The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-16

there about half an hour when the Judge in; he
said, "good morning" and hung up his coat cloak
ne asked me Il l had been down town; l said
had az and , handed s1d him the bills he gndons the
'Gts all right he rolled them up again
and put them up in his left breast pocket;
ed that day and for me to to his house in the
ing and he would give it to me; left him then; in
the evening went to his house; he was to have been
home at O. he made an appointment for O. and waited
until TO- ne came in about TO- and apoogzed for keep
ing me waiting so long and there being fire in the
Parior he said that he knew l must be cold; l told
him ] did feel somewhat cold because wrs not well:
had bad cold; he then told that Mr.. Hall was
trying murder cases, and very busy-sin fact he
said II have partly neglected your business, but then
Hall engaged in trying murder cases. and could not
do anything for you to-day; then told him my hus-
TO have him somewhere where could give him some lit
tie nourishmen and make him comfortable than he
TO see my husband and have conversation with hi al:
he said mo; can talk with you differently than
would with him, he is a man." lie then told me if Mr.
Connolly came to the city he must keep himself secluded
because the Police Committee met the Friday folio wing
and he would merely say in the committee that there
had been noe proseq entered in the Of Cosgrove
in a careless way, that there would be no etime',
about 1T in the newspapers he sail he did not want any
newspaper talk was to see him agan on the next Sat
urday night at his house; went TO his house that
urday night; Friday before that Newark and
brought my husband to lspenard street. in this city,
stayed a. Newark over dark, to bring him in at
night; the next time saw Judge Stuart the Sat
urday.
u State what passed therey A. he tnld me there had
been moc lroseq entered but he had forgot to bring
up the pes and that he would write paper which
could take to Connolly and bring him to this city,
where might give him all the comforts could IL
sick did not tell Mr.. Stuart that he in the city ut
the time; he wrote the paper and handed it to me- ard
saw there was mistake in the date and in the name
he had it Vim. Connolly and told him that he in
oced by the name Of Cosgr0ve he tore up that
and wrote second one; he set the name OF VIM.
Cosgroye down on slip Of paper and kept that
himself and the paper which he wrote
Hooked at the paper and told him there mistake in
did not read the balance of 1t but folded it up and put
il in my pocket for anxious to show it to my hus
band IT was then about IL O'Clock at night for it
after IL when got home.
q Look at that paper, (banding sheet of foolscau
to wness and state whether it is the Judge Stuart
wrote on that occasion and delivered to you A. Yes
O. Look at that other (handng witness white letter
enveope and say whether Judge Stuart wrote and gave
1t to your A. Yes, Judge Stuart wrote this in my pre-
sence and put the paper in the envelope.
Mr. Cutting offered these papers in evidence and read
Cry AND COUNTY or NEW YORK.
Office Of the City Judge, Feb. 10, 1865.
of n G and s0Sny So q was M day ID
The Indictment against VIM. Connolly dschargng The
and preferred against him The month April 1853
e as NOW mo oaen Court the
10y ''''A' s. IL STUART, City Judge.
The endorsement the back Of the envelope WIN.
Connolly, ESQ.,"
witness-This paper took of with me, and gave it
10 my husDand there was an error In the date OF the
paper the second as well as the first it was saturday
the 17 and he dated l9th and called HIS attention
to that when he said it made difference; he said the
mol entered but 1t had slipped his mind and he
did not bring the papers, that he had not spoken to
Hail about IT that day, but that it all right and that
he would get from Mr. Hail he would give Il to me:
promised INN would call on Monday, but did not.
Q. Why notr A. was actually ashamed to run there
oice; had given him the address of my brother and
told him he might write to me there, and send it to
to the address Of brother which South Worcester
otsego county; he said he would do
O. Look ut this paper producing certified copy Of the
entry Of the mol PROS and say where you first It, and
how you got ii A. This sent in letter written to
me- In OF my brother, and sent to South Worcester
Otsego county the letter in the handwriting Of
Stuart but ii from him he told me afterwards that
he sent it, and asked me il got it, "but said he, it
was not my wrting.o
Q. Did he ask you whether you had destroyed that
glad but that it not his writing, and neither it
Elders he asked me about this (the certified copy of
order) and told him that this had kept.
To the Court-The paper destroyed was the letter In
which this enclosed
O. Where were you when you received that letter and
its enclosures A. living at "a Swanwick street. in
Philadelphia between Sixth and Seventh Streets the first
door put Of Walnut street. opposite to Washington square,
destroyed the letter burned it. the same day that got
it was addressed to Margaret NJ Connolly in care Of
Timothy Murphy South Worcester, Otsego Co.; my
brother forwarded TO me- having put IL in another
envelope, and addressed 1t to me at Philadelphia.
Q. How came that paper and this certificate of Judge
Quarts into the hands OF the District Attorney A.
them to the Grand Jury in Mr.. IIalls presence
witness Getting herseD am mistaken gave them
TO Mr. Hall, at his house. and he asked me at the Grand
Jury how be had got them, and stated had given
them TO him at his house.
O. What next occurred about the business9 A. re-
ceiyed telegraphic despatch from my sister, Mrs Fisk
] do recolect the day Of the month"; that tcle
graphic despatch is destroyed after got II went to
pawn office and pledged one Of my rings for $685. and
to New York the afternoon; it was OF Sat
urday, in the month Of March
Q. lid you Judge Stuart on that visit to New York
and 80 when and where came to New YORK a on
Stuarts Office, in this BUILDING about hapast o. Mr..
Stuart not in; waited till he did come in; mean
while Mr. Elder took down law book and showed me
where there could be a revival of a notle proseqai
O. Had you heard there revival Of nole prosqui
in your husbands caseS A. had heard IT from my
q. Did Judge stuart come IMP A. He came in
after while; he appeared .. to feel very , bad
done (meaning the revival of the nolie proseqgD,
all through the influence Of Jim Smith; he said that
is John Pee had been before the Grand Jury and had
got renewal Of the ndctn emit and the was just
where my husband was, and / told him had sent him
down to the counryto Oneonta and Bfnghampton, and
around there, whore had relations; aid not feel dis
posed 10 tell him the truth to where he while
things stood they were he told me that my husband
must be kept out Of the way and that Mr. Bowyer had
the bench warrant and asked me if knew Mr. BOWER;
told him had him. but did not know II should
recollect him, 1t a long time since him. he
then told me that he had met Mr. Hall the subject,
anu ial nau given pioWihB hoout Tue
afsirthrough Mr. smith, he supposed; he said he would
wait and see let the matter rest was, till the first
opportunity when he would make arrangements for my
husband to into and have his trial. there
evidence he did not think TO convict him he told
that Mr. Monnot lived at Port Gloucester, up the
North river, but that his evidence nothing in the
case; then went back home and remained in pha-
delpha till the last Of April
AT this point of the witnesses testimony the court at
O'Clock L. NJ, adjourned to Friday morning at 10
O'Clock.
NJ
000 cut his throat few days since for fear Of
poverty.