The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-09
Stokes HACK DRIVER UNDER FIRE.
Tho Accused Would Like to Havc the Coroner's
Jury Try Him for the Crime.


Jury Try Him for the Crime.
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TIE EXCITEMENT IN COURT.
me Court Of Special Sessions, in the Tombs Build
ING, has on many occasions been the scene Of tn
umphs In petty larceny cases, and pckpockets nave
here received their sentences with defiance or sad
ness according 70 the nature and composition OF
sheir being but never before perhaps has this old
court room. with It's rotunda ceiling and Its dirty
and defaced walls, from which patches have
been eaten away by the course Of time.
Allps4 A. aasna Aks sas Saa s.. Ealsiae vas
presented yesterday to ghe eyes Of 500 people when
Edward y stokes was arraigned before the C0rO-
uer's jury for the killing Of James Fisk. Jr.
BAGER CURIOSITY,
The notorlety OF the deceased, the universal
knowledge Of his manner OF life and the publicity
o. his actions, had rendered his name q house.
hold word all over tho United States,
and when the brief space OF his career
had 80 suddenly been cut short by
pistol bullet the multitude CAPPED, wondered
and were amazed. 1t had come to be popular be.
lief that Fisk could not be killed. and that II ne did
die the death would be unlike the death Of any other
mortal, and 90 Il has proved that the people were
when hs fame had attained Its full zenl,h. And
when Coroner Young yesterday afternoon took his
Ocat 81 the desk which u usually occupied BY the
Police Magistrate Of the Special Sessions he felt a.
ne said, that It was not common occasion on
which they had met The court was full OF spec.
tators, and reporters were there In swarms occupy.
ing every coign Of vantage.
FULL. BENCH OF LAWYERS.
inside the bar there were score Of lawyers occu.
md hoC n tho hor colid
police heDt guard. It must be said rather needessly
against what some Of them are pleased 10 term
''tne terrible feeling OF the hour" There was not
man In court who would have placed an angry hand
On etokes with the exception OF perhaps about q
eosen Erie Railway employees. who have never beon
absent from court In which case pertaining the
interests Of the late James Fisk was in progress.
HOW THE CORONER LOOKED.
Nelson W. Young the Coroner, Ia slim built man,
Wlth goatee and Sallow. studious features, sur.
mounted by pair Of projecting eyebrows. Dr. e.
J. 7. Marsh, his assistant, is quite dandy-looking
young gentleman. with blond mustache dressed
In the height Of fashion. Tho jury were told by tho
Coroner to be seated on the left OF the
Court in an enclosure, and here they sat
themselves down In TWO rows awaiting the evil
6ence. some OF tho most honored and respectable
GOOD JURY PANEL.
It was like the old days of tho metropolis to see
such men as Jesse hoyt George Opdyke, Maunsel
b Field, David BOWS. Henry Clews. A. v. Stout
william Bliss and Lowell Lincoln on coroner's jury;
and Stokes informed reporter Of the HERALD
last night in his colo and cherries cell
that II he could only DO tried BY
yuch inry Is that which sat on
by tnelr decision and ask no more. Jesse Hoyt
2 ono o. the greatest merchants In New York,
Sows 10 one Of our leading mercSaSts. an aunsei H
,. Field u gentleman OF high character ana OF
seen " 1s Soy w;n as
altogether, In point Of wealth and intelligence,
SO S nf Gs ssd
about twelve millions Of dollars IN their property
THE COUNSEL FOB STOKES.
There appeared for the accused Stokes four Of the
greatest lawyers In New York, and with three OF
Ehito nalr and venerable iacs, ready g jump up and
s!edge- hammer slows. Thsre was Judge John K.
Porter, 9 man whose name Y wen Known 10 ali
~ sR%
side there was the leading counsel for amin
csse john aKson has the
valry Of hts mpetuous nature aroused this case,
= be Y celebrated lifelong for taking the SIDE OF
THE ERIE LAWYERS
counsel whose part In the proceedings aid moi seem
g be clearly Understood ultll John McKeon mado
we're Judge BescS Judge rusron dSarss
spencer ana another gentleman whose name was
! not gwen Beach. Fullerton and Spencer, It was
Coronef. but they aid not appear. openly on
snmasked their batteries, and then he Grew tneir
nre Immediately. 1t seems that Beach aud Fuller.
10 ING sd sdmsn
witness summoned for the prosecution. and McKeon
HSaJssg SCH Pg a?aSs 2ssss Dyshs 70 '9 9e
% paper g sent up, Coroner Young having already
he should decae they were
Beach ana. Fullerton 10th were forced to srIse
was Ss CoTorSr Attorney 1sS.sS 70
who mad sent him the slips Of paper. When Stokes
him. but he the scrS lSG% ~ Ms' sS oa@
4utet sell. possession thatsstonsned every one he
IL sy 'n0 eyes SHy
S gray we, S,eoo osse Ii irish 0s sss
Iolitaire Diamond blayed with potent enuigence On
AZ: ,nirt bosom BE was escorted 70 The middle q
oa sSSs y aais q. man
!. Ine nrst witness named Redman, - sleepy
iookfng lad Of nineteen or twenty years Of age,
b mechanical way, and the counsel for Stokes
watched him signincantly as II they believed that
Re had learned bic task like parrot stokes eyed
that part OF HE testimony which described stokes
- leaning over the panlsters Of the Grand
Central on hu left arm after the shooting
was natly contradicted by the succeeding
witness Thomas Hart, another hall boy,
Who eW0re that he leaned On his right arm
after tho shooting. Every few moments Stokes, az
y exasPerated % the testimony, would move In his
Doat ana eye the witness, and would have to be
restrained By Willard Bartlett, who would place
pc arm on Stokes shoulder 70 calm him Into quiet
A SPECULATION IN FANCY STOCKS.
eonn chamberlain, another witness who testified