The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-16

Of his power ever 70 10 IN his regiment, by disbandng
him. In which latter ase the retained bounty is to bs
paid at the time Of discharge.
THE BEDINI, RIOTS In CINCINNATI.
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Examinatirm or Judge william L. spooner,
Capt TrIos. D. Lukcns, Six Lleutenants and
Charr,e OF Mot on Cnristmss c Evening
G Gax ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS not yet
[From the Cincinnati Gazstts.l
FIRST DAY.
The celebrated trial Of Judge spoonsr Captain Lukena
and the entire police orcs Of the city commenced yssssr
Greenwood Hall The excitement whioh attended the
vesgaoo exceeded anything before Witnessed in this
persons was nIsd TO it, utmost capacity, and No learn
that hundreds wers compelled to leave without gaining
.sm. :s Within II. the b.; &
prisoners formidable array Of men, and their atsor
The names Of the prisoners were called, - follows
ssph Cassidy, John 7: Crsmsr Niohssl Bowling, Perry
liam Bedding, Conrad stutIman. Francis Housman, A.
pP E.m Ts sh' sSoss wsn wsas
worth, Benjamin HnoAeld, James Cassidy, John
Baldwin; &c 2. Thsysr, Benjamin nsts1sr, Herman
John Grogan, lawrence Weingartner, Michael Hobig
John Sehnsss William Aeader, Lewis Parker A. sohur
Benjamin Philips John Fitzpatrick, brios worley, Pat
rick Gallagher A. williamson FREDERICK Drssss, John
notts, Chss 8 Young, William Moore Henry stsinreed
Fitch Christian Schafer, Frederick Good, Roth, John
+. Wolf. A. Kleine, solomon, j. Brown r. Buras Eu
1nsdol Daniel DAVIDSON, Geo Williams, Henry METERS
John schidsr, Henry johnson, Henry Hausman, John
Kormsch.r, Matthew Ieohtenduhl John Zsigler, Lewis
Drazior, John Stutzmsn, Samuel Bloom Cornelius Muir
ply Benjamin shuttuck, Phineas Hudson, Timothy
hcCarty George N. Carr Major Perry Ornson scribnsr,
Batsman, John Stevens Lewis Haasmau, barney Ertsl
Christian Solomon. Martin Staey Francis Smith, Frank
wesh tman JAS Campbell, William Hardin, rhos AearA,
All but Ave answered to their Names and for two OF
the absenees An excuse was andered by their counsel
others sent for and brought into court From in
tmation made by Judge Walker the Court decided that
the hours OF session would be from to IL In the
ing and from to in the afternoon.
The recoRnizsnces OF the flowing defendants de-
clared forfeited B Rhodes, j. +. Wolf and Chas.
Peppsnbring; Henry Carroll Adams Klene the former
shot and the latter sick, excused f. Slack and
J. Norris returneo mot found +" The Of the
witnesses for the prosecution called They mber
ed about hundred The witnesses for the Defence
numbering some sxty, then called. The Court
nounoed that witness should leave without permission
M. Boffinger interpreter.
The hrst witness called &. Broemer who testified
viz found the procession on the corner Of Walnut
and Mercer streets, and heard noife the Of
Ninth and Plum, and the officers pitched into Captain
Luken caught and dragged along. and struck me
over the head with mace; he said kill them-arrest
replied sf you do not hush, I smash your head;' he
beat and kicked down to the curb stone; was
tai and confined In the watch house, and badly
treated therein and when In the cell beat again
with mace; had pocket book containing twelve dol
lars and notes taken from me- By order OF
Ken struck Of the prisoners, and that Waterman
they csled Keramer also struck prisoners he had suit
Of velvet clothes 1t the night OF the 25th Of
December, In this city the officers In various d..
TecttOn6, and took Unexpectedly: Der OF
the Freeman Society; know only my brother who was
aso in the procession know Mr. Hlssa ureck: do not
know that he IN the processon the eny time
Mr. was in Il 9 Freemans Hall, in the afternoon.
Cross exam nedI Joined the procession the corner
them did not know the object OF the procession
exSpt it to burn in efgy Bedini did not the
chgy in procession, bat saw II in thu eveoing in Free
mans HALL; the hall then full but not know what
number there heard In the procession that the OBJ
ject WAS to burn Bedini in egy saw transpArsnciss
Down with Bedini' in the four tn rank OF the
procession; Ne were turning Of Ninth and
Plum. toward the cathsdrs the police pitched into
us; was taken SO quick that had no tune to oils
tipguish sny OF the officers, except Captain Luz
ken; l in tine procession have pisi OILS
or claim such 1t the watchhouss. When Luken ar.
street FIRST expression heard vas Hurrah boys 70
Second sxIeseon BY Capt Luhsn, who, after
ing me, said. Pitch in. soys-kfl him. arrest the
s--s Of b---s." He Game killing mo. would
not like to be in tina. position again The
about IL O'Clock Christmas night take the Hoch.
tdechy believe Mr. Il Is the proprietor i've in Cum.
Mr. smith saksd-Do you know who Is the editor Of the
Hoch,odeclsr!
Judge walker-what lis the object Of these questions
Mr. smth-it il to lay the foundation for introducing
the paper In testimony
deemed irrelevant but when the paper introduced
they should object He remarked that the of
the procession were eemen. and entitled to the
street. and the article Hoc,odecr did not Justify
the "pitchine In of the police II the articles In that
paper were beous, there was way to reach the pro-
break down beneath the weight Of the people piled upon
Them creating great confusion and exc.tement)
The Court observed that the hour Of adjournment had
arrived, an they would take until p n, and
hall.
AFTERNOON sEssIoN.
At opening Of the court Judge Walker resumed his
At the close OF the morning session. stated that no
Newspaper article should justify riot will make that
proposition now and waive any further remarks until
have heard from the other side
M Groesbeck said-It is net At all unlikely that the
viii be Irotracted tn any Of could des
1t is net the fault Of the defendants and the counsel for
the prosecution shoud not atem to shorten the invss
with the articles published and that the pro
cession such that should be arrested dis
pelsed riot he claimed that the notices embasones
upon the banners under which the procession marche
copied from said newspapers calculated to
produce riot He claimed that the cennestion OF the
articles with the procession to show the in and
what woul3 have been the probable result
Mr.. Smith cid not claim that any newspaper pashca-
on would Justify riot Tut contenied that newspaper
publication shows the objects and notves OF the process
sion. Mr.. Smith Ia very warm argument claimed that
the introduction Of the newspapers as testimony
Judge Walker replied in a very warm tone. He was
surpsed at the attack made upon tbs reemen &c loved
tho pane better than the name Of JeAuits. nobler
name he did not know and thanked God that in this
country they could be rcemen As for the Transparent
ciss they matter Of taste One OF them had 1t
..ovn with asdiri" tremendous cheering BY outd
dsrs) He continued-"And who would dare stand up
the friend Of such mani" the publication was Of