The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-08

NEW YORK, january o.---Janes FISK, Ji.,
was shot twice in the breast to-day by Ed
ward Stokes. It is feared that he cannot
survive. Stokes has been arrested.
Second Dispatch.
New York, january G.-Fisk'S wounds are
fatal He was shot at halt-pa5t 1 o'clock this
afternoon in the vcstibule OF the Grand Cen
tlal Hotel He had just alightcd from car-
riage and entered the building. lie has a
wound through the bowels which Is certainly
fatal. The assassin gave him no warning.
He fired three shots in rapid succession; the
second missing.
The following is telegraphed as vitality
INTERESTING PRELIMINARIEs TO THE TRAGEDY.
The examination of the libel suit brought
by Miss Josephine Mansfield against James
Fisk, Jr.. was resumed this morning in the
iorkvillc Police Court before Justice BiXby.
Fisk was not i'll court. The cross-cXamina-
ton Of Miss Mansfield was resumed by Mr..
Beach, Fisk's counsel.
Mr.. Beach: You said you did not make
war on Fisk until he attacked you. Is that
truei
Miss Mansfield Not until he induced my
servants to leave me to use them for pllr-
poses against me. l never asked Miss Wood
TO introduce me to Fisk. made his acquaint-
ance accidentally at her house. / did not
make an appointment to meet Fisk and
George Butler (now Minister i'll Egypt at
Myra Woods. / never told Miss Wood or
Fisk that was in needy circumstances, for
| was not. l never met Myra Wood at the
American Clubhouse.
Mr.. Mexican, counsel for complainant,
| wished the examination stopped, as it was
| evident that the questions We're intended to
insult the witness.
Mr.. Beach denied this, and said that the
questions were intended to show that Miss
Mansfield intended all the time to black-mail
Fisk.
Miss Mansfield: never intended to black
mail Mr.. Fisk. My conduct did not show it.
fShe wiped the tears from her eyes.
Mr.. Beach: Do YOU remember meeting
; Mollie Piers?
| Miss Mansfield: dc.
Beach Was not Stokes there?
Mansfield: No.
Beach: DO you not remember telling her
| in Stokes's presence that if she stood by you
you would make her rich.
Mansfield: No.
Mrs. Williams, cousin Of Miss Mansfield,
was then put on the stand.
| Mr.. Mckeon read for her an affidavit con-
tanning the so-caled conversations between
| her and Miss Mllsneld ana Stokes about
matchmaking Fisk, and asked if they were
true.
She replied that they were not, and fur
thcr said that when Stokes visited Miss Mans
field and "mealed" there, 10 allusions were
made regarding Fisk as to exacting money
from him.
Edward S. Stokes was then called, and the
atlidavits containing the alleged conversations
about matchmaking Fisk We're read to him
by Dir. Mckeon, and he was asked if they
were true.
Stokes replied: There is not little OF
truth in them. lam thirty years of age, and
our family first became acquainted with Miss
Mansfield in Philadelphia three years ago.
The meeting was accidental. would rather
not tell who was with me when l met her.
The first time / met her in New York was
when went there with Fisk to dinner 1t is
about two years ago. cannot tell how often
] visited Miss Mansfield I cannot tell how
often ] visited her house in the last six
months. may have been there eight or ten
times in the month, or oftcncr. did not