New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-27

we gave al leDgtn, III Inc LcdceHUoW Ames
a full report Of the trial of Fugit for the murde
and scaIpipg of Mr.. Hops last Summer; tra
re,ulting, as our readers already know, and as wa
to be expected from any trial in Kansas involving
outrsges upon Free-State men, in the acquittal o
the murderer The trial took place before jeffrey
Lecompte, which was very appropriate. The DO
gus Sheriff to whom the bogus laws intrust thu
packing of the Jury, had some difficulty in com
pleting the PANEL, it was very difficult to fine
persons as to whom it could not be shown thai
they had formed and expressed an opinion on the
merits of the case. One of the jurors, after having
been sworn for two days, was finally turned off the
PANEL because it was proved by several witnesses
that he bad declared himself opposed to convictin1
any body for outrages committed last Fall, since he
himself if be had met certain persons at that time,
should certainly have killed hem. Mr. Herbert
for such was the name Of this model juror-strug'
gled hard to keep himself on the PANEL, but the
triers rejected him, and less laxative man was
substituted.
Three days and half having been consumed in
packing the Jury, the DistrictAttorney, who, being
Border. Ruffian official, it is to be presumed was
not particularly anxious to convict the prisoner,
proceeded to open bis case and call bis witnesses.
William Freeland raw Fugit about IL or o'clock
on the day Hops was murdered He was in con-
versatiOn at the LeavenwOrth Hotel, which, as
appears from other witnesses, was about three
miles from the scene of the murder, and was beast
ing that he could throw man higher and make
him fall harder than anybody else, and he added
with an oath that he could scalp him too. He
was armed with one or two revolyers knife and
bsyOnct, all in his belt, and he went off on horse
which this witness thinks was light-brown mare.
Leopold Meyer saw Fugit about noon the same
day in Leavenworth, and heard him tell Mr.. Street
that he would bet him hat that be would fetch
him scalp. Fugit had belt Oh and knife in it.
Nathan Henderson was at work the afternoon Of
the murder hauling rails, not on tho Lawrence
road but near it, about three quarters OF mile on
the Lesyenworth side of Wslaces tavern. A
man turned off the road, came up, and stopped
him. He was on bay horse, had no coat, gray
over.shirt black hat, revolver and bayOnet in his
belt his pants in his boots, and pordcr.horn or
flask of q light color hanging at his back. He asked
witness " if he was right on the goose ?" Wit
ness said he guessed he was right enough, to
which the man answered that if not, be would
right him. He spoke as if in earnest; inquired
the way to Wallace's, and went of in that
direction.
William Wallace, who keeps tavern about three
miles from Leavenworth, on the road to Lawrence,
testified that on the day Of the murder the pris-
oner came to his house on horseback, clothed in a
gray shirt and low. crowned hat, and having in his
belt pistol, looking Ike Colt revolver, knife and
\ bayonet He said he had been to Lecompton, and
that the place was burned and women and children
killed, and asked the witness if he would let him
have bis horses TO go out and kill white Abolition
iss offering receipt for them, and topay for them
if not returned. Witness declined to lend his
horses, and the prisoner then mounted and event
loft on lope"-that is we suppose, started off
at a canter-tOward Lawrence. Just as he was
leaving. some Government wagons came in sight,
AID without stopping followed along on the same
road In about fifteen minutes one of the drivers
came riding back, and said there was dead man in
the road at the bridge, a little beyond. Witness
went with him. The body of the man had fallen
out of his buggy, and one Of his feet catching in
the reins had stopped the horse. The man lay in
the road Dead apparently just killed, bullet'hoe
in bis temple and his scalp taken of for the breadth
Of hand. The body was taken to Wallace's, and
afterward recognized as that of Mr.. Hops. There
were bushes on both sides Of the road at the place
where the body Was found, and near BY was
stream of which the channelw was five or six feet be-
low the level of the adjoining ground There was
house in sight some $50 yards distant. This
was between and 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr.. Rhodes (owner and occupant of the above
mentioned house) bad been in Leayenworth that
day, and on his way back stopped at Walace'', and
while there Government train passed. Just be.
fore, be distinctly heard the reportof pistol. He
was confident from the sound that it was either
pistol or rifle, and not shotgun. The sound
was in the direction Of tn, bridge and his house
In fifteen or twenty minutes one OF the wagon
drivers came riding back, apparently in great
alarm, with the report that 4 man lay dead in the
road. The witness went to see aud his description
agreed with Wallace's. He placed the scene Of
the murder as q quarter of a mile from Wallace's
james l.. Rhodes, son Of the last witness. q
boy ten years old, was out near the house after
dinner picking plums. On the bridge he met a
usn on boy horse ,eih po,eder-horn at has back,
IT'D blue shirt aud brown pants. The ponder
lam was rhft. He was afraid Of the man, and
after passing him ron away to hide. As be raa be