aukin, H. B.
Howard, c. NJ Riddle, Roswell Steel, G. +. Park A. e.
Harrel, J. NJ Alden Samuel T.. Knapp Peter Shoats, W
johnson, w. Tyson Nicholas Bursham Michael Burns,
William Green, w Thompson, Richard A. Howard W..
Philip Ward sworn-Has formed no opinion IN regard
to this case don't know who is going to be tried =,
Mr.. GRAHAM informed the juror of the nature OF the
when he said that he had read reports OF the case
in the ne wspapers From what read thought that
murder had been committed, and that is now my
opinion. Set aside.
Joseph Aiken has formed and expressed an opinion.
Set aside. J. w. Smile do; Michael McCabe do Law
! Null, do.
The list of jurors for the morning session here
exhausted and the court took recess until O'CLOCK
The Court after short proceeded to hear ex-
aside upon the ground referred to above name
ly the fact of ha wing formed opinion asto the guilt
or innocence of the prisoner
Mr. WHITING moved for another tales OF five hundred
withdraw the record from what they had experienced
during the last few days. he had come to the conclusion
that it would be impossible to procure jury IN the
| county.
! coed. g .sIs
The CouRr referred to the vast expenditure amount
ing about $25 per day and also the necessity Of ms
attending the Circuit in Kings and Richmond when the
tanning single juror. Thirteen out OF the entire uum
1 Der examined have received peremptory challenges
II is expected that Judge Edmonds will make some de-
cision this (Thurday) forenoon which will settle the
question in relation to exhaustng the county panel
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