The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-05
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THn MuRDsnnR ExAn1sHD A dense

THE MuRDzRHR EXAMINED "A dense
crowd assembled IN the Mayors Court yesterday
inornirg. Notwithstanding the oppressive heat Of
the weather, to witness the examination Of Ma.
Patrick COLBERT, on ITth street, on the night Of
tue lst Of August. The prisoner, attended by his
wife, took bis seat In the prison dock at the ar,-
poiuted hour, and a. the examination Of the wit
nesses progressed, he conferred freely with his
counsel, Col. August, showing neither excessive
alarm at bis unpleasant position, nor any of that
bIavado or trepidation often exhibited by persons
accused Of the fearful crime of murder. Heseems
fully TO realize his situation, and to have made .
his mind to meet the result with becoming resig.
nation. let Il be what it may. We noticed that
his right eye was very much discoiored, and
his cheek showed that it bad received severe blow
| saying that Morris Mccarthy had struck bin, in
the face few moments before the difficulty be-
| tween Colbert and himself
During the examination ten witnesses were call
ed the stand and testified, all OF whom deposed
| to the same facts which were elicted before the
Coroner's Jury. Two of tho witnesses were Of the
opinion that Colbert gave the prisoner the first
blow, aud one OF them thought that deceased and
prisoner mutually advanced on each other, when
the fight commenced; bat none of them could tell
what had occurred in Colbert's house, before the
parties came into the street and engaged in a
fight
! Without republishing their evidence in full, we
will endeavor to give brief history OF the affair,
1 as far as the facts have been developed.
I. On Sunday morning John Sexton cav Sunder.
1 land in Cobert's grocery. and drank glass of
porter with him. Sunderland and Colbert were
l then good terms. Sunderland said at that tiwe
! he had taken about fifty drinks. About O'clock
that day, Thomas Ncholson won't to Coiberts to
| get Sunderland TO go home to dinner, and took a
glass of toddy with Sunderland and Colbert. Sun
derland, after getting his dinner, put shoema-
kers knife in his pocket, and on being advised not
10 carry it, remarked that be II light need it-that
/ he was twenty -one. and could do as he pleased.
Leaving his boarding house at half past o'clock.
We hear no more of the prisoner until about ocFk
| that night, whe he WAS at Coiberts, where he had
difficulty With Morris Mccarthy and was knocked
over barrel. Soon after this, prisoner was seen
TO walk into the street and break of Coibert's
places. Immediately after he was followed by Col
bert, who demanded to know why he broke the
plate, and not feeling satisfied with the explana
tion, showed or struck the prisoner in the breast
3Sunderand, being drunk, was seen to draw knife,
1close in with Colbert, and literally cut him into
/ pieces, causing his death In q few minutes there
I after.
These facts, taken in connection with another,
that Colbert was far the smaller of the two,
and was cripple, presents the to the reader
ia its true light. We t. erefore offer no comments
] of our own.
The Mayor remanded the accused to be examined
before the next Hustings Court for murder. aud
Recognised the witnesses to appear and testify.