The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-02-26

defended JACKMAN, who was acquitted, and
who subsequently recovered $1,000 damages
for malicious prosecution, without the jury
leaving their seats.
In considering the question, "What mo
tvo had the prosecutor to be guilty of tho
abominable conduct of feigning robbery p
| Mr. WEBSTER said q" Some men have q
Whimsical ambition of distinction There 10
| no end TO the variety of modes in which hu.
man vanity exhibits itself. a story Of this
nature trcitcs the ppJ!ic sympathy. It at
tracts general attention. 1t causes the name
| of the prosecutor to DO celebrated" &c.
GooDRIpoE exhibited wound of pistol
| ball through his hand; but Mr.. WEBSTER
argued that the pistol was fred by himself,
probably with the intention of only shooting
through his coat sleeve, Mr.. WEBSTER
further remarked:
"In the whole case, there is nothing per
haps moro deserving consideration, than
the prosecutors statement of the violence
which the robbers used toward him.
| lie says he Uds struck Nth a
hedry club on tic back part Of hishedd lie
| fell senseleSs to Mc ground n This
is his account Now, in point of fact, 1t is
certain that on no part of his person was
there the least mark of this beating and
wounding. The bop on The head wiih
| brought him seasclcss TO the ground Mother
| broke Ue skin, nor caused any tumOr, nor tqt
any mark ,e1idteuer." :" THIS is a story" con-
| tinued Mr. WEBSTER, mot 10 be beiiercd.
No matter rho tells il, IL is so impossible to be
true, hat all BELIEF is SGT at defiance All this
tale of Jlo0s Uhich az no marks, and Of
rounds Ulich could not be disc0rered, must
BE- tic uork Of Imagination"
Such was the view which the logical mind
of DANIEL WEBSTER took Of such story.
We now come directly to the consideration
Of the case of Mr.. EATON. What are the
actual facts, go far as they have been ascer-
tanned, regarding the alleged assault upon
| him?
In the first place, the circumstance that
somo friends of Mr. EATON have offered a
reward amounts to no more, proves nothing
more than did the offer of a reward in the
case of Major GooDRIDGE. And il may be
remarked here, that Immediately after the
assault was at first reported a public-sprited
citizen, prominent Republican, waited upon
the Superintendent of Police and requested
him to offer reward of $500, assuring him
that he himself would be responsible for
the money. This the Superintendent de-
clned to do 4; but intimated or seemed to
intimate, that the less said about the matter
the better And Mr. KENNEDY is considered
shrcwd and knowing in such matters.
1t is said that Mr.. EATON is respectable
Major GooDRIDGE was equally respectable
And as to that, there are about forty millions
of respectable people in the United States OF
America at the present day.
Mr.. EATON has told his own story in his
own words lie has dictated and published
an account of what he says was en- assault
upon him. He begins by stating that he
was on his way home from an evening party.
That, certainly, has no tendency TO show
| that he was assaulted. The second point
that he makes is, that he met Mr.. DEFINING
| DUER and bowed to him-and a proper thing
il was for Mr. EATON 70 bow to Mr.. DUER
When he got to Twenty ninth street, he saw
standing on the corner man whom he had
before seen and recognized and this man
Mr. EATON seems to imply had something
to do with the assault lie says the mar
moved toward him. In these days ant
nights of crime one would suppose that {
prudent man. travcrsing lonely street, anC
seeing another making for him, would pu
himself on his guard But Mr. EATo'
moved headlessly on, aud the first thing h,
knew he didn't know anything. He hear
a whistlc-they were very considerate, thes
assassins, TO give him ample motto
of their diabolical intentions by openl
showing themselves in the bright ligll
of the full moon on the one hant
and sounding a note of alarm o
the olherl But these were almost il
, Simultaneous with the blow, which he say
I fclled him scnseless "a blow SO like the on
that fclled Major GooDRIDGE senscicss that
also neither broke the skin, nor caused an
tumor, nor left any mark whatever"
I blow which a superficial rcasoner like DA!
TEL Webster might regard as very cxtroo
I binary.
? The next thing that Mr.. EATON tells us
n that lie found himself lying beside the fenc
s aud that romiting partially relierCd Him.
~ is well TO know that vomiting will aifol
some relief from such a blow, as it does fro
A.. some more ordinary ailments.
# OF everything which is said TO have {
% Cured up to this time, we have no cvidcn
r but Mr.. EA IONS own statements, At Il
Al same time 1t is proper to say that Mr.. EATC
= is a middle-aged man, whose word, up to Il
w period of this occurrence, had passed unchi
IN lcngcd, 30 far as we are aware: and i
d standing-certainly until he recently becar
"a involved in matters in which lis profession
of fidelity was questioned-was as fair as th
D. of Major GooDRIDGE
Il. A few minutes later Mr.. EATON lands
n his own door and now we have anoth
m witness. Mr. EATON is accompanied
n man x,bo ripua the door hell wa