New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-06
NEW YORK.

Excessive Heat-FataI SunstrOkes-Th
Stokes sTrial-HIystery-Tam CeIe
bratiOn-COIIisiOn of Trafns-ArrivaIs
! NEW YORK, July 4.-The heat continue,
| excessive to-day. Thermometer at noon 979
There were thirty-six fatal sunstroke
! yesterday. Total deaths for the week 845
New YORK, July 5.--The deaths from
heat yesterday in this city and Brooklyn
foot up forty.
The Stokes trial recommended to-day
| There was the usual large attendance O.
| spectators. Counsel for the defense opened
! to-day by reading detailed printed report
| OF the proceedings at the inquest held Ovei
| tisk's body by Coroner Young, evidently
| with the intention of consuming time. la
| the progress of the testimony sharp tilte
| occurred between counsel. The question
| Did Stokes make any statement as +
| whether he was going anywhere on =
morning Of the killing of Fiskl" was ~
| a witness, but the Judge thought S,.n9
missible. Mr.. Tremaine argued =. IuA I'm
sibility as being part Of the confSohssIU ms liis
of evidence which would p'AO0i 90
| presence at the Grand Ceg, .,--...4.
not with murder0us intepbos.' >" 9"D,lLOSiDI |
The district attorney adesUi9n, 70 "lilch .i
the inadmissibility of VeTy sharPly, l coh
Mr. Tremaine resp yno 4a ~ ~ I;I.
and of he ,nresyfivate counsel in this case
attorney bay,anner, to which the district
in ! as0nded by calling Tremaine's
attornavS the fact that he lIremaine) was
atfentS as private counsel to assist the
ernn5attorney in the Poole murder case,
Stalso referred to the fact that Tremaine's |
sociate was private counsel for Mrs Mans
eld in the civil suit against Fisk, as well
private counsel in the COncine murder
lse.
A sensation was created by the testimony
James Brennan, who said he was in the
Ouse Of Refuge and was brought down
the House of Detention on the TWEEN
third of March: was in the same
,om with Thomas Hart, the dOOr-bOy Of
le Grand Central, who told him he knew
Dthing about the shooting, and was in
1erent part OF the house altogether at tleT p
me it occurred; that he only saw StGsd d
assing through the hotel hall and An and n
m; atterward party called .i9Yse re Of fixing I
fered him $1,000 and the ngsar tn lavinS Fl
m for life, if he wouL9 Ii
en Stokes shoot AZ IN With the district {
MI MT aeAeo9 '.1 Vas reprimanded by the E
q Grams Of Stokes on the sixth of Janu-
= were offered as evidence, to show the :
isoner's intention on that day, but ex- .
uded. !
A Niagara Falls dispatch says that on
e evening OF the third instant, three A
nited States officers visited Thoralds, :
lall place about nine miles from the
ais. on the Welland canal, and fOrcibiy h
ok with them a young man named Hhlte, 4
in carpenter Of Chicago. White was !
nioned and blindfolded. After going four
lies in the country it was discovered that 7
-hite was the wrong man. White states 4
at the officers were after some ha-hlux /
ho were connected with the Greensboro, /
orth Carolina, alleged outrages. de !
ates that be will not prosecute his would I
There we're about thirty-fve fires during
y dav none of which were very serious.
Ninety seven cases of sunstrOke were re-
'rted yesterday.
Young Murphy, student Of the Easrman
ollege, Poughkeepsie, New YORK, from